Care of Insane Persons and Social Affairs in Iowa
Des Moines reports on Iowa's care for the insane with 4700 total, state hospitals at Mount Pleasant Independence and Clarinda, Cherokee planned as another state hospital. Debate over county versus state care, Board of Control powers, and a proposed new normal school. Woman suffrage defeated 41 to 40, dramatic debate with large female audience. Other bills include state high school standardization and vocal music in schools, plus social events surrounding the legislature. A lawsuit against Armour & Co. for 175000 rounds out the page.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mount Pleasant
Independence
Clarinda
Cherokee
Board of Control
Garst
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Messrs. Eaton
Byers
Hinkle
Stewart
Hughes
Lyman
Blume
Senate
Avoute
Guv
Shaw
Parrott
W. L. Brown
Savery House
Savery
Dobson
Barrett
Cowlés
Algona
Tis Board
MacLean
The
State University
Beardshear
Agricultural College
Seerley
State Normal School
Herris
United States Commissioner of Education
Minnesota
Senate Committee On Schools
Night Time Peace for Children
A poem urging children to embrace darkness and sleep, praising velvet night as safe and soothing. It contrasts nervous fear with calm rest, praising animals and human babies settling peacefully under God’s veil, with gentle angels keeping watch.
Bantam Rooster Schedules Daily Feats of Time
Dennis Keefe of Newton Kansas keeps a three year old bantam rooster that arrives at the kitchen door at 12 30 each noon and 6 pm each evening to be fed. The bird adapts to a clock like routine, pecking to demand entry if forgotten, and has a calendar tied to its two daily calls.
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Ballata
Titus
Senate
Dennis Keefe
Newton
Kan
Camel Fights In Tunisia Stun Arab Onlookers
An eye witness describes a camel battle in Kairwan Tunisia where two beasts clash with biting and charging, often ending in death. Arabs, though not approving of fighting, attract large crowds as one camel seeks to trip and crush the other with its strong lips and hard padded feet.
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Kairwan
Tunisia
The Animated Dummy and Ventroloquist Tricks Revealed
A Boston Globe account recounts a ventriloquist show with a lifelike dummy made of straw and clothing tricks. It details how the stage illusion was built, the deception of a “live” boy, and the audience’s reaction, plus a Chicago News quote on a historical accident and a Utah mine rescue.
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Boston Globe
Smallpox risk from wall coverings urged reform
Physicians warn rotting paper on walls fuels smallpox spread and promote Alabastine as a sanitary wall coating. An advertisement extols John M Smyth Company mail order catalogues, wholesale prices, color photos, and direct-to-consumer sales reducing middlemen costs.
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John M. Smyth Company
Chicago
United States
Mamamoth
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Promoted for Digestive Ailments
An editorial style pitch extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for overworked stomachs. It claims the tonic relieves clogged bowels improves appetite and cures constipation dyspepsia biliousness and liver and kidney issues.
Wide Open Miss Skreecher
Miss Peppery and Miss Skreecher exchange barbed banter about a doctor named Brown who joked about studying tonsils after a singing performance. Troy Limes.
Grain-O: A Coffee Substitute That Helps Sleep
An advertisement promoting Grain-O as a non stimulating coffee substitute that nourishes and aids sleep. It claims Grain-O looks and tastes like coffee, is suitable for nervous people and children, and is made from pure grains available from grocers. It references Puck and a political quote for flavor.
Allen's Foot-Ease FIRE Offer and Footcare Cure Ad
An old advertisement urges readers to write Allen 8 Olmsted Leroy NY for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease. It claims to cure chilblains, sweating, damp feet and swollen or aching feet and helps with new or tight shoes. Also advertised is a corn and bunion remedy and says all druggists stock it. The note closes with a motto about worker demands.
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Allen
Olmsted
Leroy
N.Y
Cough Remedy Ad Urges Quick Action At Drugstore
An early 20th century advertisement promotes Kemp's Balsam claiming coughing leads to consumption. It urges readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle and offers large bottles priced at 28 and 50 cents with a warning that delays are dangerous.
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Kemp
My Beautiful Baby Boy and Lydia E Pinkham's Remedy
Letters from grateful mothers praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for helping them become mothers. Mara from Roscoe New York recounts a healthy baby boy after treatment. Mills from Coytee Pennsylvania reports a baby girl and relief from persistent illness.
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Lydia E Pinkham
Pryxnam
Lydia
Pinkham
Mara
Minda Finknin
Roscoe
N.Y
Law
Coytee
Penn
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Buena Vista
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Senate Committee On Educational Institutions
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Armour & Co
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Gordon
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Earth
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