Missing text on consumer goods and visitors to museum
Fragmentary report notes a large annual purchase of electrical ramps by the United States government and 1 million visitors to a major museum. It mentions Mrs Winslow's Boots, teething remedy, and Hamline Wizard Oil as familiar household items signaling domestic life and trust in products.
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United States
fragmentary ad copy with medical claims in print
A damaged snippet shows testimonial style text from Edward A. Marx of Albany praising a remedy for indigestion and biliousness. The fragment includes garbled product references and an Alaska-Yukon-Pacific context, with unclear payment and branding details.
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Edward A. Marx
Albany, N.Y
British rich face tax exodus claims as UK pressures rise
The piece argues that heavy UK taxation will drive the wealthy to safer shores. It details levies on inheritances, rents, carriages, rings, estates, and stock trades, plus pensions costs and poorhouse expenses. It cites forecasts of higher rents, reduced construction, and shifts of finance to Paris and New York.
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British Isles
Theas
England
Oncy
United Kingdom
Bank
Era
Paris
New York
Amsterdam
New York Stock Exchange
Monument for first gold finder George Jackson to be unveiled
The Denver Republican notes Idaho Springs plans a monument for George Jackson who first found gold in the Rocky Mountains and died poor. It reflects on his rugged independence and the irony that history remembers him while he died with empty pockets.
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Hoeky Mountains
Idaho Springs
Rocky Mountains
George Jackson
Jackson
Denver Republican
Easy Money Temptation Warns Against Selfish Greed
A Washington Star excerpt discusses the lure of easy money and the moral cost of dishonesty. It argues greed harms the soul more than any prison, stressing that true worth comes from hard work and integrity, echoed by a church parable and a humor column.
Trade and industry notes from foreign markets
Commerce and industry items summarize steel rail imports from Brazil and Sweden, rubber prospects in the Far East, Austria joint stock growth, Italian American trade, Argentina imports, Sweden tariff plans, Swiss law, and Mexican meat trade and auto demand. Mexico’s nine months to March 1909 show $26.9 million in American goods, Portugal’s imports include small American share, and a list of commodities dominates American exports. The piece also notes childrearing trends and a joke about a baby kept awake by Hewitt.
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Brasil
Sweden
New York
Mexico
Far East
Guatamala
Austria
Ofné
Argentina
Switzerland
Ita
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Portugal
Lisbon
Spain
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