Cure of long lasting skin disease with Cuticura ointment
B Hiram Mattingly of Vermillion South Dakota reports a decade of scaly eruptions covering his body resisting doctors and medicines. After using Cuticura Ointment and Soap, he claims complete cure and hair restoration following three boxes, at a cost of 50 to 60 dollars, with endorsement to contact for details.
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Addi Fiot
Hiram Mattingly
Vermillion
Powter Due & Chem. Corp
Mrops
Orton, Musa
Kee
Bree
Great Western Railway Announces Time Change
Chicago based Great Western Railway announces an improved service network linking Chicago to St Paul Minneapolis Des Moines St Joseph Kansas City Council Bluffs and Omaha. Ask the Great Western Agent about the important change of time effective July 7, 1907.
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Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Des Moines
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Great Western
New Chicago
Minneapolias
Waterloo
Marahally Town
Dea Moines
Deg Moines
Fort Dodge
Kan
Dubuque
Traina East
G. P
St Penk Mina
Safest Investment in Canadian Lands
Secretary Wilson warns against universal crep failures and stock risks while noting northwestern farmers move funds across the border to buy wheat lands in Canada. Manitoba and Western Colonization Co. promotes high and dry wheat lands for sale with easy terms as immigrants surge to Canada. Excursions to inspect lands every Tuesday.
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Wilson
Turk Tine
Laan
Lnstead
Canada
WM. Clement
Freeport
Manitoba and Western Colonization Co
Dakotas
Minnesota
British Isles
Continental Europe
United States
The Question Book That Dared a Daring Guess
Edgar Evans recalls a risqué improv in a grape arbor where he and a woman read through a book of questions to write their answers. He frets over what to write, nearly drowns in metaphor, and finally settles on a candid proposal line while she guards the book.
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Iar ‘Ulage
Wright
Edgar
Evans
De Witt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve Sold by Druggist
An advertisement notes De Witt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve as a cleansing cooling and healing household remedy. It lists Wm. F. Jungkunz, a druggist, as the seller on Stephneson Street with price in dollars.
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DeWitt
Wm. F. Jungkunz
Stephneson Street
Plays and Players Highlights in New Theatrical Season
Mary Mannering has won acclaim in Glorious Betsy and will continue in the role next fall. Willard Spencer’s Miss Bob White will be revived next year under Nixon Zimmermann with Frank Deshon headlining. Mrs. Leslie Carter’s next project may be by John Luther Long. James M. Hackett will appear in a new Fred Alfred Sutro piece in America next year. Amelia Bing ham’s The Modern Lady Godiva is set for next season by Frederick Schrader. Huntley Wright and Adrienne Augarde will headline The Dairy Maids coming to America this fall.
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Mary Mannering
Julian Edwards
England
America
Huntley Wright
Adrienne Augarde
Tree study notes for mothers and children on evergreens
A summer nature study outline lists common evergreens with brief descriptions. Hemlock cones, Red Cedar berries, Pitch Pine needles, Scotch Pine bundles, Austrian Pine needles, Fir cone and needles, White Cedar seeds, Norway Spruce cones and random needle spread, White Pine bundles, Arbor Vitae branches and seeds, all from a Primary Education context.
Land values and oddities in English notices
English items report land valued at 260000 pounds and houses at 201500000 pounds. Tobacco exhibition talk of trading cigarettes at 120 per 30 minutes. A Bath cemetery tombstone honors an engine driver and geologist. The Star and Garter hotel at Nield Hill goes up for sale. Derby winners span ranks from plain misters to princes across 1780 to 1907.
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England
London
Bath
Star and Garter
Niemond Hill
David Garrick
Joshua Reynolds
Thomson
Ground granite found to improve fertilizer and ship data
The government bureau of plant industry reports ground granite makes excellent fertilizer. Alabama on the Tombigbee River has limestone enough for a century cement plant. Submarine cables are owned by nations: 60 percent by England, 18 by the United States, 9 by France, 4 by Germany. The Grind Trunk Pacific RR plans a 10,000,000 bushel grain elevator at Mission River. The Toward Paine cottage at Easthampton faces relocation and remodel to a dwelling.
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Government Bureau of Plant Industry
Tombigbee River
Alabama
England
United States
France
Germany
Grind Trunk Pacific Railroad Company
Mission River
Efert
Easthampton
Long Island
New York City Growth and Demographics Highlighted
The New York City population rises about 415 people daily with an average age of 23 for those arrested this year. If public servants were evenly divided, each would serve one more inhabitant. The New York City clearing house handles twice the business of all other U.S. clearing houses. The city’s average age is 26 versus 28 for the nation, per the New York Herald.
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New York City
United States
New York
Editorial Flings and Witty Bids Across Papers
Scraps from Boston Chicago New York and Alaska papers mix quips on finance media and literary bids. A joke about lobsters and a millionaires bid for Shakespeare reflect playful editorials and sharp newspaper humor across cities.
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Boston
Wmiere
Chicago Post
New York
L’ress
Welr Mitchell
Dillon
Merald
Daily Journal Deliveries Across City for One Dollar A Week
The Daily Journal offers home delivery to any city area for one dollar weekly. Residents can subscribe for convenient newspaper access at a low recurring rate.
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the Daily Journal
Short News Snippets From Across the States
Brief items list notable figures and events: Thomas Edison sets a 6:30 a.m. routine rule. William J. Holland at Carnegie Museum plans to ship publications to Emperor William of Germany. Ralph Hall Caine enters publishing in London. George W. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Marshall Field buy fronting property on Massachusetts Avenue Washington for palatial residences. Frederick J. Velka a Baltimore streetcar veteran with perfect safety record. Colonel Elijah W. Halford to retire as deputy paymaster general, former Harrison aide. Janes Morris arranges a 37,000 bequest for St Luke’s Hospital crippled children rides in Central Park and music. Vicary Thomas Spindler, editor and Dickens relic holder, dies at 84. Frank Tramlin becomes Chicago civil service attorney. son of Hannibal Tramlin. Tom Bankhead, Alabama congressman, tied to Senate succession, former Confederate soldier.
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Thomas A. Edison
Wiliam J. Holland
Carnegie Museum
Pittsburg
William of
Germany
Ralph Hall Caine
SaTl Caine
London
Marshall Field
Massachusetts Avenue
Washington
Frederick J. Velka
Baltimore
Madison Avenue
Elijah W. Halford
Harrison
Army
Janes Morris
New York
St. Luke's Hospital
Central Park
Vicary
Thomas Spindler
Brentford
England
Old London Sun
Charles Dickens
Frank Tramlin
Board of Civil Services Commissioners
The Cook Book Tips For French Style Dishes
Practical culinary guidance: rolling meat to brown. soaking bread to remove off flavors. gentle salad mixing in a large bowl. custards should not be boiled and can be steamed in a jar placed in water. slow gentle heating yields a creamy milk pudding.
Paris Spending Big on Clean Streets and Cheese Making
Paris allocates about 4 million dollars yearly for street cleaning and maintenance. Up to 6000 farmers and others in Prince region rely on Roquefort cheese manufacturing for their livelihood. A church bell crack and removal incident near Montmartre is noted. A couple honeymooned despite a damaged wedding band in a separate tale. An electrical storm caused a ship to crash on the Scheldt and passengers were rescued at the last moment.
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Paris
Prince
Church of the Lucre Coeur
Montmartre
France
Yalloon
Scheldt
Sentence Sermons from a Prurient Page
A fragmented note offers aphorisms on virtue and profit, mourning and friendship, fear and power, and self guidance. It references a Chicago Tribune style voice and hints at misread passages about pride, weakness, and personal advancement.
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Chicage ‘Tribune
DeWitt Drug Store Sells Early Risers Pills
DeWitt's Little Early Risers sold by Wi F Jungkunz druggist at Stephen son Street for four dollars. The item is presented as a small, safe remedy.
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DeWitt’s
Wi. F. Jungkunz
Stephenson Street
Sailors cook outshines astronomer in lunar distance feat
In Genoa aboard Cleopatra's Barge a young captain proves a cook can calculate lunar distances. Baron von Zach questions navigation skills as the crew cites Maskelyne Bowditch and Dunthorne, while the cook demonstrates precise methods with the captain presenting the journals and books for inspection. Equine tales follow.
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Baron von Zach
Germany
Essexnatitute
Salem
Genoa
Neptune
Bowditeh
Gibraltar
Maskelyne
Lyons
Bowditch
Dunthorne
Uncle Laughed Last At Eleventh Street Incident
In a Kansas City crowd at Eleventh Street and Grand Avenue, an elderly black man was insulted by two high school boys who mocked him. When one taunted him as a preacher, the man replied that he was, indeed, an undertaker and warned with a grim joke about their business.
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Eleventh Street
Grand Avenue
Kansas City Times
Time Tables Arrive and Rail Schedule Details
Timetables arrive for multiple routes including Freeport Freeport to Chicago connections. Eastbound and westbound services show departures arrivals and frequencies with notes on Sunday and daily trains. The piece lists banks and railway officials, with connections to Beloit Madison Janesville and Milwaukee and references to passenger and freight services.
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East Bound
Ly. Freep’t
U’cage
West Bound
Lr. Crago
Freep
Rockford
Beloit
Jansaville
Milwaukee
Madison
Pointa
Belvidere
Sycamore
DeKalb
Janceville
Harvard
Spring Valley
John F. Daly
Eaet
Savrices
Rock
Cestre Neva Freight
Gera
Mt. Carroll
West Hound
Rock Island
Davesport
Sis
Chicago
Janesville Madaon
Kaneee City
Omaha
Cedar Rapids
North
South Dakota
J. B Swhatt
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Business Directory
Illinois
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HH. Antrim
Dorman
R. G. Shumway
Henry Baler
T. State Bank
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W. H. Holland
Fred W. Hoefer
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L. Z. Farwell
H. & Webster
Reuben Biegfried
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F. E B. Lchweffer
H. 3 Webster
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TRA Union Association
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Webster
Galloway
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John J. Trunck
Kramer
W. J. Schwars
Attorney AT Law
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D&w
Wagner
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Arseiber Building
Chicago and
Spring Streetc
A. Rother
Carpenter & Contractor
Douglag Ave
Stephenson St
Frisbio & Haney, Contractors
General Contracting
Bacvange Bt
Chicago Great Western
Maple Leaf
Waport
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