Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
A persuasive testimonial claims majority of hospital patients are women and that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured Luella Adams of severe female troubles without surgery. The letter urges distressed women to seek Mrs Pinkham’s free advice and notes her long experience assisting sick women from Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Too Late on the Last Day Joke About Senator Howard
Procrastinating ex Senator Howard of Lewiston Missouri was famed for sleeping late and staying out with friends. A prank put him in an undertaker shop to sleep in a coffin where he awoke, shouting that it was too late for the resurrection, in a tale cited by Senator Frye.
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Howard
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Turner Foe of labor claims pasted vase on Turner canvas
Edward Moran, during a London visit, argued that a vase on Turner's picture Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was pasted on. After a wager, Moran proved the vase had been painted on by Turner, hidden at the edge of a cut print, and later removed to reveal the seam.
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Woman of Wharton Reports Kidney Cure by Dean's Fills
Mrs A Taylor of Wharton New Jersey suffered severe kidney trouble with back and side pains dizzy spells headaches and burning urination. After eight boxes of Deans Kidney Pills her symptoms disappeared and she regained strength and health. sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Johns Hopkins Receives $10000 Thermometer
A highly valued thermometer at Johns Hopkins University in the United States costs $10,000. It is described as an absolutely perfect instrument with graduations so fine that a microscope is needed to read them.
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Cure Claim for Itching Skin With Cuticura Remedies
A Indianapolis resident reports severe itching and hair loss beginning in July and worsening at night. After using Cuticura Remedies, including nightly hot baths and ointment, the patient says symptoms improved, and after four boxes hair loss ceased and skin cleared by late October 1906.
Camden fire kills three firemen and injures nine
A Camden New Jersey fire destroyed twenty houses, killing three firefighters and injuring nine others. Other items note a Dutch canal collision, a large Russian loan planned after Morocco talks, and various international and domestic political and weather events.
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Dictates of Conscience in Gordon Tai Plog Incident
In reminiscences of Sir Frederick St John a diplomatist, the Tai-plog episode shows Gordon receiving rebel leaders’ offer of submission, after which the Chinese general San-ko-lin-sin had the heads of three chiefs shaved or decapitated for treachery. Gordon then resolved to use no weapon but a cane thereafter in China.
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Mrs Winglows Soothing Aura and Teething Remedies
A murky OCR mix presents claims about Mrs Winglows Soothing Aura curing teething discomfort and wind colic, then shifts to assorted notes about discrimination, spring conference ink stain removal with oxalic acid, Salt Lake Route travel, a dwarf collector king, a Red Cross Ball mention, and a Beauvais French vehicle called a vinal grette.
Domestic Service In Olden Days History Note
The passage explains the historic meaning of "Mental" as domestic service and its evolving implications. It notes that before the eighteenth century, many groups were compelled to serve, and that domestic servants often were related to the family, clarifying why maids and valets were called masters or mistresses' people in old texts. It mentions the Salt Lake Route.
Bodily exertion myth condemned by London hospital
Editor cites medical view that heavy physical activity after study is harmful to mental vigor. Quote likens it to lighting a candle at the bottom. Ad includes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claiming to curb feverishness and ailments with samples offered. Ends with slogan about Emerson and star imagery.
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le Roy
Garfield Tea Co Purifies Blood Claim Ad
An advertising blurb touts Garfield Tea Co products from Boston Brookline area. It promotes a tea as a blood purifier and cure for headaches and digestive ills. The passage also notes Boston residents spending heavily on baked beans and references the Sault Lake Route for travel.
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Paris Woman Falsely Declared Dead After Hospital Mix up
A Paris woman visiting relatives was reported dead by Bichat Hospital after an error linked her name to another patient who later died. The supposed death caused grief until she appeared alive that evening at her sister's home. The incident follows an earlier hospital treatment and mix up. Everyone prepared for Spring Conference.
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If the world were birdless a naturalist declares
A naturalist argues that without birds humans could not inhabit Earth after nine years. He asserts insect sprays and poisons would fail as Insecta and wildlife would devour orchards and crops in that period.
Unmarried Women a Power in World Progress
Lord Bacon is cited on the natural inclination toward love and its spread. The excerpt notes the rising influence of unmarried women in the past fifty years. It also mentions experiments at Monutreaux France with a 30,000,000 candle power electric searchlight projecting rays fifty miles. Uncle Allen Sparks dismisses flying machines as risky, joking about angelic aims.
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Scotty and His Record Breaking Ride Revealed
Walter Scott, a Death Valley gold miner, traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago last summer on a special Santa Fe train in under 46 hours. The trip cost over 6000 dollars and set the fastest long distance run on any American railway, proving Santa Fe track and staff dependable. It suggests readers may prefer the luxury of three trains from Utah and Colorado to the East and Southwest, with quotes on rates and literature.
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Buttons of China and Japan Shine in Costume Art
The Chinese and Japanese buttons on their splendid costumes are the most ornate and valuable from an artistic standpoint among all buttons in use worldwide.
Tricks of Autograph Hunters Revealed in Connoisseur
A curious column recounts autograph hunter schemes. George Eliot was duped by a sympathetic phony social worker. A letter to Ruskin drew no reply, then another alias created a fictitious art club inviting a talk. Ruskin replied gently, declining the address until the club progressed, offering guidance instead.
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Grin Jones Ordered to Stop Liquor Sales at Rumney Hotel
Rumney New Hampshire officials forced Grin Jones who ran a hotel to cease liquor sales. He warned temperance workers he did more for the cause than others and claimed locals drank only water at his house. He warned that another year would see people paying for liquor and drinking only water.
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World Men Shortage in The Americas and Europe
The world has an excess of men overall with America showing the greatest imbalance. In Europe women outnumber men, and in Western Europe commercial centers the share of women is rising due to expanding work opportunities for women.
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