Glass blowers: women enter new factory work near Philadelphia
The Glenolden glass blowing factory near Philadelphia employs women under male supervision to craft capillary tubing bulbs and medicine vials. Workers are paid by piece with earnings from six to twelve dollars weekly, and the site is praised for healthful surroundings and skilled female craftsmanship.
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Glenolden
Philaderplan
Boy Hood
Piris
Mirnue
Tbs
Sintiay
Mary Edits Dal
Walrus Returns with 17 000 Seals in Heavy Season Cargo
Johns N F reports the steamer Walrus has returned from the ice fields carrying 17 000 seals, one of the heaviest loads of the season. The total seal catch expected this year should reach 270 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johns, N. F
Silace
Ing
Walrus
Valuable Medicine for Coughs and Colds in Children
A Colombo Ceylon watchmaker recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and chest colds, noting rapid relief in children and quick cures with often one bottle. He claims it has benefited him for two years since city dispensary first drew attention to the medicine and promotes its sale by F. J Clendenin and E. Heimbeck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Chas, M. Cramer
Colombo
Ceylon
F. J Clendenin
E. Heimbeck
Plainspoken notes on war, policing, and garden disputes
The item sketches a string of vivid vignettes from urban life and public policy. It mentions Boer War tolerance, New York police duty, healthy boys seeking danger, Perry Davis Painkiller promotions, a garden versus chicken feud, and a character named Major Fond amid a fragmented scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Davis
Zoa Phora Promises Relief for Painful Menstruation
Jerseyville Illinois resident Emma Dodson testifies that Zoa Phora regularized her periods and eased labor during all five births. She claims the remedy has brought health to many women, enabling easier pregnancies and shorter labor. The notice urges readers to obtain a dollar bottle and requests information requests to Kalamazoo Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Dodgon
Jerseyville
Zoa Phora
Zoa Phora Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Zon Phora Co
Kalamaacn
Trade and farm sales ad across multiple states
An old newspaper snippet lists trade and farm sale interests across Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. It mentions locations near Neirth and Albrecht at 444 16th Street and references Wednesday and Saturday schedules with rates and contact hints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astra
Albrecht
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Montana
Nearth
Weth & Acbreett
Favorite Prescription touted for womanly ailments restores health
The ad extols Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as treatments for female weakness, irregular periods, and related ailments. It quotes a claimant from South Carolina praising a full recovery and notes the product's claimed benefits and availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Pierce
Mise Une C. Hook
Orangeburg
Orangeburg Co
South Carolina
Tr Pierce
Pierce
Investment Opportunity and Rural Farmland Listings
Auction notes describe parcels including seven acres with a six room house and garden near a post office for 3000 dollars, sixteen acres level farm land at 30 dollars per acre, and a Dowit room house at 1316 7th Ave rented for 13 dollars monthly. Also mentions street frontage on Tth Avenue and a rental price of 100 dollars per month with 8 percent pree asked. Higgest enapt in the city.
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Moran
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-fourth St
Fifth Ave
Nineteenth Ave
First
Second Street
Nineteenth Street
Atkinson Park
Eleventh St
E. L. Eastman
Tth
Cordova
7Th Ave
Higgest
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Glasa
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Tenn
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New York
Miss Stone
Major Fond
Emma Dodson
Jerseyville, Ils
Adlet
Dimock, Gould & Company
Lee
Allen Bros, McKinnie Block
Moline
Wm. Haywood
7Th Street
C. R. Stephens
Elm Street
Hook Island
Hotel
Chas
Ro McCord
3D Ave
Rock Island
Davenport
Rock Island Dominion Co
C. R. McCord
Maline National Bank
2D Avenue
Jones
Care Journal
Green
12Th Street
J Stofft
Lost
10Th and
13Th Street
16Th Avenue
18Th Avenue
Fraternal Army of America
Ee . Ee
Emit Bbe
Gobtiwest
Biowt Wal Bouth Dakote
Brooklings
County
Clear Lake, Sherbione Co
Minn
Fred R. Young
Lindyall Bidg
15Th Street
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
John M. Ekelin
E. A. Edlen
Moline National Bank
J. G. Swensson
M. D
Ill
Rosenstein Building
Boston
H .S. Bennett
Skinner Annex
M Wyland
Chase Building
5Th Avenue
People's Furniture & Pet House
Dewend-Kuschmann CO
3D Avenue
Iowa-Nebraska-Beaumont Oil Company
Lyons & Starr
Youngerman
Des Moines
Iowa
W. Odell
Attorney At Law
Joan
16Th Street
Wood & Peek
Attorneys At Law
W R. Moore
Sixteenth Street
Main
Lawrence M Magill
Skinner Block
Jackson & Hurst
Rock Island National Bank
Rock Island I
C. J Searle
Marie
4Th Ave
Carpenters
C . Paden
14Th Avenue
N. HK
Hlarksmith
Seventh St
Eighteenth
Jacob Abraham
First National Bank
Sale House
Postemce Inquire Ho Journal
New Street
29Th Ave
Miers
Foye
Rosalyn
Minegal Springs
Willett
Ted Fuller
Maer
Yonkers Statesman
National Accident Society
Broadway
Nutter’s Real Estate Bargains
Edgewood Park
Tielke
Siventh Avenue
National Association OF Stationary Engineers
Moz
Tie O'Clock
Ety J
Undertakers
A. W. Esterdahl
Lutheran Church
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34 Avenue
People's Savings BaNk
German Savings Bank
West 2d Street
Moline State Savings Bank
Cfice
Clothiers
Forsberg & Tasty—Modern Clothiers
McKinnie Btock
P, Mullane
Th Avenue
U. & Clothing Company
Great Britain
Liberal Commission
Spruce Street
Moline Tool Co
Ostrom
Vtoll
Illinois
Rock Jaland
Dory
Madison Medicine Co
Madison
Wis
the Guarantee Home Building Club
Seconda Avenue
D. W. Gould
Marion E. Sweeney
George Bennett
Edgar E. Godfrey
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