Duchess of Sutherland Turns Trentham Hall Into a Craft Guild
The Duchess spearheads a project to convert Trentham Hall and its estates into a factory for disabled workers. The Duchess founded the Potters Guild of Handicrafts, later renamed the Duchess of Sutherland's Cripples' Guild, Limited, with profits funding training and charity. The Duke donated Trentham Hall and surrounding lands, enabling larger workshops and full-time employment for hundreds of cripples in enamelling, jewelry, printing, bookbinding, and metalwork.
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Disraeli
Lothair
Brentham
Freestone
Trentham Hall
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland
England
Duchess of Sutherland
Countess of Warwick
Margaret MacMillan
Duchess of Sutherlan
Staffordshire
Worcestershire
France
Hanley
Providence Works
Wilson Street
Guild
Potters’ Guild of Handicrafts
Duchess of Sutherland’s Cripples’ Guild, Limited
Duchess
Duke of Sutherland
Trentham
Trent
Barry
New York Tribune
Fire Event Sparks Society Scene On Thirteenth Street
A late evening house fire at Mr and Mrs Blank residence on Thirteenth Street drew many neighbors by carriage and foot after nine thirty. Firemen fought the blaze while the chief wore a brass horned spike on his hat. guests watched as the second story flames cast a vivid glow over nearby buildings. The Blanks were away, making the incident a surprise upon their return.
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Society
Society News
Nebraska
The Philosophy of Tipping in Restaurants
A Harpers Weekly piece argues tipping sustains waiter motivation and quality. It contrasts salary-only service with tip incentives and notes waiters must seek tips to survive, while customers often endure subpar hospitality.
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Harper’s Weekly
Cuba Combines Telegraph Offices With Postal Department
In Cuba the State Telegraph Offices have been merged into the Postal Department creating a centralized communications service. The change consolidates handling of telegraphs and mails under one government unit, aiming to streamline operations.
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Cuba
Postal Department
The General Demand for a Safe Laxative Remedy
The public seeks a simple pleasant and efficient liquid laxative with known wholesome components. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical trusted remedy. Buy genuine California Fig Syrup Co product only. price fifty cents per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
California
British Salt Use and Pile Cure Claims
Great Britain uses seventy two pounds of salt per capita per year. Piles cured in six to fourteen days. Paro Ointment guarantees to cure any case of itching bleeding or seater piles in six to fourteen days or money refunded.
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Great Britain
St. Vitus
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Lasting Relief
Mrs James M Long of Staunton Virginia reports that Doan's Kidney Pills cured her January 31 1903 for backache and urinary trouble and by June 20 1907 she had no kidney problems. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Doan
James M. Long
N. Augusta St
Staunton
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
A Noble Work Sermon Draws Laughing Parishioner
A suburban minister told his congregation that in each blade of grass there is a sermon. The next day a parishioner found him mowing the garden and quipped that he had cut his sermons short.
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The
London Standard
Eczema Healed After Use of Caticura Remedies
Mrs David Brown of Locke Ark testifies after months of severe eczema on both ankles that the Caticura Soap Ointment and Pills ended itching burning and sleepless nights with rapid healing and no recurrence over a year. The note also mentions swans living 300 years as a stray fact.
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David Brown
Locke, Ark
Consoling Thoughts About the Young
A Life note argues youth split into mindless and misinformed thinkers. Right thinking needs knowledge, scarce for youth. A young person with mistaken opinions shows budding thought and potential progress.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Sold Worldwide for Cold Cure
Laxative Bromo Quinine promoted as a one day cure for colds with a 25 cent price tag and signature of B. W. Grove cited. The ad notes it is used worldwide to treat colds. Ground chestnuts replace flour in some areas of France mentioned in the snippet.
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B. W. Grove
France
Emper or William Oats and Silver King Barley touted in seed ad
The notice touts Salzer seeds claiming Emperor William Oats yield 50 bu per acre more in 1907 and Silver King Barley as a top 1907 performer. It promises a catalog if you send 10c and mentions large hypothetical profits from 5 or 50 acres. Also includes unrelated ads for tonics and products.
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Salzer
William
John A. Salter Seed Co
Licome
Wis
Picarion
Wil A
Ducks now outnumber all other birds in China
The article describes vast duck populations across China, noting ducks in villages, roads, ponds, and cities. It highlights duck houses on every backyard and duck quarters on boats. Hatching establishments produce up to 50,000 young ducks annually, with ducks as a staple delicacy nationwide.
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China
Confidence and care from Mrs Pinkham letters
A persuasive ad touts Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts offering confidential letters to sick women. It claims forty years of correspondence provide knowledge to help cases the doctor cannot explain and invites anxious readers to seek guidance.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Adverts
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown PA testifies she suffered from organic derangement and female weakness causing headaches and nervousness. After following Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound guidance she says she was made well and urges others to try it.
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Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female weakness and has cured thousands of women troubled with displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing down feeling flatulency indigestion dizziness or nervous prostration.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Government produces best selling horse book
The American book is counted among the best sellers with over 3,000,000 copies sold. It is The Horse Book issued by the Government.
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Canaries Adverts
A historical advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for unstoppable catarrh cures from Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from Warping Kinnan Marvin Toledo druggists and claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and notes a canary bird appetite misnomer with a New York citation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Warping
Kinnan & Marvin
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Berlin
London Daily Mail
Port Morris Tea Co
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Sora
W.L
Elen
Lin Litas
Putnam
Sears
Goote Goods
Monkue UD
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Miinoke
Woolford
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Garfield Tea
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