California Fig Syrup Baby Remedy Ad
A vintage advertising blurb touts California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children despite illness and fever. It warns mothers to request genuine California Fig Syrup with bottle directions and to avoid imitation products.
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Women in Hall of Fame names and dates
The women of the Hall of Fame include Mary Lyon Emma Willard Maria Mitchell Harriet Beecher Stowe Frances Willard Charlotte Cushman and Alice Freeman Palmer chosen in 1905 1910 1915 and 1920. Four are teachers two reformers and one actress in a historic roster. Cuticura advertisement urges use of Soap Ointment and Talcum for toilet purposes.
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Hall of Fame
Mary Lyon
Emma Willard
Maria Mitchell
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frances J. Willard
Charlotte Cushman
Alice Freeman Palmer
Palmer
New Organ Idea Lets MU Prof Meyer Play 24-Tone Music
University of Missouri organ inventor Prof Max Meyer unveils a keyboard with detached key tips enabling music on a twenty four tone scale. The instrument yields a note halfway between adjacent tones when pressed, offering new tonal possibilities for composers and performers.
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Max Meyer
University of Missouri
Tanlac Promises New Life for the Elderly
Advertises Tanlac as a natural tonic from roots and herbs that cleanses the blood stirs the liver and improves digestion. Claims help for elderly readers with weak bodies lack of appetite insomnia and low energy. Encourages Tanlac Vegetable Pills for constipation.
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Taniac
The Wife Ship Woman Chapter Ends In Night Chase
Francois Narbonne helps escort a frightened mademoiselle downriver seeking a hidden land Claim. A hostile canoe attack by Choctaws leads to a desperate fight as the party battles to survive and press toward Point Coupee before daylight.
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Pardieu
Francois Narbonne
Rat
Narbonne
Point Coupee
Mademoiselle
Malre
St. Augustine
Damoan
Six Fingers
The Fight at the Bayou Chapter IX
The narrator and companions push ahead along a bayou while dodging Damian the Fox and his Choctaw pursuers. A Natchez hunter is killed by a human foe and the group plans a quick camp before slipping toward a cut-off to escape through the riverbank shadows. Damian signals the chase as the party nears a swampy dawn exit.
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Damian the Fox
Damian
Narbonne
Natchez
Monsieur
Spaniard credited for creation of the frankfurter hot dog
Collier's Magazine notes the hot dog originated in Bologna with a butcher who mixed bull and pork sausage. Germans adopted the recipe, naming it frankfurter in Frankfurt and weenie in Vienna, while Coney Island popularized the term hot dog. A famed stand reportedly sells five to ten tons daily in peak season.
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Spain
Frankfort
Vienna
Coney Island
Colliers’ Magazine
Sugar from dahlia and artichoke to boost sugar industry
Scientific forecasts indicate beet sugar plants idle most of the year will switch to artichoke and dahlia tubers producing levulose sugar. The plan envisions four months on artichoke then four months on dahlia, with crystallization problems nearing solution. Also notes that two mammals lay eggs: platypus and anteater.
Portraits in Parliament A Cartoonist’s Field Notes
British public figures are described with distinct features fitting cartoonist tropes. The piece lists Stanley Baldwin Lloyd George Birkenhead Chamberlain Mond Cecil Churchill MacDonald and Balfour with recognizable traits and styles.
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Stanley Baldwin
Lloyd George
Lord Birkenhead
Austen Chamberlain
Sir Alfred Mond
Viscount Cecil
Winston Churchill
Ramsey MacDonald
Lord Balfour
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