My Beautiful Baby Boy and Patient Patients
Letters from grateful women describe cures and pregnancies after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Minpa Finnie of Roscoe New York reports a healthy baby boy, and Mrs Lane from Coytec Virginia credits the remedy with preventing miscarriage and delivering a baby girl.
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Sylvi E Pinkham
Who
Dean Mus. Proesam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Minpa Finnie
Lydia FE
Minkham
Many Lash
Coytec
Venn
Conan Doyle and Golf Entreaties to Ormean Club
Conan Doyle writes to the Ormean Golf Club with compliments and wishes them a happy evening. He jokes about being an intermittent golfer, noting bouts of enthusiasm followed by long pauses. He recalls playing in Egypt and inaugurating a private course in Vermont, and offers to help clear sod if the club needs it.
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Conan Doyle
Joan
Egypt
Ver- Mont
Ormean
Duhamel Letter Recaps Winter Work and Travel in Alberta
Thomas Tate writes from Duhamel Alberta on Jan 24 1900 about a trip to Wetaskiwin and back by sleigh. He notes good weather, deep ground frozen two feet, six inches of snow ideal for sleighing, and a single December cold spell to 32 below. The party built an 18 by 18 log house a pair of 10 by 18 log stables and are working on four wells. They own ten cows three other cattle and six horses and plan to write again next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudison
Thomas Tate
Duhamel
Alberta
Canada
P. S
Tobacco Plant an Flore Emblem for Americans
A London writer praises the tobacco plant nicotiana as a worthy floral emblem overlooked by Americans in search of a suitable plant. The note hails its beauty, American origins, and human solace, while a separate ad claims free dropsy treatment by Dr H H Gresn'n Bons of Atlanta.
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London
America
H. H. Gresn
N Bons
Atlanta
Do You Fall Back to Your Cook in Safe Alte
A Chicago Record item notes an exchange about facing the cook, with emphasis on social norms and confrontation. The fragment suggests expectations of respect and propriety in household roles within the Safe Alte context.
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Chicago
Helio graphic mirrors wartime Sun signaling history
The heliograph, not a modern invention, uses sun flashes to transmit messages up to 100 miles with no wires or batteries. Its ancient roots trace to Roman shields, while its military value lies in extreme simplicity and independence from fixed lines. The Cincinnati Enquirer notes its artistic lighting and widespread past use.
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Roman Empire
America
An' Trank Because He Lived Longer Than He Expected
An elderly Lansboro Mass man Anthony Simpkins aged in the nineties, traveling to Hopkins Station Mich, caused a stir in Pittsfield. The scene focused not on the couple but a peculiar baggage item he carried, as the baggagemaster prepared to take charge of the travel equipment.
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Anthony Simpkins
Lansboro
Mass
Hopkins Station
Mich
Lanesboro
Pittsfield
Anthony
Mr. Simpkins
Simpkins
Mary
Dress Suits and Sly Drunk Schemes in Kansas City
A Kansas City Star column notes a drink theft ruse by a man posing as a teamster to drink free for saloonkeepers in town. It contrasts this with a reflection on dress suits as democratizing attire, leveling class distinctions and shaping urban manners amid Civilisation's Progress.
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London
Kansas City
Kanesas City
John Jones
Kansas City Star
Heliography through the ages and odd railway tales
A vivid survey traces heliograph development from sun flashes to mirror systems used by British and American forces, noting milestones from Colby’s 1822 method to 1878 US adoption. It climaxes with practical field gear and a colorful Kansas City Star anecdote about coffin trunks and coin tricks in saloons.
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Gol. Colby
British
Royal Engineers
Gibraltar
Tangier
Africa
United States
Signal Corps
Miles
Geronimo
Red Man
Mountain Perk
Mountain Peak
Afghanistan
Ines
Afton
Wall decor by postage stamps at Ghent monastery
At the hospital of St. Joan de Diou in Ghent monks decorate walls with mosaic scenes made entirely from postage stamps from around the world. The colorful panels depict valleys forests streams and mountains with birds insects and animals in a bright, life-filled panorama.
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Monke
Hospital of
St. Joan de Diou
Ghent
Palace at Eltham Court for Sale Crown Lease Listed
The crown lease of Eltham court and palace, a historic royal residence from 1270 to 1628, is advertised for sale. Once owned by Edward IIL through Henry VIII and Mary to Elizabeth and James I, it later passed to Sir John Shaw. The estate preserves the old moat and Middle Park Plate name.
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Eltham Court
London Chronicle
Edward the Confessor
William the Conqueror
Odo
Earl of Kent
John O' Eltham
Edward
Joan of ‘Navarre
Edward IV
Bridget
John Shaw
Middle Park
Sulphur as a Disinfectant and Curious Camp Anecdote
Sulphur fumigation is advised for disinfection in diphtheria cases, using a pinch on a hot stove or coals to release fumes that permeate walls. If fumes become too strong, open doors and windows briefly. The note also recounts Sir Walter Scott's bull terrier Camp reacting to the baker incident, then shifts to a Buffalo Times item about Public School Expansion in Minolta, Illinois, with a $15,299,803 expenditure in 1999.
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Sir Walter Scott
Camp
Sir Walter
Buffalo Times
Minolta
Illinois
Deserting sailors return to Brooklyn yard for court martial
Eight Buffalo crewmen among eighteen deserters from the cruiser reached the Brooklyn navy yard after sailing out to sea. They surrendered themselves and will be court-martialed while the cruiser remains at sea.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Buffalo
Manila
Heidelberg Senate Orders Duelist Students Expulsion
The Senate of Heidelberg University demanded eight students accused of challenging others to duels to leave the university for four terms. The action is seen in Germany as likely to influence the broader abolition of dueling.
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University of Heidelberg
Hans
Eigit
Ie University
University of Mica
Germany
Happy I Am Free From Neuralgia After 5 Years
Mrs Archie Young of West Superior Wisconsin writes that after five years of severe neuralgia she is free from pain after using 6 Drops from Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co. She says her appetite improved and sleep returned. Sample bottles are 25 cents and large bottles 1 dollar. Information available from 161 EB Luke Street Chicago.
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Mry
Archie Young
Oaks Avenue
West Superior
Wis
EL Im
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
EB. Luke Street
Chicago
Bavaria's Pencil Factories Reach Wide Output
Bavaria boasts 28 pencil factories employing about 10,000 people across men, women, and children. They weekly produce at least 4,000,000 lines and 890,000 colored pencils, with last year’s output totaling 230,000,000 pencils and cedar wood usage exceeding 1,800 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bavarien Fesicil Factorien
Bavaria
Maple Hill Luzon and Reading Wilmont towns on line
Notices offer travel and inducements for Maple Hill Luzon Iowa and Reading Wilmont Minnesota towns on the Armstrong Estherville line. Details direct readers to Mr John Dows Armstrong Ia and Mr Thomas H Brown Sioux Falls SD for information and mention tickets via B C R N Ry. Special inducements for business and professional men. tickets sold at 4 single fare to all points.
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win _ K&N. Ky
Tate
Minnesota
South Dakota
Shell Rock
Abbott Crossing
Waverly
John Dows
Armstrong
Maple Hill
Luzon
Iowa
Armatrong
Estherville
Thos. H. Brown
Sioux Falls
Reading
Wilmont
Minn
Worthington
Hardwieck
C. R
N. Ry
Dno
Dno. G. Farmer
A.G. P
T.A
Cedar Rapids, la
Cattle Feed in Norway Tied to Codfish Milk Taste
In parts of Norway where pro vender for cattle tanears cows are fed on codfish heads pounded into a mash. The milk produced by these cows has a strong codliver oil flavor and may be palatable to some but is regarded as highly valuable for consumptive patients.
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Norway
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Lumbago
St. Jacobs Oil
Pommei
Heliograph
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hoe
South Africa
Historical Palace
England
Sir Walter Boott's
Valo
F. J. Chaney & CO
Toledo
Toe
Hall
Puck
Allen
Allen 8
Olmsted
LeRoy
Lapland
Droggista Anwellon
Garfeld
Fren Aim Events Tes Company
Brooklyn
Samuel
Samoa
Chambers
Peruna Medicine Co
W. L. Chambers
Alzer
Homeseekers
Faemratona
Missouri M'neitie Railway
Iron Mountain
H. C. Townsend
St. Louis
Javan
Globe
Sumatra
Hindustan
Borneo
Golo Coast
Rilo de Jameiro
LE. W. Grove
Bird
Cleveland Leader
Mia
Winslow
Doc
Balcomie
Loulaville Courier Journal
Permannuliy
Nolita Ornertoniners
Kite
Arch St
Hiladelphie
Bim
Walter Uaker de Ui
Durchoeter
Mons
Sheithen
Robert Ball
Piso
B. McClellan
Chester, Florida
Arctic
Antarctic
Australia
Asia
Bartle
Montreal
Crain
L. Douglas
W.N.U
Ivia
Rae Byatt
Frwen al Cwipor Pelnie
Brona Ore
Tinatellod Paar Sena
Primiter
Johnasatzer
Conney Omar Famotidine
Glee
Enquirer
Gaea
Enquirer Company
Giacinnati
Appiare
Western Canada
Jeirticulis
Ottwa
St Paul
Paul
Manitoba
Assinibaly
Sivkatchewan
Crewford
Ninth St
Matisas City
Browehton
Monadnock
George Kilbo
Alabama
IBM
Booy
Mobila
California
T. Agrady
Mannaer Cattfornte
Pphipmmaniann
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