Roosevelt backs Gatun Dam rock type for Panama canal
The message to Congress from President Roosevelt advocates the rock type Gatun Dam and rejects a sea level plan as an imprudent folly. Engineers praise the chosen design, noting feasibility and stability, while cautioning that a sea level canal would raise costs with limited benefits.
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Gatun Dam
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal
United States
Imateriala
Shiloh
Seraston
Wren
Mirlae
Hoskas
Republic of Panam
New Panwa
Brest
Cormterty
I Urba
Ufo
Eer Love Canal
Telepathy Case On Italian Battleship Regina Elena
A sailor aboard the Regina Elena claimed telepathic guidance to locate his missing partner in Messina. After four days he slept and dreamed she cried she was alive and to come save them. He got leave, gathered friends, searched a ruins site, and found the girl unharmed.
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Diancee
Messina
Slp
Baldness cure and almanac tips headline Baltimore column
A Baltimore report highlights Wm Chas Keene of the Lorrimer Institute claiming remarkable baldness remedies via his lab prepared half food. It notes a free trial offer and broad appeals. The piece also previews a new Almanac from Professor Munger with phrenology and dream interpretations.
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Baltimore
Wm. Chas. Keene
Lorrimer Institute
Dir
Scene
Keene
Prize Food Palatable Economical Nourishing
A Nebr woman extols Grape-Nuts from seven years of use describing improved health after quitting tea and coffee, noting it as the most palatable economical and nourishing breakfast food. She says her children are healthy with no stomach trouble and credits Grape-Nuts with saving doctor bills. The ad is signed Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan and invites readers to read The Road to Wellville. There’s a reason.
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Postum Co
Wellville
Personally Conducted Excursions Draw March April Rates
Colonists can travel Chicago to the Pacific coast with one way tickets on gala daily during March and April via the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line at 83 dollars. Double berth sleeping car available for seven dollars, through to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland with no extra charge for guided tours. Write for itinerary to A Hatchieon Manager Tourist Department 212 Clark Street Chicago.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
Northwestern
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
A. Hatchieon
Clark Street
Psalm Quoting Child Echoes Taft At Table
A three year old Norris often recites the Twenty third Psalm and sometimes substitutes a line from it for his usual evening prayer. Last autumn at dinner the name of the successful presidential candidate was heard, and Norris began rendering a passage as Thy Toc and shy Taft they comfort me, noting the joking slip reported in Lippincott’s.
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Norris
Taft
Lippincait
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Porcelain Invention Claim
An ad-copy style piece touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood purifier that cures catarrh, claiming it works by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It cites Dr Henry & Co Toledo as sellers and asserts the product’s high quality and credibility. It then notes a porcelain display where a Chinese exhibitor links porcelain invention to a period before Christ, while foreign experts doubt earlier origin than the seventh century.
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Chenry & Gol
Prope
Toledo
Drurciaty
Peleate
Toke Hall
China
Castori Ja 2 Remedy for Infants and Children
Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIJA 2, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and ensure it bears the signature and is in use for one. The phrase The Kind You Have Always Bount appears, suggesting a branding claim to consistency and reliability.
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Mathera
Infante
Home Truths on Old People and Curious Remedies
A fragment rich with old time tonics and anecdotes describes restorative whiskey mixtures and syrups, plus a curious tale of Loretta asking if a cow was caught. It includes advertising blurbs for Murine eye remedy and a Teutonic proverb about tears alongside quips on temperament and child teething.
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Panama
Saya
Harmonetti
Munger
Almanac
Philadel Pta
Cable Trust
Puck
Hiram
Mrs. Dusenberg
Aman
Your Center
Lewis’ Factory
Veera
Iie
Rover
Mall
Fie
South Bend
Gree
South Bend Watch Co
Ind
Loretta
Loretla
Mr. Blank
Murina
Boerne
Levis
Peoris
Allén
Forchidran
Reddine Ty Dasamution
Cares
Dodds Kidney
Guaraty
Carters
Loreal
Hane Pia
Mebline
WRR
Troy
P. Q
William Barker CO
Troy, N.Y
Costa
Acta
Moat
Arava
Cnrtury
Witeio
Box W
Leo
Mnaleing
Florida
Hilliard
Bed Rock
Farma
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Yim
Worth Florida Fruit and Truck Farm District
Atlantic Coast Line
Jacksonville
Thane
Lovill
Moria
Ohio
Chicago Tithe & Trust Company
Chicago Tithe & Trust Company, Ony Sit the Strongest
Anfeat
Best Vevansvilla
Puntuulee
Florkla
Tardoi
Tipasmerce Sre
Pioneertheva Fruit
Jackwanville
Whlen
Billand Welty
Wits
Aaléstow
Savankah
North Florida
Acre
Polk
Frorida
Carnes
Alwagh
Tiare
Arnoah
Lillych
Narra Farida
F. W. Cornwall
Cornwall Jacksonville Farm Land Co
North FI
Ore
TRUC
Ist National Bank
Ae Hye Sreck
Gilicon Oy
ELAGY
Papmrcu
Ck Es Beatonsiipas Ondenam
Vnadud
Mang
Haley
E John A
Salzer Seen CO
Lecrosge
Laroa
CALEA
Red Graving CO
Oyeo Ihe
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