Bed-Bound for Months Seeks Help Then Recovers
Mrs. Dnos Shearer of Centralia Washington recalls years of weakness sleepless nights swollen limbs and painful secretions. She was bedfast for four months with doctors declaring no cure and death probable until she used Deans Kidney Pills gaining strength within weeks. The product is sold by dealers for 60 cents a box. An asbestos-based wood substitute called Unburnable Wood attracts attention for its strength ease of workability and nail grip with sheets now common for roofing walls and paneling.
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Dnos Shearer
Washington
Centralia
Wash
Dean
Dealera
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Allen's Foot-Ease Powder Ad Prices and Address
Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder that rests the feet and cures corns bunions swollen sore hot and aching feet and ingrowing nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tights shoes fit better. Sold at all druggists and shoe stores 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Send for free sample address Allen Olmsted LeRoy N Y.
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Allen
Deuggiata
Shoo
Semple
Addrasa Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Private Punished for Failing to Salute Officer
The London Express reports a private condemned to march past and salute a barrack pump for two hours daily over seven days for failing to recognize and salute his officer.
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The
London Express
The Things at Home and Classroom Lessons
A collage of verses and stories from Bee Hive and Sunday School Times presents small tales of childhood, imagination, and duty. It includes Carolyn Batley’s nostalgic poem about toys and home. natural history notes on songbirds and a deadly spider in Ceylon. a birthday party tale where a boy learns sharing. and a campus tale of a gray eyed girl who earns money by sweeping piazzas and later types for a professor, proving education and effort advance careers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger
Hilda Richmond
Sunday School Times
Sumner
Towla
Young Hinsey’s Egg Theft Testimony Draws Laughs
In a courtroom scene from a Youth’s Companion extract, the defense attorney questions Horace Hinsey about past crimes. Hinsey denies theft from a father, then admits at age eight he and a boy helper stole eggs from his father’s store and ate them, prompting laughter from judge and jury.
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Horace Hinsey
Nashua
Wilmington
Mr. Hinsey
Jim
Roger's Birthday Party Note
Roger asks his mother if he must have a party and wishes for a long party by himself rather than inviting others. He contemplates a different approach to celebration than his usual one day event.
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Roger
Trade review notes gradual improvement and wage adjustment
The Weekly Review of Trade reports slow but definite progress with lower wage scales reducing idle machinery. Retail trade remains solid for the season and inventories are manageable. Steel mills show growing activity with rising security prices. rail freight rate talks and steel firm forecasts suggest a return to normalcy by next January, aided by better service and tariff progress.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Company
West
James J. Hill
Wall Street
Steel Corporation
Greek letter societies stir at Chicago schools
The New York Tribune notes a mockery of Greek sororities spreading to grammar grades. A school principal quips that girls in a sorority misuse a Greek motto, while others fail to grasp the term. The piece lampoons the mania as it references outbreaks and oddities in education and civilization.
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New York Tribune
Chicago Board of Education
Pompeii
J. Hamilton Ayers
A. M
Leonard St
New York
Betsy Ross Made First American Flag Says Adams
John Quincy Adams and Betsy Ross Memorial Association deny claims Betsy Ross did not sew the first flag. Secretary Adams cites Philadelphia records and societies that affirm the flag was made at 289 Arch Street in Betsy Ross’s home. Advertisement notes a nerve cure remedy offered with a $2 trial bottle.
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Adama Sage
John Quincy Adams
American Ming House
Betsy Ross Memorial Association
Betsy Ross
Adams
Philadelphia
Arch Street
Swamp Angel Parrott Gun at Ghatrack siege
The Swamp Angel was the name given by Federal soldiers to an eightinch Parrott gun mounted on a pile battery in a swamp outside Ghatrack, used during the siege of the city. It burst on August 22, 1860.
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Ghat Itston
8. C
Itching Humor on Boy Cure with Cuticura Remedies
A Kokomo Indiana reader recalls a boy breaking out with itching sores spreading all over the body. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment nightly for four days the child is reported cured.
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Cuthurs
Frank Donahwe
St., Kokomo
Jou
Scleroscope Invented For Hardness Testing By Shore And Herould
Albert F. Shore and Dr. Paul Herould introduce a scleroscope to measure metal hardness. A glass tube encloses a 40 grain steel ball, rebound height on a scale indicates hardness with 100 marking average carbon steel and safety limit after tempering. The device aims to standardize tool hardness.
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Albert F. Shore
Paul Herould
That Brave Belief
A reflective quote from Ruskin on the paradox of longing for heavenly departure while mourning earthly summons. The passage ponders Christians’ joy in eternal mansions against their habit of mourning when friends are called to depart.
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Christ
Ruskin
Whisky sale fetches high New Zealand price
A whisky bottle in Qhakune, New Zealand, sold for 30 dollars, with a buyer purchasing two large nips for 5 dollars each. The remaining bottle contents were auctioned and knocked down for 20 dollars, despite being 40 miles from the nearest saloon.
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Qhakune
New Zealand
New Greek Law Allows Women in Public Service
Greece's Chamber of Deputies passes a law admitting women to the public service for the first time in modern times. The Director of Posts and Telegraphs may employ 50 women, mainly for telephone service, under the new measure.
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Greece
Grecian Chamber of Deputies
Director of Posts and Telegraphs
Essential Health Product Endorsed Worldwide
One of the essentials of happy homes is reliable information on health and quality products. The text promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as an ethical, physician approved laxative manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and sold by leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Facts for Sick Women from Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills and has cured thousands troubled by displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing down feelings flatulency indigestion dizziness or nervous prostration Mrs Pinkham invites all sick women to write for advice Address Lynn Mass
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Vienna
Dampicide Co
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John W. Wablagion
Atest Thompson
Mother
Moses
Carolyn Batley
Robin
Ventriloquist
Yarrell
Darwin
London Field
Spiders
Ceylon
Dundee Advertiser
Piazzas
Pittsbup
Elgin Creamery
Ohio Creamery
Fancy Country
New
York
Baltimore
Hurter_Ohio creamery
Pennsylvania
State
Pennsy
Union Stock Yards
Pittsburg
Tom Pavesee Pup Nee
Hetfors
Bbs
Uo AG
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Kline
H.R. Kine
Arch St
Phila
Boy
Lydia E. Pinkhaim
Lilian Ross
East 84Th Street
Lydia B. Pinkham
Ola
Katharine Craig
Lafayette St
Denver
Col
Lydia Ei
BORA
Uc Whitenslothes
Pacific Canal Borax Co
Brooklyn
Book Publishing House
Leonard Street
New York City
Fred. F. Field CO
Brockton
Mass
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