Kilmer Swamp Root advertised kidney remedy sample offer
A mass mailer promotes Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for back, kidney, liver, and bladder troubles. It claims scientific discovery by Dr Kilmer and offers free sample bottles by mail to readers, with a booklet on diagnosing kidney or bladder issues and the drug being sold by Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Kilmar
Bright
Bright's Disease, Which Is the Worst Form of Kidney Trouble. Dr. Kilmer
N Hospital
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N.Y
Weak Kidneys and Health Remedies Advertisements
A collage of early 20th century medical claims promotes De Witts Kidney and Bladder Pills claiming to purify the system and treat kidney and urinary disorders with a week long course for 25 cents. The page also includes notices about hide processing, new towns openings, and a pamphlet offer for real estate and settlers in Minneapolis and St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
Rk. A
Pfefferle
Tragic double murder suicide at Hubbard County school
Seventeen year old Savannah township teacher Miss Bessie Graham is shot dead by August Boldt of Park Rapids as she rejects him during recess at the Savannah school. Boldt then shoots himself beside her body. Graham, from Osage, had taught at Savannah since last October after passing state exams in 1907. Boldt, twenty four, had attended a Minneapolis jewelry school and had been her companion for over a year.
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Bessie Graham
Savannah Township
Hubbard County
August Boldt
Park Rapids
Miss Graham
Boldt
Bill
Osage
Ale
Savannah
Boldt Wak
Minneapolis
Graham
Standard Oil Demurrer Challenge To Minnesota Charter Forfeiture
The Standard Oil Company challenges Attorney General Young’s suit to forfeit its Minnesota charter claiming the anti discrimination law is unconstitutional under both federal and state constitutions. The complaint argues due process violations and conflict with state provisions. The case was filed in Hamsay County District Court in November with later requests for a more specific complaint.
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Standard Oil Company
Young
Minnesota
PONY
Te Stamdart Gil Company
Hamsay
Bank teller charged with taking 4490 from patrons
The National Bank of Commerce in Minneapolis reports a teller, Adolph Stamwits, charged with misappropriating 4490 from a patron’s funds. Bond set at 310,000. A series of irregularities in bank accounts was found during investigations. Meanwhile, John Gleason, former football player, leaves the state university amid faculty friction following a court ruling. Foster Holmes, a Minneapolis senior, was injured during gym practice at Phillips Exeter. condition listed as critical. A $50,000s pox case of Daniel Hopkins’ property disappeared from the Metropolitan Life Insurance building. police in Minneapolis probe a difficult theft mystery.
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Jane’ Adolph Stamwits
National Bank of Comerce
Minneapolis
Slaniwite
Natonal Bank Esemier Uh, Doeworth
Exeter
Foster Holmes
Holmes
Daniel ©. Hopkins
Hoping Land Company
Metropolitan Life Tosurance
Mil City Police
Jealous husband shot by Duluth boarder in home dispute
Henry Bolot a 47 year old foreman at Elliott Packing in Duluth killed Marquis Chirbouno a 65 year old millworker who had boarded with Bolot and his daughter for years. Chirbouno allegedly jealous over Bolot and confronted him in Bolot's room. Mrs Chirbouno distracted Chirbouno allowing Bolot to defend himself with a revolver, striking a fatal wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Bolot
Duluth
Marquis Chirbouno
Bolot
Elliott Packing Company
Chirbouno
Chirborne
Mysterious Tragedy Aboard Tug Near Newport
Two men, one in U S Marine uniform and one in civilian clothes, jumped overboard from a tug en route to Fort Greble and drowned. Identification is unconfirmed though the uniformed man is believed to be Private Benjamin G. Steenerson of Minnesota and the other a Marine awaiting discharge named John M. McIntosh. Captain Rich reported the jump occurred off Cananical point with no warning. Friends doubt suicide, awaiting official word from authorities.
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United States Marine Corps
Dram Newport
R. 1
Fort Greble
Benjamin G. Steenerson
Halvor Steenerson
Minnesota
John M. McIntosh
Rich
Cananical Point
Looming Glencoe Loomer Union Convention Held
Many states represented at the annual Lohar unreherse association convention in Glencoe with 200 attendees. George Ate Allister was elected president and W. G. Goull secretary. W. H. Carsten vice president and R. T. Hubbard treasurer. A legislative committee included C. J. Welch Farmington Senescal Winchinson W. Woodbeck Lanier Ia Gus Herrliges Madison Frank Morrigam WW Willard and John Knoor Brownton. Next year’s meeting location undecided though St Paul Commercial Club invited in 1908.
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Gencoe
Wilich
George
Allister
Glencoe
W. G. Goull
W. H. Carsten
R. T. Hubbard
C. J. Welch
Farmington
Senescal
Hnnchinson
W. Woodbeck
Lanier
Gus Herrliges
Madison
Frank Morrigam
WW. Willard
John Knoor
Brownton
St. Paul
Pleads Guilty to Forgery in Wall Street Office Case
Tulut Barbrick pleads guilty to forgery in a New York Wall Street office on a Minneapolis complaint. Weadled guilty to forgery in the second degree before Judge Iolt in Minneapolis. His companion Charles Brogre faces larceny charges in Hennepin County Jail and will stand trial in Lelishret court.
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Tulut Barbrick
Wall Street
New York
Minneapolis
Dudge |Iolt
Minneapolin
Charles Brogre
Minneano Its
Hennepin County
Lelishret
Five Years for Manslaughter in Lakeville Killing
Michel Brennan was sentenced in district court by Judge F. M. Crosby to five years in Stillwater state prison for manslaughter in the killing of Anthony Brennan at Lakeville on August 7. The decision surprised many, despite sympathy for Brennan. Mrs. Mary Brandys of Minneapolis died after saving her children, engulfed in flames from a gasoline accident.
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Michel Brennan
Mary Branlys
Minneapolis
Brandys
Governors to Meet Roosevelt on Conservation Plan
Governors nationwide accept president's invitation to a May conference in Washington to frame a practical, comprehensive plan for conserving natural resources. Attendees will include governors, three delegates each, senators, representatives, and members of the inland waterways commission plus allied organizations. The aim is a unified program covering rivers, forests, irrigation, drainage, and overall resource conservation.
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White House
Washington
United States
New York Post
Les
Delaware
George Gray
Roosevelt
Congress
Tu and Waterways Commission
United States Inland Waterways Commission
Amist
White Mouse Cenferen
Society of Oh Gugiovers
Bath to Build The Largest Schooner Afloat
Bath Maine plans a six master schooner for Portia company to surpass the Thomas W Lawson as the top vessel in the schooner rig. The Wilding yard work aims to launch the biggest schooner afloat, reclaiming maritime prestige for the Portia company.
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Bath
Portia
Thomas W. Lawson
Fractured Barbs in Colonial Charm Nebula
A clipped, dialect heavy quip from the Kansas City Independent mocks a man named Brudder Jones. It casts him as hypocritical and penniless, noting he gained a supposed brick house by borrowing a newspaper and clothes rather than smoking.
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Bradder Jones
Kansas City Independent
The Jumping Off Place Medicine Ad
An old advertisement promotes Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds and pneumonia prevention with a free trial bottle offer. It also touts Hollister s Rocky Mountain Ten Ton Tablets claiming digestion appetite sleep and strength benefits from a Pioneer Drug Company outlet in Grimestand North Carolina.
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O. M. Olsen
Hollister
Pioneer Ding Co
The Moors of Today in Modern Spain
A Strand Magazine excerpt describes the Moors as descendants of past conquerors who held sway in southern Spain for centuries and left notable remnants. It suggests their present inability to adapt to modern conditions explains the diminishing influence reflected in today’s landscapes.
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Spain
Strand Magazine
Inoculation for Smallpox and Digestive Remedy Ad
Historical note outlines Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introducing smallpox inoculation to England with early trials in 1718 and royal involvement by 1724, noting clergy opposition and later vaccine development by Jenner in 1799. A consumer pitch extols Kodol digestive aid as a natural remedy guaranteed to aid digestion and stomach troubles, sold by Eugene A. Pfeffer.
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Eugene A. Pfefferle
Mary Wortley Montagu
England
Turkey
Adrianoyle
London
Catherine
Jenner
New York
Eugene A. Pfeffer
Colonel Rice’s mounted scouts nosebag remark stands out
While organizing a mounted scouts unit in the Philippines Colonel Edmund Rice notes he has eighty horses though only sixty men. A Manila quartermaster balks at eighty nosebags and Rice quips that nosebags are for horses, not men. Also mentions a railroad timetable advertising fare rules and travel to multiple western states.
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Edmund Rice
The Curious Origin of the Maxim Gun
A historical note discusses Sir Hiram Maxim after the American Civil War designing the Maxim gun. It relates how, frustrated by British factory reluctance, he moved to Paris to develop a machine that could fire from one per minute to 600 rounds, with a 1000 RPM target. The piece highlights a 35 pound design that fired 2000 rounds in three minutes at Louis Most Dispatch.
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Maxim
Sir Hiram
America
London
Birmingham
Paris
Gus
Mr. Maxim
Louis Most Dispatch
Irregular Verbs and a Frenchman’s Language Lesson
A New York Tribute recounts a humorous anecdote about irregular English verbs. The tale features a Frenchman puzzled by meanings like beat and depart while a Latin scholar traces verb forms and a witticism about irregulars.
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Rughtad
New York
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