Five Months in Hospital Ended by Cure Claims Kidney Pills
Levi P Brockway of Second Aura Anoka Minnesota reports five months in a hospital ending with incurable diagnosis and six months to live. He details heart smothering spells fainting and kidney issues before using Deans Kidney Pills which he credits with restoring his health now. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Levi P Brockway
Anoka
Minn
Ilva
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Little Maggie Praises Bright Young Baseball Fan
A young boy impresses by naming almost every player in the big leagues. His sister Maggie comments on his sizable knowledge and bright potential.
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Maggie
Cutiura Remedies End Child Eczema Suffering
A mother from San Antonio recounts six months of failed treatments for her son's eczema. After using the Cutiura Remedies, the child slept better and recovered quickly, with a clear face within two months and no recurrence by age two.
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Louis Leck
San Antonio
Tex
Customs and Scenes From a Maha Indian Spring Feast
The text records Maha customs described by J Owen Dorsey showing a spring council led by the Hanga, a feast, a cryer in robe, and sacred corn shared with households to mark planting time. It mixes narrative of Uncle Erastus testing his grandson with a musket and a taunting bottle target scene showing rural life and dialect.
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J. Owen Dorsey
Erastus
Chile
Rufus
Grape Nuts Endorsement Letter Promotes Health Benefits
A testimonial published by Postum Co. promotes Grape Nuts as a nutritive food improving strength nerves and brain power. A reader claims improved weight by 20 pounds and sustained energy after excessive night work with the product, noting frequent travel uses. The letter cites natural elements like wheat and barley and mentions The Road to Wellville for readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
True Courage on Battlefield Medics Heroic Duty
The piece honors battlefield surgeons who risk their lives for wounded soldiers. It recounts an English surgeon at Majuba hill who, mortally wounded, injections morphine to a dying soldier before dying himself, and a 1874 Ashanti war episode where a medical officer saves a neck wound by improvising care amid shellfire.
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Blackwoods
Majuba Hill
Philip Sidney
Zutphan
Ashanti
Thenglish
Amoaful
Heeling Match Instructions From Good Literature
The article describes a heeling race using a broom stick as a heel bit and two lengths of rope as reins. Competitors must keep all weight on the heels with the balls of the feet off the ground, racing on heels only to avoid disqualification for the heel bit slipping or touching the ground.
Distant verse notes from Royal Magazine fragment
Fragmentary lines mention a white daliny, a westward delay, daisies, wolves and bears under a bed. Molly and Isabel Hutchart are named in a Royal Magazine excerpt.
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Molly
Isabel Hutchart
Italy a Good Customer and Trade Figures Mentioned
The passage notes Italy is a good customer with imports from a country near 67 million dollars yearly and exports of oars at about 36 million dollars, highlighting sizable trade figures.
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Italy
Tethered Goat Solves Half Acre Grazing Problem
A half acre equilateral triangle pasture with a goat tethered at a corner yields half the grass grazed. An analysis using six equal equilateral triangles forming a hexagon shows the grazing area is one sixth of a circle. With 1 1/2 acres equivalent grazing, the tether radius computes to 1 731 inches, about 48 yards 3 inches, to the nearest inch.
Easily Made Ring Toss Game From Cardboard
Instructional notice describes a homemade ring toss with four numbered posts. Hooks on top of posts hold a swinging ring, players aim to encircle posts 1 2 3 4 in order, earning turns for correct swings and restarting if a post is missed or misordered. The first to complete the four posts wins.
Lifting a Penny by Holding the Tip of a Straw
A brief curiosity explains a simple prank: give a friend five thin straws and a penny and ask them to lift the penny by holding only the tip of one straw. The common error is balancing the penny on the straw stack while the trick relies on the arrangement shown in the illustration.
Son of Admiral Evans Serves Aboard Louisiana
The son of Rear Admiral Robley D Evans, Lieut Franck Taylor Evans, serves with the fleet at San Francisco aboard the battleship Louisiana. A veteran of 14 years in the service, he has served on the Massachusetts and Nashville and participated in Cuban engagements and the Panama voyage with President Roosevelts yacht Sylph.
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Robley D. Evans
Naval Service
Louiviana
San Francisco
Franck Taylor Evans
Jooka
Evans
Navy
Switzerland
Naval Academy At
Massachusetts
Francis J. Higginson
Santiago
San Juan
Cuban
Nashville
Asiatic
President Roosevelt
Newport News
Louisiana
Panama
Hampton Roade
Leutenant
Fiddler Bob Taylor and His Tennessee Rise to Senate
Robert Love Taylor known as Fiddler Bob rose from mountain stump speeches to U S Senate. He used humor and fiddle tunes to win hearts and votes in Tennessee. Born July 1850 in Happy Valley he studied at Pennington College, practiced law, edited Dob Taylor's Magazine, and served as governor after campaigns marked by the War of the Roses.
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Robert Love Taylor
Tennessee
Bob
United States Senate
Republican Party
Taylor
Fiddler Hole
Alea
United States Congress
Heo
United States
Senate
Senator Taylor
Happy Valley
Tenn
Pennington College
Cleveland
Dob Taylor
Revolving doors ban sparks Paris prefect’s show of power
Louis Lepine, Paris prefect of police, challenges revolvers doors in public buildings, arguing fire and panic risk. He commands 60,000 troops, 12,000 police and 8,000 guards, and has kept his post through multiple presidents since 1877, amid Dreyfus era tensions.
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Louis Lepine
Police
Paris
Thom
M. Lepine
Porle
Tle
New President of Peru Senor Don Augusto Legale Elected
Senor Don Augusto Legale, newly elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as president, has long urged attracting American capital to Peru. A former minister and prime minister in Candamo’s government, Legale has held major roles at New York Life Peru and at Drilieh Sugar Estates Limited. He was born February 19, 18%A in Lambayeque and is 45 years old.
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Senor
Don Augusto TD Legale
Pardo
Portly
United States
South America
Senor Legala
New York Life Insurance Comipmoy Heuse
Iss
New York Life
Peru
Senor Loyola
Drilieh Sugar Estates, Limited
Te Aleohe
Benor Santa
Acthe
Candamo
Jone Pardo
Provident Candamo
The Horn That Tempted Eben Soule
Eben Soule, a conscientious youth, faces a moral dilemma between joining the town band and his faith. A Methodist minister advises him that playing the horn should not ruin his grace if he balances practice with family and neighbors, ending with a light note about temptation.
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Eben Soule
Eben
Catarrh Cure Claim by Cheney and Co
Advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure as the only internal remedy addressing catarrh. Proclaims a $100 reward for failure to cure and urges sending for a list of testimonials. Claims to heal by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces with constitutional treatment.
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Thas
Catarch
Hall
Tako
Grandma's Occupation in the Sand
A child asks what his grandma is doing in heaven. Bobby responds without hesitation that she is standing up and looking around, interpreting the afterlife with practical certainty in a succinct exchange.
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Bobby
Johnny
Castoria warning on bottle labeling for infants and children
Important notice urges careful examination of Castoria bottles for signatory authenticity and branding The phrase In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought appears as the longstanding claim for this remedial product
Hmm I Might Have Missed Something
Edyth recalls telling a suitor she would not marry him and would return unopened his letters. He reacts with regret, joking about potentially including unclosed matinea tickets in the mails.
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Edyth
Allens Foot-Ease Powder Promises Quick Foot Comfort
In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE A powder. It cures painful, amazt ing, nervous feet and Ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggistea, 25c. Accept no substitute. Trial package, FREE. Ad dress A. 5. Olmsted, Lo Hoy, N.
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Allen
All Druggistea
Olmsted
Lo Hoy, N
From Ananias to a Malefactor of Great Wealth
In a speculative exchange, Ananias rejects being labeled a representative of medicity and voices a preference for profit and power, contrasting modest public role with aspirations of wealth and influence. The dialogue hints at satire on social status and ambition.
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Medicity
Ananias
Washington
Our-Pie Promotion and Miscellaneous Notes
Ask Your Grocer for Our-Pie and mail in names with 10 cents to D Zerta Foul Co Rochester NY for a free full size two pie package. Three kinds lemon chocolate and custard pies. Humble primrose and Primrose league mentioned. Lewis' Single Binder cigars advertised with dealer in Peoria.
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D-Zerta Foul Co
Rochester
N. Y
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