Roosevelt Sails for Africa on Smithsonian Expedition
Former U S president Theodore Roosevelt sails from New York on the Hamburg with Maj. Edward A. Mearns J Loring Alden and Edmund Heller to hunt and collect African fauna for the Smithsonian. The party will trek Uganda Nile routes reaching Khartoum and Cairo then spend two years touring Europe including Berlin Paris and England.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
New York Harbor
Hamburg
British East Africa
Roosevelt
Smithsonian Institution
Maj
Edwer A. Mearns
J. Loring Alden
Edmund Heller
Smithsonian
Roosevelt Expedition to Africa Plans and Personnel
The ex president Roosevelt travels via Gibraltar to Naples and Nairobi with Kermit as official photographer and chief hunter. R J Cunninghamham joins as guide as the party moves to Mombasa and then to the Uganda railway for Nairobi. They will trap small mammals, pack specimens in tin lined boxes, and ship them to the United States for study and publication while preserving wildlife on reserves.
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Kermit
Mombasa
Naples
Mr. Roogevelt
Gibraltar
Kilindini
R. J. Cunninghame
Africa
Uganda
Nairobi
British East Africa Protectorate
MacMillan
William Northrup MacMillan
St. Louis
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
Roosevelt
Inherited Kidney Trouble and a Moral Tale
A Moscow Idaho woman credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing hereditary kidney troubles and related symptoms after various therapies failed. The notice also includes a moral story as told by Rabbi Krauskopf about divorce, framed through a Philadelphia perspective and a boarding school scene.
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Frank Roseboom
Washington St
Moscow
Idaho
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Cuticura Cured Him From Eczema Scales
A Manitoba police chief reports a two year skin problem with itching and leg sores cleared by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He credits rapid improvement after using the products and notes he could resume wearing boots within weeks. The item appears in a dated 1907 1908 notice sequence.
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George P. Bliss
Morris
Manitoba
Feuer Drug & Chem. Corp
Bobe Prope
Fragmented Health Ads and Curious Slogans in One Page
A collage of old ads and quips appears, promoting Castoria for children, Brown’s bronchial products, bromide tonics, and novelty quotes. The page mixes medical claims, marketing puffery, and social quips with miscellaneous product pitches and light humor.
Government carey act opens irrigated land sale at Cooper Lake
Government Carey Act opens irrigated land sale at Cooper Lake Wyoming with land at 50 cents per acre for initial applicants. Water rights sold at 5 dollars per acre cash and 3 dollars per acre annually for ten years. Free railroad fare, sleeping and dining car accommodations and free deed to two town lots for applicants before May 1. Details from Tallmadge Buntin Land Co. Agents, Chicago.
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Cooper Lake
Wyo
Tallmadge-Buntin Land Coo
Railway Exchange
Chicago
A Cure for Fits Promises Free Trials by Epilepticide Lab
The article touts a new epilepticide cure claiming centuries of research overcome fits and nervousness. Free trial bottles literature and testimonials from Dr May Laboratory at 648 Pearl Street New York City are offered to all who write. A pair of light anecdotes follow about a maid and a boy's walnuts illustrating humorous misinterpretations.
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Nona
Dr May
Pearl Street
New York City
Local Patent Medicine Ads and Notices from Toledo Area
Then scattered items include an 1886 oath for Frank J. Cheney, Toledo merchant, offering a hundred dollars per catarrh cure, plus ads for Hat's Catarrh Cure, Cheney & Co. Bold claims mix with notices on triplets from Trowbridge and various eye and health remedies. Also marginal notes praise of medicines like Garfield Tea and Hamlin’s Wizard Oil amid general promotional blurbs.
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Rarz
Omo
ToLxpo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Chenry & Co
Toledo
Fim
A. D
Bend Force de Cheney Ey & CO
Jiall Family
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Great Hunt
Europe
Lake Albert Nyanza
Kisitn
Gondokor
Khartoum
Nile
Cairo
Berlin
William
University of Berlin
Germany
France
Sorbonne
Paris
England
Oxford University
Oxford
Emperor William
America
Smithsonia Institution
Roosevet
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Smithsonian‘ Institution
Isoudan
Ane
LA Ia
Vilto
cAradne
Enteed
Nibira
Nyanza
Eki
Oroma
Lorenck
Mairoe
Britissomal
Krauskopf
Joseph Krauskopf
Cuticura
Eczema
Lega
Ankles
Snees
Cleveland Leader
Beare
London
Brown
John S. Brown & Son
Boston
Mase
BR. W. Grove
Wendell Phillips
Lewis’ Bingle Binder
Gt It
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
State of
Wyoming
Brooklyn
Mary
Harper’n Weekly
Tommie
Trowbridge
Aaron Albert White
Moses Henry White
Miriam Lenorah Lewis
Australia
London Mall
Drury Lawn
Dros
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Bishop
Northwest
Pacific Northwest
West
East
California
Oregon
Washington
E.L. Lomas C.P.A
Omaha
Hep
Sloan
Sweeney
Price
Earl S. Sloan
Ligwi
Wii
Spown Medical CO
Enisteste Goshen, Ind
U.S
W.l.douglas Eee Bole
Wien
Douglas
Spark S
Brockies, Mess
Inee
Nati Bey
Salser
Blg
Fraser
Salzer Seed CO
Bor W
la Crosse
Texas
Aires
Alain Falonat
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