Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad
A Geneseo resident testifies that after years of kidney pain and frequent urination Doan's Kidney Pills relieved their back and kidney aches. The ad notes the product is sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as the US sole agent and urges buyers to remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
G L. Anderson
Second St
Geneseo
Peterson
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
United States
Doan
Rail schedule snippets for Midwest routes and express trains
A sequence of timetable notes lists daily and occasional trains including the No 30 Kansas City and Des Moines services, Omaha and Kansas City Expresses, and Minneapolis St Paul Express. It notes stops for Chicago and tri city passengers, with various PM departure or arrival times and Sunday exceptions.
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Kansas City & Cat Petia Aoa
Mailand Express
San
Denver
Chicago
Tri-Cities
Omaha
Kansas City
Fexpress
Encrse Ees Casseeveee
Des Moines
Davenport Loca
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Nowir
Kansas
Girl in Grain Car Receives Help From Tramps and Police
A 21 year old woman identified as Ruby Goodfich was found in a grain car at Lyons yards by railroad workers after traveling east from Marion Indiana. Tramps shared a makeshift bed with hay and sacks, and helped her to a hotel before officials arranged transport home to Harrisburg. She blamed wealthier society for cold neglect while praising the kindness of fellow travelers who aided her journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Goodgfich
Lyons
Big Four Railroad
Danville Commercial News
Harrisburg
Saline County
Poln
T- Girl
Danville
Big Four
Marian Ind
Marion
Lafayette
Lake Erie
Lyons Yards
Tama
Roe Oemember
Mr. Summers
H. Rette
Mattie H. Kay
Geneseo
Catholics Favor Colonization Movement
Announcement says Catholics nationwide will launch a colonization drive led by Archbishops Ireland, Messner, and Glennes to move Catholic settlers from cities to lands in the West and South. Officials claim other denominations have succeeded and expect easy enlistment and financing. The aim is to ease urban strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
St. Paul
Messner
Milwaukee
Glennes
St. Louis
Remarkable Snake Story Girls Kill Huge Reptile
The Bradford Republican reports two Pearit women, Miss Hannah Owens and Miss Myrtle Nolan, calmly kill a huge lowland adder at a West Main street home. Nolan lured the snake with music while Owens fetched fork and ax, then pinned the head and removed tail before finishing the head.
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Bradford Republican
Hannah Owens
Myrtle, Nolan
Pearit
Owens
West Main Street
Miss Nolan
Miss Owens
Missouri Wife Abuse Case Stirs Courtroom Controversy
A Missouri husband brutalizes his wife including forcing her to work with mules and a harrow. After detailing the abuse in court she embraces him and asks the judge not to sentence him, challenging the case despite bruises and threats. The incident highlights the clash between testimony and personal appeals in the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Galesburg-Republican Register
Blackbird clamor spurs Hoyleton plan to exterminate
Galesburg Register notes Hoyleton residents upset by nightly roosting of about a million blackbirds in a city park. Farmers say the birds help control cutworms but locals fear sleepless nights and contemplate destroying the flock with public safety tools. The piece defends the birds as valuable crop allies despite alarm.
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Hoyleton
Galesburg
Dickie Promises No Smoking Around Mother in Busy Courtship
In a New York Globe snippet, Dickie vows to quit smoking when his fiancée’s mother is present, promising never to smoke during visits. The woman thanks him warmly, saying she was worried he would insist on smoking after marriage.
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Dickie
New York Globe
Scenery of Mississippi River Rivals Rhine in Travel Note
A LaCrosse traveler extols the upper Mississippi as equal to the Rhine in beauty and historical interest. Descriptions cover Lake Pepin fjordlike features, Red Wing cliffs, Alma and Fountain City, and towns from La Crosse to Dubuque with steamboats, trains, and fishing communities along a rich river panorama.
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Upper
Mississippi River
Rhine
Hudson
LaCrosse
Wis
Red Wing
Upper Mississippi
LaSalle
Marquette
Hennhepin
Prairie du Chien
Dubuque
Davenport
Prescott
Keeed’s Landing
Brownsville
Cassvile
Lansing
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Alma
Fountain City
Lake City
Lake Pepin
Malden Rock
Barn Bluff
Red
Wing
Sugar Loaf Rock
Winona
Point No-Point
la Crosse Clinton
LeClaire
Gregor
Dubuque Wavenport
Finley Starts Long Rowing Trip From Nova Scotia to New Orleans
John H Finley president of the College of the City of New York and former Knox college leader, rowed from Nova Scotia toward New Orleans following explorer routes. The trip, begun months ago, passes Ottawa and Starved Rock while tracing Champlain Marquette Joliet and La Salle trails with rough maps guiding him.
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Ottawa Republican Times
John H Finley
Knox College
College of the City of
America
Gulf of Mexico
Ottawa
Old Elm
Father Marquette
Fort St Louis
Starved Rock
Champlain
Tonti
Tonti, Joliet and la Salle
Port Royal
New York
Canada
Chicago
Finley
Illinois
New Orleans
Man Attempts Suicide by Drowning in Mississippi River
Wilson Arnoldt a 300 pound house and sign painter left a note claiming his wife no longer loves him and then jumped from a Donaldsonville Louisiana ferry landing. He surfaced quickly and floated two miles downstream where a skiff party rescued him. He planned to live and try swimming to lose weight.
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Wilson Arnoldt
Donaldsonville
Isaiah 25 God Fights For the Poor and Doom of Enemies
A religious passage proclaims God's future triumphs over enemies. It describes Jerusalem as a fortress turned to ruin, the Lord's feast for all peoples, the removal of death, and the wiping away of tears. It ends with faith in salvation and rejoicing in God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Lord
G A R Chief Judge Harvey Trimble’s Long Public Career
G A R chief Harvey Trimble of Princeton born 1842 near Wilmington Ohio served in the Ninety third Illinois during the Civil War. He helped run Bureau county courts as deputy clerk master in chancery county judge and then circuit judge from 1865 to 1903 and beyond.
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Harvey M. Trimble
Princeton
Rochester
N. Y
Grand Army of the Republic
Wilmington
Clinton County
Ohio
Bureau County
Ninety-third Regiment of
Illinois Volunteers
River prize fights halted after regional officials move
Authorities in Rock Island and Scott counties crack down on Sunday prize fights held on Mississippi River boats near Davenport. Governor Carroll Iowa is reported to have pressed the issue and sheriff officials face criticism for prior inaction. The Scott and Rock Island sheriffs declare the fights must stop.
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Tri-City
Mississippi River
Davenport
Rock Island
Scott County
Carrol
Iowa
Scott
Rock Island County
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Weiler
Dart
Brown
Janes. Warnock
Has Jeast
Sargent
Center Street
Warnock
Hari & Gin Imols
Patings Department
L. H. Grant
Genesco
Catawola Buck
OS A Barnes
Odottes
Geneseo’ Steam Laundry
Withrow
Ted Gola
DR. Cox
Cox
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mast
Orains
Th. Finley
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