Wasted to a Shadow and Regained Health with Kidney Pills
TH Stotts of Columbus Ohio reports fifteen years of kidney troubles with backaches headaches and urinary disorders. He collapsed and lay bedridden for ten weeks before using Kidney Pills. After twelve boxes he regained health and gained twelve pounds, staying well for two years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TH. Stotts
The
States
Columbus
Poster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Ears stretched by childhood tales in distant lands
A sailor recalls Borneo and other lands where young women stretch ear lobes as a customary practice. He notes the elongated ears, slim figures, and white teeth, comparing them across regions before a final judgment that the practice is sickening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borneo
Samarinda
Sampit
Kudat
Telekopil
Banjarmain
Pasir
A Short Cut
A steamship agent points to a surly man who boasted of cutting time and tension in business. The anecdote recalls a past voyage when he rejected a lemon offered by a sympathetic traveler, tossing it overboard and claiming a quicker way. The New York Telegraph notes his few words and infamous impatience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Telegraph
Yale
New York
Miss Blank
Eli
Nervous Diseases Claim Cure by Dr Kline’s Restorer
An advertisement notes a claim that nervous diseases can be permanently cured by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. It promotes a two dollar bottle and a treatise, with contact in Philadelphia. Also mentions newsboys in Spain and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. The piece also notes new Italian postage stamps lack the monarch's head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vitus
Denee
Kline
da. i
St. Ruixe
Arch St. Phila
Cure for blood poisoning claim with Cuticura remedies
An elderly Newburgh resident crowed about Cuticura Remedies curing a severe blood poisoning that left a foot mauled and unable to wear a shoe. After two weeks of using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, the foot healed, with observers astonished by the recovery. Aug 21, 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuthura
Robert Schoenhauer
Newburgh
N.Y
Commercial Broad View of Trade and Agricultural Exports
Dun and Co reports improved domestic industrial activity and a brighter international situation after the French elections. Prices recover some losses as gold imports ease financial stringency. Manufacturing runs near full capacity with steel orders extending into 1907, while rail earnings rise. Bradstreet notes weekly U S and Canada wheat exports at 2 142 062 bushels and corn exports at 1 573 740 bushels for the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BEG. Dun & Co
United States
Dun
Wholesale Market Prices for Grain, Butter and Potatoes
Baltimore and New York markets show mixed activity with no major price shifts. Wheat steady to firm across grades, corn and oats largely unchanged, rye firm, and soy values varying by grade. butter and cheese steady, eggs flat, sugar stable, and potatoes easing slightly with regional prices listed.
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Baltimore
Southern
Live Stock Market Summary From New York and Chicago
cattle steady to higher in New York trades with steers around 4.60 to 4.75 per cwt and bulls 3.50 to 4.15. Cows 2.10 to 3.75, calves 4.00 to 6.50, veals 74 to 104 cents per pound dressed. Sheep and lambs soft. good clipped lambs 6.30, prime wooled 7.65 to 7.80, Marylands prime at 5.50 per head. Hogs weak. state hogs 6.90 to 7.00. In Chicago cattle ranges 4.00 to 6.73 for common to prime steers, cows 3.25 to 4.60, heifers 2.75 to 5.33, bulls 2.60 to 4.25, calves 2.75 to 5.75, stockers 2.75 to 4.80. Hogs 5c lower. primes 6.45 to 6.55, mediums 6.35 to 6.45, butchers 6.37 to 6.45, packers 5.60 to 6.40.
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New York
Duluth
Pennsylvania
Bermuda
Maine
Southern
Florida
Charleston
Ioc
Bologna
Labor tensions highlight harsh Alabama laws
A clipped field notes report cites Alabama’s reputation for severe anti labor statutes. Other items include a June 11 tile workers convention in Chicago, a 114 percent three month wage advance for Northumberland miners via the coal trade conciliation board, a Cleveland steamfitters wage rise to 3.50 to 4.00 for about half the members, a Leaksville-Spray Institute plan to fund textile mill scholarships, and English engineering tradesmen seeking 53 per week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Chicago
Northumberland
England
Conciliation Board For
Cleveland (C
Leaksville-Spray Institute
Leaksville
N. C
Goldfish farming as a home money maker across the nation
A Boston area woman runs an Angora cat and goldfish venture, while others from New Jersey to Long Island raise bees, chickens, horses, and cattle. National figures note a she-based goldfish operation near Washington, D.C. with simple equipment, rising profits, and careful tank management. The article profiles methods, costs, and seasonal care to turn tanks into a modest income, noting goldfish supply, breeding, and shipping considerations.
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Boston
Jersey
Long Island
May C. Moore
National Woman's Exchange
Japan
Washington, D. C
Why Do Gulls Dance to Flush Worms on Shore?
A Chicago News blurb explains that seagulls and other shore birds drum or paw sand to rouse worms. The tactic mirrors angler vibration methods, prompting worms to surface as if fleeing a buried predator, possibly a mole, with unclear evolutionary reasoning.
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Chicago News
Guatemala Timber Wealth and Odd Anecdotes
Dense Guatemalan forests cover the north and east with mahogany cedar and chicle. Government holds most timber rights via five year concessions, hard to secure large tracts. Most lumber goes to the United States, rails import ties and coal due to forest scarcity. A humorous Harper’s Weekly anecdote about center barrel apples.
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Guatemala
Peten
Alta Verapaz
Izabal
United States
California
Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers and Deafness Cures Ad
An advertisement extols Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers as a universal remedy for bad breath, stomach trouble, seasickness, indigestion, headaches, and more. It also claims a cure for deafness via constitutional remedies, offers a cash reward for catarrh cures, and promotes Hall's Family Pills and other patent medicines with pricing notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mull
Mott
Mott's
Garare Tonto Co
3D Ave
Rock Island
Fall
F.j.cuexry & Co
Toledo
Hall
WORKING WOMEN AND FERTILITY AID CLAIM
A plea to working women about female complaints, urging Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for irregularities, backache, headaches, and related symptoms. The notice features Miss F. Orser of Boston praising the remedy and invites women to consult Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Mass for free advice.
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F. Orser
Warrenton Street
Boston
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E
Pinkham
Transformations Curious Result When Offee Drinking Is Abandoned
A diary style note compares quitting coffee to stopping whisky or tobacco, praising Postum Food Coffee as a superior, nourishing substitute. It argues a body transformation occurs within ten to fourteen days after stopping coffee, since nerve poison is removed and nourishing liquid replaces it.
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Spain
Cuticura
Resec Pos
Fonce
Felow
Harper’s Weekly
Nashville, Tenn
Frankie Upser
Miss Peart Ackers
Miss Pearl Ackers
North Summer Street
Nashville
Tenn
Ond
Southern Mfg. CO
Richmond, Va
Delaware and Hudson
Hamilton
Canada
Winchester
Kali Works
Nassau St
W.L. Douc
Doug
FS & Sells
Brockton
Mass
Atalog
W. L. Dougl
WAS
Masa
Zikaes Thompson
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