Cure all women’s ailments with Favorite Prescription claims
An article extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Unicorn root Helenias Dioiea as uterine tonics. It quotes physicians praising Helenias and Golden Seal root for uterine disorders, hemorrhage, and debility, linking them to the remedy’s curative claims.
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Pierce
John Fyfe
The
EcLectic Medical Review
Helenias
Fyfe
Finley Ellingwood
Bennett Medical College
Chicago
John M. Scudder
Cincinnati
R.arvholow
Jefferson Medical College
Composition of Alloys Reveals Japanese Brass Virtues
The Philadelphia Record notes Japanese craft in decorative metals and reveals alloy recipes. Sinchu brass is 10 parts copper to 5 zinc, while Shadko alloy mixes gold with copper with gold comprising 1 to 10 percent of the total mass, yielding vivid hues after acid treatment.
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Philadelphia
Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer advertised cure claim
An advertisement by Dr. H. R. Wine of Philadelphia promotes Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer as a permanent cure for nervous diseases including St Vitus' Dance. It offers a £2 trial bottle and free treatise from 931 Arch St, Philadelphia.
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St. Vitus
Kline
H. R. Wine
Arch St
Phila
Global Trade Share Reveals Industrial Consumption
England, France, and Germany each consume about eighty percent of their home produced goods while the United States exports only around five percent of its manufactured products abroad. The datum highlights divergent domestic markets and trade patterns among leading powers.
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England
France
Germany
United States
Purity Message for White Lead Paint by Dutch Boy Brand
The notice promotes Pure White Lead as a durable paint and warns against adulteration. It urges buyers to ensure every keg bears the Dutch Boy trademark and to seek the Old Dutch Process, with listing of major cities and manufacturers John T. Lewis & Bros Co and Pittsburgh National Lead & Oil Co for access.
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New York
Boston
Buffalo
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelhia
John T. Lewis & Bros. Co
Pittsburgh National Lead & Oil Co
Italy’s Bold Explorer Don Livio Caetani Returns News
A Philadelphia Record item describes Don Livio Caetani, an Italian aristocrat explorer long missing in Somaliland and Abyssinia. He traveled through Bako and Omo valley, reached Adis Abeba, and neared Lake Rudolf before a 48 mile mountain barrier blocked access. Natives showed him friendly reception along the way.
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Italy
Livio Caetani
Somaliland
Abyssinia
Bako
Omo Valley
Caffa
Gemma
Adis Abeba
Rudolf
Philadelphia Record
Home Week in Boston Celebrates Commonwealth History
Boston prepares a grand home-coming week from July 28 to August 3 with midsummer reunions and public festivities. Thousands from across the country expected, drawn by fond ties to Boston and Massachusetts achievements, matching other states’ celebrated home-comings.
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Boston
New England
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kentucky
Louisville
Georgia
America
Wants Nurses in Navy Plan by Surgeon General Rixey
Surgeon General Rixey plans to ask Congress next session to create a corps of trained nurses for the Navy. He notes the fleet has no nurse other than hospital stewards and apprentices. He cites epidemics and serious injuries where current staffing fails to provide proper nursing care aboard ships.
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Navy
Rixey
Congress
Naval Service
Connecticut
Army
Ice Shaped Like Spikes Causes Floods on St Lawrence
French Canadian frazil ice forms spiky needles in rapid currents and at waterfall bases. Under cold winds these needles fill channels, travel beneath surface ice, and accumulate to dam rivers depths up to 80 feet.
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St. Lawrence River
Island Red With Lobsters
An admiral recounts a voyage claiming a Pacific island was red with lobsters. A guest notes lobsters turn red only after boiling. The admiral answers the island boasted boiling springs, sustaining his tale.
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Pacific
Postum Transforms Nervous Teacher Through Coffee Alternative
A teacher recounts a year of health recovery after switching from regular coffee to Postum Food Coffee. She credits the drink with reducing nervousness, enabling easier classroom work, and praising Postum as safer for children and adults.
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Wellville
Father of Physiological Teaching Revered Cambridge Mentor
The obituary recounts Sir Michael Foster as the driver of a Cambridge physiological revolution. He started with a small room at Trinity and built a school of biology, inspiring practical lab work and a new generation of teachers under Balfour, Langley, Vines, Lea, and others. His influence spread to America and Germany, where laboratory training became standard and physiology rose to prominence.
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Michael Foster
University of Cambridge
Biological School
Cambridge
Foster
George Murray Humphrey
Trinity College
Waxley
Philosophical Library
Coutts Trotter
Henry Sidgwick
J. W. Clark
IF. M. Balfour
Balfour
Vines
F. Darwin
Langley
Lea
British Empire
England
America
Newall Martin
Germany
Words of Wisdom Reflections on Relationships and Habits
A collection of wry observations about men and women, work, and vanity from Pointed Paragraphs in the Chicago News. The quips critique pride, marriage, money, talent, and social expectations with irony.
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Alonzo
Chicago News
Largest Locomotive Built in Pittsburg For Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburg completed the largest and heaviest locomotive, weighing 204 tons with tenders. After construction it was sent back to Manchester to adjust its whistle for clearance under ordinary bridges. Officially numbered 7067, the giant is slated for a passenger run on Pennsylvania lines west.
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Pittsburg
Manchester
Lower
Allegheny
Pennsylvania Lines
Special Trains For National Education and Christian Endeavor Conventions
Personally conducted special trains via the Chicago Union Pacific North-Western Line leave early in July for the Pacific Coast. Special all expense tours at very low round trip rates include sleeping car accommodations meals and more. Write for itineraries and full particulars. S A Hutchison Manager Tourist Department 212 Clark Street Chicago.
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Chicago
Union Pacific & North-Western
Pacific Coast
S. A. Hutchison
Clark Street
German Military Training as National Character
The African Monthly notes that Germany uses thrift intelligence and prosperity to train youth in arms. It claims military training fosters discipline and personal cleanliness that permeates all classes and endures into adult life. It adds that German women reproach men who lack training.
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Germany
African Monthly
A Wonderful Gain From Kidney Pills Told by Pioneer Browning
J W Browning of Ogden Utah a Plains pioneer born 1848 says after diabetes and kidney failure he used Deans Kidney Pills for a year keeping him well at 75 He credits the remedy with relief sold by all dealers 650 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Progress of Medicine notes strides in maternal mortality and disease prevention in the 19th century including reduced smallpox and yellow fever occurrences and longer life expectancy in Chicago over 35 years.
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J. W. Browning
Ogden
Utah
Plains
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
John S. Billings
United States Army
New York City
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Philadelphia Record
General remark on Yale yell and Liaoyang bravery
The Yale yell is cited by an aide after a student asks what the general said. The aide reports that the soldiers would have scared Russians beyond rifle range at Liaoyang if equipped with that yell.
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Kuroki
Yale
Liaoyang
Philadelphia Ledger
Cure for skin sores after measles with Cutiura Remedies
Mrs Henry Porter of Albion Nebraska reports that after measles she suffered scalp and neck sores the size of pennies for six months. She used doctor remedies without relief, then tried Cutiura Remedies. Within a week improvements appeared and in three weeks the condition was completely healed with no relapse in seven years.
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Henry Porter
Albion, Neb
England's Anti-Tipping Law Enforced in First Case
The new anti bribery act aims to curb tips given to an employee to sway actions. In Manchester a clothier's clerk bribed a carter with a shilling and later money, claimed common practice. The court fined £1 plus costs, noting the law targets tipping in any employment context though restaurant applicability remains undecided.
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England
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railroad Co
Manchester
Aittle
Balloons Targeted in Berlin Baghdad Flight Experiments
Berlin reports that Herr Martin's Berlin Baghdad work spurs experiments near Dantzig to shoot at balloons and airships in midair. They will use 100 cubic meter balloons fired on by heavy guns and small arms. Balloons will be towed 3 000 feet to test ranges from three to nine miles under observation of staff officers and ballooning units.
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Herr Martin
Berlin-Baghdad
Berlin
London Express
Dantzig
General Staff
Phonograph as Witness Trumps Court Noise
A London Chronicle report describes a Grussels case where a lawyer used a phonograph to record hammering from an iron foundry. After playing the cylinder in court, he won the case decisively, demonstrating the device as a witness in law.
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Grussels
Nelly’sborhood
Vulcan
London Chronicle
Deep Manchester Collieries Drive Workers Far Below Ground
Colliers in the Manchester district now toil about half a mile underground with pits in Ashton Pradford and Pendleton exceeding that depth. Other shafts are planned across southern Lancashire reaching around 800 yards. At extreme depths heat requires workers to carry large amounts of cooling tea in tin cans. The Pendleton Knowles pit exceeds 1000 yards.
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Manchester
Ashton
Pradford
Pendleton
Lancashire
Messrs. A. Knowles
Westminster Gazette
Chemnitz To Open School For Aeronauts And Airships
The New York Herald reports a new training school for aeronauts and airship constructors to be opened in Chemnitz this month. A one year course will focus on balloon construction and use, with expansion to aeroplanes once practical types exist, joining a similar Paris school now in operation.
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Chemnitz
Paris
New York Herald
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W. H. Gaskell
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H. M. Sawyer
East Camsaicce
Wass
Lydia E. Pinkham
James Chester
Vaun
W. 35Th St
Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Deen British Collieries
School For Aeronauts
Regal Shoe Co
Whitman
Mass
Swartwout & Appenzellar
Bankers
Pine Street
Grand Rapids
Dallas
Aisy
J Dames McKnaoe
Mercer St
Corsey City
N. J
the Dowels
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Sterling Remedy Co
Allanta
Putnam
Bette
Colusa
Dye
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