A Good Cough Mixture From Simple Home Remedy
An inexpensive homemade cough remedy uses two ounces glycerine half an ounce Virgin oil of pine compound and pure whiskey. The mixture touted as safe and drug free claims to break up a cold in twenty four hours and to last a family a year. Virgin Oil of Pine compound is noted as produced in Leach Chemical Co laboratories Cincinnati Ohio. The text ends with a humorous aside about heaven and souvenir postals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Hall’s Catarrh Cure marketed as internal remedy
Series of claims for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills. Describes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, touts physicians’ prescription, and promotes testimonials. MentionsDruggists selling and price 7 cents and references other remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
B. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Nobody Lives Here But Us Sign Ends Nuisance
The Langworths in a corner house faced constant street inquiries about residents. A New York Times writer notes they finally stopped the nuisance by hanging a sign on the house reading Nobody lives here but us.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langworths
New York Times
Honeymoon Bedroom Gaffe Echoes at Indianapo lis Dinner
Senator Beveridge cites a humorous Winslow anecdote at a dinner in Indianapolis. The tale recalls a honeymoon mishap ending with a harsh misunderstanding. The page also promotes Hamlin Wizard Oil and Perry Davis Painkiller.
Sunken Roman Galleys in Lake Nemi Unearthed Prehistoric Find
Italian divers under Sig nor Borghi recovered two ancient pleasure galleys buried beneath Lake Nemi. The vessels said to belong to Emperors Tiberius and Caligula measure about 230 by 50 feet and 200 by 65 feet respectively. Artifacts including bronzes wood and anchors were recovered bearing the inscription Caesaris Aug Germanice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake
Nemi
Italy
Tiberius
Caligula
Signor Borghi
North Ourneburn Road Case Overruled by Iowa Board
Iowa board of railroad commissioners ruled against the North ouneburn Road case in favor of New State Telephone of Sioux City. The decision centers on a state law passed last July requiring railroads to install telephones in stations where a telephone exchange operates in the town. Sioux City company claimed Moorhead Danbury Whiting and Mapleton lacked telephones. Northwestern agreed to install at each location.
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Board of Railroad Commissioners
Iowa
New State Telephone Company of
Sioux City
Northwestern Railroad
Sioux City Company
Moorhead
Danbury
Whiting
Mapleton
Northwestern
Cupid Cause of Tragedy Ends Life of Young Farmer
Roy Plank 22 son of Charles Plank a Primghar area farmer shot himself Monday morning after a quarrel with his sweetheart Miss Tillie Hospe of a well to do farming family. He returned home about 2 AM then rose at 6 AM and used a shotgun. A note to his sweetheart was found but not made public.
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Roy Plank
Charles Plank
Primghar
Young Plank
Tillie Hospe
Stock Buyer Dan Lackey Dies by Suicide in Monroe
Dan Lackey of Monroe a prominent stock buyer known as the tallest man in the state died by self inflicted gunfire in Monroe Monday afternoon. He entered a restaurant, went to the rear, drew a revolver and fired twice, dying instantly. He spent much of his time in Des Moines and was in that city Sunday.
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Dan Lackey
Monroe
Des Moines
Lackey
Emmet County Pioneer Farmer Found Dead in Pasture
George H. West Sr a longtime Emmet county resident was found dead on his farm east of Estherville after attempting to drive across a frozen ditch his horses broke through the ice and in freeing them he likely suffered a fatal brain血Vessel rupture A second item notes Clarence Flanders facing two wives in Des Moines court each claiming him as husband one from Greenwood and another from Thanksgiving bride Cora Burt.
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Geo. H. West, Sr
Emmet County
Estherville
Clarence Flanders
Des Moines
Greenwood
Cora Burt
Big Yields of Corn in Iowa and Other Records
The article notes Iowa farmer John Sundberg of Whiting raised 153 bushels per acre and won the Iowa Corn exposition prize for largest yield. It compares to 133 bushels per acre by N Howard Brewer in Omaha in 1908 and a 237 bushels per acre record in South Carolina cited in the New International Encyclopedia.
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Iowa
John Sundberg
Whiting
Sundberg
Omaha
N. Howard Brewer
Hockanum
Conn
South Carolina
Governor Carroll Receives Large Red Prize Apple
At Des Moines Governor Carroll was praised by the Iowa State Horticultural Association for apples and apple growers. A unanimous resolution awarded him the prize apple, the only one from the display in the rotunda, as guards watched it glisten. He bit into it and left the house amid applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Iowa State Horticultural Association
Des Moines
Iowa
State House
Milk Dealers Charged With Ordinance Violations in Council Bluffs
Milk Inspector Peter Smith filed information in the superior court Thursday charging twenty milk dealers in Council Bluffs with violating city ordinances. Warrants issued. deputy marshal begins service. Four dairymen have since licensed. The enforcement targets tuberculin testing of all cows. Information also filed against eight milk dealers in the sky.
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Council Bluffs
Superior Court
Peter Smith
Health Board
Gun Discharge Wounds Hunter Near Remsen
John Wolf, in the party with John A. Johnson three miles northeast of Remsen, was fatally wounded when his gun discharged while he leaned on it. He was taken to the Raveling home in critical condition after the accident near Peter Raveling’s place. Also reported is a court verdict: M Saltzmann awarded $2,200 against Grain Shippers Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Ida Grove for stock losses from a Sioux City fire on December 14, 1904.
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John Wolf
John A. Johnson
Remsen
Johnson
Peter Raveling
Mr. Wolf
Raveling
M. Saltzmann
Council Bluffs
Grain Shippers’ Mutual Fire [Insurance Association
Ida Grove
Sioux City
Saltzmann
Dewey to sue Marshall county for 7500 in damages
C F Dewey of Rhodes plans a suit against Marshall county seeking 7500 for personal injuries and damage to a threshing machine when it went through South Skunk creek near Rhodes last summer. Mason City fire gutted Colleton Bros grocery from an overheated furnace causing 3000 in loss, insured. Emmet county Sunday school convention at Estherville concluded a two day session with plans for 1910. Judge Reed in federal court sentenced Pred Kurtz of Shous City and James Hright of Webster equity for selling liquor to Indians to six months in jail.
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C F Dewey
Rhodes
Marshall County
South Skunk Creek
Mason City
Colleton Bros
Emmet
Estherville
Reed
Publique
Pred Kurtz
Shous City
James Hright
Webster Equity
Poy Ating
Steg Uh
Cure for Severe Eczema With Cuticura Remedies
Henry Searle of Little Rock Arkansas describes twelve months of intense itching and eczema unrelieved by a skin hospital. After two to three applications of Cuticura ointment and continued use of Cuticura Soap and Pills, he was completely cured. October 1867. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props. of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
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Skin Hospital
Cutleura
Henry Searle
Little Rock
Ark
Oct. S
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuthura Remedies
Boston
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Heaven
Arth
Dr. Pierce
Dodds
Guare
Honey Factory
Senator Beveridge
Indianapolis
John Winslow
John
Niagara
Winslow
New Jersey
Jimmie
Success Magazine
Perry Davis
George
Alexander Lambert
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R.V. Pierce
Pres
Buffalo, N.Y
Hawkeye State
Sisa
Northouneburn Road
Cupid
Rawson
Do. E. Rawson
Des Moines Life Insurance Company
American Association of Life Inspectors
National Civic Federation
Washington
W R. Green
John R. Dobbins
Ballew
Princeton
Dobbins
Lawrence Pinlye
Bumegenrdner
Cedar Rapids
Teads Center
Board of Control
Wonna
Henry Marley
Guy Marley
Logan
Swallows Strychaine
Reed Fletcher
Onauwa
Fletcher
Totls
Sues
Joe
New York
Castoria
Bears
W. T. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.J. Dougelas
W L. Douglss
Leo Gel
Rick
Perfection
Japan
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Sara Ree ES
St. Imogene
Esmeralda
Western Canada
Deneen
Ilinole
Rernor Deneen
Tlinois
Askatchow
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Hrailway Nd
Ottawa
Holmes
Jackson St
St. Paul
Minn
Ma MacLachlan
Watertown
South Dakota
Uvarest
Colorado
Paprsadso
Liuvon
Color VG
N.Y
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