New fuel trial in England uses coal dust brick form
A new fuel mixture tested in England blends 93 percent coal dust with 7 percent pine and caustic lime, pressed into perforated bricks weighing about ten pounds each for furnaces or lenticular cakes totaling 100 pounds per 140 units. Sold in London at 5.5 dollars per ton retail, it promises intense heat with minimal smoke and ash residues around 3 percent, usable in ordinary grates. SWANSON'S 3 DROPS claims dramatic health cures and is aggressively marketed from Chicago with trial bottles and agent recruitment.
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England
London
Dinner talk and fabric note spark Philadelphia Record snippet
A brief Philadelphia Record fragment shows a casual exchange about dinner and a wool fabric item described as a yard wide. The dialogue includes reference to a moth in a cedar chest and a question about the meal.
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Philadelphia
First-Class Sewing Machines for 14 25 at Smyth Co Chicago
The John M Smyth Co at 150 to 166 West Madison Street Chicago offers a illustrated catalogue with household articles and a Melba sewing machine for 14 25. The firm has served Chicago for a third of a century and earned public confidence through fair dealing. It is a large appeal to households to obtain the catalogue. It isn’t always the fighting person who puts his congregation to sleep.
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John M. Smyth Co
West
Madison Street
Chicago
Melba
John M. Smyth Company
The Boer Endurance in Siege Conditions and Tactics
A historical note on Boer resilience near Pretoria describing fortified Krupp guns, coffee dependence, mealies nourishment, and strict camp discipline. It explains laager fortifications of wagons, rapid double quick advances, and successful tactics in native warfare.
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Pretoria
Transvaal
South Africa
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promo Warning
An advertisement warns against mercury containing remedies for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It asserts the product has no mercury and acts on blood and mucous surfaces, with Druggists selling it for 75 cents per bottle.
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Rapuabie
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Where the Trouble Lay
A devoted wife questions a lawyer about clearing a man who has lived in the town all his life and is known by everyone. The lawyer hesitates as he considers the challenge and risks involved.
Grain-O promotes a grain based coffee substitute
Grain-O is marketed as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with the rich brown color of mocha and java. It targets both children and adults, priced at 15 and 25 cents per package, and sold by grocers nationwide.
Ines Sanaa ee Offers One Third Fare Round Trip
Ines Sanaa ee announces a round trip fare of one and one third times the usual price for travel in November with return by December first. Tickets are available within 150 miles and inquiries should be made through local agents.
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Nickel Plate Road
Thand
Dee
Tickilek Affair Hat Quip Sparks Quiet Fray
In a brief exchange, Stubb comments on a stylish hat worn by a girl, prompting Penn to admit the hat tickles him as a quill touches his face during a tense moment. The sketched scene captures subtle social tension and sharp dialogue.
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Stubb
Penn
Counterfeit Ring Exposed as Secret Service Seizes Bogus Bills
The Secret Service uncovered another group of counterfeiters and recovered a quantity of fake currency. They targeted high value items with many imitators, notably Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, sold as a cure for indigestion dyspepsia and constipation.
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Secret Service
Hostetter
Growing drought threatens Great Salt Lake from irrigation
Prof. James E. B. Talmage warns Utah's Great Salt Lake is shrinking as tributary rivers are diverted for irrigation. He says the lake water grows more acrid each year and may, in about a century, be replaced by a glittering bed of dry salt.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
James EB. Talmage
Talmage
Grain-O replaces coffee for children in health ad
A vintage ad promotes Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for children. It claims Grain-O made from pure grains tastes like coffee and costs 34 cents. grocers stock it, and mentions an unrelated note about Copenhagen's 4200 acre Royal Deer Park in Denmark.
Women Seek Relief From Irritability With Vegetable Compound
Letters from Mrs Anna E Hatt of Milldale Conn and Mrs Elton Flana Gan of Philadelphia Pa describe chronic nervousness back pains womb falling and neuralgia improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with both praising its curative effects and urging others to try it.
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AS. Pinkham
Anna E. Hatt
Milldale
Conn
Elton Flanagan
Mountain St
Philadelphia
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Spain’s Sunday Schools See Few Children Attend
In Spain there are only 3,280 children in Sunday schools nationwide. Lane’s Family Medicine claims daily use promotes health by cleansing the liver and kidneys and curing sick headaches. Priced 25 and 50 cents.
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Spain
Lane
Samuel J. Tilden Fare Notice on Nickel Plate Route
Thanksgiving Day rate offers round trip travel for 80 mile radius at one and one third fare. Valid for Nov 20 and 30 with return through Dec 1. Includes Daily Express Trains and stationery brands.
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Nickel Plate Road
Philadelphia
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