Dean's Kidney Pills prove relief for backache and kidney disorders
The ad claims back pains stem from disordered kidneys and asserts Dean's Kidney Pills cure kidney, bladder, urinary, and related issues including dropsy and diabetes. Testimony from J W Walls of Lebanon Kentucky describes severe back and kidney pain relieved by the remedy. A free trial offer and nationwide mail order are noted, with price listed as 50 cents per box.
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Mousanius
Dean
Wright
J. W. Walls
Lebanon
East Main Street
Hugh Murray Drug Co
Mr. Walls
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Alaska in 1867 Alaska Purchase Economic Review
1867 Alaska sale figures show salmon value last year at 8,667,673 with a rise of 1,741,506 from the prior year. Workforce tallies reach 13,822 across fisheries with whites, Chinese and Japanese, and natives composing the labor pool. Wages total 4,060,682 while tin plate outlay comes to 1,383,680. Shipping includes 125 steamers and 68 sailing ships. gear lists 251 nets and 1,445 gill nets. Tax collections total 105,808.13. Includes note on Defiance Cold Water Starch advertising.
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Alaska
United States
Alaska Packers
Pacific Packing and Navigation Company
Alaska Packers’ Association
Pacific Packing
Nmpany
University Graduates in Congress Highlight Heavy Michigan Presence
The Fifty-eighth Congress includes at least eighteen University of Michigan graduates or former students. Two serve as senators, Joseph V. Quarles of Wisconsin and Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota, with sixteen others as representatives. Quarles and McCumber have been in Congress since 1599.
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University of Michigan
Joseph V. Quarles
Porter J. McCumber
Senator Quarles
Wisconsin
McCumber
North Dakota
Baxter Bullhead cigar prompts hero worship
A trimmed passage notes a smile while referencing Baxter's Bullhead 5 cent cigars and a dialogue about hero worship. It frames Tommy and his Pop in a brief, reflective exchange on admiration for great people until closer familiarity is reached.
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Moes
Baxter
Tommy
Weathering the Sunniest Valley Notes and Quips
A fragment from a column style column includes musings about the San Luis Valley’s sunny weather and hints of forthcoming full information in later columns. It references the Colorado Bureau of Immigration and a mix of humorous exchanges about old fashions.
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San Luis Valley
Colorado Bureau of Immigration
Majestic Building
Denver
Colorado
A Most Popular Speech at Tilden Club Dinner
A well known society clubman, famed raconteur and lawyer, gave a brief five word speech at a Tilden club dinner. He said, Let me pay the bill, prompting loud applause and claiming to be the greatest after dinner speech ever delivered at the club according to the New York Mail and Express.
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Tilden Club
New York Mail and Express
Married couple jokes turn sour over autograph row
A loving husband, once romantic in a wedding album moment, now resists signing a check to settle his wife's millinery bill. He snatches the autograph album and threatens to fling it, the scene contrasting old affection with current tension.
Appetite of a Swiss Guard Revealed in Old Tale
A morsel from a gastronomy book recounts a Marechal de Villars era Swiss guard who boasted his vast appetite. When asked how many sir loins of beef he could eat he first answered five or six. He later listed seven to eight legs of mutton and a dozen pullets. For pigeons he said forty or fifty and for larks always.
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Marechal de Villars
Marechal
Monseigneur
Wedding Cake Disaster in Paris Stuns Poles
A wedding cake five feet four inches tall was carried by two men in Paris when one slipped and crushed the cake on a tram-line. The groom, a young Pole, shed bitter tears as the colossal wedding piece broke apart. The custom was cited as the groom matching the bride’s height.
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Paris
Poland
Alfred Tennyson as Godfather of Hallam’s son
In Random Reminiscences Charles H. F. Brookfield recalls his great uncle Henry Hallam, a historian, being invited by Tennyson to be godfather to his first son. On the churchyard walk the name Hallam and the poet was considered. Tennyson asked if Alfred would be better, joking about the possibility the child might turn out a fool.
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Charles H. F. Brookfield
Henry Hallam
Tennyson
Hallam
Alfred
France mandates triad of vaccinations for citizens
The government promulgates a sanitary code requiring three vaccinations for all French citizens. The first in infancy, the second at age eleven, and the third at age twenty one. This marks a marked expansion beyond prior single-dose policy and aims to bolster public health.
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France
Prayer Reform Sought in Missouri House
Chaplain Russell of the Missouri house of representatives urged a prayer reform after demonstrating its effect on members who previously read papers during the prayer. He prayed that those who rise to their feet for prayer would stop reading their papers and show respect for God.
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Russell
Missouri House of Representatives
How a Snake Moves Explains Rib and Scale Action
A St Nicholas excerpt details snake locomotion. It notes snakes may have hundreds of rib pairs, each rib connected to broad ventral scales. When a rib twists backward it pushes a scale, gripping the ground and nudging the body forward incrementally, producing slow steady progress.
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St. Nicholas
The One Way to Obtain Victory Over Adversity
A Milwaukee Journal quote extols cheerful endurance under hardship as a true virtue. It argues that maintaining cheerfulness amid poverty, illness, or misfortune distinguishes a hero far beyond those facing physical danger.
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Milwaukee Journal
Life and Faith in Egypt and the Wealth of St Isaac Cathedral
A traveler portrays upper Nile villages as crowded mud houses with linked families, dirty streets, and faces veiled by yashmaks while flies plague children. Separately, St Isaac Cathedral in St Petersburg is noted as the world’s richest church, built at over £2.5 million with gold interiors and four tons of vessels, housing ancient ikon sacred art.
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Egypt
Upper Nile
St. Isaac
St. Petersburg
How It Really Happens in the Colorful Exchange
A scene between Johnny and Mr Six depicts a guarded conversation about a sister. Johnny refuses to discuss family matters, claiming not to butt into his sister’s business while light humor underscores a common stereotype about colored supplements.
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Johnny
Needs of Africa and Sudan commerce problem quoted
Lord Cromer spoke in Khartoum on the needs of the Sudan saying except sand crocodiles and hippopotami there is not enough of anything there. He argued if the region could swap hippos crocodiles and land for railways educated natives and money it would be happier and more prosperous highlighting a global issue of exchanging surplus for demand.
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Africa
Lord Cromer
Khartoum
Soudan
Corrosion Rates of Steel and Iron in Water Environments
The text compares corrosion of steel and iron under sea water and fresh water. Steel corrodes about an inch every 82 years in sea water, and iron about 190 years. In fresh water, steel lasts about 170 years per inch and iron about 630 years.
World’s self-proclaimed champion Benedict Fritz Kottman
An inhabitant of Creglingen in Wurtemberg, Fritz Kottman, claims to be the world’s champion Benedict. He has been married fewer than eleven times. the first three wives died young, the next two were drowned, one died by own action, three died in succession, the tenth was gored by a bull, and he has just married the eleventh, who lost a leg in a railway accident last year causing the wedding to be postponed.
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Creglingen
Wurtemberg
Fritz Kottman
Benedict
Prominent Physicians Prescribe Peruna for Catarrh
Prominent physicians across the United States endorse Peruna as a systemic catarrh remedy. Dr. Robert R. Roberts of Washington DC cites cures among friends and patients, while Dr. F. H. Brand of Mokena IL reports a successful case improving hearing and eyes. Dr. R Robbins of Muskogee and Dr. M C Gee of San Francisco also praise Peruna for coughs, stomach weakness, and pelvic catarrh. The ad urges warmweather readers to request Health and Beauty and Facts and Faces booklets and to write for free personal advice from Dr. Hartman.
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Robert R. Roberts
M. D
Washington, D. C
Hartman
Perns
United States
F. H. Brand
Mokena
Til
Copeland
Peruna
R. Robbins
Muskogee
I. T
Maine
California
San Francisco
M. C. Gee
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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