Pyramid Cure Promoted for Piles and Gas Price Cut Announcement
The ad blends various medical cures and remedies from pyramid drug firm and local sellers. It touts a Pyramid Pile Cure as painless, poison free, and quickest, sold for one dollar by Pyramid Drug Co. of Albion Mech. It also notes a May 1 price drop for gas and lists multiple patent medicines and tonics with vendor credits like W T Drake and Detroit Vinegar and Pickling Co.
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Hastings
Pyramid Drug Co
Albion
Mech
W.T. Drake
Are blue gums venomous in Texas doctor experiment
A Galveston News Benham Cor. report describes a Texas doctor testing a virus from a blue gum colored gums bite, amid superstition about its deadly bite. It details a case in Loft Store with Ellen Toney bitten by her daughter in law, swelling and recovery, and the doctor’s intent to study whether blue gum bites differ in venom.
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Texas
Ellen Toney
Jacksow
Benham
Galveston News
Petroleum for Mosquitoes Man’s Spray Reduces Mosquitoes in Louisiana
Mr L C Howard of near Washington conducted experiments to curb mosquitoes by spraying kerosene and petroleum over a 4000 square foot area near a millpond and marsh. He found kerosene killed larvae and left an oil film. subsequent seasons saw drastically fewer or no mosquitoes in the treated area. News from New Orleans reports favorable local interest and possible citywide adoption.
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Mgr
Howard
Monkey Chase At World Fair City Captured
A large monkey owned by Ernst Bros brewers at 67 Larabee Street escaped yesterday afternoon. Policemen, workers, and hundreds of schoolchildren joined the chase through alleys and yards. A vendor with a banana stand finally coaxed the animal into custody. Chicago Tribune.
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Ernst Bros
Lrewers
Larabee Street
Cap
Italy
Chicago
Tribune
Married in a Baby Carriage at Bristol Registry Office
A remarkable wedding at Bristol registry office saw a 43 year old bride in a perambulator accompany her crippled 46 inch tall husband, born unable to walk. The bride declared she knew what she was doing, and the crowd outside laughed as the couple wed and rode away while rice was tossed.
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Bristol
London ‘Telegraph
Spades Were Trumps In Derby Girl Chooses Suitor
In a Derby tale from New Haven, Maria Fattorosi selects Matteo Rugoso after a four-way garden spading contest among suitors Angelo Fatiana Petros Diametra Lynn and Mattea Rugoso. Maria marries Matteo, who wins the challenge after completing his plot first. The story notes a $2,000 life policy and a plot of land as part of the union.
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Maria Fattorosai
Michael Fattorosi
Derby
Maria
Michael
Rome
Angelo Fatiana
Petros Diametra
Marie
Lynn
Mattea
Masliy
Matteo
New Haven
Ho Hage Wire
Quaker Reforms Expand Liberty and Duty in Society
The yearly meeting of the Society of Friends adjourned after adopting changes in discipline. Marriage rules loosened to allow members to wed nonmembers with meeting consent. Women gain equal voice. Proposals urge abstinence from tobacco, liquor tightened to curb intoxicant promotion. Slavery references updated, 14 queries reformulated, and term changes renaming paid ministry to free ministry. Peace and arbitration endorsed.
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Society of Friends
Sociery
Amung
Free Ministry
Philadelphia Press
Marshall property sale listing on Eagle and Main streets
A three story brick block at the Eagle and Main streets corner in Marshall offers stores offices and a public hall with a six percent net income on $18 000 for 1693. Adjacent wood manufacturing plant with steam engine boiler and carpentry gear complete for operation cost over $20 000. Also a large bank safe and notes. Title to real estate perfect. Cash or readily convertible paper terms. For further particulars address.
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Eagle
Marshall
Michigan Central R.R
Time Rock
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