Walter Baker and Co and the La Belle Chocolatiere
A historical profile of Walter Baker and Co makers of cocoa and chocolate from Dorchester Massachusetts. It traces the firm from a 1780 wooden mill on the Neponset River to a world leading establishment and urges consumers to trust quality, beware adulterated goods, and seek the La Belle Chocolatiere trademark. It notes the offer of a free recipe booklet from Walter Baker & Co. Limited at 158 State Street Boston.
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Walter Baker & Co
Neponset River
Dorchester
Boston
Walter Baker Company
la Belle Chocolatiere
Mass
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd
State Street
Fashion Decrees Highlight Dress Styles This Summer
Girdles of white glace silk and white ribbon with cretonne flowers set the trend. Low shoes feature red heels and lacings with red fronts. A summer hat pairs white fancy straw with yellows and a black velvet bow. Silk chiffon coats edged with gold lace remain costly and stylish. Grass linen in pink and bright shades tops summer wardrobes and flatters folds when tucked.
Miracle Cure Age-Old Ailments With Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs M A Goss of Bryant Missouri says kidney pills saved her life after months of sciatica and rheumatism left her bedridden and near death. After a week of use she improved, sat up in bed within days, walked a quarter mile, and now does all chores. She claims sixteen boxes taken and credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with full recovery.
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Dodd
M. A. Goss
Mrs. Goss
Missouri
Echoes of a Busy World in Unconnected Fragments
A miscellaneous passage reports a 70 foot thick sulfur vein at Beaumont Texas, a rare pine grove of 490 trees selling for 7500 dollars in Allegany County New York, and a surge in acetylene use abroad. It notes a large Manchester mill nearly complete at 770 feet long, a monster 86 foot long 135 ton Philadelphia lathe for preparing 32 granite pillars weighing 160 tons each, and a single pass reduces granite block diameter by 24 inches.
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Beaumont
Tex
Suelpaardelooszonderspoor Weg
Allegany County
N. Y
Holland Railway Company
Amsterdam
Manchester
N. H
Philadelphia
Designer's Eight-Room House Plan Priced at 1500
GEO A W KINTZ presents an eight-room residence on a 28 by 42 foot lot with stone foundation and brick underpinning for 1500. The detailed layout includes parlor 13 by 14 feet, sitting room 12 by 15, dining room, kitchen, two stories, and basement with laundry furnace coal bins. Exterior features include maple and pine floors, pressed brick chimneys, double glass, and ivy white trim with chocolate body.
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GEO, A. W. Kintz
Lumber Swept Away in Major Rouge River Fire Debacle
A Sunday blaze driven by an 85 mph wind destroyed $800000 plus in property along the Rouge river west bank at Delray, Detroit suburb. Salliotte & Ferguson mill, Brownlee & Co mill, Cedar yard of Western Union, and Maltby Lumber losses listed with insurance figures. fire spread to Carkin Stickney & Cram dredge and Raupp & Co yard in Ecorse. Detroit fireboats aided but could not stop flames.
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Detroit
Mich
Rouge River
Delray
Salliotte & Furguson
Brownlee & Co
Western Union Telegraph Company
Carkin, Stickney & Cram
Salilotto & Furguson
Maltby Lumber Company
Carkin Stickney and Cram
Detroit Department
Brownlee
G. A. Raupp & Co
Ecorse
Enigmatic Philadelphia Pin Begets Tiny Alphabet Craft
A Philadelphia man wears a plain looking pin that hides a masterful miniature engraving. The pin head displays the English alphabet in old English lettering around its edge, with the year 1900 at the center. The piece, carved over a year, drew fame when a jeweler plated it and a salesman noted the astonishment of a magnifying glass reveal.
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Philadelphia
Fred Swarts Brink
August Starcke
N. Y. Sun
The Spartan Japs Explain Endurance and Training
Anna N Gen jamin writes that Japanese are a Spartan race living simply and enduring long periods without food. Coolies carry loads and mail up Mount Hei eizan as a daily feat, while samurai values persist in upper classes. Western tactics rise on a preexisting Spartan soil.
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Anna N. Genjamin
Ainslee’s
Hei Eizan
Wioto
Hero dies saving co-worker at Cerealine mills
Indianapolis May 13 William Phelps of Richmond Kentucky and James Stansbury of Indianapolis perished after steam scalding from an eight foot boiler. Phelps slowed Stansbury’s escape by urging him to go first and died two hours later after dragging his burned body from the manhole. Both men are colored.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William Phelps
Richmond
James Stansbury
Cerealine Mills
Phelps
Jim
Stansbury
Trolley Car Dashes Down Leonia Hill Near Fort Lee
An open trolley car carrying about 115 passengers ran away from the motorman near Fort Lee New Jersey and sped down Leonia hill. All aboard were bruised with three seriously hurt and one feared dead conductor Frank Sunstruck and two others J E Robinson and his wife of New York City among the injured. The car, starting a quarter mile down a steep incline, could not be stopped and toppled as it rounded a curve injuring many as they were crushed beneath the vehicle.
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New York
Fort Lee
N. J
Leonia Hill
Frank Sunstruck
J. E. Robinson
Education of the Negro in Georgia Support for Industrial Training
Gov. Chandler of Georgia defends industrial education for African Americans arguing northern views on schooling are mistaken and praises Booker T. Washington's work. In separate reports a town in Iowa loses most of its business district to fire,Utica hosts a novelty car tour, and an Oklahoma boiler explosion fatally injures a worker.
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Atlanta
Emigration Push For Assiniboia From Yorkton Letter
An old reader relates a Yorkton letter urging settlement in Assiniboia Western Canada. The writer touts cheap land openings in Saskatchewan and Assiniboia this summer and suggests prospects for wheat, flour, and cattle, inviting readers to contact Government agents for details.
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Yorkton
John
Tick
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Assiniboia
Western Canada
Saskatchewan
Dominion of Canada
Credit replaces pay plan to boost appeal
A manager in the Indianapolis Press reviews an advertising proposal and instructs to replace the word payment with credit to make the plan seem more attractive. The exchange highlights how wording can influence perceived value in advertising campaigns.
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Student of Humanity
Indianapolis Press
South Dakota Farma illustrated by railway to Aberdeen area
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway issues an illustrated booklet South Dakota Farma describing the Aberdeen to Missouri River country now served by a new Bay line. The prospectors and settlers are invited to request a copy by sending a two cent stamp to I. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Aberdeen
Missouri River
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Bay
I. A. Miller
Chicago
Colonial Era Gossip and Public Notices
A fragmentary OCR blends social quips with notices on travel brochures for Spirit and Okoboji Lakes, Iowa, and promotional mailings by G. Farmer Cedar Rapids. It also cites assorted quotes on manners, drinks, and health cures from early 1900 sources.
Periods of Pain and Relief Advertised by Mrs Pinkham
A pair of letters from women in Brooklyn and Lynn Mass report severe menstrual pain and repeated visits to doctors. The writer cites a uterus condition briefly noted as fallen and seeks guidance from Mrs Pinkham. the other asks for advice on frequent menstruation and associated headaches and backache.
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Pincaan
Lydia
Pinkham
Maa
Ya Kuman
Trautman
Lynn
Mass
Lydia EH. Pinkham
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Sharedber
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Fxo
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Dumont
Utica
Robert Shaw
Guthrie
Okla
Riley
Stroud
Oscar McAlley
Solomon Riley
South Dakota
Farma
Shalengton, Cedar Rapide & Northern Railway
Spirit and
Okoboji Lakes
Iowa
Inc
G. Farmer
Pass. Agt
Cedar Rapids
St. Louis Star
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
Philadelphia Bulletin
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Mara
Trautman St
Brooklyn
H. D
N.Y
MaAaaru Potinarp
S&j
Misa Mancain Ponrianod
Indianola
J Pribe
Sterling Remedy CO
Eureka Mfqg. Co, Dept
East St. Louis
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Anakesig
Tribune Building
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Oldar Rapids
Binder
Montton Lowes
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