Insurance Rates Protested in Illinois Sessions
Quincy merchants and manufacturers faced the state insurance commission testifying that rates rose 35 to 75 percent last year. W H Govert, connected with several firms, cited nonunion insurers raising premiums near 100 percent. The crowd included John Fischer of Excelsior Stove Works as a fire policy holder.
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Quincy
State
Isurance Commission
John Fischer
Excelsior Stove Works
W H Govert
Govert
Various News Blurbs Chronicle Oddities In 1909 America
A collage of brief items notes higher meat prices signaling prosperity, reckless chauffeurs, a newborn within an 87 year old Long Island City father, and a New Jersey judge on marital consent. It also flags aviation trees, weather forecasts, a Delaware reform critique, 5000 Montana homestead filings, a Dry Farming congress in Billings, and U.S Japan cordial relations amid concerns of a yellow peril.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island
United States
Billings
Montana
Gun Fatalities Rise Amid Public Safety Debate
Fragmentary OCR text discusses unloaded guns and firearm violence, asserting public concern and statistics about firearms impacting innocent people. It references household attitudes and broad safety issues without concrete names or locations.
Gentle Rebuke From Pulpit in Youths Companion
In Lucy Fitch Perkins Book of Joys a New England clerical great grandfather used devices to wake a weary congregation. During sermon he paused and declared the new church edifice unnecessary since the sleepers in the old church were sound.
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Lucy Fitch Perkins
New England
Sayme
Baby's watery eczema cured by Cuticura for $1 50
A mother recounts treating her two and a half month old with Cuticura remedies after costly failed doctors visits. She credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with clearing the baby's face and preventing scars. Mrs W M Comerer Burnt Cabins Pa Sept 16 1908. Potter Drug Chem Co sole props Boston
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W. M. Comerer
Burnt Cabins
Dear Teacher Prank Sprinkles Pepper on Flowers
A quoted dialogue depicts a boy presenting flowers to a teacher and confessing he sprinkled pepper on them to make her sneeze. The exchange shows playful mischief and a teacher’s reaction to the prank in a school setting.
Resinol Ointment and Personal Reflections Headline
A collage of letters and quips notes Resinol as a household staple, praises its quick relief for bruises and irritation, and includes wry city humor and telegram style jokes. The text features Rush Davenport Philadelphia endorsements and snippets about voting and melodrama.
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Rush Davenport
Philadelphia
Backache Is Kidneyache Ad Claims Doan’s Pills Cure
An old advertisement asserts back pain signals kidney congestion and inflammation. It promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills with a testimonial from a Thompson Watkins in Kansas and lists Foster Milburn Co. as distributor with a 50 cent box price.
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Thompson Watkins
Doan
Foster
Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
Prisoner in Washington Seeks One Last Dinner
A Georgia man, held on a minor city ordinance violation, asked the jail visiters to arrange on his release day a late dinner with greens already being prepared. He told the minister and secretary he wished to stay until evening so he could eat before leaving.
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Quincy
Michael Weis
St Boniface Church
Dean Weis
Bavaria
Germany
America
Alton
Vandalia
Ill
Effilingham
Earl Wilson
Taylorville
Young Wilson
Vine Street
George Berry
Berry
Georgia
Washington
Jact
Dorothy and the Stork in Yonkers Parsonage Tale
Five year old Dorothy Walworth recounts meeting her baby brother at the Yonkers First Methodist Episcopal Parsonage. She recalls visiting the Bronx zoo and recognizing the stork by wing markings, whispering her wish to him. She says the stork winked, and she knew the baby would come.
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Dorothy
Dorothy Walworth
Yonkers
Bronx
Deafness and Odd Vending Incident Reported
A column notes that deafness is only curable by constitutional or mucous tube issues. A humorous anecdote describes a line-up man warning a woman about placing a pulley clothes-line and threatening to break his neck for $2 extra. An article section highlights breathing's link to consumption and lung development concerns.
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Wren
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Wade Mall
Not to Be Envied and Virtue in Restraint
A Louisville Courier Journal quote reflects on wealth and appetite with a sharp remark about time to eat. It contrasts riches with self control and cites Cato praising abstinence even when in the right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier Journal
Louisville Courier-Journal
Cato
The Claim That Quaker Oats Aid Youthful Health
The article cites Sir James Crichton Browne arguing oats provide essential fats phosphorus and lecithins aiding bone strength and energy. It claims oats support the vitality of Britain’s youth and the northern and southern regions through oat meals and porridge as a principal grain.
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James Crichton Browne
F. R
London
New Geyser Emerges Near Fountain Geyser in Yellowstone Park
A new geyser has erupted about 100 feet north of the Fountain geyser near Fountain hotel in Yellowstone Park. It rose 150 to 200 feet and expelled hot water mud and steam. Eruptions occur irregularly every five to six hours and last about an hour, without affecting nearby geysers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
Fountain Hotel
Mammoth Hot Springs
Wyo
Fountain
Expensive Silence Sparks Child's Penny Offer
A four year old girl named Alice wailed on the floor one afternoon until her father promised a penny to quiet her. She replied she would not stop for less than a nickel, continuing her cry.
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Alice
Unusual Case Prompts Legal Advice From Books
A lawyer tells a client the case is unusual and will require consulting many books. The exchange mentions starting with the client’s pocket book as a first step. The text also touts Hamlins Wizard Oil as a cleaner mustard plaster for lung pain and ends with a remark on marriage and male vanity.
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Mary Brown
Wyoming
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Chicago
del Yvatus
Illinois Newspaper Publishs' Association
School of Journalism
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Baldwin
Joliet
Thomas
Rockford
F E. Sterling
Springfield
Pana
Pana Ice and Cold Storge Company
Mason City
Bloomington
Illnois ex-Prisoners of War Association
J M. Owales
Jacksonville
A. T. Ives
W. H. Watson
Chebanse
George W. Knapp
Harrisburg
Samuel Vantreas
William Grigsby
Theodore Nolan
George Daves
Chicago & Alton
American Supply Company of Chicago
Warner
Vespasian Warner
Kenney
James Kirby
Turbridge
Ald
Marissa
Lentzburg
Fairfield
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
J. Oh. Milholland
Charlestown
The
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T. W. Clark
Marshall
Illinoia
Pole
Austria
Hungary
Finland
Supreme Court
New Jersey
Bleriot
Delaware
Baltimore American
Taft
Japan
Africa
Teacher
Mamie
Dixon
Beaton Herald
Loch Binder
Goethe
Thas
Great Britain
KL md Aati
DR. D.jayne
D. Jayne
Jayne
Western Newspaper
UNION
W. WN. U
ST. Louis
Aids
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Bulate, N. Y
Putnam
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Getoay, Snacha
Black
Winahow
Es Bette
Mousy
Kansas City Southern Ry
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
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