Don’t Poison Baby Castoria Advises Caution on Narcotics
Forty years ago mothers relied on paregoric and laudanum to quiet infants, but narcotics can cause death in small doses. Druggists must label narcotics and should not sell them to children. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears Chas. H. Fletcher’s signature.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
J. W. Dinsdale
Chicago
Ill
Alexander E. Mintie
Cleveland
Ohio
J. S. Alexander
Omaha
Neb
J. A. McClellan
Buffalo, N. Y
J. W. Allen
St. Louis
C. H. Glidden
St. Paul
Minn
H. D. Benner
Philadelphia
J. A. Boarman
Kansas City
J. J. Mackey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Dope Books and Tramps in San Francisco Brewed Mysteries
A former tramp recalls initiation into the dope books used by the Knights of the Road in San Francisco. The dope book listed charitable targets and safe houses while warning of hostile spots, with Blinker Jake keeping a barrel-house ledger for the perfesh.
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Knights of the Road
Denver Red
Red
Washington
Oregon
Josh Flynt
Chicago
Flynt
Pinterton Agency
United States
San Francisco
Jake
Perfesh
Million Dollar Gift For Southern Negro Rural Schools
Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Philadelphia Quakeress, announced a gift of 1000000 dollars to create a fund for rudimentary schools in the southern United States to aid rural and community schools for Black children. Booker T. Washington and Hollis Burke Frissell named trustees with power to appoint a board. Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and the Granting Annuities acts as fiscal agent.
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Philadelphia
Anna T. Jeanes
United States
Washington
Frissell
Pennsylvania Company For
Jeanes
Society of Friends
First Japanese Girl Enters Eastern College at Smith
Tei Ninomiya, freshman at Smith College, is the first Japanese girl to enter a woman's college in the east. Daughter of a Congregational minister, she aims to teach English at her father’s girls’ school in Matsuyama, Shikoku, after graduation.
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Smith College
Tei Ninomiya
Matsuuyama
Shikoku
Elephants Finally Lie Down to Sleep Revealed
The article notes elephants, once believed never to lie down, do sleep by lying on their sides when at ease. It discusses misconceptions about elephant behavior and how settled conditions influence rest patterns.
A Walking Fern Describes Its Moving Growth Habit
The walking fern earns its name from its habit of fronds arching toward soil and taking root to form new growth. This hardy plant thrives in shaded areas and well drained soil, continually advancing as new roots establish.
Cleveland Diverts Prison Inmates to Rural Work Farm
Cleveland opens a 1920 acre rural prison project 10 miles east of the city moving prisoners, paupers, and hospital patients to a three square mile tract. Directors promote a humane system with no bars or guards guiding labor in farming, road building, quarry work, and cemetery development.
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Cleveland
Harris R. Cooley
Board of Public Service
City Hospital
Cooley
Johnson
Neal
Frank
Conley
Pris
Solany
City
Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Neaf
Vril Drink Promises Million Dollar Indianapolis Campaign
J B Mackay promotes Vril the Drink with a Thrill as the new summer campaign in Indianapolis. He plans a million dollar advertising push with newspapers posters and a song record to boost sales and charm palates across the city.
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Momster
J. B. Mackay
Inadianapolia
Pesson
Woes
Indianapolis
First Stenographer Oliver Dyer Dies in Boston at 72
The Rev Oliver Dyer renowned as the first stenographer in the United States and an associate editor of the New York Ledger has died in Boston aged 72. He learned stenography in England from Isaac Pitman and served as the first stenographer in the U S Senate. His protege Murphy once his office boy became the fastest stenographer in the world.
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Oliver Dyer
United States
Robert Bonner
New York Ledger
Boston
England
Isaac Pitman
United States Senate
Murphy
Office Bay
Cure for Snoring Advice Sparks Caution
A Nortonville woman complains of her husband’s snoring and the paper prints an old Parisian remedy. Drop a piece of soap in the snorer’s mouth to lubricate the throat, but apply carefully or the snorer may lash out and splash the floor with soap.
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Nortonville
Kansas City Journal
Cheap Little Doctors Castor-Oil-Pills Promise Quick Cure
An Indianapolis advertisement extols Blackburn's Castor-Oil-Pills as a cheap, pleasant remedy for constipation, liver and kidney trouble, touting the pill’s blend of castor oil sulfur and lemon. It claims broad demand and that all reliable druggists stock them in the city.
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Blackburn
Indianapolis
Aged Head of Arson Band Has Been Sent to Prison
Aged head of the Ohio firebug ring, Jack Page aged eighty five, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years after pleading guilty to arson. The case revived an old indictment and exposes a decades old network that destroyed nearly two million dollars in property across Ohio Michigan and Indiana involving 50 to 100 men. Page, once a tire seller, led the gang that insured arson as a business and implicated many prominent figures in Williams Fulton and Tueas counties.
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Jack Page
Ohio
Page
Michigan
Indiana
Williams
Fulton
Tueas
Arsen
South American Frog Builds Tree Top Nursery
A South American frog lives in virgin forests and nests at treetop heights. It selects a hollow stump as a nursery and lines it with resin from nearby trees to form a rainwater filled basin. Eggs hatch into tadpoles within this watertight cavity, though how the resin is gathered and welded remains a mystery.
The British Museum Unveils World’s Largest Book
A colossal atlas of engraved Dutch maps, bound in leather and silver clasps, sits in the British Museum library. Weighing 800 pounds and nearly seven feet tall, it is moved by three men and was presented to King Charles in 1660. Also a cold remedy ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine with E. W. Grove signature.
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British Museum
Charles
Holland
What a Woman Needs
Mme. Creel wife of the Mexican ambassador argues women should not dress extravagantly despite high income and lists a frugal inventory. She cites two hats at 875 each fourteen shoes at 18 a pair and silk stockings at five a pair among items, questioning the practicality of such low dress costs and quantities.
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Mme. Creel
Creel
Wizard of the Coffee Pot Solves Minute coffee
In San Francisco April 25 the so called Wizard of the Coffee Pot N C Palmer is praised for perfecting a method to extract coffee that preserves aroma flavor and strength in a minute He claims to preserve all soluble matter of the bean and cut waste adjusting a practical home solution.
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San Francisco
Wizard of the
N. C. Palmer
Palmer
Two New Railroads Chartered at Guthrie
Scripps-McRae reports in Guthrie Oklahoma that the Denver and Gulf railroad with 2,900,000 capital was chartered to build 300 miles from Denver southeast through Colorado Texas and Oklahoma to Snyder Oklahoma. A charter was also granted to the El Reno Oklahoma City and Shawnee rail line with 2,500 capital.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Guthrie
Okla
Denver & Gulf Railroad
Denver
Col
Colorado
Texas
Oklahoma
Snyder
el Reno
Oklahoma City
Shawnee
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Samuel Pocher
New York
Cintaur Company
Murray Street
Yocar City
Mallory
No. TV
Pacific Coast
Groes
H. R. Cooley
New “Workhouse
Vril
J. P. Mackay
Vril Company
Claypool
Mackay
Mackey
Sianapolis
Mae
Bryan
Firebug and Informer
South America
E. W. Grove
N. Cc
Pierces
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