Kidney Pills hailed. eye restore and cures tout pasted
Newberry chief of police C W H Harris testifies of kidney trouble and night backache eased after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Advertisement notes a trial offer by Foster-Milburn Co. Also mentions eye restoration from a street accident and a Labrador expedition being canceled. Warnings against mercury in catarrh cures and a line on Hall's Catarrh Cure. Efforts to lay rails on classic Athens thoroughfares.
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Newbery
C.W. H. Harris
Newberry
Dean
Norma
Vuhief Harris
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
Athens
Puzzies for Uncle Sam and the Customs Docket
The piece explains how useless animals placed on manifests become unclaimed merchandise after failed fictitious consignments. It notes cases involving classification of goods for duties, such as sauces versus fish, and the current issue of how sake should be taxed in Honolulu for Japanese workers. An importation arranged in New York will bring the case to court.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Treasury Department
Supreme Court
Japan
Honolulu
New York
Amusing Tales From Early Chinese Imperial Post
A letter from Mrs. H. T. Ford of the China Inland Mission in Tai-kang Henan recounts early post office scenes. Clerks refused to lick stamps at Kaifeng sparking a fight and police intervention while Tai-kang establishes a stamp licking custom. The Kaifeng office faced a refund dispute over undelivered mail and irregular service persists in Taikang with a novice postmaster.
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H. T. Ford
China Inland Mission
Tai-kang
Henan
Kaifeng
Harry
Taikang
Kaifeng Post Office
Petroleum Powders Said To Prevent Seasickness
An Australian correspondent of the Homeopathic World describes using petroleum 2x triturations in 2 grain powders to prevent seasickness. He notes personal use on a Sydney to Hawkesbury voyage with immediate relief, and says children and others were helped as well.
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Homeopathic World
Sydney
Hawkesbury River
Newcastle
Loudon
Healthful press criticism uplifted business tone
The July World's Work argues that press scrutiny improved financial journalism by replacing ignorance and dishonesty with transparency. It notes bankers resist public knowledge, citing a case where a director admitted truth but resented reporters revealing private deliberations.
Ballade of Gardens and the Eternal Summer
The poem recalls Eden and ancient gardens, with echoes of Hesperides and Babylon. It contrasts war’s destruction with visions of orchards, poppies, and serene groves where love thrives and rest awaits among crooning elms. Beloved Isa bel returns to a tranquil, sacred place.
Relics of Nelson Stolen From Greenwich Hall
The piece notes the theft of Nelson relics from the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital three and a half years ago. A glass case was smashed and several gold items vanished including a Nelson gift watch, the Freedom of the City box, and Nelson medals marking major battles.
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England
Wiementoes
Nelson
W Nelson
Greenwich Hospital
Marchioness of
Westminster
City of London
Mosquito Trap Invented by Kentuckian Promises Pest Control
A Kentucky inventor proposes a box shaped mosquito trap using a small music box that imitates breathing to lure insects. A gummy coating around the device is claimed to hold and poison any mosquitoes that land, aiming for market deployment during mosquito season.
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Louisvile Herald
From Forge to Finish Knife Stages Revealed
An inquest in Birmingham heard of a carter named Penley who abused a mare. The mare kicked him fatally after his brutal thrashing, ending a violent chain of events sparked by alleged shirking.
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Birmingham
Carter
Penley
Montgomery judge rules lap sitting not a crime
A Montgomery county Pennsylvania judge ruled that a girl sitting on her lover’s lap is not an offense. In charging the jury he warned that judging all such girls as ill repute would make residents blush for the county. The piece notes the ruling as of special interest to girls.
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Montgomery County
Steam Power Debate Reignites Steam Engine Promise
The discussion revisits economy comparisons between steam and gas or oil engines. Despite gas and high power internal combustion advances, improvements like superheating and smarter designs renew confidence that the steam engine will endure against rivals for the foreseeable future.
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Police
Dresden
Willard Glazies
Labrador
Hall
F. 7. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
London
Charterhouse &Q
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Boston
Columbus
Ava
Putter Drug & Chew
Corp
Sala Prope
John W.morrig
Washington
U.8
Fenston Burnan
Ralief
Aurea
H. Green
Atlanta
Gee
Gures
Drugeiate
Eden
Babylon
Tulleries
Red Sedan
Benet
Isabel
Bourne
W. Barnard, Jr
Battle of St. Vincent
Trafalgar
France
Spain
Nile
Melson
Aelson's Wratch and
Soketra
Cape Guardaful
New York Times
Newport
John. F. Boxer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Germany
Anderson
Jacksonville
Fla
Deeds
West
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pincham
Dmims
R. A. Anderson
Washington St
Jacksonville, Fla
Cumberland St
Philadelphia
Lydia BK. Pinkham
Lydig HK
Piniham
America
Lydia
Lydia H
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Masse
Gandy
Cascarets
C.C C
Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
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