Evangelists Lead Chicago Crusade to Drive Devil From City
A large evangelistic campaign led by Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey and backed by the Layman's Evangelistic Council aims to cleanse Chicago of sin. The effort features a 12,500-seat Gospel tent and reports global revival success including thousands converted in England and elsewhere.
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Chicago
Christ
R.A. Torrey
Sin
Layman’s. Evangelistic Council
Chris Hautty
Satan
Dwight L. Moody
Torrey
Hoboken
N. Y
Brooklyn
New York
Lfe
Yale
Berlin
Leipsic
America
Moody
Torrey and
Alexander
England
Liverpool
London
Royal Albert Hall
Birmingham
Count Wiebohn
Count Bernsdorf
Dr. Torrey
Buffalo
Berry
Methodist Episcopal Church
Moody Institute
San Francisco
Orient
Japan
India
New Shades of Colors Rule London Fashion Seasons
Chambers' Journal notes color fashions driven by colorists who roam gardens and moors to find tints like Dorothy Perkins and bee's wing. A color such as Mignonette green or sea holly blees is then chemically reproduced, tested, and sold to influence the London season.
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Chambers
Nature
London
Dorothy Perkins
Simple kidney cure claim from early 1900s newspaper ad
An 1906 Scranton Times prescription promotes a home remedy for kidney and bladder issues. The formula blends Fluid Extract Dandelion Compounded Kargdn and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, to be taken after meals and at night, advertised as cleansing and strengthening inactive kidneys and preventing Bright's disease.
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Bright
Spain
Scranton
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Lydia E. Pinkham
Kate A. Hearn
West 47Th Rect
Pinkham
Lydia BE
Lydia E
Temperance Champion of Oil City Police Force
The Oil City Blizzard profiles Major Franklin a police officer noted as a lifelong teetotaler. Born into slavery, he has never consumed tea coffee soup milk or any alcohol since childhood and has kept this promise as part of his personal creed.
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Oil City
Major Franklin
Browning at a Dinner With Noted Poets
The narrator details Robert Browning at a dinner in a grand English house. A duchess, connected to high aristocracy, engages him kindly and asks if he is a poet. Browning modestly replies that others sometimes call him a poet, acknowledging Byron and Tennyson as poets.
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Robert Browning
Browning
Byron and Tennyson
Trio on Fast Trains Sparks International Banter
An Englishman Irishman and a Scot argue over fastest trains. The Englishman likens telegraph poles to a hedge, the Scot recalls milestones like tombstones, and Pat jokes about passing fields and a pond as the train seems a broth.
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Pat
First Time Waffles Please Plain Folks Flavor
Mr Hobart enjoys waffles and requests plain presentation after two servings. He explains from Pokeville that they favor good food over style, and asks the cook to skip fancy printing on the cakes. The anecdote highlights simple tastes shaping dining requests.
Postum Cited As Best Friend Over Coffee In Testimony
A Wisconsin woman details heart palpitations and nerves from coffee and credits Postum Food Coffee with improvement. She states weight gain, stronger health, and ability to climb stairs without discomfort after a year, praising Postum and mentioning family use and endorsement from Postum Co. Read The Road to Wellville and There’s a Reason.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Dean's Kidney Pills Credited With Curing Back Pain
Mrs. Mary Crumlish of Wilmington Delaware says a piercing back pain and dizzy spells vanished after using Dean's Kidney Pills four years ago. She reports sustained health since and notes the product is sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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Mary Crumlish
West Third Street
Wilmington
Del
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Music loving lodger finds rooms with a musical family
A gentleman seeking rooms in a music fond private family receives a humorous reply listing each member’s instrument from parlor organ to harmonica and clarifying no extra charge for music. The correspondence ends with a playful offer to provide music and lodging together.
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Lippincott’s
Family’s Skin Trouble Solved by Cuticura Remedies
Letters from H B Springmire of Iowa City Iowa dated July 16 1905 and Sept 16 1906 report eczema relief after using Cuticura Remedies for his wife and improved hair growth for himself with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. They also note their baby benefited from bathing with Cuticura Soap and ointment to treat heat and skin issues. The testimonial emphasizes rapid drying of heat and overall hair and skin improvements.
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H. B. Springmire
Capital Street
Iowa City
Wedding vows and washerwoman wit in a humorous exchange
A quip about a recent Oklahoma wedding where the groom promised to obey prompts laughs at traditional vows. The friend doubts the marriage, insinuating many vows are impractical. A Chicago Daily News caption and a product plug for Defiance Starch follow, praising laundry starch for stiffening textiles without thickening.
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Oklahoma
Ike
Chicago Daily News
Gotrox Intentions Questioned by Anxious Mother
A concerned mother questions whether young Gotrox intends to marry. The daughter believes seriousness exists, noting the son laughed loudly at what was claimed as a joke by the father.
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Gotrox
Papa
Catarrh Cure Reward Ad Promises Cure and Testimonials
An 1890s style advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure he cannot achieve with Lllas Catarrh Cure. It lists Cheney Co of Toledo and Marvin Walden Kinman as endorsers and claims Trall's Catarrh Cure works internally on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials are promised, price per bottle is 73 cents, and Wake Hall's family pills are promoted for constipation.
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Cheney & CO
Toledo
J. Chenay
WalDing, Kinnan & Marvin
Wake Hall
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
E. Sutton
W.l.douglas
Danie
Fem
Orb
Paxton CO
Boston
Old School Friend Makes Fortune Reveals Wealth
A couple discuss a former school friend who has recently become wealthy. The wife anticipates and urges the husband to acknowledge the possible marriage ahead, reflecting social attitudes toward luck and success.
Wild Bogobos of the Philippines A Poetic Tribe
In the Philippines the Bogobos are described as the most picturesque people with lore of poets as ancestors. A Chicago University woman, Miss Benedict, is studying them at Santa Cruz in the Davao district. Their bena work resembles American Indian labor, with little likeness elsewhere.
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Philippines
Tropics
Santa Cruz
Davao District
Miss Benedict
Chicago University
I Did Not Fear Death Aged Woman Praises Liniment
An elderly correspondent from Rutherford College North Carolina writes of Sloan's Liniment and other remedies. He claims an eight year medical career proves the ointment superior and cites a mason with arm paralysis who recovered after using it. He asserts helping sales and urges wider use.
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Lndy
Sloan
James Fp, Abernethy
Rutherford College
N. C
Defiance Starch prompts stiff collars for lectures
A statesman remarks on awaiting Congress while noting Defiance Starch products help keep collars stiff. Directions printed on each package promise de laired stiffness with no gloss, 16 oz for 10c, sold by grocers.
Caesar's Dagger Remark Amid Backhanded Farewell
The fragment recalls Caesar's startled exclamation Oh as Brutus strikes. A stray line notes a price for cigars at Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois and a comment on philosophy needing nourishment.
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