Saskatchewan Soil Power Aids Vast Western Canada Grain
A correspondent from Craik Saskatchewan notes extraordinary grain yields in Western Canada, with frost in August limiting potential. The piece highlights 1907 season success, large spring sowings, and government land offers of 160 acres free after entry by proxy, illustrating the region’s strong agricultural productivity and opportunities.
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Canada
Alberta
Craik
Saskatchewan
Bask
Minneapolia
Minneapolis
A Real Schemer And A Sensitive Man
A man hesitates to buy a costly automobile citing expenses, while his wife jokes about daily poultry meals. The scene shifts to Owen Mudge a sensitive man who quits work after a painful memory of dentist visit as a stump-puller twist recalls his back teeth extraction.
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Owen Mudge
Owen
Glenn Buller
Mr. Mudge
Young Texan credits Postum with health turnabout
A Texas girl recalls starting coffee as a child and then switching to Postum Food Caffeine Free. She describes improved nervousness, digestion, and skin after about a month, while continuing her duties as a primary teacher. She notes better complexion and headaches vanishing, praising ease of preparation and others who tried it.
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Pontum
Axela
Local merchants urged to advertise against mail order trade
Buckeye Informer argues towns and smaller cities must advertise to keep customers at home and compete with mail order houses. Publishers warn that neglect of advertising drives merchants to fail in the evolving commercial world.
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Pat Ieee A
Trents
Dell
Sverre
Ppb
Schoo
Buckeye Informer
Catch Penny Scams Warn of Common Advertisement Frauds
A historical caution describes quick money schemes and frauds tied to cheap ad papers. It warns against circular distribution jobs, fake detective licenses, and counterfeit check tricks. Merchants and job seekers are urged to beware of endorsements and banked checks that vanish after small purchases.
Dogs In Paris Exhibit Humane Care For Man's Best Friends
In Paris dogs are treated as well as human beings are. They wear auto bilo 6ga when they go motoring, they have a hospital, and they even have a good-sized cemetery, with monuments and headstones and inscriptions and mortuary wreaths.
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Paris
Nuisance Dust Nuisance In Pittsburg At Issue
Pittsburg faces iron ore dust and smoke problems as residents sue a furnace company valued at 5 million dollars in 2004. The firm has spent about 500 thousand to curb emissions yet remains unsuccessful. Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules owners must stop if abatement fails, affecting nearly 100 million in capital.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania ‘Supreme Court
Decres
Springfield Republican
Tobacco name origins traced to Yilcatan province
Fragmentary note traces tobacco naming to To bacco in Yilcatan, with other theories linking Tobag o, Caribbeans inland Tobago, and Vobasto in Florida. It mentions tobacco first observed in 1520 in Yucatan by early eatents.
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Tobacco
Yilcatan
Tobago
Caribbbes
Sthothorg
Florida
Yucatan
Proof for Two Cents Kidney Cure Advertisement Claim
An old advertisement invites kidney sufferers to write G W Winney in Medina Ohio to learn how Donn Kidney Pills cured him after eighteen months in two hospitals. He claims weight rose from 143 to 169 pounds after taking ten or twelve boxes, with back pain and rheumatism alleviated. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets the pill for 50 cents a box.
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G. W. Winney
Medina
Kidney Pilla
Dean
Domestic worker learns lesson from ice box miss
A Cleveland family hires a Scandinavian maid who, told to keep the refrigerator clean by throwing away leftovers each morning, discovers in the yard the next day that the old meat remains were discarded. The mistress asks what it is, Sophie explains it is yesterday’s leftovers, thrown away as instructed.
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Cleveland
Sophie
Harper's Weekly
Sores as big as pennies cure with Cuticura
A 1906 testimonial from Albion Nebraska describes a severe skin disease covering the head and neck after measles. Salves and blood remedies failed until Cuticura Remedies were used, resulting in a rapid recovery within three weeks and no recurrence in seven years. A London Daily Mail note comments on a horse ad and a shift in modern morals in Ceylon.
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Henry Porter
Albion, Neb
Cure for cough with glycerine whisky pine oil remedy
An old promotional formula claims two ounces glycerine half ounce pine oil and half pint whisky will cure a cough or break up a cold in 24 hours with doses every four hours. It notes pine oil sold in sealed half ounce vials and warns other pine oils may cause nausea. The piece also includes a joke about bread lines from a New York Sub cartoon caption.
Journalist threatened with fine for delay at Irish laborer accident
Reporter George Adé arrived at an accident scene where officers aided an injured laborer. Adé began taking notes while the man, misidentified as a timekeeper, joked about being docked for the minutes spent going to the hospital. The exchange reflects newsroom hustle and police presence.
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George Adé
Wang
Ade
Mr. Ade
Autos In Prester John's Country
In Abyssinia the day of the automobile has arrived as Germany secures a concession for a line from Addla Abeba to Direduna. The route, a six day caravan journey, will be traversed by motors in two days. The Bank of England employs 1,000 persons.
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Prester John
Abyssinia
Germany
Negus
Addla Abeba
Direduna
London Globe
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Advertisement
The Well Informed seek a simple pleasant laxative and approve Syrup of Figs with Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Co. An ethical remedy trusted by physicians for family use. Buy genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists. price fifty cents per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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