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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
8
Mrs E Hanson of Columbus Ohio writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her through the Change of Life. She reports relief from nervousness headaches and other symptoms and says she can again do her own work. She urges friends to try the product.
Classic 19th century remedy advertisement for Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Claims long standing use for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and nervous prostration. Encourages letters to Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
Two prospectors in Alaska travel down the Kuskokwim with dogs and scarce provisions after a failed gold search. One man is wounded when a partner shoots him in the leg. survivors are helped by nearby prospectors and then by a steamer bound for aid. They reach a hospital with the injured man near death from blood poisoning, treated by missionaries and later aided by donations from Christian Herald readers.
The United States now tops Britain in coal output, surpassing Great Britain eight years after the shift. English mines are no longer fierce competitors in this key energy industry.
Anabel Wilson of North Branch Michigan recalls a childhood eczema ordeal lasting about three months. After consulting a physician she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and was entirely cured with no recurrence since. She cites the products as the final remedy. Oct 20 1907.
China's first forestry school will soon be opened at Mukden. The Chinese empire is often cited as a leading example of widespread forest destruction among modern nations.
A telegraph assistant named W Brendish died in Calcutta and is remembered for sending a crucial despatch from Delhi to Umballa in May 1857. Despite danger and with shot whistling around him he stayed to transmit news of the uprising, a deed praised for saving the Punjab and earned him a life pension.
A Birmingham hospital case describes a music teacher who walks in her sleep, becomes a confirmed somnambulist, and performs complex tasks in darkness such as reading writing and playing piano. Observed under study by psychologists, she recalls nothing when awake and shows no light dependency in her vision. Her case challenges materialist theories of personality.
A defeated Paris suffragette notes her campaign a success as she reports numerous marriage offers, reflecting the broad public attention she drew and the enduring support she earned.
The Philadelphia Press notes west coast Africa uses banana skin ash mixed with water and palm oil to make cleansers in demand by whites and natives. It highlights Americans’ wasteful habits and cites shoedusts repurposed into combs and buttons, plus Norway’s seaweed ash for iodine production.
A compact collection of aphorisms on love, marriage, knowledge, and human behavior. The quips contrast expectations with reality, noting vanity, satire of society girls, and the limits of belief. Cited as from the New York Times.
Col Brownson aged eighty four rides home when a neighbor claims to be proving up his title The conversation ends with Brownson insisting he won his land in the Mexican War The tale rests as a humorous anecdote from Youths Companion with no land transfer recorded
T J Wyche division engineer of the Western Pacific Railway announces a rapid power aided method to move rails. Rails are lifted from the yard pile and landed on a flatcar seven to eight at a time using a locomotive derrick or Big City type crane. The device also unloads rails from car to pile with equal facility.
A young man in Portland, Maine, faced a comic street encounter with a stranger as they dodged and side stepped for nearly half a minute. The odd exchange ended when the woman pressed for a choice between a waltz or a two step, turning a near collision into a humorous moment described in Women's Home Companion.
The throne orders a comprehensive history of the Kuang Hsu reign detailing government affairs of the dynasty. A genealogical record of the Manchu clan from 1644 to 1907 was prepared by two imperial commissioners with 123 literary officials praised for merit. The work spans 221100 pages in 647 volumes and took seven months to prepare.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt argues that widespread belief in material necessity drove panic last October. It contrasts frugal workers and overextended earners, noting how even a rich New Yorker who retired on the Stock Exchange relied on others during hard times.
The Munich Jugend lists five signs to judge a painter’s school. Classicists have gray skies and black grass. Realists have blue skies and green grass. Impressionists show green skies and blue grass. Colorists use yellow skies and purple grass. A bold decorative talent is seen with black skies and red grass.
Belgian engineer M. Tournay has been commissioned by the Brussels 1910 international exhibition committee to build a tower at Ixelles surpassing the Eiffel Tower. Estimated cost is 240000 dollars.
In a poultry business testimonial J A Dinwiddie of New Market Tennessee praises 20 Mule Team Borax soap for washing white chicks noting birds come out exceptionally clean. The ad offers 44, 1 and 5 lb cartons with a sample booklet for six cents from Pacific Coast Borax Co New York.
A mill in Great Barrington Massachusetts halted operations when water bugs crowded the engine stop push button causing a short circuit and stoppage.
Ldica can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease powder. It relieves tight swollen burning feet and cures ingrown nails corns and bunions. Available at all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. No substitutes. Trial package free by mail address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
The total value of telegraph and telephone line poles used in this country during 1906 amounted to 9 471 171 dollars.
Mrs. Frank Stroebe of Apples ton Wisconsin reports a remarkable recovery after using Peruna for several months. She describes initial fatigue nervousness and loss of appetite and notes that Peruna restored strength improved sleep and outlook. She calls Peruna without rival as a tonic and strength builder.
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