Peruna Promoted As Cure For Kidney Catarrh Bright's Disease
John Herziger of Neenah Wisconsin writes that after two years of kidney trouble he found relief and cure using Peruna. He says only a few bottles cured his back pain and he can work again. The ad asserts Peruna as a permanent cure in incipient Bright's disease and cites endorsements from J H Bankhead and others including Samuel R Sprecher. It invites readers to write Dr Hartman for free advice.
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John Herziger
Alderman Hergiger
Neenah
Wis
Neenah Young Men’s Club
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Herziger
Commercial Street
Wisconsin
Union
Bright
Bankhead
J. H. Bankhead
Alabama
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
Samuel R. Sprecher
Beadle Court
Angelina No
High St
Los Angeles
Cal
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus, O
Abyssinia Imports and Georgia Labor in Turpentine and Mills
Abyssinia imports files nails pen knives padlocks screws saws for about 3570 dollars annually. Iron pans up to three feet diameter totaled 4000 last year costing 71 cents to 2.14 dollars each. Georgia farmers appeal to black workers to assist turpentine gathering. new cotton mills face labor shortage for operators.
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Abyssinia
Quack Remedies Advertisements Across Early 20th Century
A collage of patent medicine pitches touts Garfield Headache Powders Piso's Cure for Consumption Wall's Catarrh Cure and Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Claims include instant headaches relief cures for coughs and colds teething relief and wind colic with prices noted and testimonials from various locales and dates.
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Winslow
Shayé
Acute Bronchitis Its Causes and Home Treatments
Summary describes bronchitis as inflammation of airway lining with variable severity from mild to fatal, notes age affects danger, lists causes such as catching cold and dust, cites symptoms including cough chest pain and fever, and outlines home remedies like ventilation, water intake, flaxseed tea, and mustard plasters. It also briefly mentions a winter fan invention for heating.
World's Strangest Railways Across Continents Feature Curves
An article surveys unusual railways in India America Switzerland and Ireland. It highlights the Darjeeling Loop at Agony Point as a sharp curve and notes Mt Rigi's three lines to the summit plus a forthcoming Jungfrau line. It cites Cripple Creek's timber trestle and mentions Irish and Natal rickshaw anklets made from moth cocoons as cultural curios.
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India
America
Switzerland
Irelame
Agony Point
Darjeeling
Mt. Rigi
Jungfrau
Cripple Creek
Ireland
Natal
Scientific American
L. O. Howard
United States Department of Agriculture
Claude Fuller
China
New England
Africa
Walter Hough
United States National Museum
Kansas Woman Patents Salt Water Roadbed Weed Killer
Inventor Sarah P. E. Erickson of Kansas receives a patent for a device to spray hot brine on railroad roadbeds. A tank car carries strong salt water heated by locomotive exhaust to destroy grass and weeds and slow tie decay.
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Sarah P. E. Erickson
Kansas
Curious Architectures Show Eccentric Homes
A paper house in Russia cost eighty thousand rubles and was built in New York with all furniture made from the same material. In Ireland a house uses chair shaped windows to echo dining-room chairs. Near Ipswich a landowner plus row of cottages mimics a church viewed from his side, revealing the sham from the opposite angle.
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Sawhouse
New York
County Westmeath
Ireland
Ipswich
Miraculous Claimant Mohamet Halabi Faces Mountain Test
An ambitious Arab from Mecca named Halabi claimed the title of Mohamet and threatened to perform a miracle to prove his predicted Messiaship by persuading Mount Safa to respond. He declared God merciful and warned that only mercy saved the stiff-necked generation.
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Mecca
Halabi
Mohamet
Mohammed
Firework Birds Shaped by Hidden Family Secret
In Nagaecaki Japan a firework maker creates life like pyro tech birds that sail and move as living birds after exploding. The secret to making these marvels has rested with the eldest child of the family for over 400 years.
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Nagaecaki
Japan
Electric Express Line Proposed Paris to Brussels and Antwerp
Under royal patronage a French Belgian syndicate plans an electric express line for passengers and light freight from Paris to Brussels and on to Antwerp. The route would cut Paris Brussels travel to one and a half hours and Brussels Antwerp to ten minutes.
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P -Brugsels Etectric- Express
Belgium
Paris
Brussels
Antwerp
Mind Free in the Aged
In a conversation with a friend Count Tolstoi notes age lifts mind from body. He recalls youth where bodily illness lowered spirits and thinking, while in present illness the mind remains fresh and lucid.
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Count Tolstoi
System of Land Transfers and Rail Bed Proposal
A Minnesota law to implement the Torrens system awaits proper examiners of title. a Canadian Roadmasters' committee recommends long ties bedded in cinders to curb rail creep. the Belgian king favors a briar pipe with English bird's eye tobacco. a girl recalls a memory with a haste that overstates its significance.
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Minnesota
District Court
Canadian Roadmasters’ Association
Canada Farming Prospects Highlighted by Indiana Speaker
Mr. E T Holmes reports from Western Canada praising Alberta Assiniboia and Saskatchewan for rich loamy soil and easy cultivation. He cites favorable finances for 160 acres at $3 to $4 per acre with potential profits, and notes long sunny days, ample grazing, water, and year round stock farming aided by government creamery programs.
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Alberta
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Canada
Indiana
White County
Thomas Daley
Pesosite
Milwaukee hotelkeeper ice water bath becomes farce
A tenement inspector recounts a German Milwaukee hotel incident where a hallboy delivered a tub of water with a large ice chunk instead of ice water. The guest asks for ordinary water and questions whether the boy is drunk. The tale ends with a quip about Earth’s misery.
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Milwaukee
Haus Knech
Hallboy
The Fendered Man and the Art of Bargain Buying
A reflective note on market psychology suggests the more frequently a man is sold, the cheaper he feels. The piece explores how repeated purchasing cheapens perceived value and influences future buying behavior.
Wizard Oil Promise to Relieve Pain and Prevent Sickness
An old advertisement extols Wizard Oil as a remedy that relieves pain and prevents illness when kept at home. It emphasizes constant availability and habitual use as a household aid.
With some women it is find a baby and loose a husband
A compact aphorism notes that in some cases motherhood brings joy while marriage may be strained or ended. The line contrasts the fulfillment of a child with the risk of losing a spouse.
Boston inventor patents all season hot and cold air fan
Gardner C. Hawkins of Boston has patented an electric fan that blows hot air as well as cold making it useful both in winter and summer. The illustration shows the mounting method for the device.
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Gardner C. Hawkins
Boston
Mass
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