Roman bicycle diving contest on the Tiber described
Umberto Diamanti, a 22 year old Roman youth, tested nerve and endurance in a bicycle diving feat on the Tiber. He rode atop the embankment and plunged into the river, then swam back with the machine for the awkward recovery. The contest pitted him against Borgi on foot, with Diamanti’s daring noted as the decisive factor.
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Umberto Diamanti
Tiber
Terra Firma
Pearson
Diamanti
Borgi
Weird
Sran
Timely Help and Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Cited
A testimonial wave praises Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for curing deep seated coughs bronchitis and weak lungs after repeated hemorrhages. Patients McCauley of Leechburg PA and Elmer Lawler of Volga IN report dramatic recoveries following months of illness and other treatments. The ad urges using the medicine and offers Dr Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser via mail order.
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Pierce
Golden
Golden Medical Discovery
McCauley
Leechburg, Armstrong Co
Cyclist Survives Fearsome Descent Into Tiber
Spectators crowded the high embankment along the Tiber as Sig Diamant and a foot runner shot from the starting line. The rider descended the precipice in a water landing that drew wild applause and astonishment from the crowd.
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Tiber
Sgme
Sig Diamant
Motorized landing craft propels boat from land to water
A design by Samuel Brottai of Boston Massachusetts uses a wheeled towed apparatus on the shore to push a boat into the water and then power it with a geared motor system. A hinged blade propeller operates in water with a deflector timing blade angles.
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Boas Bee
Samed Do Brottai
Boston
Bemp
Chiange Daily News
Jennings
Lima
Peffer
Hetty
Santa Clara
Cal
Petter
Petter Medical Ass
Chicago
Ils
Scattered old remedies advertise tonics and digestions
The fragment describes various patent medicines like Herbine and Her tine claiming stomach support and digestion. It references pharmacies F J Clea nth and Battea and notices a price of 60c. Mentions remedies to aid digestion, strength, and skin whiteness with vague health claims.
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Cleanth
Battea Pharmacies
Fragmentary quotation on painkiller misdirection
A reader questions a painkiller product claim and notes confusion over Perry Davis’ Painkiller. The excerpt cites prolonged use against diarrhoea cramps and stomach aches, insisting the bottle in question was not the real remedy and suggesting a homemade substitute.
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Perry Davis
Edgewood Park Property Offers and Nearby Homes for Sale
Advertises a 12 room Edgewood Park house with three lots priced at 5600.04, plus edgewood parcels at 500 to 650 each. Also notes a seven room house on Seventh Avenue near Twentieth Street priced 3600 and other rentals and farms with prices and potential monthly income. Additional listings include seven acres with six rooms and a 160 acre farm nearby with various prices and rent prospects.
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Velle
17Th Street
5Th Avenue
R. C. J Meyer
Edgewood Park
Seventh Avenue
Twentieth Street
Sailes
Cordova
Morithy
Omey
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Dr. B. . Pierce
Buffalo
Praserline
Cleveland
Ohta
UHRUS
THE
Wall Street Journal
Dow, Jones & Co
Broad St
Wall St
Land and Water Boat
Scarborough
England
Noths
Hardt
Tyes
Thomas Faledrie
Etry Beye
Dr Myles
Simon A. Gillson
Georgetown
Dr. Miles
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
14Th 81
7Th Ave
Hoex Island County
Windsor Hotel
C. D. Ayres
Shallberg Bros
Fred Beck
W. F Tolles
Sixth Avenue
Avenue
18Th Street
J. Btofft
C. G Turnverein
Olof Z. Cervin
C. R. McCord
Airline National Bank
Rock Island County
Cedar Rapids
Concordia Park
Elmer Heck
15Th Street
Moline
24 Avenue
Rock Island
Jones
Nervigor
Reeay
Clendenin
First National Bank
E. J. Bronson
Fourth Avenue
River Bank
New Street
Carine
W Parsons
McKinnie Block
Lundeen & Nelson‘s
16Th St
Hackley
Hunt
Allen Bros
McKinnie
Douglas
Otto Kennenberg
Cee
Detroite Buffalo
Detroit
Mich
D&c
Lake
Summer Bend
P.A
BANKS
Moline National Bank
People’s Savings Bankk
German Savings Bank
West 30 Street
Davenport
Iowa
Moline State Savings Bank
Fenn Mutual Life Insurance Company
John M. Hkelin
W. Odall
Th Street
Wood & Phek
R. Moore
Sixteenth Street
Lawrence M. Magill
Attorney At Law
Skinner Block
J. Searle
C. B.marshall Searee & Marshall Lawyers
Bitches & Lynde Clock
Undertakers
A. V. Esthrdahl
Lutheran Church
Carpenters
C. J. Paden
14Th Avenue
Moline, l
N. H. Cederberg
236 Avenue
People's Furniture & Carpet House
Dewend-Kuschmann CO
3D Avenue
12Th Street
FY H Gardner
Ph. G
Ill
J. G. Swensson
Moline, DL
Rosenstein Building
H. Bennett
Skinne Anne
J. M. Wyland
Chase Building
Dem
6Th Avenue
Marie — Palmist
4Th Ave
Clothiers
Forsberg & Tasty—Modern Clothiers
Famour
P. Mullane
Ith Avenue
Moline, Il
U. & Clothing Company
4 Avenue
16Th Street
SON Hagte Siang Sd
Merchant Tailors
C. L. Lindhoum
Tattor
Ocean Steamship Tickets
Perry O
Devenport
the Journal
National Association OF Stationary Engineers
A. C. Grants
G. MH
Cornell
Oan
Alabese National Matory
Pergl Terns
Broadway
New York
Nutter’s Real Estate
Atteat
4Th Street
Dth
Suérine
Déere & Maamir, Conmipally’s
7Th Street
Avenae
D. M. Wechler Carriage Cne
Lth
11Th Avenue
Williama, White & Co
10Th Street
4Th Avenue
Moline Wagon Company
11Th Street
Lith Street
7Th Avenue
Moline Plow Company
Deere & Co
8Th Avenue
Sth Avenue
Barnard & Leas—Pump Co
19Th Street
Dimock, Gould and Co.'s
21St Street
13Th Avenue
16Th Avenue
12Th Avenue
Sth
25Th Street
Th Avenue
27Th Street
Library Street
Watters
Holt
Peterson
Union News
Illinois
Baily Journal
Peterson’s Express
Sattactiog
O. Peterson
Fifth Ave
Neleon’s
Ostrom
Sinois Theatre
Rock Lalatd
L. MM. Richards
Annes Graining
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