Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Adverts Tumor Cure
A testimonial from Mrs May Fry of Lindley Indiana credits Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound with curing a four year tumor after doctors advised operation. The ad extols the remedy as a standard female health treatment backed by thirty years of use and offers confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkenet
Lindley
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
May Fry
Nine Die in South Shore Railway Wreck at Samuel's Crossing
Nine men killed and many injured in a head-on crash of two South Shore Electric Railway cars at Samuel's Crossing Indiana. The collision happened after 9 pm as a westbound car, speeding down a long hill beside the Lake Shore tracks, collided with another heavy car.
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South Shore Electric Railway
Samuel's Crossing
Ind
Lake Shore
Balloon Disaster Kills Russian Court Officials
A balloon accident in St. Petersburg killed Court Chamberlain Palitzin his wife and Count Rostof director of the private chancellery of Erpress Alex andra, with four officers previously suffering a similar fate. General Wannowski owned the craft used by Captain Korbe, rising from the military balloon park.
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Palitzin
Rostof
Erpress Alexandra
St. Petersburg
Wannowski
Army Department
Korbe
Balloon and car crash in Crown Point Lowell course tragedy
A fatal collision on a Crown Point Lowell automobile course left a westbound motorman dead and an eastbound motorist leaping from his car. Passengers were locals from Porter and Michigan City. Emergency crews evacuated bodies and rushed the injured to farmhouses and South Bend area towns. A drifting balloon, Count Rostof, accidentally discharged its rip cord, causing a rapid descent and a crash in a country garden where Captain Korbe suffered a broken leg.
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Porter
Michigan City
South Bend
Count Rostof
Korbe
Perfect Cure by Cuticura for Infant Eczema
A mother's account from Sheldon Iowa in 1908 describes severe infant eczema on a baby's face not cured by doctors. After using Cuticura Remedies, the skin cleared by the next morning and the eruption vanished. Also notes ads for Allen's Foot-Ease and humorous clippings.
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Cutiura
P E. Gumbin
Sheldon
Potter Drug & Chem Corp
Sola Props
Boston
The Unfortunate Duffer and The Southwell Cathedral Cracks
A bystander reports no injuries in a two car collision while one man is hospitalized. Separately a note recalls early eleventh century cracks appearing in the north and south transepts of Southwell Cathedral in England.
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Southwell
Slain Man Found in Akron Car After Robbery
The body of an unidentified man about 40 was found in a car in Akron Ohio. His skull was crushed and pockets rifled. A note in his pocket hinted at a Chicago address and referenced a La Grange street.
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Akron
Ohio
Hammond
J M OtLear
la Grange
Qeden Avenue
Chicago
Local Crime Note From Burnsville Sketches Troubled Scene
Fragmentary OCR describes a shooting or violent incident near Burns Wis, referencing a farm, a pistol or rifle, and a victim linked to Detroit. Details are garbled but indicate a fatal or serious event with police involvement and an unidentified suspect.
Ministers Oust Foster From Chicago Baptist Conference
The Chicago Baptist Ministers' Conference expelled Professor George Burman Foster of the University of Chicago for alleged heretical beliefs in his book The Function of Religion. The 40 to 10 vote ends his fellowship, though not his minister status, and calls for his trustees to dismiss him from the faculty. The resolution passed in simplified form after debate led by Rev Johnston Myers.
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George Burman Foster
Chicago Baptist Ministers’ Conference
University of Chicago
Foster
Johnston Myers
Myers
Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Chicago
George Burman Yoster
Lone Bandit Robs Fort Worth Bank for $8100
A well dressed highwayman robbed the Waggoner Bank and Trust Company in Fort Worth Texas of 8100 in currency on Tuesday afternoon. Cashier Waiter I King was alone in the bank when the man approached the window and forced the money from him with a pistol. The robber escaped into the crowds before police arrived.
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Waggoner Bank and Trust Company
Fort Worth
Tex
King
Fight for the pennants standings in principal leagues
The standings list teams and records across the major leagues with Pittsburgh ahead at 89 wins and 13 losses, Philadelphia 24 27, Chicago 35 19, St. Louis 23 31, New York 26 22, Brooklyn 19 3, Cincinnati 29 26, and Boston 18 37, reflecting the pennant race status.
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Pittsburg
Iphia
Chicago
St. Louis
New York
Brooklyn
Cincinnat
Boston
Detroit
Uan Ph
Desert irrigation schemes hindered by Sahara sand depths
Proposed plans to irrigate the Sahara face doubts due to thick sand deposits hiding moisture and complicating engineering. The report notes the great depth of overlaying desert sands posing a barrier to large scale irrigation ventures.
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Sahara
Kidney warnings and home remedies in a vintage ad page
A collage of medical tips and product pitches notes back pain as a sign of kidney trouble and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills. It includes other ads for Ham ing Wizard Oil and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, along with brief quips about tobacco and a car joke.
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John M. Burwick
Dayton
Tenn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Body Found in Trunk Links to Sigel Relative Case
Police found a young woman’s strangled body wedged in a steamer trunk on a top floor in New York. Investigators seek two Chinese suspects who vanished after the death and explore ties to Elsa Sigel, granddaughter of Civil War general Franz Sigel, who has been missing about a fortnight.
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Elsie Sigel
General Sigel
Sth Avenue
New York
Olsie Steel
Wadsworth Avenue
Prans Sigel
Thera Mist
Lerer
Eight Hour Law Upheld by Oklahoma Judge
The eight hour law passed by the Oklahoma Legislature is held constitutional by Judge Thomas Doyle of the State Criminal Court. Judge J C Strineworth of Guth County Court overrules a recent opinion by an earlier vest that the law enacts on national policy.
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Doaste
Oklahoma
Dhv
Dudge
Thomas Doyle
Sta Criminal Court of
Apgeet
Cops
J.C Strineworth
Guth
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