A Veteran’s Kidney Pain Ended by Doan’s Pills
B Frank Doremus of Roosevelt Ave Indianapolis recalls severe kidney trouble after military service in 1897. He suffered headaches dizziness sleeplessness dropsy and leg swelling before doctors advised amputation. He credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with reducing swelling normalizing urine and ending pain. He has been well for nine years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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B. Frank Doremus
Roosevelt Ave
Indianapolis
Ind
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Burial of Sir Walter Scott
A stormy autumn day marked the funeral from Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott. The long procession halted on Bemerside Hill as the carriage horses paused, unaware their master had died, permitting a final view of his favorite landscape. Caledonia received its beloved son in sorrow.
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Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford
Scott
Bemerside Hill
Peter Matheson
Sir Walter
Caledonia
Mexican Government to Build Durango Mazatlan Railroad
Authoritative Mazatlan reports the Durango Mazatlan Railroad will be constructed by the Mexican government. A Sierra Madre crossing route of 385 kilometres is confirmed with an estimated roadbed cost of 25.5 million Mexican pesos, plus several million more for completion.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Durango
Mazattlan
Sierra Madra
Celluloid Goods Now Required to Be Boxed for Mail
New York Acting Postmaster Morgan announces a new rule for the domestic mails. All articles made wholly or in part of celluloid must be enclosed in a metal box with a tightly fitting lid before mailing. The change aims to improve mail safety and efficiency.
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Morgan
New York
Germany Develops Military Ballooning Initiative
Germany explores the development of military ballooning with studies and plans to integrate balloon technology into defense capabilities as part of its aerial strategies.
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Germany
My Playmate a Lively Shadow Tale from Washington Star
A playful poem describes a boy and his shadow as a mischievous companion. The speaker notes the shadow mimics movements, hides at night, and challenges him in a lighthearted game of chase. The piece ends with the boy asserting the shadow is alive and present on the wall.
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Chere
Washington Star
The Busy Bee and Its Labor for Honey
The Philadelphia Record notes that producing one pound of honey requires 62,000 clover blossoms and about 2,750,000 bee visits. A single bee must travel from hive to flower and back roughly 750,000 times, illustrating why bees sting when disturbed and highlighting the effort behind each spoonful.
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Philadelphia Record
Intelligent Tom the bull terrier helps blind horse at Thomas farm
Os car Thomas of Setauket owns Tom a bull terrier said to be the county’s smartest dog. The dog guides a recently blinded horse to water then returns it to pasture three or four times daily, barking and ensuring safe passage. The tale, from Port Jefferson Dispatch via the New York World, highlights Tom’s loyalty and care.
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Tom
Oscar Thomas
Setauket
Suffolk County
Thomas
Port Jefferson Dispatch
New York World
Imitation Rooster Joke Makes Boy Quiet
In a natural history class a teacher asks pupils to imitate animals. Two minutes yield sounds from pigs to lions while Johnny Small stays silent proclaiming he is a rooster and laying an egg.
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Johnny Small
Johnny
Washington Star
Aura Cast Reflection Experiment Steps
Here is a simple experiment to try on a dewy morning after sunrise. Stand so that your body casts a long shadow and align with the shadow head for an interesting light effect.
Aura and heat wave reflections observed in sunlight
A reader queries whether sun rays through an aura create a glow or dewdrop brightness on grass. Another note describes heat vibrations rising from a hot radiator and visible reflections when sunlight hits a polished surface, asking why sun and atmosphere might reveal an aura’s shadow.
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Ellen
Guery
Nautilus
Grass carpet helps sick Miss Edith recover
Dr. Martin urges quiet for Miss Edith and inspires children to spread grass on the street. A kind policeman helps haul the soft carpet, calming noise from wagons and wheels. Miss Edith soon improves and praises her helpers. The page ends with a poem critique of cheerful verse.
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Dr. Martin
Miss Edith
Edith
Mary
Nellie
John
Tom
Roy
Pr. Martin
Hilda Richmond
What He Had
A prisoner pleads poverty to the judge, saying he owns only spring bills, six acres of worthless land, a large family, hope for a future, and old war rheumatism, in a brief moment cited from the Atlanta Constitution.
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Jedge
Atlanta Constitution
Sympathy at Home and a Black Eye Incident
A brief strip shows an elderly benevolent man expressing sorrow over a black eye on Johnny while a reprimanding youth tells him to go home and feel regret for his own child who has two. The scene portrays domestic concern and warning.
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Johnny
The Funny Side of Like and Laughable Quotes
A collage of humorous quips from periodical pages. Jokes range from stage talent doubts to wedding plans and reporters careers. Characters include young propsley, Widow Henpeck, a rich daughter, a magistrate, and a deacon noting the mousang coin.
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Propsley
Cleveland
Plain-Dealer
Youngling
Henpeck
His Name for It
A rural school physiology class puzzled over the bones of the head. A girl answered skull, the teacher asked for another name. A boy then blurted Noggin in a moment of confident realization from Judge's Library.
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Lucy
Henry
Noggin
Judge’s Library
Laborer’s Death Prompts Fraternal Aid Inquiry
A laborer in eastern Indiana died recently and his fraternal order, in which he held membership, sought to assist his widow. They offered to attend the funeral and asked about any church affiliation. The widow replied he never belonged to a church, shocking the inquiry.
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Indiana
Chicago Daily News
Carnegie Steel to Rehabilitate Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock
The Carnegie Steel Company plans a $2 million rehabilitation of the Edgar Thomson steel plant in Braddock Pennsylvania. Upgrades include engines to generate fuel gas from blast furnaces, doubling ingot mould sizes, and running the rolling rails process with electric power to curb recent railroad complaints.
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Carnegie Steel Company
Pittsburg
Edgar Thomson Steel
Braddock
World Cotton Use in 1906 by Bale Weight
In 1906 the world used 16 299 000 bales of cotton at 500 pounds per bale. The United States supplied 12 154 000 bales of the total.
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United States
Dr Kline’s Great Nervine Restorer advertised cures
A promotional notice touts Fits St Vitus Dance and nervous diseases as permanently cured by Dr H R Kline with Dr Kline’s Great Nervine Restorer. It offers a two dollar bottle and free treatise from 931 Arch St Philadelphia. It also notes whalebone prices rising from 150 to 1500 per ton over ten years.
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St. Vitus
Kline
H. R. Kline
Arch St
Phila
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