Bicycle Notes In Brief
In one day two Chicago detectives recovered nineteen bicycles stolen recently. Blotting paper handles attract wheelmen and their sweat. Italian amateurs race under assumed names. San Francisco bans riding with young children on bicycles. Australians have a cure for scorching. The judge fines each offender fifty dollars. A second dose cures completely. Olive oil and vaseline aid burned skin. Cloths dipped in water with baking soda provide relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
San Francisco
Smiles Between Sermons and Sleepy Wit Exchanges
Quips from papers across the era show playful banter about ears, kisses, and art dialogue. The snippets juxtapose light taunts from Yonkers Statesman Woonsocket Reporter Philadelphia Press Indianapolis Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers Statesman
Shail
Woonsocket
Philadelphia Press
Indianapolis Journal
Grand Excursion to Buffalo July Sth and 6th
The National Educational Association plans its next annual meeting in Buffalo. The Michigan Central offers a round trip fare plus $2.00 association membership, with a pamphlet and notebook available for purchase. Tickets at 119 Adams Street and other offices.
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Buffalo
National Educational Association
Michigan Central
Niagara Falls
Adams Street
O. W. RouGnes
N. Y
Wabash Lines
Fourth Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Horace Seeley
Health in Old Age A Seventy-Two-Year-Old's Pink Pill Tale
A Union interview with Mrs. Jane Hotalen of Hainesville New Jersey, age seventy two, recounts her two year struggle with rheumatic sciatic pain and a dramatic recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She notes no adverse effects and says she can work without aid, asserting the pills rebuilt her strength and blood.
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Port Jarvis
N. Y
Jane Hotalen
Hainesville
N. J
Sussex County
Struble
Branchville
Union
Household Hints and New Book Notices From Des Moines
Practical tips on cleaning stoves storing brass beds and caring for textiles, plus new book releases from Scribner's and McClurg. Advice covers food for invalids, shoe fit, gas leaks, and cheese storage. Authors featured include Richard Harding Davis Osborn H. Oldroyd and Willis Barnes with summaries of their recent publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Scribner’s Sons
New York
Richard Harding Davis
Mr. Davis
Chicago
Des Moines Book and Stationery Co
Des Moines
Edith Carpenter
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York Herald
Lincoln
Osborn H. Oldroyd
Vicksburg
Laird & Lee
Wandering Heath
Boston Herald
Three for a Dollar Poster Offer Drawn by Denslow Reed Brown
Three cheaply printed posters by W W Denslow Ethel Reed and Ray Brown will be mailed free of postage for one dollar. Limited quantities. Address Geo H Heafford Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway Old Colony Building Chicago IL. An egg swallowing contest in Dallas Oregon saw a winner eat twenty five raw eggs in under two minutes.
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W. W. Denslow
Ethel Reed
Ray Brown
Geo. H. Heafford
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Ional
Dallas
Oregon
Doings of Congress Senate and House Adjournments
Congress advanced several bills on June 10 including a trial by jury safeguard against contempt of court and a mail carrier pay bill. Sundry civil and DC appropriations agreed. House passed 53 measures including 200000 for the Omaha Trans Miss Exposition. Senate adjourned after thanking leaders. minor bills only.
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Senate
District of Columbia
Omaha
Wasninetos
Congress
HOUSE
Reed
Sunstroke Claims Seventy On Bonaventure Voyage
Bombay dispatch reports the British cruiser Bonaventure, flagship of the East Indian squadron, lost seventy men to sunstroke while sailing from Colombo to Pondicherry during a voyage that highlights harsh conditions aboard colonial naval forces.
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Bombay
Bonaventure
Colombo
Pombicherry
Mothers Must Guide Information They Should Furnish
A health advisory asserts mothers hold vital information to keep daughters safe. It urges timely guidance when a girl shows signs of sluggish thoughts headaches dizziness or a tendency to stray from proper conduct. The piece emphasizes prevention through education and parental involvement.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advised for Teen Ailments
A mother seeks help for a daughter troubled by sleep issues back pains dim eyes desire for solitude and aversion to children. The ad urges Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to prepare the system for change and offers correspondence from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
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Lydia BE. Pinkham
Kindred Occupations and Local Reactions
A returned native asks about the Jones brothers. Bill remains on the farm while Ed moves to Sioux Falls to open a law office. The exchange hints at gendered roles and local perceptions of differing careers.
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Jones
Bill
Sioux Falls
Visitor’s mixed verdict on Pompeii’s state
He asks about Pompeii and she recalls visiting it. She found it beautifully located but dreadfully out of repair, expressing disappointment in the site’s condition.
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Pompeii
Widow in Half Mourning Reveals Chicago Bigamy
A widow wearing half mourning confirms her husband, who died last week, had another wife in Chicago. The revelation surfaces amid questions surrounding the deceased and his untold second marriage.
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Chicago
Ragged Sagas and Advertisements from a 1890s Page
A collage of letters and notices includes testimonials for Dr. Kay's Renovat or health cure, claims about bread consumption and travel fares. It also mentions Piso's Cure, Kline's Nervine, California wines, a Des Moines educational fare offer, and a note on English fashion with lady cyclists. The snippet blends medical ads, travel notices, and curiosities from a late 19th century newspaper.
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Other Remedies Mentioned
Hall's Catarrh Cure is described as a constitutional cure. Additional remedies include Hegeman's Camphor Ice with Glycerine, and Winslow's soothing syrup for teething. The notes mention a sod church in Smith County Kansas, teething remedies, tobacco factory workers' lung health, piano tone near walls, and Bogland's $70 million yearly dairy trade.
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Smith County
Kansas
Par ticular flies trap tale echoes in jest
An exclusive quip mocks overzealous fly control by wiring doors and windows to keep our flies from mingling with neighbors. The exchange suggests a humorous misreading of practical pest measures as social restraint.
Victim of Friendship in a Regency Dialogue
A maid explains to a mistress that the regiment has left town and she has had to give a lock of hair to several acquaintances, revealing a playful exchange about hair and farewell.
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Anna
Doing the Best He Could With Bats in Town
A man resigned to fate tests every bat in town after declaring no other sphere remains. He bows to the inevitable and searches for a final tool to meet his need.
Quotable Quip on Speed and Training for Horses
The exchange plays on clever wordplay about speed and training. One speaker says a horse is not fast, but can be made so, while the other questions the possibility of training, joking about tying a horse instead.
Sinking Fund of vitality boosted by bitters remedy
A Sinking Fand of vital energy is easily and pleasantly replenishable. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is an invigorant without a peer, and will speedy infuse fresh stamina into an en feebled physique. Besides this, it averts and remedies malaria, and subdues bilious, kidney, dyspeptic and rheumatic ailments. The nervous derive great benefit from its use. A Michigan pastor has furnished note books to the young people of this church in which to jot down thoughts from his ser mons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Omaha
Roberts
Omaha Neb
Kay
Jan
B J. Kay Medical Co
Téth Street
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Henry L. Foote
Gaylord
Kana6
Ington
Baron Bockum
Reichstag
California Fig Syrup Co
McKinley
Ohio
Niacara Falls Souvenir CO
N.Y
As MU
Prin
Aes Zal
Ans Goons
Arena Publishing Co
Boston
Willis Barnes
Doings OF Congress
Patent Office Report
J. S. Lord
A. W. McFarland
West Bend
Canada
A. Cranburg
J. Ullrich
J. K. Purinton
Duplex Typewriter
Duplex Typewriter Co
Dennis
United States
Thomas G. and
J. Ralph Orwig
Metz
Spratts
Miss Elder
Key West
Fla
Unalaska
F. E. Cosgrove
Buda
Omaha, Neb
Bend
John A. Miller
Au Sable, Michigan
New York City
Kline
Kiine
Pua
California
Apfel
Los Angeles
Cal
England
Hall
Price
Hegeman
Mr. Winslow
Bogland
Torgn
Ayer
Yellowstone Park
W'N.u. D.M
Nene
Columbia
Columbias
Hartford Bicycles
Hartford
Pope Mfg. CO
Conn
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