Cured by Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Letters from women in Park Rapids and Brookville praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief from life changes and nervous issues. The advertisement claims wide cures of female ailments and urges readers to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Park Rapids
Minn
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Ep.La Dov
Park Rap
Brookville
Ohio
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Child narrates Supreme Court visit in vivid courtroom scene
A seven year old boy and his father recall leaving the Supreme Court as they describe an all black robed audience of men and women. The boy notes the scene contrasted with his children’s view and uses humorous tone to frame the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Peculiar Victorian Humour From A fragmenting Page
A collage of gag lines and adverts captures a domestic quarrel and spoof dialogue. The excerpt includes a quarrelsome couple, a jokey ad for Dr Pierce’s Polkata, a joke about Mrs Gaussip, Pettit’s Eye Salve, and assorted witticisms and ads, all in a late 19th or early 20th century tone.
Defeat of Michigan Senator Burrows Shocks Old Guard Influence
The defeat of Julius Cae sar Burrows in a Michigan primary ends a long Senate tenure dating to 1895. Burrows, born 1837 in Erie County, Pa, and a key Republican figure, opposed Reed Smoot and tariff shifts harming beet sugar growers, led the Chicago Republican convention keynote, and chaired the Lorimer investigation committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Julius Caesar Burrows
United States Senate
Senator Burrows
Aldrich, Hale
Allison
Congress
Senate
Erie County
Western Reserve
Ohio
Kalamazoo
Burrows
Internal Revenue
Wisconsin
House of Representatives
Jie
Reed
Reed Smoot
Utah
Chicago
Taft
White House
Senate Committee
Lorimer
Weyler’s Cuban Memoir Sparks Outrage and Debate
The reviewer condemns Weyler’s controversial book Mi Mando in Cuba as a brutal expose of his conduct in Cuba. It argues the work inflames opinion, glorifies violence, and undermines American or Spanish aims in the Cuban issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valeriano Weyler
Cuba
Wexler
Spain
United States
America
Weyler
Mimd
Senor Sagasta
Martine, Campos
Popular English Priest Denounces Modern Life at Montreal Congress
Rev. Father Bernard Vaughan of London, a famed preacher, stirred crowds at the Montreal Eucharistic congress with a harsh critique of modern society. He warned of hurried life, loss of principle, and moral decline while remaining a sought after speaker. He is a brother of the late Cardinal Vaughan and is sixty three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Father Bernard Vaughan
London
England
Father Vaughan
Great Britain
Vaughan
Cardinal Vaughan
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Aids Moscow Poor as Saintly Volunteer
The Grand Duchess Elizabeth widow of Grand Duke Sergius of Russia dedicates herself to charity in Moscow. She founded hospitals and nursing homes, directs operations for eight to ten hours daily, and donates most of her roughly $625000 income to welfare work. Her acts earned her the adoring regard of the city’s poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Sergius
Russia
Moscow
Grand Duke of Hesse
Prof Richard Garner Returns From African Ape Study
Washington reports Professor Richard L Garner has returned from years in Africa where he studied apes with a cage, phonograph, camera and batteries. He claims to have learned some ape words and hopes to teach Susie the ape he brought back who laughs when tickled under the chin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Richard L. Garner
America
Wilde
Africa
Garner
Susie
Cramners
Rattle From Queen Charlotte Islands Described as Dancing Ornament
The piece is a carved wooden rattle from the Queen Charlotte Islands used by Hab das dancers in festivals. It is elaborately carved and yelled noises accompany dances as up to a score rattles create uproar. The islands lie off British Columbia in the Pacific Ocean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Charlotte Islands
British Columbia
Vancouver
B. C
Billiken the Ratte
Pacific Ocean
Comfort Crushed by Sharp Looks and Scorn
A distressed speaker seeks sympathy for a breakup while another warns of the need for medical treatment. The exchange frames emotional pain as a physician’s domain, contrasting solace with practical advice.
Cure for Skin Ailment in Boy Promises Noted
A Chicago mother recalls using Cuticura Ointment on her badly afflicted son after failed treatments from doctors and a medical college. She reports rapid improvement after the second application and full recovery twelve years later. The item ends with a dental-wit joke and an ad for Spohn's Distemper Cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wattam
Forty-eighth St
Chicago
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Papa
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Qid Podkins
Cornwall
Eried Podkins
Dr. Pierce
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N.Y
Mra
Ryrup
Dr Windell
Cear
Red Cross Gall
OLD Guard
Professor Garner
Tenderfoot
Golden Medical Discovery
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Mirs
Spahn Medical Co
Goshen
Ind
C. L.emens
Holton
Lund
Wallace
Watson E.coleman
Wasington, D.C
Bend lWe
P.R. Brown
Telotty
Allavta
Dia
Ray Seger
G. J. Fifield
Bank Bidg
Los Angeles
Cal
Texas
L. Cat Belder & Co
San Antonio
Mreoresuses
Thompson
Indianapolis
Parker
Dru
Roosevelt
Toosevalt Polleies
International Bible House
Dept. DD
Palladelphine
Standard Oil CO
W. L. Douglas
Wsue
W.L. Douglas
Carter
Carters
Western
UNION
Adami St
Cascarets
Nature
Bizwest
Marine Eye Remedy
Marine
Marine Eye
Marine Eye Remedy Co
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