Rest after vacation urged for those who can afford it
The Toledo Blade notes that persons who can afford to should take a few days of rest after vacation. It discusses deafness not being curable by local applications and cites catarrh as a frequent cause. It mentions Hall's Paraty Sal and a reward offer for a catarrh cure. It also surveys projected rail projects across the Andes and Peruvian roads delivering faster connections to the Atlantic.
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Toledo Blade
Cory Bend
Breulars
F.J. Oneney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Tomatoes Drive Tennessee Canneries Boom in Claiborne County
In Claiborne County Tennessee more than 700 acres were planted in 1907 to grow tomatoes for an estimated 1 000 000 bushels. About 2 000 000 quart cans were shipped into the county at a cost of 10 000 dollars. Nearly fifty canneries engaged in processing the crop.
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Tennessee
Claiborne County
Dig
Little
Southern Farm Magazine
Postum Cures Coffee Habit in Family Testimony
A reader shares how switching from coffee to Postum Food Coffee ended a seven year headache cycle for her mother. After learning proper preparation, headaches vanished and two households banished coffee. The letter notes a friend also switched after tasting Postum and now avoids coffee entirely.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Fox Hunter's Experience Lights Odd Auto Ride Tale
Professor John F. Draughon of Nashville recalls a comic auto ride with evangelists during Torrey Alexander meetings. A test drive ends with a toppled car, a hat lost, and a jokey insurance of safety as the party reaches the Bible school for services.
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John F. Draughon
Nashville
Tenn
Draughon
Mr. Calliouette
J. C. Symmes
John F. Davie
Strange Shitale Tale of the Sea Pirates Maroon Kilburn Crew
The Kilburn, a British coal steamer, ran ashore on the Arabian coast while en route to Japan. Pirates seized the crew, looted movable gear, and held the crew captive except the captain who paid about 500 dollars to secure his safety. Turkish authorities later sent a warship, but the pirates had already departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Bell
London Zoo
I T.e Youth
Yokohama
Red Sea
Japan
Mae O'Connor Fights Off Knife-Wielding Stranger
Mae OConnor a twenty year old Monroe County Telephone Company operator fought for an hour with a man who claimed to be from Pella and threatened her with a knife. She wrested the weapon from him and survived the assault, remaining alone at work.
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Mae O'Connor
Monroe County
Iowa
Miss O'Connor
Pella
Rescue on a Moving Train Earns Carnegie Medal Mention
J G Holloway a Louisville and Nashville fireman on a freight train between Evansville Indiana and Nashville Tennessee performed a brave rescue near Sebree Kentucky. He crawled onto the cowcatcher and saved a three year old girl playing on the track without injury. The incident was reported by the New York World.
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J. G. Holloway
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Evansville
Ind
Nashville
New York World
Boy Detects Hill Family From Sermon Text
A boy in church whispers to his mother that he recognizes a family named Hill from the sermon line I will lift up mine eyes into the hills. The mood suggests a humorous moment of childlike deduction and family names. Substantial inquiry confirms his guess was correct.
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Bobby
Mamma
Uses For Austrian Recruits Mocked In Royal Experiments
A mischievous tale claims Austrian recruits from the countryside are drafted to serve in archducal estates. Recruits perform tasks as gamekeepers and labor on parks. Rumor says the heir to the throne tests where to place artificial trees for aesthetic effect.
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John Gilpin
British South Polar expedition aims for motor trek
The new British South Polar expedition plans to depart in October with leader B H Shackleton and a specially modified automobile. Explorers doubtless see a motor car as advantageous for crossing vast ice expanses in the Antarctic.
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South Pole
B. H. Shackleton
Leutenant
London
New York
Pat Was Not Glad Soldier Returns From the Front
A robust soldier, after faithful service, grows thin from exposure and scanty rations. He leaves for home to recuperate, arriving looking poorly. A friend greets him and he, with humor, remarks on his extreme weight loss. The exchange reflects wartime hardship.
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Nice
Pat
Begorra
Fright eggs for breakfast inspires classroom quip
In Chelsea a teacher asks pupils to use the word fright in a sentence. A quick reply from a little girl: I have a sentence, teacher. We had fright eggs for breakfast this morning.
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Chelsea
Boston Herald
soldiers endure hardship over scant rations and pay
The text notes soldiers, being human, object to duty due to lack of extra rations and miserly pay. They must shift for themselves, obtaining food poorer than bar racks, though not sumptuous.
Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham's Remedy After Illness
A Denver resident Mrs A Gregory writes that after six years of female troubles and an unsuccessful operation she found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports backache bearing down pains and other symptoms subsided and praises the product.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Gregory
Lawrence St
Denver
Col
Lydia E.cham
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetal Compound
This 19th century advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetal Compound as the standard remedy for female illness. It claims the product cures inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feelings, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness and nervous prostration and invites women to write for advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Itching Sores Healed in Four Days with Cuticura
Mrs. Frank Donahue reports her boy’s severe itching rash spreading from his hands to his body was cured in four days using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment after washing and nightly application. The testimonial cites Kokomo Indiana and a date of Sept 16, 1907.
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Frank Donahue
Fremont St
Kokomo
Ind
Contain Contain an a England and France
A fragmentary OCR item mentions England and France in a brief historical or political context. The readable text does not provide a clear event, dates, or names to fully identify the topic or outcome.
Doctors at Sea Interne Reports An Incision Mystery
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes a first interne noting an incision on the outer integument after an attack at sea. The lookout labels it The Surgeon Commands, while sterilized cotton and plaster are prepared. If symptoms persist, a consultation will be arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dean's Kidney Pills Promoted By Woods Of Lonaconing
Bernard P Woods of Jackson Street Lonaconing Maryland says heavy lifting damaged his kidneys causing fatigue dizziness and headaches for fifteen years. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he improved steadily and was cured. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
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Mr. Woods
Bernard P. Woods
Jackson Street
Lonaconing
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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