Pink Pills Sold For Nervous Ailments Claim
An Alpena Michigan testimonial details relief from paralysis after childbirth using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The writer credits the remedy with restoring strength and ability to perform household tasks for seven people. The ad pitches pills as treating anemia and irritable nerves with mail order and local drugstores.
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Michigan
Williams
Peter Morrissette
Eleventh Street
Alpena, Mich
Dr. Williams
Tnow
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Religious rumor signals broad church activity across nations
The New York federation of churches reports a debtless decade and $16,000 annual work. Indianapolis hosts the upcoming international Y M C A Society meeting drawing 800 to 1,000 workers from the U S Canada and Mexico in May. Native Protestants form a national home mission society to evangelize India run entirely by Indians in harmony with existing churches. Congregationalists push toward $500,000 annual church extension with 500 congregations. African American Baptists total over 2,000,000 in the U S with 50 colleges and 45 denominational papers and a national board system. One Salvation Army effort in Germany under Commander Oliphant gains notice. he is tall, English, fluent in German, with a keen scholarly bearing.
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New York
Missions
Salvation Army
Germany
Oliphant
Frankfurter Zeitung
Booth
Jean
Passing Personalities Highlight Aged, Notable Americans
Achille J. Oishei, a New York lawyer born in Italy and former marquis de Lauvia, prefers American citizenship. East Brook seller Miss Serepta Pratt, at 86, runs a Philadelphia shears agency and ranks as a top saleswoman. Daniel Johnson, 72, is elected president of Mechanics' Fire Company Waynesboro, challenging older volunteers. Amos Scripture, 100, is the nation’s oldest acting banker, VP of Mason Village Savings Bank Greenfield New Hampshire, serving since 64 and tending a 3 000 square foot garden last summer.
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Achille J. Oishei
New York
Italy
Marquis de Lauvia
Serepta Pratt
East Brook
Delaware County
N. Y
Daniel Johnson
Mechanics’ Fire Company
Waynesboro
Johnson
Amos Scripture
United States
Mason Village Savings Bank
Greenfield
N. H
Woman Doctor Credits Postum Coffee Substitute With Cure
A woman testifies she suffered neuralgic headaches for 12 years and lost weight. After using Postum Food Coffee since 1904 she gained weight, headaches faded, and she gained confidence to go out alone. The testimonial cites the Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Manure shed building plan for barn straw storage
A construction note describes building a straw and manure shed on one side of a barn. The straw storage is placed above the shed with a wind stacker to shed moisture, then used to shelter cattle.
Straw Lott Manure Shed Supports Stock And Feed
A Croats Section shed built as a meter2 manure shed can shelter stock during winter and provide cooling in summer. It protects manure saving soluble elements, allows portable feed racks water tank and salt box. A farmer notes such a shed yields five times more value than manure from an open yard.
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Ohio
Illinois highway commission to aid rural roads
Illinois lawmakers created a state highway commission with a 25000 dollar fund to hire an expert who will visit communities and offer free advice to improve country roads. The commission includes Gov Deneen appointees President E J James J R Fulkerson and Lafayette Funk.
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Ilinois
Highway Commission
A. N. Johnson
Springfield
Ill
Deneen
E. J. James
University of Illinois
J. R. Fulkerson
Lafayette Funk
Necessity for Spraying in Orchard Pest Control
The Farmers' Review urges all orchardists to adopt spraying from bud swelling to autumn leaves to protect crops from pests and ensure larger fruit yields. It notes many small orchards still take risks with apple scab and other pests while recommending earnest study and practice of spraying.
Self Feeding Cattle Rack Construction Notes
A versatile inside or outside rack built to fit any length uses 2x2 uprights and 1 inch lumber for the rest. Uprights measure 2 ft 6 in at back and 2 ft at front with 2 ft 6 in crosspieces. A 1x7 board is nailed in and the open hay slot is seven inches wide. The same design used for sheep racks but shorter. An Ohio correspondent praises its feed saving efficiency after three years of use.
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Ohio
Orchard Weeds and Drainage Advice for Fruit Trees
Close attention to weeds will keep the plants growing and provide drainage for orchards. Wet feet will produce heart disease in the fruit tree as surely as swamp miasma causes ague in man, though it may take longer. Trans planting is difficult for several trees, especially walnut hickory and chestnut. plant nuts where the trees are wanted.
Public duty in good roads expansion debate
The text argues that good roads are essential to national profit and comfort and should be a public duty shared by government and states. It supports Brownlow-Latimer highway bills proposing federal funding matching state spending to improve national life and curb urban overconcentration. The piece frames roadbuilding as constitutional and beneficial to private enterprise and island infrastructure alike.
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Congress
United States
Properly Pruned Peach Tree and Tool Tips
A two year old peach tree shows a well shaped cut back and thinning for future fruiting. Included are essential tools a narrow pruning saw long-handled pruning shears and hand shears plus a can of thick paint to seal large wounds after pruning.
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Home Journal
Keeping Down Weeds with Cultivation and Sheep
A Jersey County Illinois farmer suggests long cultivation to suppress weeds and sowing cow peas in corn for nitrogen. He notes morning glory and bind weed need control, recommends turning in sheep to root them out, and describes weed issues in hay meadows including cockle burr sour dock thistle and plantain. He adds the state weed law is a dead letter locally.
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J. R. Fulkerson
Jersey County
Illinois
Riot at Windber Mines Ends in Multiple Deaths
A riot among striking coal miners in Windber, near Johnstown, left three rioters dead and a boy fatally wounded. Mining engineer Eugene Delaney was hospitalized in serious condition as deputies fired to quell the mob. Most victims and many injured were foreigners, as liquor fueled the chaos after a mass meeting led by three Catholic priests concluded. Deputies made several arrests of union men amid claims of discrimination.
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Johnstown
Eugene Delaney
Windber
Dowie and Voliva Reach Settlement Over Zion
Chicago report says John Alexander Dowie announced all settlement terms are agreed. Dowie will hold Zion title for two minutes before signing away rights to a church representative board. He receives low interest on his $1,000,000 Zion stake until the property can be converted to cash and may travel within Zion without disrupting the current administration.
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Chicago
Zion
John Alexander Dowie
Dowie
Indictments Hit Buffalo Port Collector and Graft Case
Buffalo NY Fred O Murray newly named collector of the port of Buffalo and former Erie county treasurer was indicted on charges of stealing from Erie county totaling 28870 and receiving stolen property. The grand jury returned 17 indictments as it probes graft linked to the county North street cemetery purchase for the Sixty fifth regiment armory.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Fred O. Murray
Erie County
Grand
County of Erie
North Street
Sixty-fifth Regiment
Hocking Valley Coal Mines Resume Operations
Pittsburg Coal company chairman Francis L. Robbins says all Hocking Valley mines except Sunday Creek have started work after signing inter state and district wage scales. The operable mines cover 3.75 million tons annual output and employ 6,500 workers.
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Pittsburg
Francis L. Robbins
Pittsburg Coal Company
Hocking Valley
Sunday Creek Company
Arrest Lynching Leaders in Springfield Case
Four men are under arrest in Springfield charged as leaders of the mob that broke into the county jail and lynched three negroes. Two leaders remain jailed, two released on bond. Charles Cannefax and Oney Calfry were first arrested. Cannefax is a former pool hall owner now working in railroad yards.
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Springfield
Charles Cannefax
Oney Calfry
Cannefax
St. Louis
San Francisco
Business Man Samuel Rathel Ends Life at Breakfast
Samuel T. Rathel, a prominent St. Louis real estate dealer and auctioneer, shot himself during family breakfast, with mental low mood suspected as the motive.
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St. Louis
Samuel T. Rathel
Denatured Alcohol Bill Clears House in Washington
The Washington house approved the denatured alcohol bill by a 222 to 77 vote. It also passed a separate measure to divert Sacramento River water in California for irrigation.
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Washington
Sacramento River
California
Wind River Reservation lands reopening delayed to August 15 1906
The Chicago and North Western Railway reports the public lands opening at the Wind River Shoshone Reservation in Wyoming has been postponed to August 15 1906 by a congressional joint resolution. Rail construction to the reservation border proceeds rapidly and should finish within weeks.
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Chicago
Chicago & North Western Railway
Wyoming
Congress
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Aids Women’s Health Claims
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for a wide range of female ailments. It cites backache irregular periods and nervousness, promises regulatory effects, and urges women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice and free guidance from women.
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Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
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