A Marvelous New Instrument Promises Telephonic Music
McClure’s July number touts eight new inventions including Dr Thaddeus Oshill’s Dynamophone, an electrical organ that converts currents into pure tone for transmission over wires and telephones. The machine recreates full orchestral tones, enabling one person to control an entire ensemble from a keyboard, hinting at home and public use of music by telephone.
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McClure
Ray Sunoard Baker
Thaddeus ‘Oshill
Beware of Catarrh Ointments Mercury Alert
Mercury in catarrh remedies warned against as dangerous. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo claims mercury free and internal use. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and various local notices and endorsements about health products and public happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Qheney & Co
Favorite Prescription Ad Promises Relief for Women
An ad-style passage extols Favorite Prescription as a temperance medicine for women, claiming it eases childbirth pains and strengthens a baby. It features a testimonial from a mother detailing weak health, use of one bottle, and improved well being after delivery, urging other mothers to try it.
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RA Eal Bratt
Lesen Jawea
Piero
Lear
Pierce
Notice to Contractors for New County Farm Building
Lafayette County Missouri seeks sealed bids for a new building on the County Farm near Wellington. Bids due by 12 M, Monday July 2 1908, with 6 percent certified check. Plans at J R Moorehead Lumber Lexington. County Court reserves right to reject any or all bids. Frank Thornton County Clerk Lexington June 7 1906. Kennedy's Laxative Money and Tar advert follows.
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Lafayette County
Missouri
Wellington
J. R. Moorehead
Lexington
Frank Thornton
Remarkable Mother Quotations On Her Sons
The text venerates the mother of John Weasley and Charles Wesley and seventeen other children as a remarkable woman of beauty, intellect, refinement, and spirituality. It notes she delivered a stern moral injunction to John urging him to resist any pleasure that weakens reason or conscience or strengthens the body over the mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Weasley
Qhirles Wesley
Wowan
John
Electric Bitters praised as cure for digestive issues
S A Brown of Bennetteville S C touts Electric Bitters as a remedy for stomach and liver disorders, claiming it restored his wife to health after years of dyspepsia and torpid liver. The ad notes malaria biliousness kidney and bladder troubles and guarantees by Croshaw Young druggists at 50 cents. Also reports a marriage: Miss Walkettin Goodloe and Ohbnr Lale wed June 20 1906 at the bride’s parents home with a wedding feast later.
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S. A. Brown
Bennetteville
S. C
Croshaw & Young
Odeian Democrat
Migs Walkettin Goodloe
Ohbnr, Lale
D. L. Downing
Geo. Goodloe
Hensley Lale
Birth and Death Rates Across Europe Healthiest Country Noted
The report compares death and birth rates in Europe, noting Rotland as the healthiest with a death rate of 16.5 per 1000 in 1905 and Germany and France near 10.6. It contends death rates fall as medical science advances while birth rates decline, suggesting concerns about continued decreases and implications for population. It also mentions legal matters and a tonic advertisement amid the mixed content.
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Rotland
Europe
Germany
France
Girdled Grapes and Festival Plans Highlight June Column
The piece notes limited girdling of grapevines with newer methods used mainly by a few Seneca Lake growers to delay sap rise and ripening by 10 to 14 days. It also mentions annual fall festival planning with debates over stock show and carnival formats, plus brief items on Colonel Lumpkin’s satirical remarks in McClure’s and a Kansas fisherman’s mosquito-killing claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wreer
New Yorker
Seneca Lake
N. Y
Small Farm For Sale Near Lexington
Farm listed four miles south of Lexington with 20 acres of grassland and a good apple orchard. Terms on application. Contact at once for details and sale arrangements.
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Lexington
Grasn
Muckraker debate cited by Lincoln Journal on Bunyan symbol
A Lincoln Journal writer argues about muckrakers and Pilgrim's Progress in relation to John Bunyan and Rockefeller. The piece links the muckraker label to finance and exposes how the term can misstate motives, noting the broader impact on reform rhetoric and American public life. Also includes several local notices offering land for sale near Waverly, Missouri, and advertisements for children's slippers and oxford shoes.
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John Bunyan
Roosevelt
Pilgrim's Progress
Lincoln
Neb
Bunyon
Rockefeller
Cnue
Bucker Hill
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Virginia
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Crenshaw & Young
Boro
Higginsville
Frank Peppers
Crenstiaw & Young
Lfc
Kennedy
Fenahaw & Young
Fen
Lale-Goodloe
Sam B. Cook
St. Lows
Odewin Ledger
Mammon
Colonel Lumpkin
John McAuley Palmer
Qoionel
Lumpkin
Kansas
Hammar
St. Louis
Leroy Farmer
Ayer
Ayers
Leverall
Waverly
Zersima
Dover
Whites Island
Tam Waite
Istaxp Fisnine & Srontine Co
Waverly, Mo
D. Stalllog
Arene Porter
Lafayane
Dald Jeyters
Nia
Moqtery
Rat Nee
Charles C. Cooper
Latayeris
NP i
Samuel Bear & Son
Lexington, Mo
White River Country
Arkansas
St Louis
Kansas City
THE
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Memphis
Iron Mountain
Arkans
H. C. Townsend
St, Louis, Mo
William J. Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Commoner
San Francia
Hawaii
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New Zealand
Spain
Denmark
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India
Egypt
Turkey
Switzerland
Norway
Russia
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Greece
Haly
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Holland
Kansas City Weekly Star
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L. Griffip
G. V. Hackney
M. D
Walnut Street
Chas. W.jloomis
Wm. Hi. Loomis
Talking Machine
J. R. Wilmot
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