The Ordeal of Gertrude at Dinard Landing Stage
Gertrude endures neglect at the quay as porters abandon her luggage. a bold old apple woman offers counsel and companionship. She pays two ruffians to haul the unwieldy box aboard, then finds solace in a chance talk with the generous old woman, receiving a cross and prayers in gratitude.
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Dinard
St. Malo
Porteur
Hotel Des Bains
Ces’ Garcons la
St._ Ser
Woluers
Mademoiselle
Gertrude
Hotel Des Baines
Volunteer Firefighters Rally In Northern Pennsylvania
In a small Northern Pennsylvania town, a volunteer fire department faced a midnight blaze in late April. Only one lantern offered light as smoke billowed and flames flickered, prompting cheers when a nozzle finally directed water toward a single blazing corner while the captain warned rivals to keep the water away to protect their only light.
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Pennsylvania
Shouter
Bill
Harper's Weekly
Grave of the Tichborne Claimant lies in Paddington Cemetery
The body of Arthur Orton, who claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, rests in Paddington Cemetery Willesden Lane. His coffin bore the claim while a small tombstone lists only the name Orton. He served imprisonment, appeared on “the halls,” and died in Star Street off Edgware Road, per London Globe.
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Tichborne
Paddington
Willesden Lane
Arthur Orton
Sir Roger Tichborne
Orton
Star Street
Edgware Road
London Globe
Dead Chinese Shipped Home after Reinterments Step
Bodies of 147 Chinese who died in New York City are being disinterred from Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens for shipment back to China. The last shipment occurred about seven years ago.
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New York City
Cypress Hills Cemetery
Queens Borough
China
Baby Burned By Boiling Grease Heals With Cutiura Ointment
Mrs Hare of 1 Henry Street South Shields recounts a severe scald to her baby from a frying pan incident in March 1908. After a doctor’s week of care the skin peeled but three boxes of Cutiura Ointment healed the facial scar with all skin returning to velvet perfection. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. of Boston promotes the remedy.
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Henry St
South Shields
Durham
England
Maddatg hightop and distant Europe geography note
A fragmented survey cites Maddatg hightop in Europe with elevation notes, then shifts to Brown's Bronchial Traches as a simple cough remedy. Mentions samples, lumber to China for railroads, and an odd Cold remedy pitch. Includes references to EWG signatures and various patent medicine claims.
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Brown
John S. Brown & Son
Boston
Mass
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Heralded by Women
A physician advised use during change of life with praise from Mrs E Hanson of Columbus Ohio and Mrs Charles Barclay of Graniteville Vermont. The letters claim the product restores health, relieves nervousness and female ills, and has served as a standard remedy for thirty years.
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Dave
E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
East Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Graniteville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Charces Barclay
R.F.D
Boy in Brooklyn Keeps Immature Turtle as Pet
A Brooklyn boy found a turtle egg in Connecticut last summer. He hatched it and fed it easily, but the turtle never grew. The boy brought it to Brooklyn where it survived the winter in good shape and shows no sign of growing beyond its original size.
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Brooklyn
Connecticut
Doan's Kidney Pills Restore Attica Constable's Mobility
John Corey, long crippled by kidney trouble, credits Doan's Kidney Pills with restoring his ability to walk after seven boxes. He had suffered since September 1896 and was nearly immobilized by lumbago. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. The piece also recounts grim Indian burial practices and a French train breakdown amid cold weather near Dijon.
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John Corey
Attica
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Five million dollars for water power near Butte Montana
Five million dollars will be spent to develop a water power project 165 miles from Butte. The electric power will be used in mines near Butte. The article also warns against mercury containing tonics for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. It notes a coroner's remark about lockjaw cases in Essex.
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Butte, Mont
Butte
Ball
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Ohio
Cheney & Co
Teper Bottle
Turkish cigarette makers push Kentucky for Turkish tobacco growth
Turkish cigarette manufacturers urge Kentucky growers to expand production of Turkish tobacco as imports rise from 25 thousand to 4 million dollars in twelve years, signaling a strategic shift in sourcing and regional farming partnerships.
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Kentucky
Piles Cure Claim Advertised in Local Paper
By way Piles Curéd in 6 to 14 Days. Paro Ointment is guaranteed to cure any gecof Itching, Piles in 6 to 14 days of money refun. Christianity was introduced into Sse in 159, pile J. Graesa Sos, of Atlanta, Gare only successful specialists in' the World. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. Cabbage, like all 'bles which hay ate Meccan be lieved to be of European origin. way.
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Pile J. Graesa Sos
Atlanta
Gare
Almanac and notices from 1460 and 1848 era items
A garbled almanac print from 1460 by George Von Purback and remedies such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and Woolford's Sanitary Lotion are mentioned. Also notes on California gold discovery in 1848 and a London Clerkenwell County Court remark about dating letters by women.
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George von Purback
Woolford
Druggista
Edge
Clerkenwell County Court
London
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