Mrs Belva Lockwood Pioneer Lawyer Nominated Leader
Mrs Belva Lockwood of Washington D C is described as the only woman to have run for the U S presidency and as the best known woman in America. The text notes her pioneering legal career and influence as a famous public figure in a letter to The Peruna Medicine Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belva Lockwood
Washington, D. C
United States
America
Peruna Medicine Company
Hannah J. Bennett
Belva A. Lockwood
Ward Claims First Movable Type Discovery
An article in a monthly magazine credits Korea with creating the first metal movable type. It explains the bronze form used a cylindrical concavity to grip beeswax backing, allowing about 1,500 impressions per day through a wax bed, ink brush application, and careful paper transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Op Corea
Japan
Corea
Two Officers Stung by Mockery in Valencia Street Car
In a Valencia street car a small man in a gray coat and a tall companion mocked military officers from the Philippines era. The pair singled out Funston and dismissed officers as pretentious, before leaving at the next corner.
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Valencia
Philippines
Funston
San Francisco News Letter
The Craving for Stimulants Ad Endsorsement
The ad notes rising use of stimulants and links it to exhausted nerves and blood. It claims Healthier digestion and strength via Hostetters Stomach Bitters. It promises cures for dyspepsia constipation and nervousness and urges readers to use the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hosteeter
Trains Carry Tourists to Florida by Louisville and Nashville Lines
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers extensive tourist and traveler services to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau with doubles daily sleeping car services from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St Louis via Jacksonville to interior Florida destinations and to Miami Tampa and New Orleans. The railroad markets its ease of access to Gulf ports for foreign travel.
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Florida
West Indies
Central America
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cuba
Porto Rico
Nassau
Cincinnati
Louisville
Chicago
St. Louis
Jacksonville
Miami
Tampa
New Orleans
J. H. Milliken
Lydia E Plakkam's Ve Cures a Million Women
A claim states Lydia E Plakkam's Ve has cured a million sick women with a section of relief touching nearly every neighborhood and family. The text suggests widespread use and relief from pain.
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Lydia E. Plakkam
States Adopted Floral Emblems by Legislature or Vote
The article lists states and territories that have adopted floral emblems. It includes Delaware peach blossom, Iowa wild rose, Maine pine cone and tassel, Michigan apple blossom, Montana bitterroot, Nebraska goldenrod, Oregon Oregon grape, Vermont red clover, Oklahoma mistletoe, California California poppy, Idaho syringa, Kansas sunflower, Minnesota moccasin flower, Nevada sagebrush, Utah sego lily, Washington rhododendron, and Georgia Cherokee rose noted as distinctive without formal action yet.
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Delaware
Trowa
Maine
Michigan
Montana
Nebraska
Oregon
Vermont
Territory of
Oklahoma
California
Idaho
Kansas
Minnesota
Nevada
Utah
Washington
Georgia
Ladies’ Home Journal
Ely's Cream Balm Promises Cure for Catarrh
Chronic nasal catarrh poisons every breath but Ely's Cream Balm offers relief. A nasal application soothes inflamed surfaces and heals, avoiding drying inhalants that worsen the condition. Available from druggists or mail order from Ely Brothers at 66 Warren St New York for 50 cents.
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Ely
Bruggists
Ely Brothers
Warren St
N.Y
Condor Portraits From Peru Describe Birds and Parasites
Peruvian condors are depicted as sober birds with black coats white collars and a shaven crown female condors lack collar white on wings. The birds appear unattractive up close but soar with twenty foot wingspans and hover for hours against the sky, a grand sight in flight.
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Peru
No Variety Patron in Cheap Restaurant
A reader quote from the Baltimore American recalls a diner complaining the steak is tough while addressing a waiter. The spoof exchange notes a monotone job and references a prior identical remark. The text adds a line about no duty on sugar or its products in the United Kingdom.
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Walter
Baltimore American
The
United Kingdom
Yorkshire Leads in England Railway Mileage
Yorkshire is the county in England with the greatest railway mileage. Lancashire follows. For asthma relief nothing better than Cl mona.
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Yorkshire
England
Lancashire
Cough Remedies and Quick Cures Spars in Ad Sprawl
A collage of old notices touts Kemp's Balsam to stop coughing with free samples and limited bottles, Piso's Cure for consumption claims, Cimona Medicine Company in Indianapolis promotes a cough remedy, and ad lore cites weather and city facts from London to Galilee.
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Ayer
CuHas
E. Hartman
Gibbstown
N. Y
What Do the Caltbres Drink
The readable fragments pose a curious question about drink choices and nourishment, citing unclear references to ten oF eolies and a Tad Nourishe. The text remains fragmented, offering limited concrete names or events for fuller reportage.
Germicidal Remedies Promoted by Indianapolis Institute
A long promotional piece extols germicidal cures for chronic and blood diseases. It highlights Professor J. T. Boyd and the Germicidal Remedy Institute in Indianapolis, touting Calcarea Silicata and other remedies for consumption, diphtheria, syphilis, and female ailments. The ad invites patients to write for remedies and promises prepaid pricing and confidential service.
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Central West
Indianapolis
Ind
J. T. Boyd
Boyd
Indianapolis Institute
Delaware Street
Beecher Ingersoll Globe Tale Sparks Pulpit Pointing Tale
The Rev Dr Parkhurst tells a pointed story about contacting the universe and the Maker. In a Beecher study Robert Ingersoll asks who made a globe and Beecher replies that nobody made it, prompting reflections on creation.
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Parkhurst
Robert Ingersoll
Mr. Beecher
Mr. Tagenoe
Mr. Beech- Sestes Tranipt
The Clerk Remembered
A Cleveland shopper sought Kipling for a Christmas gift at a leading book store. After a feigned forgetfulness, the clerk confirms the customer wants Kipling’s Bar-Room Ballads, a poetry collection.
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Cleveland
Kipling
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments
Advises against mercury containing catarrh ointments and warns of mucous-system harm. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a safe internal remedy. Mentions testimonials and price 75 cents. Recommends Hall's Family Pills as best.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Ee
Hindoo Confectionery Traditions and Sweets
The article describes Hindoo candy making with sadais a sugar milk sweet flavored with rose, and bud dhikabal a vermicelli like string sweet from buffalo milk. It notes women pass time eating candy and gossiping, reflecting cultural habits.
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Buddha
Hunter's Paradise across three states offers abundant game
The notice highlights Missouri Arkansas and Louisiana as ideal for big game hunting with deer bear turkey and quail reported in unusually plentiful supply this season. It advertises reduced rates and a game laws pamphlet and map available from G A A Deane Jr traveling agent Iron Mountain Route 231 McCrea Street Indianapolis. The London churches plan a soldiers' Sunday.
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Hunter's Paradise
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Rocky Mountains
G. A. A. Deane, Jr
Iron Mountain
McCrea Street
Indianapolis
Million Dollar Potato and Bromus Seed Ad Sparks Growth Promise
An early 20th century seed company notice touts Bromus inermis as a 6 ton hay source and claims Victoria Rape at 25 cents per ton. It markets Salzer's Bromus seed, saleroom offers a 10 cent seed sample and catalog from John A Salter Seed Co in La Crosse Wisconsin amid a Venice canal scene with naphtha launches.
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Salzer
Victoria
America
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Manitoba Farmland Offer Shares Experience of Minnesota Farmer
Jacob Beichert describes first year farming in Manitoba near Virden Manitoba. He and his family homesteaded 75 acres, sowed 100 acres of wheat, 50 acres of oats and barley, harvesting 2700 bushels with high yields on sod and sodless land. He praises land quality, water depth, price of $3.50 per acre through the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. and market access at Virden and Hargrave. Nervousness phrase appears at end with note on lunacy.
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Virden
Man
Clifford Sifton
Ottawa
Canada
Manitoba
United States
Northwest
W. F. McCreary
Winnipeg
McC
Lyon County
Minnesota
Hargrave
Canadian Pacific Railway Co
Jacob Beichert
Nation Moved by Hero Worship and Fundraising
The Detroit Journal notes the public outpouring as citizens applaud a hero figure. Funds raised include 13.63 toward a 500000 house and 21.17 for a 2000000 arch in his honor, reflecting deep national sentiment.
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The
Republic
Detroit Journal
Grain O Drink Promoted For All Ages
Try Grain O ask your grocer to show you peonsee of Grain O the new drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as adults. Grain O has the rich color of mocha or java but is made from pure grains and is easy on the stomach. Priced 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers.
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Java
Return of the Horse in Chicago Tribune Feature
The Chicago Tribune ran a two picture feature headlined The Return of the Horse showing a park scene a year ago with hundreds of women present. The second image details remain unread but continues the urban scene and era depiction.
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The
Chicago. ‘Tribune
Chicago
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aTees
Miedtreit
Wien
Speltz
Humanitarien Home and Sanitarium
Alampo
Addreen J. H. Testlebatm
East Las Vegas
New Mexico
Lane
London
Dublin
E. W. Grove
BOS
Cee
Sterling Remedy Company
New York
Ander
Condor
Russia
Cimona Medicine Company
North
New Jersey Street
Sea of Galilee
Mediterranean
Chicago News
Beecher and Ingersoll
Venice
Iota Farmer
Quenza
F. Pedley
C. J. Brouchton
Onadnock Brig
M. V. Mcinnes
Merrill Block
Detroit
Mich
D. Caven
Bad Axe
James Grieve
Reed City
Government of Canada
St. Helena
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