Mayer Boot & Shoe Co reports sales rise for year
Mayer Boot and Shoe Company of Milwaukee, the Northwest’s largest shoe house, closed its fiscal year with higher sales versus last year. The firm credits its strong reputation and the merit of Mayer shoes including Honorbilt men’s shoes Leading Lady women’s shoes Yerba Cushion Comfort Martha Washington Comfort and Special Merit School shoes for the gain.
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Mayer Boot & Shoe Company
Milwaukee
Northwest
Mayer
Martha Washington
Enforced Economy and a Rainy Roof Riddle
A friend seeks shelter at Pat’s cottage and notes a leaking hole. Pat delays fixing it, arguing rainless periods negate the need. The piece also promotes Prof. Munyon’s Cold Cure offered nationwide for 26 cents, with a money back guarantee and a free Magazine Almanac from The Munyon Company in Philadelphia.
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Pat
Prof. Munyon
United States
Munyon
Amanac
Munyon Company
Philadelphia
New Constable Conducts Prisoner at London Court
A fresh constable guides a prisoner to the cells at a London police court. In a dim passage the officer warns him to mind the step and the prisoner retorts that he knew that step long before the constable was born.
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London
Operation-Escaping Cure Promoted by Vegetable Compound
Louisville Kentucky woman claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her from surgery after severe irregularities and nervous trouble. An Adrian Georgia woman says it cured her female troubles without operation. The ads tout decades of testimonials asserting the remedy cures feminine illnesses.
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Louieville
E. Pinkham
L E.pinkham
Mia
Sam'l
Louisville
Adrian
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Lena V. Menny
Yana E.ham
Numerous 1908 incidents reported across the nation
Dispatches from El Paso to Mexico City note Mozian guberatorial tensions predicting bloodshed. News from New Orleans area reports heavy orchard damage from cold. A Newark accident injures two. a Brooklyn tenement fire kills or injures several. Birmingham mine explosion kills seventeen. Bronx track incident, Oakland shooting, Texas prohibition defeat, and other varied crimes and political moves fill the page.
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Salvator Governale
New York City
Mi Paso
Texas
Mexico City
Mozian
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Sydney M. Colgate
Orange
N. J
Edward Olde
New York
Meadow Road
Kearny
Masked robbery at Goldfield hospital turns-robberies
Three masked men entered the Mo hawk saloon in Goldfield tied up 20 patrons, tapped a cash register, and escaped with about 3500 dollars. Other notes report political bills, executions, and a cave discovery near Cody Wyoming as part of the same Northwest notes summary.
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Goldfield
Nevadatate
Clarke and
Warren
Wyoming
Senate
Congreas
Joe" Donahue
Cripple Creek
Oregon Senate
Frank Alien
Livingston
Mont
Anaconda
Fred B. Signor
James A. Murray
Montana
Brown
Superior Court
Oakland
Cal
Glendive
James Donaldson
W. M. Elssner
William Fox
Miles
Dakotas
Paul Essick
Robert Edward Piper
Arthur Davis
Colorado Springs
Charles P. Essick
Pike’s Peak Camp No. 5
Walter Johnson
Elmer Purdue
Spokane
Salem
Ore
Hillsboro
Johnson
George D. Winters
Reno
Nev
Nea
Cody
Wyo
Oregon
Union Pacific Investigating Board
Oregon Express
Daun
Miles City
Tongue River Railroad
Robb
Tacoma
Arthur W. Charlson
John R. Chratram
Washington
Portland
Railway Mall Service
Idaho
Alaska
Mesa County
Colorado
Grad Junction
Simple Wash Promises Quick Skin Cure
An advertisement claims a wash called D, DD, D Prescription can cure burning itching skin diseases by treating the skin and not the blood. It states the remedy combines wintergreen and healing vegetables and urges readers to ask their druggist for details.
Full of Harmony from a Musical Family Theme
Fragmentary text hints at a playful exchange about music, a brass band, and a dog named Ita with a humorous bias toward harmony and performance. The readable fragments show dialogue style and a nickname The Other-Munstcal.
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Munstcal
Cure for boils on child with Cuticura remedy cited
A Detroit mother details a years long skin issue for her child Vivian starting at six months. She reports about sixty boils on the head, a red scald like humor behind the ears, and repeated spring outbreaks. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment with Resolvent, the child recovered and has had no trouble for two years.
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Vivian
M. A. Schwerin
Spring Wells Ave
Detroit
Mich
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Fragmented snippets mixed ads and quotes from a vintage page
A jumbled collection of quotations, mini anecdotes, and stray advertisements. It includes a child whipping remark, references to Castoria and Garfield Tea, a note about Alki Point and a church, eye care and sea robins, and assorted stray lines about singers critics and fate.
All of One Kind Poem Reads by Twenty Publishers
The excerpt notes that around twenty publishers are familiar with the poems and asks if they have been read by many people. It suggests broad reader exposure and a notable publishing interest in the poetic work.
Mix For Rheumatism From A Never Falling Recipe
An old remedy suggests mixing one half pint of whiskey with one ounce of syrup sarsaparilla and one ounce of Toris compound. Taken in a teaspoonful before each meal and at bedtime, it is claimed to relieve rheumatism.
Book Form and Debutante Dialogues Parallel Pastimes
A quirky exchange contrasts turning a play into a book with a debutante’s flirtation and social manners. The dialogue riffs on writing 100000 words, chapters, and printing between covers while skirting social proprieties and chain of neighborly sentiment.
California Fig Syrup Co Ad Claims Pure, Ethical Manufacturing
An advertisement proclaims that the California Fig Syrup Co assures perfect purity and uniformity of their Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, produced by a unique method known only to the company. It urges buyers to seek the genuine product for beneficial medicinal effects, distributed by leading druggists.
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California, Fig Syrup.Co
California
Benna
Californian Fig Syrup Co
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Brooklyn
Short Creek
Birmingham Coal & Iron Company
Birmingham
Ala
New York Central Railroad
University Heights
Bronxborough
C. Hodgkins
Charles Clifton
Telegraph Avenue
Frank Lathrop
Brentwood
Ark
William
Frank
George Harris
International Harvester Company
District Cour
Shawnee County
Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
House Committee On Public Buildings
Rodenbers
Oldroyd
Lincoln
Cleveland C
Frank B. Kellogg
Union
Southern Pacific
B. H. Harriman
Taylor
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Gaspar de Portola
Dee Brown
Henry Lochard
Madison
Ind
Lochard
Bruce Sheffier
San Diego
Hite Duden
Mary Wright
Devil's Lake, N. 1
Beulah Wright
Far East
Flowery Kingdom
Jose Yves Limantour
Culiacan
Alamos
Marion Woolman
George Woolman
Burlington
Samuel A. Hewitt
Salvation Army
Libby
Richmond
Volatead
Minnesota
Mathera
Marine
Seattle
Alki Point
South Allii
Angel
Hampson
John 1
Brown & Son
Bouton
Maxi
Fate
Purseitend
Dodds
Guarst
Alanne
Zich
Heghine Paley
Genta
ITES
Photon
Portraliare
Agwat
Y Hopkins Portrait Company
MOH Beverance Nig
Lee Anaaine
Oiria
Moa
Salt Lake City
Syrop R
Creweradity
Ted
Neetune
WM En Co. Troy,nly
Tad Vonahtae
Troy, N. Y
W.l.douglas
Peter
Riva
Bere
Solio Pontes
Douglas
Brockton
Maun
Salzer
Hiv
Geneive
Corm Galzer Seed CO
Hox W
la Crosse
Wis
Spohn Medical CO
Oshen, Inc
U.S. A
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