Perana touted as cure for stomach catarrh in 19th century ad
Testimony from Rabbi David Kisin of Columbus praises Perana and Maa-nlin as cures for stomach catarrh and dyspepsia. A patient formerly told of narrowing of the stomach outlet rejects surgery and reports full recovery after two bottles of Perana and four of Maa-nlin. Free sample of Summer Catarrh offered by the Pe rane Drug Mfg Co of Columbus.
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Alex
Carter
van Kuren
Carter Oo
Saya
West Baden
Ted
Las Vegas Hot Springe
New Mealon
Sweet Springs
Manitou
Col
Porana
Central Baptist
M’f'g Co
Columbus, O
Hypnotist Fleeces Crowd At Post Office Sale
A large man with a red mustache used hypnotic eye contact to sell cheap electric belts in Clifton West Virginia. He exploited the crowd at the post office distributing evening mail, taking up to $800 from buyers and fleeing town before interference. The scheme centered on eye contact and a monotonous lure to surrender money.
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Dr. Somebody
McRath
Morris McRath
Melrath
Clifton
W. Va
Dispatch
Arnica Salve Promises Skin Cure and Remedies
Bucklen's Arnica Salve is advertised to cure skin eruptions cuts bruises boils ulcers and other conditions. It is sold by Dr. Taylor and Will Johnston has been arrested and jailed after his wife died under suspicious circumstances in Lincolnton.
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Bucklen
Taylor
Will Johnston
White
Lincolnton
Swift
Praise the Lord Congress Adjourned Last Week
Report notes Congress adjourned last week amid a sense of relief as the prolonged session ended. Observers describe the proceedings as chaotic and partisan with little consensus on major policy outcomes.
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Congress
Life’s object is service and self improvem ent
In dialogue the speaker denies selfish desire and says life aims at liberal action and serving others. The world offers opportunity if one fulfills duty, with peace of mind from doing right. A factory owner learns to spot faults and adapt and advertising evolves with better space, design, and staff.
Brooklyn Millionaire Relives Dramatic Rescue at Sea
Hanan of Brooklyn a shoe manufacturer recounts rescuing Captain Gordon his wife and six sailors from the drifting British barque Caspain during a Cuba voyage aboard the yacht Sagamore. Mrs Gordon prays aloud and her child Helen asks Mamma is this God as nine days at sea test faith and endurance.
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John Li
Hanan
Brooklyn
Cuba
Mr Bryan and the People in a New Light
The author argues Mr Bryan has shed his novelty and become a conservative defender of property rights. It discusses shifts in Democratic loyalties since 1896, predicts gains for Bryan in the East, and critiques imperialism and financial interests shaping policy and elections. The piece contrasts past and present party dynamics and warns against syndicate influence and imperial expansion costs.
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Bryan
Columme
Easiuy
le Ie
Epoliation
Conver
McKinley
Democratic Party
Mona Lista
Fhrst
Nto
Pery
Inez
Philippines
Couer d'Alene
Rest is at the End
A reflection on rest after pain and labor, promising heavenly peace and the Father’s watchful care. It quotes Ex Preacher Hodnett criticizing national administration for shying from confrontation with Britain.
August Flower Still Tops Civilized World's Medicine
A vintage ad touts August Flower as the best selling remedy for indigestion biliousness and general malaise. It claims mothers and grandmothers used it to cleanse the system regulate digestion and improve nerve and organ function with a few doses of Green’s August Flower in liquid form. The ad places the product at Weed Drug Mount Airy and extols its benefits for headaches and various aches amid scarce doctors.
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Cireen
The Blistering Shame on Liquor in the Philippines
The New York Observer criticizes the spread of liquor traffic in the Philippines under military rule. It argues alcohol damages the native population, aids American saloonkeepers, and calls for licensing to be controlled or suppressed by military authority.
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New York
Gotham
Fagin, Jr
Washington
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Philippine
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Asheville
Philippine Islands
New York Observer
Mebane Urges Compulsory Education and Local Option
State superintendent A Mebane discusses a Bureau of Labor Statistics report noting 31 states enforce compulsory schooling and illiteracy varies, with Oregon an exception. He supports taxes for education and may favor local option laws that expand over time. Rev George W Harris, a Virginia preacher, died of heart failure in St Stephen s AME Church Philadelphia while serving as pallbearer.
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A. Mebane
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mebane
United States
Oregon
Union
George W. Harris
Virginia
St. Stephen's A. M. E. Church
Philadelphia
Immigrant Steamer’s Maiden Voyage to New York
The Conaird or Ivernia arrived from Liverpool and Queenstown with 800 Irish girls among 1 100 women and children aboard. A death aboard, Katie Boyd from diphtheria, spurred grief as a clergyman conducted the burial at sea. A missing boy Pat Reagan prompted a long search by his mother. Immigrants lined the barge office as relatives awaited word.
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Conacdor Ivernia
New York
Liverpool
Queenstown
New York Journal
Vendar
Warfere
New World
Katie Boyd
Katie Reagan
Pat
Little Pat
New England
West
Kimo Garment Described As Exasperating Yet Noted
An anecdote recounts a Filipino kime or kimo shirt with enormous sleeves reaching the waist, no buttons, and a risky top opening. The narrator, visiting a host’s daughter aged about 15, describes her attempts to play piano while the garment slips, exposing a brown shoulder when arms cross.
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Vatet
Carload of Girl Mormon Brides From the Midwest
A Denver dispatch reports a carload of girls bound for Utah embracing Miss Hodges of Peoria and others from Missouri Iowa and Illinois. Led by a deacon and his wife the brides elect hope to marry wealthy Mormons. If no match appears some vow not to wed. The brides cite rising Mormon emigration from the east as a sign of scarce eligible bachelors.
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Denver
Col
Utah
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Jennie Hodges
Peoria
Shielded by Husband Connally Fields Cleared of Murder
This report recalls the Virginia murder case of Connally Fields once charged with killing his brother in law William A. Scott in Scott County. Fields fled west after media stirred fears of his guilt and later freed by gubernatorial pardon amid a web of family tragedy and a wife’s earlier actions.
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Connally Fields
Virginia
Fields Law
Far West
Scott County
Ile
William A. Scott
Fields
Scott
Mia
Mrs. Fields
Baltimore Sun
Skeptics and the Gospel of Christ
J. R. Lowell argues that skepticism cannot provide moral decency or social security unless it accepts the Christian faith He contends skeptics enjoy privileges from religion they reject and warns against robbing the Obriation of his body and humanity of faith in the Savior.
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Harman Society
J. R. Lowell
Blood Balm promises cure for rheumatism and catarrh
An advertisement asserts Botanic Blood Balm cures deep seated rheumatism and catarrh by destroying the blood poison. It claims prior doctors and treatments fail, offers BBB for $1 per large bottle, six bottles for fall treatment, and a free trial bottle by mail from Blood Balm Co Atlanta Ga.
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W. West
Mount Airy
Atlanta
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