Orion Monday and Local Socials in Western Township
Orion Monday features visits from Mr and Mrs W T Tate of Alpha and Mr and Mrs Jos Tracy of Ophiem. B D Stevenson visits Des Moines. jurors named for June term include Edgar Love Miles Keel D C Keleher and Edward H Tamme. A party honors Stevenson and a surprise for Milo Crawford, Wayne's hall, with about 25 attendees. Local notices report ads, medicines, and weather impacts on construction near Orion. Memorial Day observed with ceremonies at the opera house, Rev W C Rutherford delivering the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W T Tate
Alpha
Jos. Tracy
Ophiem
Orion
B. D. Stevenson
Dorothy
Dex Moines
Mr. Stevenson
Western Township
Edgar C. Love
Miles Keel
D. C Keleher
Edward H. Tamme
A. Bolles
Des Moines
Iowa
Snoop
Shoop
Farmers Social Club
L R Bothwell
Rucioe
Wis
Rock Island
Kuesday
Woman’s Relief Corps
W.C. Rutherford
Av-Eloder
L. R. Bothwell
Union Times
Dr King’s New Life Pills Featured Along With Local Notices
Numerous small items mention patent medicines sold by F. A Peterson and J. B. Wright, including De Witts products and Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Local society notes cover visits, church Memorial Day addresses, and school closing celebrations at Leon and Stowell. Unfamiliar facts discuss peers and baronets in Britain and regional industry data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
J. B. Wright
Leon
Stowell
Crove
W. F Stowell
Blood Purification Promoted by Brandreth Pills
A vintage advertisement claims purified blood ensures happiness and health, urging daily use of Brandreth's Pills made from sarsaparilla and plant extracts. The copy touts a century of use and availability in druggists with plain or sugar coated forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braodreth
Brandreth
Splinters and Fragments in a Patchwork News Item
A mix of brief notes covers a Portland wedding cake with history, a ceremonial practice of the American aborigines, Paris laundries disinfecting goods, a Paris cook finding a gold diamond ring, Justice Brewster on Japan, a Hungarian Jockey Club debt settlement, and Samoa’s British consul noting natives preferring German umbrellas for style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Paris
Lucie Manrentz
Tnts
Justice Brewster
United States Supreme Court
Japan
Goddess of
Liberty
Jockey Club
Samoa
Notre Dame Lady's Appeal for Free Home Treatment
A Notre Dame widow offers a free home remedy claim for rheumatism sciatica neuralgia and kidney pains promising to cure at home. She says the cure removes uric acid purifies blood and restores elasticity and vitality and invites proof by mailing to Mrs M Summers Box R Notre Dame Indiana.
Restorative Sodas Marketed in Racine Wis Offers Free Book
An advertisement promotes restorative sodas connected to a dealer in Racine Wisconsin. It advertises a free book and claims merit in treatment. The copy references restorative themes and includes scattered phrases about the product and its availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
Vans
Wade
Ceu
American Dentist in Afghanistan Receives Royal Pay
Dr Mark L Smith an American dentist formerly of Mount Carmel Illinois worked for the ameer of Afghanistan in Kabul. He filled ten teeth for six thousand dollars with four thousand spent on travel entertainment and return. The ameer paid about one thousand dollars per tooth and treated him as a royal guest for two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afghanistan
Ameor
Mark L. Smith
Mount Carine
Calcutta
Royal Potentate
Smith
Ameer
Turkmen Influence: Perfume Trade in Ottoman Empire
Consul Osman reports Turks’ strong use of perfumery and toilet articles in Constantinople and across the empire. He estimates total imports near 1,000,000 dollars annually, with about 1,800,000 pounds imported into Constantinople alone. Handkerchief perfumes are popular among women, while refined scents have limited sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sublime Porte
United States
Turkey
Edward H.osman
Constantinople
Empire
Boaps
Food Scarcity Sways England Amid Global Demand
English food supplies grow tight amid rising American and German demand for bacon cheese eggs and butter. The piece notes rising prices a shift of sugar beet industry focus and Germany's competition for surplus alongside scarce hogs and dwindling English imports. It also recounts a peculiar 1733 funeral of John Underwood in Cambridge shire with six pallbearers paid to forego black attire and toast the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zagiana
England
America
Germany
United States
Canada
Denmark
John Underwood
Whittlesea
Cambridgeshire
Horace
Sanadon
Bentley
Milton
Horaca
Marvelous endurance feats of prolonged fasting record holders
The article recounts extraordinary fasting records, noting three men surviving 83 days without food and a holder who abstained from nourishment for 45 days. It cites Sacco’s 40 45 and 42 day fasts in Vienna London and Paris under observation, the 1891 San Francisco fast by John Culpepper for a $1000 stake, and a castaway seaman surviving seven and a half days after eight years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr Sack
Vienna
London
Paris
Sacco
San Francisco
John Culpepper
Pamela
Pacific
Ami
Cramer
Munich
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Walsh
Pscudar
Seetta
Caigago Medical Institute
U.rennsssset-Steeuponies
Elb.kay
Geven
East North Street
Charles H, Meyers
Riley Camp Ground
Stottmeister
Monier
Annawan
Ae ' Lowisase
Morristown
Frank Henninger
Murray Brothers City Scavengers
Neyesta, Linois
Tain Tile
SiNnota
Thompson
J. Thompson & Son
L. Mennio
Dragor
ELY Brothers
Warren Ecreet
New York
Geneseo Steam Laundry
Atwood, Propd City
Mito Crawford
Wayne's Hall
Milos
J E. Wright
Beo Kettering
Barington
Dallas
Tex
Dr King
Wright
WeWitt
F. A Peterson
Fomlinson
Fast Pollesiay
Minseanoisis, Minnesota
Peterson
Plainfeld
Mrs. Berry
DeWitt
Ff. A Peterson
Wills Robinson
Chicago
Mr. Bodwirs
Hiram Bogare
DeWitts
F. A. Peterson
Dale
Louise
Beafora
Matthews Famlities
Ely
E. Fullerton
Emmons
Barney McGrady
Hooppole
Henry Milter
Hingland
House of Commons
New York City
GSO
Switzerland
Sandy Huck Proving Grounds
Westport
New Bedford
Wiss
Washington
Gaetano Lanza
Boston School of Technology
Victor Emmanuel II
Italy
Lanza
Boston
Institute of Technology
Notre Dame Lady’s Appeal
Lydia EB. Pinkham
James Chester
E. Pinkham
35Th St
Canton
China
Tressino
Cole
Jeb Winchs
Ariosa
Wakinexa
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