Miss Laura Howard Chicago Woman Credits Pinkham Remedy
Laura How ard president of South End Ladies Golf Club in Chicago writes of her recovery from long standing pains swelling and nervousness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Senstive Wash claiming doctors failed to help and urging other women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts The testimonial notes the Chicago address and invites ill women to write for guidance
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South End Ladies’ Golf Club
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Laura Howand
Laura How
Newberry Ave
Ill
Navy Secretary’s ban on wives at foreign stations rescinded
The order from William Be. Chandler restricting officers from housing their wives at foreign stations was quickly withdrawn after Commodore Fyffe reported that his wife Eliza Fyffe had already taken residence on a station and refused to leave, contravening department rules.
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William BE. Chandler
Navy
Commodore Fyffe
Atlantic
Eliza Fyffe
Free Doctors Under German Law
German insurance law provides free medical attendance to 30,000,000 people for a nominal sum. Doctors employed by the state complain they must do too much for the pay, about 75 dollars a year in Munich, and push patients to minimize the patients’ troubles to cut costs.
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Germany
Munich
Notable 1909 Patent Medicine Snippets From Toledo Ads
A collage of vintage remedy pitches and slogans appears, highlighting Allen’s Foot-Hase and other foot care claims, Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward, Dr Kline’s nerve restorer, Mrs Winslow’s teething syrup, and Piso’s Cure for Consumption. The fragment ends with a dated testimonial and a proverb about truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Propa
Hall
Sprained Knee Claim From Nottingham Man
Ir Arthur Harrison of Willford Crescent East Nottingham reports a severe sprained knee lasting 334 years. After two doctors and various oils he tried St Jacobs Oil, using two small bottles to strengthen the knee, and says he has felt no pain since.
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St. Jacobs
Ir. Arthur Harrison
Willford Crescent East
Nottingham
St. Jacobs O
What One Needs When They Are Weary and Worn
An advertorial note promotes Vogeler's Curative Compound as a purifier and booster of the blood for fatigue appetite sleep and nerves. It claims the product is the only true Broodifier from an English physician formula and invites readers to request a free sample from St Jacobs Oil Ltd Baltimore MD.
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Vogeler
St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd
Baltimore
Stories of Old Songs and Their Creators in Song History
The New York Sun diary extracts recount the origins of famed tunes and authors. Key figures include Francis Scott Key, Ford Durang, Samuel Woodworth, Stephen Foster, Henry W. Faxon, and Harry McCarthy, with notes on publishers, sales, poverty, and fame tied to classics like The Star Spangled Banner Dixie My Maryland Old Folks at Home and Shoo Fly Dont Bodder Me. The piece blends anecdote on how melodies and words were matched, published, and rewarded across the 19th century.
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H. W. Jaxon
Charley White
the Sun
Francis
Fort McHenry
the Yorses
White
Federal Hill
Baltimore
Fred Durang
Anacreon
Boya
Durang
Harrisburg
Kentucky
Samuel Woodworth
New Orleans
Miss Bailey
Noah M. Ludlow
St. Louis
Ludlow
Woodworth
Mile. Titiens
Kathleen Mavourneen
New York
Crouch
Tofe
Epes Sargent
Russell
Boston
Sargent
England
Arkansas Traveler
Little Rock
Sandy Falkner
Arkansas
Walter Wright
Maryland
James R. Randall
Randall
Anniston
Ala
Elien Bayne
Willie
Stephen ©. Foster
City Hospital
Bowery
Allen
Maine
Russell & Co
A. White
T. Brigham Bishop
Rollin Howard
Pond & Co
Howard
C. A. White
White, Smith & Co
W. 8. Thompson
John P. Ordway
His Luck. A Bronx man faked death after river tragedy
William Black of Bronx vanished last August. A body in the East River was identified as his. His widow became administratrix, then a timid man claimed letters of administration saying he was the deceased. The clerk questioned and learned the man had staged a tear and believed himself dead.
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William Black
Bronx
East River
Black
Jocosely
New York Sun
Four educational alternatives in political rhetoric
In a London Chronicle critique, Mr Balfour and Mr Plummer are discussed over the phrase four educational alternatives. The piece notes the English need for a plural form and mocks the liberal use of alternatives as options or choices despite linguistic propriety.
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Mr. Balfour
Plummer
the Treasury
Mr. Gladstone
Homer
London Chronicle
After the Earthquake in Sardinia and Modena
A follow up on recent Sardinia quakes reports a vast chasm opening and a bulging surface hill ejecting stones. Scientists lean toward volcanic causes. Lake Santo near Modena, about 500 yards by 100, has vanished.
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Sardinia
Lake Santo
Modena
High Price For a Poem in Venice
The highest price ever paid for a poem was 1000 golden crowns given to Zaanazaro by Venice citizens for his eulogy of their city. The poem comprises lx lines and was celebrated as a landmark literary work in the history of Venice.
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Zaanazaro
Venice
Glaciers and Skies in a Century of Science Notes
The article surveys glaciers forming valleys and transporting debris, then discusses Harvard College Observatory housing 100,000 photographic plates recording twelve years of skies, a new observatory building, and various scientific curiosities. It covers Baraduce's vitality-measuring device, cavemen cave art in Combarelles, fake meteorites sold in Corsica and Cairo, a spurious Russian meteor claim, and a remarkable aerial fire ladder in Pittsburgh enabling rapid rescue by a four-section telescoping ladder powered by compressed air.
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Harvard College Observatory
Pittsburg
The Schoolboy's Knowledge Extracts from Vienna High School
Several student compositions reveal odd historic and linguistic observations. Phrases mention Rome martyrs bones torn by beasts and Hannibal in Spain while signaling a teacherlike mispunctuated line about punishment following a decade.
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Vienna
Rome
Hannibal
Spain
Cab fare lamps guard against overcharging in Havana
In Havana a device protects passengers from overcharging cabmen. Lamp posts are painted red blue green to mark districts so the fare can see when a boundary is passed and pays accordingly. The note ends with a quip about courtships and verdicts from the New York Press.
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Havana
Cuba
Enormous Savings of Wage-Earners in New York Banks
An Albany report shows New York City savings banks hold $800 million in resources and managed $360,234,083 in deposits and payments in 1901. The sum could cover federal ordinary outlays for about two years and erase roughly two thirds of the national debt.
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State Banking Department
Albany
N. Y
New York City
A Savage Tribe and a Parchment Like Paper
The Antaimoro of Madagascar preserve from shrub pulp a beautiful enduring paper used for family chronicles and Muslim law. Legend says a ninth century Mohammedan shipwrecked on the coast invented it to transcribe a water soaked Koran in an enduring form.
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Madagascar
Hospital Secrets Feature Peruna Announcement
The document quotes Mrs Kate Taylor praising Peruna as a tonic for illness recovery and vitality, claiming rapid health gains. It notes Dr Hartman offering free summer treatment for female catarrhal diseases and directs readers to The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio for applications.
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Monroe St
Kate Taylor
Hartman
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Proposed Confederate Museum to be in Richmond Virginia
Trustees of the Confederate Memorial Association have determined the site for the Confederate Museum in Richmond Virginia. A $100000 donation from the late Charles Broadway Rouss of New York funds a southern battle abbey if a matching sum is raised by public subscription, with the association treasurer reporting the full match secured.
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Confederate Memorial Association
Richmond
Charles Broadway Rouss
New York
South
Relics Found in Guatemala Treasure Hunt Draws Plunder Seekers
Explorers near Chama Guatemala uncover ancient Aztec and Montezuma burials during mining digs. Coins and jewels unearthed accumulate over $50,000 as plantation workers abandon fields to join the treasure hunt.
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Chama Guatemala
Chama
Polaris Identified as a Triple Star System
The Lick Observatory confirms Polaris, the North Star, forms a triple star. The bright star orbits a dark companion in 3 days 23 hours 14 minutes, around a central mass. The pair also drifts around another dark star in a long orbital period.
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Lick Observatory
Mount Hamton
Cal
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Coruna
Olmsted
LeRoy
Kline
R. H. Kline, Ltd
Phila
Tamsire Piso
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Maple St
Norwich
Alps
Newfoundland
Meintersand
Baraduce
France
Combarelles
Europe
Russia
Museum of
Cairo
Libyan
New York Press
Peruna
Confederate Museum
Guatemala
Ayer
J.C. Williams
Attica, N.Y
Aling
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell, Masa
Capsicum
Cheesebrough Manufacturing CO
Bisto Street
Chmelzer Armb CO
Kanbas City
Candy Cathartic
Bevrare
British
Son
Charterhouse Og
London
Forres
Ripans
Drugeista
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