Would Amend Trust Laws and Tariff Revision Call
Theodore Roosevelt urges Congress to revise trust laws to curb abusive combinations and protect workers and farmers. He backs workers’ liability, injunction reforms, labor rights, and a permanent waterways commission, plus a tariff study and postal savings banks for wage earners. March 25 1908 White House message stresses balanced reform and conservation.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce. Commission
Commission
Hof
Aed
Beecome
Theodore Roosevelt
White‘ House
Interesting chemical experiment teaches purity of white lead
A home friendly chemistry demonstration shows heating white lead on charcoal with a blow pipe yields metallic lead if pure, or foils if adulterated. It explains white lead as a paint ingredient and promotes National Lead Company's test and free blow pipe kit and booklet.
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National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York City
German sculpture exhibit backed by Emperor in New York
Emperor William approves an exhibition of German sculpture in New York led by Prof Schott and Prof Rheinhold Begas, with $750,000 worth of statuary pledged. The note also advertises Allen's Foot-Ease and a Julius Bentham inspirational quote.
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William
Schott
Rheinhold Begas
New York
Allen
Agdress
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Uncertain Recipes Hint with OQUA-PIE Mix
A promotional note urges avoiding uncertain recipes and buying D Zerta Oqua Pie preparation from the D Zerta Food Co in Rochester New York for pies that are guaranteed to be good. It offers lemon chocolate or custard flavors at a ten cent package price.
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Uita
D-Zerta Food Co
Rochester
N. Y
Pettit's Eye Salve and Other Ephemera From 1807
A collage of old advertisements and quips including Pettit's Eye Salve first sold in 1807 with claims of curing millions, Lewis' Single Binder cigars, Garfield tea for sallow skin and headaches, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and aphorisms about folly and truth.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Tim’s Lawyer Keeps Him Free Despite Arrests
A faded tale recalls Tim, frequently arrested yet never jailed or fined, explaining that his influence and his lawyer, Mr Blank, shield him. Tim boasts that his lawyer knows enough law to keep him out of trouble, and that Mr Blank can smooth over problems with the courts.
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Tim
Mr. Blank
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E. Pinkham
Promotional notice praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ailments. Claims cure for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing-down feelings flatulency indigestion dizziness and nervous prostration. Invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lillian Ross
East 84Th Street
New York
Lydia E. Pinkham
Katharine Craig
Lafayette St
Denver
Col
Lydia Ei. Pinkham
Marie Stoltzman
Laurel
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Ellen M. Olson
N. Hast St
KejWanee
Sayls
Pinkham
Lydia
E. Pinkham
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Tariff Revision Commission
Congress Can Not Afford ‘To’ Teave
Commissioner of Corporations
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
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Julius Bentham
Lewis
Ofewis
Peoria
Ill
Beaconsfield
Dakotas
Montana
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway
Lombard
Butte
Moore
Lewistown
Judith Basin
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Miles City
F. A. Miller
Ker
Anakesis
Tribune Bldg
Defiance
W.j.hilue
Century Bldg
Wash
D. C
Thompson
Omaha
Fiane
W. L. Douglas
Abe Caurion
Wits Donan
Seelete
Cary Nee Shoes
Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Ing der
PRK Kane
Great Twin
Sr 22
Falls
Jerome
Idaho
Great Snake River
America
H. A. Stroud & Company
Twin Falls, Idaho
Cole
Eihés
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