Wedding Cake and Patent Remedies Featured in Broad Script
A jumbled pastiche from an early 20th century periodical highlights a mix of patent medicines and household lore. It cites California Fig Syrup Co claims for Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, Munyon Cold Cure with guarantees, an Almanac offer, and a Pat story about a rural Centerville shopkeeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
California
Prof. Munyon
United States
Munyon
Munyon Company
Philadelphia
Washington Birthday Holiday Sparked Morning Lying Joke
A light exchange notes enjoying Washington's Birthday as a holiday for morning rest and a playful response about George Washington not wanting his birthday celebrated by lying. The quotes convey a humorous dialogue on holiday lazing and honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George
Grape-Nuts Seen As Nerve and Brain Food Tale
A consumer letter extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as nerve renewing foods. Claims improved nerves, steadier work, and preserved employment after adopting the cereal and drink. The ad notes the phosphorus content from wheat and barley and references The Road to Wellville and the slogan There’s a Reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Rattle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Urges More Forest Rangers to Protect Federal Lands
Chief Forester Pinchot urges immediate expansion of the Forest Ranger force to about 1,500 men with several hundred more planned. He recounts 1908 work protecting 182 national forests across 17 states and Alaska, with $2,526,098 spent and $1,842,281.87 received from timber, grazing, and special-use permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Forest Rangers
Forester Pinchot
United States
National Forests
Forest Service
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Idaho
California
New University President Named at Missouri Institution
St Louis reports Prof. Albert Ross Hill named the new president of the University of Missouri. Prominent educator, Hill takes helm amid expectations of reform and growth for the state institution.
Bisser Brothers Tell of Western Canada Farming Fortune
Lorens Bisser writes of arriving in 1893 with little cash, homesteading in Loon Creek, Sask. The brothers built cabins, bought land and machinery, hired workers, and expanded to a section and three quarters. They produced 27 to 35 bushels per acre, shipped wheat at seven cents a bushel, and praise a free government and good crops enabling a comfortable living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bisser Bros
Canada
Wolseley
Sask
Loon Creek
Lorens Bisser
P. O. Wheatwyn
Public life shifts events from home to public venues
It notes a trend of holding social events away from home, with weddings in churches, dinners in hotels, and hospital visits leading to funerals, reflecting a broader move of public occasions out of the residence. The piece from Atchison Globe comments on this shift and its social impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Kan
Globe
Curious 19th Century Patent Remedies and Snippets
A collage of sensational advertisements and quack cures touts ear cure for inflamed Eustachian tubes, catarrh remedies, and tonics. It mentions Dr Chenly and Co, Brown’s Bronchial Trachea samples, and various claims about cures, with church notes and social quips woven through.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haiti
Wide Range of Household Remedies and Sayings
A fragmented ad page lists various familiar patent medicines and consumer products. Entries mention Castoria, Marine Eye Remedy, Garfield Tea, Red Cross Ball Blue, Brom Quin ine, Lewis Cigars, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion, and Woolford’s. The tone imitates early 20th century ads and proverbs.
Prominent Young Educator Stgapuri Held Several Chairs
Stgapuri, a Canadian born educator from Nova Scotia now 39, studied in Dominion schools and at Cornell Clark and European universities Heidelbert Berlin Strassburg. He taught in Canada, then held chairs at Wisconsin state normal college and University of Nebraska before serving as dean of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University when named Missouri president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stgapuri
Nova Scotia
Cornell
Clark
Heidelbert
Berlin
Strassburg
Hill
Wisconsin State Normal College
University of Nebraska
College of Arts and Sciences
Cornell University
Missouri
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Pat
Cyrus Craig
Centerville
Mr. Craig
Solome Howe
Cademy
Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot
NEW University
Missouri Institution
Albert BE. Ross
Seattle
First Sect
Alki Point
South Alki
Brown
John I, Brown & Son
Howton
Mars
Angel
Lewis
Faetory
Fate
Svante Tae
Reug Be
Marine
Owen
Leesa’ Factory
Grecere
Puget Sound
Dullet
Pacific Northwest
Boies
Pedro Ae
Wet Wen
T. Hunter
the Trustee Company
Wash
Melbourne
Osama
Flndson Bay
Ty Tong
Sey
Che Be Purcheerd
Thom Vetway
Por
Ottawa
Crawford
Ninth Street
Kansas City
Dr.d.jayne
Ori
Aize
W.l.douglas
Linden Ana
Ican Dongendale
W. L. Douglas
Brocktes
Mass
Monyon
Salsor
Latueet
Salzer Seed CO
Box W
la Crosse
Wis
Dodds
Gunnison Tunnel
Carters
Ittle Iver
the Ridgway Imp. É & Inv. Co
Montrose, Col
L. N
Granite Securities Company
Bradbury
Los Angeles
Calif
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company
Delaware St. Dept
Bell
Hindnsen
Spohn Medical CO
Sfecterists Stat Goshen, Inc
Putnam
Vele
Ion
John Deere
LER OR Plow CO
Defiance
Starchi Finest Linea
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