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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1910
Page
9
An article stresses the high cost of living and urges choosing Calumet Baking Powder for consistent strength and volume in baking. It argues cheap powders fail, require excess amounts, and degrade food quality, claiming Calumet delivers pure, wholesome products and a money-back guarantee.
Fragmented OCR prose shows a doctor patient quip about appetite and a dinner scene with Pierpont Morgan praised for advertising. Includes a mock eulogy about a dealer fulfilling wares and a legal probate jab about heirs. A quip about a barber and a line about a mother misled by love.
A Minneapolis reader recounts dramatic relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter endorses the product and urges others to write for confidential advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Washington county officials appeal to Texas authorities to arrange care for Moses Austin grave and Durham Hall site in Potos, Missouri. Moses Austin laid the groundwork for Texas settlement, with Stephen F. Austin continuing the colony project, as local inscription marks his historic role in founding the republic.
A Rural New Yorker writer recalls an Apple Consumers league initiative that spurred hotels and restaurants to feature apples. The campaign claimed a 20 percent rise in apple consumption as diners urged baked apples and apple dishes, spreading through Penn Yan and Gettysburg events.
Boston notes that J Stearns Wyman of Winchester revived a near hopeless, century-old apple tree. He cleaned the trunk, cemented hollows, pruned heavily, and shielded cuts. no fertilizers used. The tree bloomed gloriously in spring and produced large fruit by summer, attracting bees, birds, and neighbors.
Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, head of the Board of Trade permanent staff, outlines a national contributory unemployment insurance plan. He favors compulsory participation within a large self-contained trades group such as building, engineering and shipbuilding, funded by contributions with state subsidies, and designed to penalize personal unemployment while aiding those unemployed due to industrial causes beyond individual control. The scheme would aim to cover benefits after rigorous qualifying periods.
A government dog team will operate a monthly mail service from Cordova along the Copper River to Fairbanks in Alaska during winter. New camps and routes will be used, with 400 miles by stage to reach Fairbanks. The Valdez and Fairbanks trail has been abandoned as a winter mail route.
Pittsburg engineers craft massive Panama Canal gates. Six story high, 65 feet wide, seven feet thick, 60,000 tons of steel. 92 pieces per gate, 600 tons each, cost about 5.5 million dollars. Construction to start December with 46 pairs on Pacific, 12 on Pedro Miguel, 14 on Miraflores. Designed to withstand immense water pressure and provide duplicate locks for traffic.
Reports from the Cook County Infirmary at Dunning claim a cure for pellagra based on experiments involving transfusion of blood from healthy individuals. The article notes several patients treated at the Fa Hea facility and mentions about four men and 34 cases, with New York patients also reported in the efforts.
Women found a hornet nest nearly as large as a bushel basket in the woods and cut it down. They carried the trophy-like nest to authorities for removal and study.
Adam confronts Eve after her curiosity leads to ejectment and a tense exchange ends with Adam asking Who's looney now. The Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment blends biblical satire with a quip about the harvest and a New York dinner remark on smugglers.
Fragmentary dialogue describes a soap named Great and a remark about corn ment and mic, with mentions of Yonkers and a state official. The exchange hints at product use advice and possible regional context without clear action or outcome.
A Ky family details a three month old daughter’s severe scalp eczema. After using Cuticura Soup Ointment and Resolvent as directed for about five weeks, the child's scalp healed, new hair grew, and she recovered fully. The note is signed J Ish and Ena M Fish Mt. Vernon Ky Oct 12 1909. Tough luck indeed Nurse Hivins The baby loved ink not blotting paper.
A simple home mixture is promoted to combat rheumatism and kidney trouble. The recipe uses dried extract dandelion, compound potassium, and sarsparilla syrup, to be taken after meals and at bedtime. Hospitals reportedly show effectiveness.
Mrs. O H P Bolwont spoke at the Colony Club in New York urging women to unite for suffrage. She warned against viewing the issue like trivial social games and urged collective action toward obtaining the vote. The item also touches on social quips and advertisements from the era.
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