Miracle Cure Story From Missouri Postmaster
Rich Hill and Vernon counties recount the remarkable healing of Mark M. Woodson once crippled for ten years. After trying physicians, galvanic treatment, and specialists in Kansas City and St. Louis, Woodson credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with relieving rheumatism and paralysis, enabling him to walk, work, and sleep normally again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Times
Rich Hill
Tes
Vernon Counties
Mark M. Woodson
Panama
Inee of Mines
C. C. Woodson
Is City
Woodson
Times
Kansas City
St. Louis
Mudd
Kale
Ospital
Williams
Record of a Skunk Harvest in Livingston County
The Avon district leads a surprising skunk skimming spree with 2732 pelts bought by a local dealer. Officials estimate the county may reach about 9000 pelts valued at five cents each, with gravesyards and old cellars favored haunts for the nocturnal foragers. The article also notes skunk fat oil as a valued remedy and mentions a death bed reminiscence about Tourguenef and a note on the British Museum catalogue.
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Avon
Livingston County
New York
Avon Dealer
Chicago Times
Celestial Barker Myth Brings Morning Sacrifice to Shop
An ancient Egyptian tale describes a shoemaker who served a deity daily, the god acting as a celestial barker. The deity stood before the shop to draw passersby and guide attention to the contents inside, legitimizing daily offerings and reverence.
Daughters of Eve and Oddities in a New York Life
A collage of curiosities and quips about women in New York and Sweden. Topics range from fencing as a fad for girls to a police intercession over a romantic hug. The piece notes a revival of old-fashioned girls names and jokes about marriage rings and family humor.
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New York
Sweden
Sarah
Ann
Martha
Jane
Clara
Debutante
Katy
Royal Baking Powder Advertisement Claims Healthful Lightness
The copy extols ROYAL BAKING POWDER for bread biscuits cakes rolls pastries and pastries raised with its leavening. It promises superlative lightness sweetness tenderness and wholesomeness while noting time and labor savings and reduced flour butter and eggs use.
Notable New York Man Names and Ages Reported
A brief regional column lists four prominent New York figures with ages Roswell P. Flower 59 David B. Hill 51 Edward Murphy 56 and Grover Cleveland 57. The piece also notes a London tradesman who cannot read or write yet runs a thriving business and recently lost $500000 to fraud without realizing it.
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Chipsley
Charles Sargent
Bombay
London
India
New York
Roswell P. Flower
David B. Hill
Edward Murphy
Grover Cleveland
Resort travel resumes as summer exodus restarts
Post strike calm returns to rail service with Wabash through sleeping car routes from St Louis. The line offers direct sleepers to Portland Old Orchard Boston New York Dearborn Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Colorado Springs and Minnesota resorts marking a robust, season opening for Southwest travelers. Through sleepers depart various nightly times, with arrivals spanning the next day to the following morning, highlighting improved safety, comfort and punctual arrivals for resort-bound passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South West
St. Louis
Wabash
Portland
Old Orchard
Montreal
White Mountains
St. Louis Union Depot
Fabyans
Boston
Detroit
Ig Falls
Via- Falls
New York
Niagara Falls
Grand Central Station
Coa
Rolie
Dearborn
Chicago
Northern Lake
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Fisavaatn
Minnesota
FEMININITIES AND JOKES FROM ALLENTOWN PATIENTS
A fragment from a human interest page lists Lewis Schiller of Allentown as father to twenty children with seventeen living. It tucks in quips on love, marriage, bicycles, and a street scene of youths consolidating, ending with a classroom joke about a boy named Johnny Chen and an idle policeman.
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Lewis Schiller
Allentown
Grace
Ned
Catarrh Remedy Promises Cure With Dr Sage’s Claim
A vintage patent medicine ad touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as a long celebrated cure. It guarantees cure or money back, urging readers to try the treatment for relief from catarrh symptoms.
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Sages
Also Mentioned on This Page
Missouri
Postmaster Woodson
Panama, Co
H. H. Boyesen
Tourguenelf
Nicholas
Ivan
British Museum
Daughters OF Eve
Johnny
Johnny Chen
Dougla
Ea Oe
McLean’s
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