Miss Virginia Granes Praises Vegetable Compound
A testimonial from Miss Virginia Granes of Watertown New York praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for treating ovarian and womb inflammation. She details past illness and a six week recovery after using the remedy, and urges others to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Granes
Nurses'Association
Watertown
N.Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Vkrainia Granes
Lydia BE
Pinkham
USE OF THE WORD PLEASE IN ENGLAND DESCRIBED
An American returning from two years in England contrasts the social use of please there with that in the United States. She explains English households teach children not to say please to avoid appearing underbred, while Americans perceive the word as a courtesy. Poppy cultivation is driving out wheat around Foochow in China as opium profits remain high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Foochow
China
Nurses Endorse St Jacobs Oil For Ailments
Nurses say good care plus medicine helps recovery. Eliza King cites St Jacobs Oil as excellent for sprains bruises rheumatic pains neuralgia and pleurisy after years of use. Sister Carona of St Andrew's Hospital adds gout sprains and bruises respond well and notes doctors order it frequently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza King
St. Jacobs
Carona
St. Andrew's Hospital
Eggs For Hatching And Herd Culling In Poultry
Expert advice on turning eggs for hatching and selecting hens for health. Culling inferior stock to protect breeders, and spring feeding regimes including greens, clover mash, and bran cornmeal. Stresses early November cull and careful rationing. Also notes on calf rearing in Chenango County with milk-fed and non milk-fed practices and a dairy aim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Johinson
New England
Simple Swinging Trough Construction Tips
A Poultry Keeper correspondent describes making a galvanized iron feed trough three and a half feet long. Build end pieces from wood, insert a lath crosspiece to block chicken access, hang from two eyes, and swing between stakes. Place top about six inches above ground and test with water before use.
Labor Strikes Paralyze Boston Trade and Loom Textile Turmoil
R G Dun and Co reports strikes by freight handlers and teamsters froze Boston business affecting 30,000 workers and delaying supplies, while Fall River mills brace for further action. Outside Massachusetts, coal and iron markets show unusual calm with April expected deliveries. Pig iron output dips, but new high water marks in steel remain possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Boston
Fall River Mills
Massachusetts
United States
Canada
Isolated Mexican Tribe Maintains History and Traditions
In Amatian de las Reyes village of Veracruz a small group of Indians has kept their national traits and traditions for 209 years, preserving individuality despite outside contact and change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amatian de Las Reyes
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Ireland Losing Her People
The registrar general reports Ireland still losing population last year by 2,436 due to emigration. Births exceeded deaths by 13,865 but emigration caused a net loss of 45,288, with 21,300 marriages, 101,469 births, and 87,606 deaths. The death rate rose while birth and marriage rates fell, reflecting migration patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register General
Ireland
Mother Gray's Bwoot Powders for Children Ad
Many school children suffer sickness and Mother Gray a nurse at a children's home in New York markets Bwoot Powders for children. The product claims to break up fevers and teething and stomach troubles and worm destruction. Sold at all druggists for 25 cents. Sample offered free by Allen Olmsted Le Roy New York. The hotel man must be in keeping with the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
New York
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Ant
Mall
Cheesebrough Manufacturing CO
State Street
Neww York City
Various Patent Medicines and Social Notes Advertisement Snippets
A collage of old advertising copy and social notes describing patent medicines, household products, farming seeds, and miscellaneous remarks. Mentions Cascarara Cathartic, Carnation Candy Cathartic, Purman Papetese dye, and Dr. Kinne’s Nerve Restorer with testimonial hints. Also notes divorce rates in Germany, clerical resignations in London, and penny-fare earnings by British Electric Traction Company. Includes seed prices from John A. Balzer Seed Co and a claim about wild oats price stability.
Thea Railroad Maps Aid Education in the Midwest
Following the Philippines troubles a rail company printed 16 000 resource maps at 10 000 dollars. At 66 cents cost and 2 ½ cents price, exposure barely covered express charges. Iowa Missouri and Kansas schools distributed over 5 000 of these maps for classroom use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Pacific Coast
Orient
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad in Toledo Circulation
An Old Toledo advertisement offers Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for cure failures. It touts internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces, lists firms Weer & Tuvas and Jo Waulprna as wholesalers, and mentions testimonials and Hall's Family Pills. It also makes a curious claim about sun light compared to the full moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
T. J. Ongxny & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J.cheney
Weer & Tuvax
Jo. Waul
California Fig Syrup Co
Caiifornly Ig Byrup Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lydia G. Pinkham
Drarn Mas
Prneva
Agra
Wallale Exposition
McIlhenny
Aisis
Addresa Phoenix Tite
APTS
GABES
Uy Aan
Chenango County
J. S. Shattuck
Orange Judd
TRE Manet
Pittsburg
Nyese
Ohio
New
New Poultry
Lorton
Beara
Baltimore
E.s
Philadelphia
Cranmory
Penneylyan
Avate
State
Mennsylvania
Central Stock Yards
East Liberty
Yeeie Bue
Roweee Ieee Eee
Fai
Choles
Jew
Germany
London
John A. Balzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Kifne
B.H. Burns, Ltd
Arch St
Phila
British Electric Traction Company
Thomas Ronrns
Norwich
Thea Railroad
Ayer
John P. Hodnette
Brooklyn, N.Y
Ayer Co
Lowell, Mass
Capsicum
APS
California
Colorado
Kendrick Promotion CO
Xine
Ike
Agnioal
Yiek
Bain Thaneiin
Torkoyy
Salzera
Sfeltz
Grata
Halzer
Rand
West
John Asalzer
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