Miss Agnes Hea Lapses Into Three Week Sleep Mystery
Miss Agnes Hea a Medford High School student has been unconscious for three weeks after a hysterical episode. She reportedly fell asleep while visiting a Maine summer resort and remained unaware upon returning to Medford. Her pulse remains normal and she appears healthy, though she remains asleep in a Brookline hospital.
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Brookline
Mass
Agnes Hea
Medford
Maine
Brookline Hospital
Gulf Coast Storm To Hit Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana
New Orleans reports a storm sweeping a Gulf Coast stretch from the Mississippi River to Pensacola was delayed and will strike late tonight or Saturday. The disturbance remains centered southwest of Pensacola moving northwest with strong northwest winds forecast for Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana coasts.
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New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Mississippi River
Pensacola
Weather Bureau
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Fun weekly joke book offered with New York World
A promotional notice claims the next Sunday issue of the New York World will include a free 161 page joke book titled Fun. It promises merry tests, comic pictures, riddles, puzzles and rhymes to bring happiness to homes and urges readers to order in advance from their news dealer.
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New York
Dean's Kidney Pills Backed By Testimonial From Charleston User
A Georgetown reader is urged to trust Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain and urinary troubles. H. J. Brown of 53 Columbus St. Charleston, S.C., reports relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills and recommends them to others. Sold by dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo, N.Y., is the U.S. sale agent. Remember the name Doan's.
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H. J. Brown
Columbus St
Charleston
S.C
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Uncle Ezra Warns of Trouble from Indigestion
A fragment quotes Uncle Ezra claiming a “gill or effort” can stir trouble and liver issues. It urges taking Dr King’s New Life Pills for quick, safe relief, noting they cost only 5 cents at all druggists.
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Dr. King
THEY WANT WIVES BY MAIL Bennington Vermont
Four letters arrive at Postmaster Collins M Graves requesting wives by mail. Each writer cites Bennington’s shortage of men and includes Pacific coast newspaper clippings from Vancouver to San Diego. They specify the kind of wife they want but none sends a photo, and seven days since the story’s publication signal ongoing effort.
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Bennington
Collins M. Graves
Pacific Coast
Vancouver
San Diego
Graves
Burglar Seeks Cash Then Pleads Square Deal
In Aberdeen Mary Dowling faced a well dressed burglar who ordered her purse at 105 F street. She grabbed the gun from its dresser, the intruder fled, and the woman awaited her husband while the crime cooled. In Los Angeles milk inspector Charles Porter refuses the red cap, claiming cows dislike the color and plans to dye it.
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Aberdeen
Mary Dowling
F Street
Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Porter
Rabbit Freed From Hollow Log At Sawmill
A partly hollow log coated with tce and snow was hauled by Charles Geschwindt five miles to his sawmill. While sawn, a rabbit imprisoned inside escaped as it sprang in two.
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Mohrsburg
Charles Geschwindt
Hall's Catarrh Cure Payment Oath 1886 Toledo
Frank J. Cheney as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co sworn in Toledo Ohio on December 6 1886 that the firm will pay $100 for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public signs. Hall's Cure is taken internally and affects the blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials available. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by all druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills as well.
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Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Ciy
Toledo
Hall
Frank J. Cuenary
Never Weds Talk in Montclair Masked Spies
Montclair residents flocked to First Methodist church to see seven spinster and seven bachelor speakers reveal why they have never married. Masks and clever disguises hid identities as each described failed romances and independence, ending with a rumor that one couple is engaged while the others are married. Kansas City also reports a new European espionage game played in peacetime, with spies celebrated as heroes in some cases and condemned in others.
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Montclair
N. J
First Methodist
Badh
Gord
Nellie
Kansas City
Europe
Lax
Graetz
Prussia
France
Lux
Russian
Germany
England
Bertrand Stewart
London
Stewart
Heinrich Grosse
Winchester
Neu of Humdrum
Bankrupts Sale Notice in Georgetown South Carolina
Notice to sell the bankrupt estate of H Fogle at his store in Georgetown on September 25 during legal hours. The sale includes stock of goods merchandise and store fixtures. Terms cash. Purchaser pays 3 00 for papers. W L Douglas trustee Fogle Bankrupt. September 5 1912.
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Georgetown
S.C
H. Fogle
W. L. Douglas
100 Tacks Found In Stomach Shock NYC Man
Burlington New Jersey Abraham Lecony a Delance shoemaker was rushed to a Philadelphia hospital with a severe stomach ache. Doctors tried home remedies then consulted specialists who suggested an X ray to locate the foreign object and begin treatment.
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Burlington, N. J
Abraham Lecony
Delance
Philadelphia
Dr King's New Discovery Promises Home Cough Cure
An advertisement urges readers to treat coughs and lung diseases at home using Dr King s New Discovery. It claims quick relief for throat and chest ailments including coughs colds grip croup and whooping cough with savings of 50c and 1.00 and a guarantee.
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Dr. King
Shoemaker Swallowed Tacks During Work Revealed in Stomach
A shoemaker admitted using his mouth as a tack box while at work. Examination showed about a hundred grass tacks in his stomach walls. Surgeons noted one section held more tacks than the boot sole and hoped an operation would help.
Plump crossbreed pheasant grouse found in Oregon
A cross between a China pheasant and a blue grouse was received by the state game warden from Eugene Simpson at Corvallis. He notes the bird is heavier than a China pheasant and as large as the largest blue grouse, suggesting it could be a better game bird. He adds he has long known such crosses occur but this is the first he has examined.
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Portland
Ore
Eugene Simpson
Corvallis
Hero's Bold Switch Save Sparks City Debate
Louis West, once a brakeman on the Oregon Short Line, testified that someone tampered with a yard switch. He said he threw the switch just in time to avert a passenger train wreck and admitted he acted to gain the honor of saving the train.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
Louis West
Oregon Short Line
West
Grizzly Bear Dance Sparks Fight Over Opening Hall
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania Judges Reid and Haymaker refused to grant a preliminary injunction permitting the opening of a dance hall or its closure by the McKeesport mayor amid public protests and a Danes led demonstration.
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Pittsburg
Reid
Haymaker
McKeesport
Milton children refuse medicine for straw itch remedy
In Milton Minnesota a health board struggles with children infected by straw itch. Parents and children refuse medicine, interpreting lotion as divine disapproval. The Milton school and health boards seek guidance from the state superintendent of schools after advice from Dr H M Bracken.
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St. Paul
Minn
Soarch of Health
H. M. Bracken
State Board of Health
Milton
Milton School and Health Boards
Bracken
Hilton
State Superintendent of Schools
City policemen to stop sponging doctors services
Atlanta officials move to bar city physicians from visiting policemen at their homes for ness when they cannot pay. The board of health voted to petition the city council to forbid such services, following charges that officers sponged on city funds in the past.
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Atlanta
Board of Health
Leper John Earle Separated in Tacoma Land Fence Plan
John R. Earle, once of Washington, D. C., now at Summit near Tacoma, has been located after a lengthy government inquiry into his leprosy. He will be fenced from a tract of land, with Bart’s wife and two small children accompanying him.
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Tacoma
Wash
John R. Earle
Washington, D. C
Summit
Bart
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