Rabbit That Could Swim Demonstrated by Telegraph Messenger
William Zimmerman, a Dubois telegraph messenger, captured a rabbit on the island north of the Boulevard and brought it to the Pennsylvania freight depot. The rabbit evaded capture, dodged between moving locomotive wheels, and leaped into Sandy Creek where it swam away toward the rushes, proving a rabbit can swim when forced.
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William Zimmerman
Dubois
Zimmerman
Boulevard
Pennsylvania
Br’er
Bill
Sandy Creek
Philadelphia
New European Lamp Promises High Illumination
A recent European arrival showcases a lamp that uses alcohols for fuel and supposedly gives seven to ten times the illumination of an electric light at under a cent per hour.
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Europe
Pan-Anglican Congress to be Held in London This Summer
The expenses of the Pan-Anglican Congress are estimated at about 30000 dollars. Nearly all funds will be raised through ticket sales for the meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Doctor’s Gift Grape Nuts Changes Patient’s Health
A patient recounts how Grape-Nuts, recommended by a local doctor, cured chronic indigestion and ridiculusness. Within two months health improved, brain clearer, vitality returned, with a nod to Postum Co. and the slogan There’s a Reason. Read The Road to Wellville in pkgs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
New Breeches Buoy Signals At Night For Lifesaving
The United States Life Saving Service adopts an improved breeches buoy with signal lights. Invented by John W. Dalton of Gloucester, the device uses green, white, and red lights to show status and location, guiding wrecked mariners and informing shore crews when passengers are aboard.
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United States Life Saving Service
John W. Dalton
Gloucester
Massachusetts
Scientific American
Standard gauge for rivers and locks proposed
John L. Matthews argues for a national Inland Waterways Commission to standardize river gauges and lock sizes across A and B classes. He cites international practice in Germany France Austria Hungary and Russia to ensure seamless vessel movement from port to port and across regions.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Germany
France
Austria
Hungary
Russia
Atlantic
Black Sea
Caspian
Baltic
John L. Matthews
Sunday School Lessons Shaped by Small Group's Global Reach
A Boston Herald note credits a small committee at W. N. Hartshorn's Fenway home with selecting annual Sunday school lessons. After decisions, printers circulate 600,000 leaflets worldwide in many languages, including Europe, Africa, Asia, Hawaii, Japan, and India where forty dialects are needed.
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Fenway
W. N. Hartshorn
Europe
Africa
Hawaii
Japan
India
Boston Herald
Nondescript Humorous Note From The Local Diner
A quirky, fragmented text from a local diner includes odd phrases about a human eclair and a waiter alias. The speaker struggles to remove the eclair from the plate while misheard or jumbled words reference a colored Gent and Cornel Wid ny.
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Mab
Cornel
California farmer hires out laying hens to poultry keepers
A California farmer builds a lending hens business to improve poultry farming. He rents white Leghorn hens for three cents per dozen eggs. Each hen averages 150 eggs yearly. the return per hired hen is about sixty five cents. Last year he operated with 10 000 hens and aims for 50 000 next year.
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California
Well Man at 81 Credits Dean's Kidney Pills
Daniel S. Queen of Salem Virginia describes years of back pain kidney trouble and bed rest followed by Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports gradual improvement and credits the remedy with restoring his health and life at age 81. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Daniel S. Queen
Burrell Street
Salem
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Coffee Making Without Boiling: A Guide to Flavor
Instructions from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch describe how to brew coffee by heating to the boiling point and keeping just below it to preserve oils. Use spotless enamelware, one tablespoon per cup plus one for the pot, and an egg shell or white to clarify. Wash eggs before breaking and avoid excessive egg use to prevent coating the coffee.
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St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Great Nerve Restorer Ad Claims Cures for Nervous Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr. H. R. Kline of Philadelphia offering Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer to cure fits st Vitus dance and other nervous diseases. A $2 trial bottle and free treatise are offered. The narrative ends with a note about a Japanese town in a crater.
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St. Vitus
Piles Cured with Peto Ointment Claim
The ad claims caneef piles including itching bleeding and protruding types are cured in 6 to 40 days with money back. It promotes a 50 cent price and notes a new machine that supposedly makes 40 000 match splits per minute.
All That Didn't Sink
A brief exchange captures a river town joke about a bustling population during the rainy season. A visitor asks if the town has a considerable floating population and a local confirms the joke with regional flavor.
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Puck
Over Half a Century of Brown’s Bronchial Troubles Cured
An old advertisement claims Brown's Bronchial Traches excel as a cure for hoarseness coughs and sore throat. It also touts Algerian grapes per acre and Woolford's Sanitary Lotion with an 30 minute itch cure claim, urging purchase at druggists.
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Brown
Woolford
Three Cures of Eczema and Potatoes in France Note
A family testimony credits Cuticura Ointment with curing eczema after three summers of outbreaks. Mrs. Miller’s daughter’s child supposedly recovered completely after Cuticura Remedies, with dates tied to 1907. Separate line notes France uses four million tons of potatoes yearly for starch and alcohol.
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Indiana
Sarah E. Lusk
Coldwater
Mich
France
Early Potatoes and Seeds Offer from Salter Co
The Rural New Yorker editor touts Salzer and Sas Early Wisconsin potatoes with yields up to 736 bu per acre and 464 bu per acre. He invites readers to mail 10c stamps to John A. Salter Seed Co in La Crosse WI for the original seed catalog and samples plus promises of new farm seeds for 14c.
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Salzer
Wisconsin
New Yorker
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Inerica
A.C. L
F D Coburn Voices Sunflower Cultivation to Kansas Farmers
F D Coburn considers issuing a bulletin urging Kansas farmers to plant Russian sunflowers for seed oil. A London trader H A W Corfield asks for farmer names, noting European demand for crushed seeds used in fine toilet soaps.
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F. D. Coburn
Kansas
Corfield
Coburn
Kansas City Journal
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promised Relief
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly successful for women, citing testimonials from letters to Pinkham and claims of avoiding surgery. It stresses roots and herbs, no drugs, and direct action on the feminine system to restore health. It ends with an odd comparison about a bird's wing.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Ynn
Mass
Ia E. Pinkham
Bromo Quinine Ad Claims Cold Cure In One Day Signature
The ad asserts a single remedy, Bromo Quinine, cures a cold in one day and bears E. W. Grove’s signature. It notes the product is used worldwide and priced at 25e. An accompanying note on horse physiology states a well conditioned horse can endure about twenty five days without food with ample water.
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E. W. Grove
N.Y
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Toledo
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Haddie
Down East
Satan
Haddock
Portland Oregonian
Virginia
The
Rural New Yorker
Prairie Districts
Canada
Oey
Garfield
Jen
New York City
Mother Gray
Atala Olmsted
Andere Tot
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Patrick
Ireland
Jacobs Oil
W.l.douglas
W.L
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Quincy
Illinois
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