Harvest of Human Hair and Its Commerce
A lengthy feature reveals a global hair trade harvested from women’s heads. It cites 12,000 to 400 pounds yearly usage, with New York importing over four tons. Hair grows slowly after age 30, many wear wigs or top pieces, and prices range from 1 to 50 in various currencies. Swiss, German, and French hair supply dominate. The scene shows daily trimming and bargaining in rural markets, with thousands of traders and about 2000 U.S. importers and dealers.
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Dumas
Tony
New York City
New York
Elle Ie
Jong
Cashion
Switzerland
Hiegman
Mortans
Byresco
Grain-o product praised as pure grain coffee substitute
An advertisement extols Grain-o as a pure grain based coffee substitute claiming rich mocha or java flavor without distress. It notes a price of 25 cents per package sold by grocers. A separate brief reports the Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision, entering judgment in favor of the United States against North American Commercial Company for 376,087.
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Java
Supreme Court
Ty United States
Shake Into Your Shoes Great Comfort Discovery
A vintage ad claims Allen’s Foot-Wage cures painful swollen feet and bunions by easing tight shoes. It markets sweating feet, hot tired nerves, and offers trial packs and mail orders. The piece also mentions children’s feet care and general war era news items about Cuba and Spain.
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Allon Reorease
Allon
All Druggsists
Mall
Soe
Allen S. Olmstead
le Roy
X.Y
Two Nuns Leave Convent for World in Scandal Tale
A long account recounts the escape from the Gray Nuns of Notre Dame of two sisters, Sister Bonsecours and Sister McMillan, amid charges of seduction and scandal. Sister Bonsecours, famed for music and teaching in Ottawa, defies church authority, marries a physician after her father’s excommunication, and later another nun, Sister Agnes McMillan, faces a similar crisis. The narrative traces family pressure, ecclesiastine penalties, and the sisters' eventual fates as married women.
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Notre Dame
Ortena
Cupid
Orawa
Trival
Sister Bungecours
Sister McMillan
Canada
Milo
Bautain
Bonsecours
Gray Nuns
Hay Nl
Laudoln
Ottawa
Sister Bandoin
Ney
Covent
la Ser
Ga Ly
Jan- Seculius Wald
Bansecours
Montreal
Grey Sisters
Searcsx
Slater Ronscrour
Agnes McMillan
Strickti
Remarkable Menford Case Verifies Doubtful Illness Claim
A two year watch confirms a Canadian Mutual Life Association payment of 1050 for lifelong disability linked to late stage paralysis once called sir, with a patient allegedly cured by Williams' Pink Pills. The report notes skepticism, widespread attention, and eventual verification of the claim.
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Monitor
Menford
Ontario
Peted
Cears
Ade Ter
Dr. Williams
Some Novel Receipts Vermicelli Bres and Other Dishes
A fragmented column gives recipes for Vermicelli Bres and other dishes. It describes boiling eggs, preparing yolk and white mixtures, toasting bread, making a cream sauce, and serving over toast. It also details pickling eggs in jars with vinegar, beet root, celery seed, pepper, and mustard. It notes fish as May’s bounty and hints on cooking methods and accompaniments.
How to Be Happy Though Married Home Life Advice
A domestic essay urges husbands to value home as rest from modern care and storms of work. It argues wives and daughters should ease burdens with thoughtful care and warm greetings, making the fireside a peaceful haven. The piece celebrates domestic affection as a civic duty to sustain busy men.
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Gordon
Grain-O for Children Claims Health Benefits
A dubious advertisement touts Grain-O as a health drink for children claiming it nourishes and strengthens them. It likens its taste to coffee, promises health benefits from the grain, and lists a price around 150 and Ze, with unclear preparation details and potential mislabeling.
Four Dead as Tornado Strikes DeKalb County Missouri
Reports from St Joseph Missouri recount a powerful tornado that crossed a portion of DeKalb County Missouri causing extensive damage and four fatalities. The storm disrupted homes and property, prompting emergency response and investigations into the incident.
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St. Joseph
DeKalb County
Missouri
The Vicar of Bray and Other News from Ulster Landing
Tobias Van Steenburgh 70, famed as Jenny Lind’s mad lover, dies in a Glasco hovel on the old post road to the Hudson at Ulster Landing. Tom Linton breaks the world record in a 30 mile race, finishing in 1 hour 58 minutes 0 seconds.
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Jenny Lind
Glasco
N.Y
Hudson River
Ulster Landing
Tom Linton
Ekes
Linton
Unclear OCR Item on 19th Century Politics
Fragmentary text references President McKinley and Puerto Rico. Mentions an address 439 South Ave and date November 8, with garbled terms suggesting discussion of U.S. policy or cure, possibly about Gongamptied medicine and a 15 currenty item. No clear event identified.
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Pisa
Beltz
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praise
Letters from women in Maine Lexington Powell Street and Pennsylvania attest to relief from chronic female ailments after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They report removal of weakness, back ache, headaches, bearing down pains, and fatigue, with high recommendations.
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Biddeford
Mec
Lydia EB. Pinkbom
Mra
Nonak E. Herken
Powell Slat
Penn
Lalso Hull
Lydia
Pinkham
Wemar
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