Court Quirk: Judge Frees Man After Unusual Plea
A judge discharged a defendant with a warning after the man posed a comical hypothetical about married life and dish throwing. The bizarre exchange followed by a note that the Boston Teamsters union adopted its annual wage agreement with the Master Teamsters Association, requesting small pay increases in several lines.
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Boston
Mass
Teamsters’ Union
Goop
Master Teamsters’ Association
Women advance in workforce and leadership roles across industries
Census shows over 15 million women employed in industry with tripling stenographers and doubling bookkeepers and accountants in ten years. Women now hold treasurer, president, secretary, and executive roles in finance, railways, building, and retail, signaling broad expansion beyond traditional fields. The Switchmen's Union journal notes railroad workers opposing rate legislation lack official organizational representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sife
National
Savings Banker
The
Switchmen’s Union
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Endorsed by Nurses and Patients
A trained nurse testifies Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for female ailments. Mrs Pohlman and others praise its healing power for irregular, painful periods, backache, and general debility. The ad urges women to seek relief and contact Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Irs
Pohlman
E. Pinkham
Lydia Ekham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Botanic Blood Balm touted as purifier for flesh and skin
An advertisement claims Botanic Blood Balm B B B cures a wide range of blood and skin diseases including blood poison cancer carbuncles scrofula eczema and rheumatism. It promises clearer skin and stronger digestion with yearly samples and prepaid orders from the Blood Balm Co Atlanta GA. It also notes Treasury Department talks on ending U S marine hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
DG. B. B
Death seemed near woman saved by kidney pills in Chicago notice
Mrs E T Gould of S14 W Lake St Chicago credits Deans Kidney Pills with saving her from death by Brights Disease and curing eye trouble backache dizziness headaches and painful bearing down. She says Conan’s Kidney Pills began helping in 1903 and she has stayed well. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Imelgo
E.T. Gould
W. Lake St
Chicago
Dean
Bright
Conan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Cat Stays Home Only In Winter Tradition Returns Each Spring
The piece recalls a yearly habit dating to 1903 in Goffstown where a big yellow cat signals winter’s end by staying home until early May then disappearing to the woods. It notes the cat’s warmth loving behavior and the town’s amusement at this seasonal weather prophet. Also includes a market-style ad for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a political-tinged quip about ingratitude.
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Isaac Page
Goffstown
Boston
Cure for Terrible Sores Ends Child’s Suffering
Mrs. Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut recounts a year and a half battle with severe facial and body sores on her son. After trying two doctors, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for about two months, and the sores healed fully. The child now is strong and healthy with no recurrences.
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Enother
Egbert Sheldon
Woodville, Conn
Willing to Share with God Simple Faith of a Child
A Boston Post story shares how a little girl prays for Santa and discovers God’s gifts. She finds a doll for Christmas and a hobby horse for her brother, then says God is good and plans to let him play with the dolly and ride the hobby horse.
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Levi G. Broughton
Atlanta
Boston
Santa Claus
Brother
Boston Post
Boy’s Breakfast Shows Grape-Nuts Health Boost
Hoosick Falls boy grows into sturdy manhood after starting on Grape-Nuts for breakfast. His mother says indigestion and nervousness faded since the change, and he now enjoys a satisfying meal. The ad cites Postum Co. and promotes a booklet.
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Hoosick Falls
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Trade Review Signals Active Spring Wholesale Buying
R G Dun & Co reports spring wholesale buying gaining momentum with easier money and good collections. Dry goods business strong, January sales rivaling early 1905. clothing orders solid with few cancellations. boot and shoe demand up. hats and caps show fair orders. Leaf tobacco weak as manufacturers hold back. lumber prices up 10 percent with solid demand. furniture outlook weak with light orders. machinery and supplies dealers busy with good collections.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Wholesale Markets Report from Baltimore and New York
Grain and dairy prices move across markets with notes on flour wheat corn oats rye butter cheese sugar and eggs. Reports show firm or steady tones with various bid prices and futures quotations for February March and May contracts.
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Baltimore
New York
Duluth
Pennsylvania
New York and Chicago Live Stock Market Snapshot
New York market shows steers 4.25 to 6.09 with higher trend on limited supply. bulls 3.00 to 4.20. cows 2.00 to 4.10. calves steady with veals 5.50 to 7.00. sheep and lambs mixed with prime State lambs 7.75 to 7.85. Chicago reports steady cattle with steers 3.30 to 4.60, heifers 2.25 to 3.00, hogs higher around 5.75 to 5.80, stockers 2.40 to 4.00, sheep dull at 3.50 to 5.90, lambs 6.50 to 7.30.
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New York
Chicago
Things Worth Remembering: Global curiosities and tech notes
A digest mentions a women chemists school in Dessau offering graduates 20 to 48 pounds monthly. It notes counterfeit gold coin circulation in Tacoma traced to molds in Hiroshimi. It cites violet light relief for neuralgia and German field kitchen prizes. AUN in Warner’s Ranch relocations, Grand Duke Oldenburg narrowly escapes a train, and Sir Oliver Lodge’s fire theories are discussed.
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Dessau
Germany
Tacoma
Hiroshimi
Japan
Sam Ouste
Warner’s Ranch
San Diego County
Palo Reservation
Brunswick
Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Sir Oliver Lodge
London
Ex mayor Crumbo touts Pe ru na in odd ad
A jumble of vintage patent medicine claims and local anecdotes. Ex mayor Crumbo recommends Pe-Ru-Na amid various cures with dubious refunds. A farmer and Bill Scovel are teased in a Raleigh Baltimore American style tale about distance and deceit.
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Crumbo
Pe-Ru-Na
Short Ghost Story Toasted by a Dinner Table Tale
A red nosed man recalls a two stranger travelers in a smoking compartment who share a joke and a fatal past three years ago. A second tale follows of a lonely bachelor reaching for matches and finding them already handed to him. The exchange closes with a bite of humor.
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Boston
New York
Bill Jolly
Slowness of Horses in Saw Mill Camp Draws Comments
During mess hour at a saw mill camp workers discuss slow horses. They note Kelly's old gray, Johnson's black mare, Old Water's spindle-shank, and a bent, double jointed mare, with Phepard recalling a long curbside chat about Myers and his stubborn retinue.
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Kelly
Johnson
Phepard
Myers
San Francisco
Professor McGill Loses Hat in Norfolk Style Prank
Ex-register of wills J Nora McGill walks from the patent office when a nor’wester blows his hat away. A dapper stranger breaks the hat, McGill jokes about foot in it, the brim is ruined, and the man apologizes offering repair though McGill says it is worth a sovereign at least.
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J. Nora McGill
Register of Wills
District of Columbia
Georgetown University
MccGill
G. Street
Nor'wester
McGill
Nor’wester
Mr. McGil
Jove
Ex-Register
Washington Post
Read Dies During Reading Tour With Ben King In Bowling Green
The poet Opie Read died in Bowling Green during a reading tour with Ben King after reciting If I Should Die Tonight. Read attributed a superstition laden sequence of thirteens forming what he called a curious chain of circumstances that night.
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Opie Read
Ben King
Bowing Green
Read
Darkies
Ben
Originator of Remark About Forty Fool and Physician
In The Sunday Magazine Penn Steele traces the origin of the proverb every man at forty is either a fool or a physician to Tiberius and to Tacitus. He notes the age is thirty in Tacitus and suggests popular usage shifted to forty for alliteration and oral habit.
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Tiberius
Bacon
Tacitus
de Quincey
Grape Nuts Word-Count Contest Promises Gold Prizes
A winter reading game offers 20 prizes of $10 gold, 10 prizes of $5 gold, and 300 prizes of $1 paper money plus a top prize of $140 in gold. Entries require Webster authorized words using Y I O Grape Nuts, with alphabetical classings and letters sent with word lists. The contest runs to April 30 1906 with 831 winners expected and names published on request.
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United States Marine Hospitals
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Albany &St
Hall
F. J. Cusxer & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
O. Vanpixe
Kixxax
Manvix
Teke Hall
Cutiura
Taylors Cherokee
Peter
Apvins
New Albany
Ind
E. Oak Street
Mr. Cr
England
Wendiebury
Kline
R.H. Kuine, Ltd
Phila., Po
J. 4. Miller
lLongwoer
Drugeists
E. W .Grove
Charles T. Yerkes
Woolford
Druggitts
Dr. Detchon
Crawfordsville
Iowa
Painsville
Bill Scovel
Painsyville
Jim Watson
Baltimore American
Price
W. Diemer
M.D
Springfeld
Plante
Lea Chan Merch
Cetten
Arineton
Meegetts
United States Agricultural Department
Psy
H. MH. Green
Lola DO
Miymouth
Minorca
Oranda
J. 5
Johnscr & CO
Nolay
W. MW
Wis
Wills Building
Indiana Ave
Denver
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