Natchez Fire Worship and Sacred Flame Legend
The Natchez tribe on the lower Mississippi are depicted as fire worshipers with oriental origins. Their sun goddess rules and sacred fires sustain their people, while mounds and temples mark their early power. A doomed love story and a failed rite of lighting the sacred flame underpin a mythic decline and exile.
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Natchez
Babel
Asia
Mississippi
Spd
Indiana
Vrayery
Col
Wansis
Maternity relief touted by Dr Pierce in old ad
An advertisement claims Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes maternity nearly painless and offers a monetary reward if it fails to cure conditions like leucorrhea and female weakness. A testimonial from Mrs. Annie Lenman describes severe inflammation and ulceration, urging trials of the remedy as a cure.
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Dr. Pierce
United States
Br. Pierce
A Cautious Elephant in the Quicksands
An officer recounts an elephant sent to rescue camels trapped in quicksands. The animal shows remarkable sagacity, moving slowly with measured steps, probing with its trunk, and retreating at moments, despite forceful attempts to guide it. The account, attributed to Major A. G. Leonard's The Camel, highlights the elephant’s careful behavior.
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Royal Artillery
A. G. Leonard
Bernatifel Comparison and Last Word Jokes
The piece compares beauty of horse and woman and quotes a quip about the wife having the last word. A separate note comments on Japan's ministers of war and marine being independent of party politics and their unchanging status across cabinet shifts.
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San Francisco
Mr. Meekton
Washington Star
Japan
Diet
Rockefeller Tries Kneipp Cure Barefoot at Dawn
John D Rockefeller, seeking health after medical failures, started a Kneipp treatment at his Forest Hill home. He walked barefoot on the wet lawn at dawn, enduring cold air and rough grass, then returned to his room in good spirits after about half an hour of exercise.
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Oll King
Cleveland
Aug. J
John D. Rockefeller
Releif
Mr. Rockefeller
Forest Hill
Local notes from Winneshiek district in August
From Our Own Correspondent Winneshiek Aug 15 Happenings include visits by Mr and Mrs M Ebersole of Sterling and Mr and Mrs Deturler of Pennsylvania. Rev J S Shoemaker at Shannon. Miss Blanche Sharer returns to Princeton. Mrs B Shoemaker and Miss Estella Shoemaker listed as sick. Mrs A Moss visits Red Oak. S Rote’s threshing machine praised. Young people to meet at P Smith’s home Wednesday evening. Miss Lizzie Hake visited Mr Stebbins. Miss Susan Wade, formerly of the area, has died.
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Winnesheik
Winneshiek
M. Ebersole
Sterling
Deturler
Pennsylvania
J. S. Shoemaker
Shannon
Blanche Sharer
Princeton
B. Shoemaker
A. Moss
Red Oak
J. Robison
Estella Shoemaker
S. Rote
P. Smith
Lizzie Hake
Susan Wade
Campmeeting attendance and local visits noted at Wena
Bolton reports from Aug 16: Rev Miller and M D Sheetz at Wena campmeeting with Mart in ticket office. Oakdale campmeeting attendees from the area. Elbert Goodsell and wife visit from Sterling. Mrs Goodsell returns to Clinton Wis. Ed Peck and children visit Globe hospital. Mrs Peck improving slowly. Visits by Wallace Bonebright and family. R J Bolton’s wife visiting Mt Carroll relatives. Edwin Roberts of Oelwein visits M W Goodsell. Lightning damaged local telephone line to Shannon. oat crop in area heavy with 40 to 60 bushels per acre. Fry family of Freeport visit.
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Here
Shannon
GW. Fry and Family
Freeport
L. B. Fey
Remarkable Thirty Foot Tomato Vines From Pasadena Garden
In Pasadena, California, J Bates reports three giant tomato plants reaching thirty feet in length. Planted in May, the vines grew from eighteen feet to thirty feet atop a twenty foot trellis with trunks about one and a half inches thick. Despite harsh winter conditions, the vines fruit abundantly with unusually large Carmitoes noted for fine flavor.
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J. Bates
Pasadena
Cal
Jack
Mrs Huie Offers Electrical Facial Massage Service
Mrs Huie offers electrical facial massage and Michaud method therapies as a specialty. Service available Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Contact new phone white 979 at 111 Stephenson St Bead tf.
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Huie
Mma
Michaud
Stephenson St
Untitled Tribune Excerpt and Child Care Advice
A Detroit Tribune fragment quotes a grim undertaker and a motherly aside about handling a deceased’s visitors. It shifts to summer bowel care for children, endorsing castor oil and Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as effective first aid and to be kept on hand.
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Aves
Tetroit Tribune
Chamberlain
Iby
Nothing on the Market Equal to Chamberlain's Remedy
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as unmatched by any competitor. It cites druggists nationwide and a Missouri druggist endorsement, promoting sale through all druggists and offering an illustrated travel folder by mail.
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Chamberlain
Obe Witmer
Joplin
Low Round Trip Rates to Portland by Northwest Line
Travel adverts promote low round trip fares to Portland via the North Western Line with options via San Francisco and Los Angeles for Lewis and Clark Exposition. An illustrated folder is offered for a 2 cent stamp detailing routes, including side trips to Yellowstone National Park and Alaska. Also notes Bethlehem House history and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets priced at 25 cents.
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Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Yellowstone National Park
Alaska
North-Western Line
Cash register for sale by Brown and Dollmeyer
An entirely new cash register is offered for sale at a bargain by Brown and Dollmeyer. Call to view this first class machine and arrange purchase.
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Brown & Dollmeyer
Dad
Excursion Tickets Offered for Beloit Fair and Races
Excursion tickets to the Interstate Fair and Races at Beloit Wisconsin will be sold at reduced rates by the North Western Line from August 14 to 18 inclusive. Return limited to August 18. Apply to Chicago North Western Relay Siklw-15 agents.
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Beloit, Wis
North-Western
Chicago & North-Western
Illinois Central Railroad Stockholders Meet Notice
Public notice announces the regular annual stockholders meeting of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at its Chicago office on Wednesday October 5 1905 at noon. To allow travel to the meeting, free return tickets will be issued to holders of one or more shares registered as of September 26 1905, valid for travel between any station on the Illinois Central network to Chicago and back during October 1905, with proper appearance by the holder, countersigned by the Assistant Secretary W G Bruen.
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Ilinois Central Ruailroad Company
Chicago
Ilinois
Knots Central Railroad Company
Wormmpaoy
Grober
Central Railroad
Cheage
A. Im
Mrr
W. G. Bruen
A. UG. Hackstafe
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Lena, Ill
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N. P.A
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Lal
Wigard
Anderson
Leeky
France
Tlents XV
Ninon de l'Enclos
Alfred Cardinal Richelieu
Conde
la Rochefoucauld
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
William and Joby Streets
New York
Humphreys’ Med. Co
William & John Sts
Madison Wives Cine Co
Pladisen
Rockefeller
California
Llayer
Lowell Mend
Nevada
London
Wlinois Central Railroad Company
Nothce
Walst Pina
Ghanna
Bengston's Jewelry Store
Bengston’s
Brepherson Bt
Freeport, Il
Savings Department of the State Bank of Fresport
Davis
Ruby
Singer
White
Wheeler & Wilson
Eldredge
Minnesota
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1St National Bank
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Illinois Central Railway
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