Pinkham Remedies Touted in Knoxville Letter
A Knoxville Iowa letter praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills for restoring health after long pain weakness and nervousness. The ad-style note claims the medicines have helped many women with displacements inflammations irregularities backache and other female ailments and offers free advice from Lynn Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Iowa
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia F. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Help Wanted Advertisement for Courtplaster Supplies
A classified notice seeks boys and girls to sell a 25 pack ges courtplaster at 10 cents each and earn free gifts including a silk scarf and gold fountain. The ad directs responses to American Supply APY, Box 30, New Britain Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apy
New Britain
Connecticut
Red Cross Seals Sale Plans For 1910 Campaign
Announcement outlines 1910 Red Cross Christmas seals program A Million for Tuberculosis slogan and shared proceeds with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Red Cross stamps to be back-of-letter design and funding increases for tuberculosis work. Emerson quote on generosity and care ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
National
Asplain
American Red Cross
American National Red Cross
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
United States
Misdirected Energy in a Streetcar Conductor Case
A brief exchange wonders why a street car company fired an elderly conductor. The joke implies he had influence but did not use it to influence the cash register. The quoted witticisms reflect the era’s skepticism and social commentary patterns.
Railroad Presidents From the Ranks of the Road
The article argues most railroad presidents rose from bottom positions, detailing paths from junior survey roles to top leadership. It notes the engineering track offers the clearest ascent, outlining steps, responsibilities, and pay as a boy begins carrying stakes for a surveying crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Jennings
Rails to power and presidency The railroad path to leadership
An optimistic guide for ambitious youths to train for railroading, arguing that starting from the bottom as stake carriers or section hands can lead to the presidency. It maps a typical ladder from axman and chainman to rodman, instrument man, division engineer, and finally general manager or president, with required schooling and continuous advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Micely
Axman
Chainman
Rodman
Construction Corps
John F. Stevens
Great Northern Railway
Panama Canal
Waggoner Sees Punishment Change In Education In Berea Speech
Dr. Robert L. Waggoner of Baldwin University spoke on pedagogy at Berea Ohio noting the abolition of corporal punishment in the past 30 years. He joked that prior students likely believed teachers mottoed that the swish is father to the taught, while praising the helper role of educators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Waggoner
Baldwin University
Berea, O
Dr. Waggoner
T. T. Munger
Tiny Baby's Pitiful Eczema Case Prompts Cuticura Use
Mrs Joseph Kossmann of Ridgewood Heights describes an two month old infant with widespread eczema. After trial of several doctors remedies the family used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with rapid skin healing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katy
Joseph Kossmann
St. John’s Place
Ridgewood Heights
Gone to His Last Fire headline story remembered
Roy Bone, brother of U S District Attorney Harry Bone, once a Wichita Beacon reporter, filed a dramatic fire incident headline. A fireman was killed when thrown from a hose cart, and Bones initial line Gone to His Last Fire appeared in print. He was promptly fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Bone
United States District
Harry Bone
Wichita Beacon
Bone
Kansas City Journal
Injured Conductor Credits Kidney Pills For Recovery
George Hahn, a C and N W conductor from West Chicago Illinois, was thrown down a 25 foot embankment in an accident and suffered kidney damage. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring his health after a year of illness and failed doctoring. The ad urges purchase of the remedy at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Social Deats adds a fragment about a daily telephone call and a determined to collect line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hahn
Arbor Ave
West Chicago
Ill
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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