Editor Praises Dr. Kay's Renovator for Stomach Troubles
A Riverton Indiana editor recounts severe four year stomach trouble and failed treatments before using Dr. Kay's Renovator. After six packages he reports a dramatic improvement and endorses the product as the best remedy for stomach, liver, and kidney issues. Dr. Kay's Renovator is sold by druggists at 25 cents to one dollar or six for five dollars with return mail option from Dr. B J Kay Medical Co Omaha Nebraska.
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Riverton
Independent
Dr. Kay
B. J. Kay Medical Co
Omaha, Neb
Looking Indian Trick Spotlights Hidden Trinket
A boy suggests looking Indian to find a lost trinket in the hall. He lies on the floor to view under the furniture and reveals the item by lowering his head to the ground. The passage explains how viewing from a prone position makes small objects near the wall visible.
Navy Cuba and Hawaii panorama portfolio offered
The American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii portfolio presents ten parts with sixteen half tone pictures per part. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway plans a special edition aiding patrons and will supply the full set of one hundred sixty pictures for one dollar. Send payment and address to Geo. H. Heafford, G P A, C M and St P Ry, Chicago.
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Cuba
Hawaii
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Geo. H. Heafford
Chicago, I
A Star Ancestress Sallie Shiver of Acree Hits Judge’s Count
Mrs. Sallie Shiver of Acree Georgia is reported by a local paper to be ninety and the mother of seven children and a large clan. The tally shows 225 descendants and 75 deceased, totaling 310. The oldest child is seventy and the youngest forty-three, and none have faced court.
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Sallie Shiver
Acree
Tribune
Allen's Foot-Ease Promises Quick Foot Comfort
An old advertising column promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a cure for painful feet, sweating and bunions, claiming shoes become easier to wear. It markets mail orders from Le Roy New York and lists trial packages. Also notes Stillwater Mirror suspension and various brief ads for Cascarets Nansen and Star Tobacco with general claims.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Worship by Telephone in English Churches
England adopts telephone church services to reach elderly and ill parishioners. Transmitters placed near pulpit and choir will feed speakers via diverging wires to subscribers. The plan may spread to large cities but may restrict lively preachers who must stay still for clear interpretation.
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England
Missionary Medicine Cascarets Promise Health
An old-fashioned advertorial links personal cleanliness to spiritual purity and promotes Cascarets candy cathartic as a cure for bodily ills. The pitch claims purifying the intestines and liver will restore charity and brotherly love, urging readers to use the product for happiness.
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Cascarets
The Serving of Cheese
Fancy cheeses are placed on the table before meals and kept until finished. No strong odor varieties should be kept where least fond of such foods may notice. It is allowable to serve grated and sliced cheese in a covered dish.
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Pittsburg
Prue
John Blantyre
Raoul
Hildred
Cascarets Promote Clean Blood and Skin Health
A vintage ad touts Cascarets candy as a laxative purging impurities from the body to clear the skin. It claims benefits for a bilious complexion, with prices 10c 25c and 50c, and notes druggists carry the product with satisfaction guaranteed.
Coming Favolation Miss DeFashion A Walk on the Avenue
A quoted exchange from New York Weekly depicts Miss DeFashion asking to walk with her father to see a friend. He agrees urging her to prepare with cane overcoat and plug hat as they head out together.
Monon Sleeper Service to West Baden and French Lick
The Monon runs a through Wagner Sleeper to West Baden and French Lick leaving Dearborn Station each Saturday at 1250 p.m. and arriving at 6 1 a.m. Regular trains operate nightly and each morning via New Orleans. City ticket office is 202 Clark St Chicago.
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Monon
Westaden
French Lick
Dearborn
New Orleans
City Ticket Office
Clark St
Chicago
Races Draw Derby Talk and New Coal Ventures
In Chicago a Derby winner is discussed as a pickup before ripe. Nearby Meyersdale Pennsylvania sees coal lands opened by B&O access, with five mile rail spur under development. Outside capital pushes small lines to unlock coal and timber in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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Flower
Block
Chicago News
Meyersdale
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Auditor reports nearly twelve thousand to last senate employer
North Carolina state auditors find about 12000 dollars paid to the employer of the last state senate, a figure larger than the payments to senators themselves. Cattlemen and sheep-owners compete for water rights in Douglas county Washington. Piso's Cure for Consumption praised by George W Lotz of Fabucher Louisiana. A fragment notes a quotation about feeling nothingness and pliability.
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North Carolina
Senate
Douglas County
Washington
Dr Ayers Sarsaparilla Promoted by Physicians
Physicians praised Dr Ayers Sarsaparilla as a universal blood purifier for brood diseases skin ailments and long standing ulcers. A Baltimore physician cites cures in rheumatism after other medicines failed and offers a curebook from the J C Ayer Company Lowell Massachusetts upon request.
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Ayer
Aver
The Usurer's Daughter Continues A Delicate Plot
In this chapter, Hildred confronts her unhappy marriage to Ulric Caraven. Sir Raoul urges her to transform the union into a noble mission by patient persuasion, offering mignonette as a small first kindness and promising steadfast guidance as she vows to work toward reforming her spouse.
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Raoul
Hildred
Ulric
Ulric Caraven
Mildred
Traveler's brag of Wicklow surpassing Alpine views
Aubrey de Vere recounts a Swiss traveler who mocks Ireland as he extols Wicklow mountains and O’Sullivan Cascade, claiming the local waterfall cannot compare to Killarney and dismissing Chamouni as small. The exchange satirizes narrow national pride through vivid contrasts.
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Aubrey de Vere
Switzerland
Wicklow
Mont Lane
Regeon
Tam
Chamouni
Suverin Wicklow
O'Sullivan
Killarney
Trandeck
Bellevue man finds a sight gag in coal lump scene
George Emig of Bellevue Kentucky breaks a coal lump when a hole opens and a blind frog hops out. The anecdote plays on his steady character and a quip about not judging by size, ending with a rural humor note about the orchestra’s sparse fiddle.
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George Emig
Bellevue
Emig
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Fabucher, la
Dr. Aver
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Starck
Req
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Keith Enamel Starch CO
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Pope Mfg. CO
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Ohio
Y.c.hubinger Bros
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Newhaven.com
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Surrey
Salle
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Warness Mig
Pratt
Ele Mast
IND
Gro. W. Bowles
Baird, Mass
Candy Cathartic
Mark
Merling Remedy Company
Montreal
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