Billy Sunday the ball player turned evangelist profits
Billy Sunday, former right fielder with Captain Anson's White Stockings, says his gospel work across the Midwest brought about $12,000 in the past year. He notes shifts from a $3,000 baseball salary to itinerant evangelism, stressing converts over money.
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Billy Sunday
Anson
White Stockings
Middle West
Mr. Sunday
Sunday
Belvidere
Illinois
Farmington
Wheaton
Chicago
Mr. Moody
Iowa
Moody
Young Men's Christian Association
Northwestern University
Chicago Golf Club
A Cure for Summer Complaint in Children
A Lansing Iowa Journal note purports that a well developed family case was cured last week by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The piece urges households to keep a bottle on hand in summer and says the drug is widely available through druggists.
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Chamberlain
Lansing
Iowa
Journal
Let Me Pray First Sweet Girl Refuses for Prayer Before Eye Operation
A sharp eyed girl, walking with a family, is struck in the eye by a stone from idle boys. Held in pain, she asks to kneel on her father's lap to pray to Jesus first before a painful operation. She kneels, prays briefly, then endures the procedure with patient courage.
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Jesus
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets
Advertising blurb touts Cascarets candy cathartic as a cure for constipation with a money back guarantee if it fails. It promises relief and lists price points of 10 and 25 cents. The copy emphasizes product effectiveness and retailer reimbursement.
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C.C.C
Fire Ladies and a Cure for Female Weakness
A health advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for inflammation and ulcers in women. It cites Ada Brooks of Kirbyville Missouri who says eight bottles of Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery restored her strength after four years of ulceration and prolapse, enabling her to resume housework.
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Ada Brooks
Kirbyville, Taney Co
Missouri
Muscatine Street and Alley Improvements Planned District 20
City of Muscatine schedules extensive paving in Improvement District No. 20 with vitrified brick on Fourth Third Sixth Oak and Spring streets. Curbs of Ohio sandstone, sand filler, and bonds to fund via special tax to abutting properties. work to begin by Sep 1 1902 and finish by Nov 1 1902.
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City of
Muscatine
City Council of
City of Muscatine
City Recorder
Fourth Street
Pine Street
Reservoir Park
Ohio
Cherry Street
Ash Street
Sixth Street
Iowa Avenue
Sycamore Street
Oak Street
Fifth Street
Spring Street
Muscatine City Plans Street Improvements Bid Notice
City resolution outlines street work cost limits and cash payments for intersections. It directs the city engineer to advertise for bids by August 14, 1902, with bids due 7:30 p.m. Prospective bidders must follow plans on file and submit a $500 certified check. If the bidder defaults, the check is forfeited. Adopted July 24, 1992. R S McNutt mayor. Attest Bert C Benham city recorder. The Journal 10 cents a week.
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City of Muscatine
City Recorder of
City Recorder
Muscatine
R. S. McNutt
Wapello Court News Bright News From Wapello Ia
John Wright welcomes a new baby at his home Friday morning. Mr Burg of Muscatine will replace O Donnell at the M N S depot in August as O Donnell moves to New Mexico for his wife s health. L A Gipple seeks license to sell liquor at Lettsville as a pharmacist with certificate 4745. John S Curran sues Modern Accident club for 80 dollars claiming disability from a December injury while a member since July 7 1909. Clerk Hicklin issues a marriage license to John Milbourne and Belle Mansie of Wapello. marriage planned for the evening.
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Wapello
John Wright
Mr. Burg
Muscatine
T. J. O'Donnell
O'Donnell
New Mexico
O’donnell
L. A. Gipple
Lettsville
Gipple
John 8. Curran
Modern Accident Club
Iowa
Hicklin
John Milbourne
Belle Mansie
Weather Forecaster’s Vengeful Heat Dream Rant
A Baltimore News humor item lampoons a weather forecaster who critiqued warm and wet forecasts. The speaker fantasizes severe retribution for the eternal predicting hands that mock winter and scorch summers. The piece ends with a quip about Providence and poetic justice.
Mothers Know Best Birth Remedy Ad Claim
An old advertisement touts a plant based remedy named Mothers Friend from The Bradfield Regulator Co. It warns against narcotics in other medicines and promotes Mother's Friend as a safe aid during pregnancy and childbirth. A free book titled Motherhood is offered with purchase or request.
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Bradfield Regulator Co
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Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Brooklyn Heagle
David Kennedy Corporation
N. Y
David Kennedy
Bert C. Benham
the Journal
Wapello Court
Louisa
Cascarets Candy Cathartic
Weather Bureau
Providence
Baltimore News
DeWarr& Co
Coady & Mowegan and
Havercamp's
Prescription Drug Store
California
Via
Great Rock Island
Jno
G. Farmer
G. P
T. A
Cedar Rapids
CAL & Pay
Bakers Monaca
Peoples Coffee
C. B. Fuller
Yellowstone Park
Burlington’ Huts
Omaha
J. Francis
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