Tribute to Rev Sam P Jones by Rev French E Oliver
Rev French E Oliver of Chicago pays a moving tribute to the dead evangelist Rev Sam P Jones in Atlanta. Oliver praises Jones as fearless, compassionate, and a bold reformer who married severity with mercy, likening him to a surgeon and a Red Cross figure in the battle for righteousness. He recalls their friendship, Jones’s trials, and faith, declaring the preacher’s crown earned through suffering and service.
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Oliver
French E. Oliver
Chicago
Afr
Red Cross Society
Brother Jones
Mano
Nathan
Gol
Wonderland South Dakota Healing Case at Mrs Clapp Home
In Bes district Wonderland South Dakota famed for mines and farms a remarkable healing has occurred at Mound City in the home of Mrs E D Clapp. Her son once near death from a long throat trouble has shown a striking improvement after treatment.
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South Dakota
Banania
Mound City
E. D. Clapp
Wheat damage feared as storms wreck crops
Farmers in the region fear continued storms will ruin the wheat crop. Harvest began a week ago and warm days risk mold and moldy grain while strong winds have blown wheat down. Reports from stations statewide indicate serious damage and worry over saving what remains.
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Coffeyville Journal
Twelve Chickasaw girls seek white husbands to farm
Milburn, Louisiana residents report twelve Chickasaw women seeking white husbands capable of farm work. The letters, kept in a bank vault in Tishomingo, request men who can cultivate land, manage implements, and defend a home, with emphasis on practical farming skill over status or politics.
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Milburn
Eastern Agricultural College
Commercial Club of
Tishomingy
Tatve
United States Begins Trade Embrace With South America
A 1905 speech outlines U S expansion into South America, highlighting new capital opportunities, rising exports and imports, and shifts from debtor to creditor nation. It describes continental size, population density, and growing immigration. The piece discusses early diplomacy and mentions Monroe, Rush, Clay, and Blaine as shaping American foreign relations toward commerce and development.
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Weta
Ingram
leKintey
United States
South America
England
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Elojugede
Menry Clay
Patrick
South
Beerty
Richard Rush
Europe
Monroe
Lantern scenes of hens and the white winter hens
A fragmented account describes Canavans claiming to solve a vexing hen laying problem during winter. It references lanterns, peculiar behaviors, and observers Kate Ma and Crease. The text notes secretive testing and a curious ritual or event around a wooden lantern used by hunters and mentions odd consequences and reactions from those present.
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Wi Canavans
Kate Ma
Kool
Titus Toe
Wight
Thea
Sture
Mirais
Wil
Deafness Cure Claim Through Constitutional Remedies
An old advertisement asserts deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube and claims to cure it only via constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any death caused by catarrh not cured, promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure, and includes a mail order pitch with Toledo based firm F. S. Cheney & Co.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Mall
State's Insurance Money Heavy Reveals Strong Collections
Topeka June 24 C W Barnes state superintendent of insurance stated his view that the departments collections for the last six months of 1907 are in excess of total collections for 1906. In 1908 a total of about 7 000 was collected. The greater part of the collections come in the first quarter. The 1907 total will likely reach about 275 000, over 50 000 more than the previous year, showing stronger enforcement of state insurance laws and more business activity.
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Topeka
C. W. Barnes
Iantas Insurance Department
Insurance
Stimulation Without Irritation Marketing Claim
A historical note promotes Urine Laxative Fruit Syrup as a mild pleasant remedy for stomach and liver trouble. It claims to stimulate digestion liver and bowels without irritating them unlike ordinary pills or cathartics. Barber and Son markets the product as non nauseating and non gripping.
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Barber & Son
Wellington resignations hit Kansas National Guard ranks
Topeka June 25 Major E W Wellington Second Infantry K N G resigns due to ill health and Lt Waldo F Wellington battalion adjutant resigns under outside business pressure. Both Ellsworth natives, Waldo Wellington attended school two years and is a Sigma Chi member.
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Topeka
J. W. F. Hughes
E. W. Wellington
Waldo F. Wellington
Wellington
Ellsworth
Kansas National Guards
Waldo Wellington
Sigma Chi
Grafters Rob Farmers
Anthony, June 25. A yearly wave of grafters robs farmers of warned money with audacious schemes. One man sold highly touted seed wheat at two to three dollars a bushel, claiming it would yield large crops. Evele George Miller appeared in town with seed samples, presenting six varieties and other adulterants to mislead buyers.
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Anthony
Harper County
Evele George Miller
Acreage of Various Crops in Danghis County
Figures show land use for crops with fall and spring sowing. Winter wheat 4071 acres, spring wheat 6, oats 184, rye 184, barley 40, potatoes 242, sweet potatoes 15, flax 3, maize 202, maize variety 10, oats 1a, clover 2215, bluegrass 9002, alfalfa 4 674, orchards grass Sd, other rangel grasses.
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Danghis County
New England
Wyatt
Remarkable Cure Claims From Electric Bitters Ad
Abraham Brown of Winterton New York recounts doctors misdiagnosing his illness as heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach and liver trouble before wife advised Electric Bitters. He attributes full recovery to one bottle. Barber Sons druggists offer guaranteed cure for blood poison weakness and digestive issues. Also Donn's Regulators improve bowel regularity cited by A E Davis of Sulphur Springs Texas. A comment about a woman’s stance on medical risk ends the piece.
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Bettom
Board of Health
Ray L. McCardell
New York Works
Abraham Brown
Winterton
N. Y
Barber &Son
Foley's Honey and Tar praised for cough relief and early consumption cure
A. A. Herren of Finch Ark extols Foley's Honey and Tar as the best remedy for coughs colds and throat trouble claiming it has cured consumption in early stages You never heard of anyone using Foley's Honey and Tar and not being satisfied Barber & Seus note there would be more races if not for fixed events and that many men advance by dealing from the bottom of the deck
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Lawrence
C. A. Taylor
Obie St. Lawrence Kans
Dean
Dick Bros
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
A A. Herren
Finch
Ark
Foley
Barber & jSeu
Igwifl
A Thousand Dollars Worth of Kidney Cure Praise
A. H. Thornes of Buffalo, a coal operator, reports years of kidney and bladder trouble and gravel passing. After trying medicines with no relief, Foley's Kidney Cure began to ease pain, showing brick-dust passing eased and no kidney pain. He calls it a thousand dollars’ worth of good. Barber & Bon.
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A. H. Thornes
Buffalo
Foley
Barber & Bon
Swamp-Root Heart and Kidney Remedy Claimed Cure
A crude advertisement warns of a disease causing sudden deaths and kidney trouble. It promotes Swamp-Root as a remedy to ease bladder issues and urinary trouble, urging readers to mail for a free book and stressing the product’s supposed safety and nationwide availability.
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Sean
Ant
Dr. Bilmer & Co
Binghamton
Good Advice From Le Haysville Merchant
O S Woodever, a prominent Le Haysville merchant, endorses Aneklen's Arnica Salve claiming a 20 year cure for piles. The ad states the salve cures sores wounds burns and abrasions and is sold for 25 cents at Bar ber Sun's drug store.
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O. S. Woodever
le Haysville
Aneklen
Barber & Sun
Laundry Misadventure Reveals Missing Teeth Case
A hotel guest wakes to find his false teeth missing after a night’s stay. The thief seems linked to a laundry incident with a washed set of teeth disappearing and later returning with a note of suspicion. Local reports describe a mysterious skeleton in the closet motif.
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Wenilerments
Hie
Cured of Bright's Disease and County Boundary Hearing
A letter from Geo A Sherman of Lawrence praises Foley's Kidney Cure curing his kidney disease after years of treatment and symptoms. The notice details a July hearing before Douglas County Commissioners on adding described territory to the City of Lawrence, with a complex boundary description and conditions for determining the action's advisability and potential damage to landowners.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
Pax
Board of County Commissioners
Kansas
Kennas
Atchison, Topeka, and
Santa Fe
Hhakell Place
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