Half Fare Washington Trip to National Education Meet
From July 3 to 6 tickets sold from all points to Washington D C and return via Chesapeake and Ohio at one fare plus 2.00. Tickets good until July 15 returning, may extend to August 31. Includes Mountain and Sea Shore resorts Old Point Comfort and Hampton Roads. sleeping car reservations via U S Truitt Northwest Passenger Agent 234 Clark Street Chicago IL.
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Washington
U. C
D. C
Chesapeake and Ohio
National Educational Association
Old Point Comfort
Hampton Roads
North Atlantic
U. S
Rat as Diet Supposed to Stop Hair Loss Says Yale Student
Tsin Ching Chung, a Yale alumnus, advocates eating rats as a hair treatment. He compares rats to carrots for humans and claims repeated trials show rats as food prevent hair loss and produce soft, silky hair, noting Chinese women also use the practice.
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Tsin Ching Chung
Yale
Aluminium shoes tested on cavalry horses in Finland
Russia tried aluminium horseshoes on Finland Dragoons. Some horses wore one aluminium shoe and three iron shoes for six weeks. The aluminium shoe lasted longer and kept the hoof healthier than iron, with placement on fore or hind feet varying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Finland
Cascarets Advertises Beauty Benefit and Blood Purity
A vintage advertisement promotes Cascarets as a bowel and liver cleanser that claims to purify blood and improve skin. It targets pimples boils blotches and a bilious complexion and offers 10c 20c and 50c sizes with a satisfaction guarantee.
Changed Boards Morse Kansas City Typewriter Wife
A Kansas City woman once a typewriter by trade laments she swapped the keyboard for the washboard after marrying a poor husband. She reflects on her misjudged swap and its consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Colorado Colony Company promotes irrigation farming growth
The Denver and Gulf railway valleys showcase irrigation farming and stock raising as a proven success. Horace Greeley’s colonization push spreads across Colorado especially along the South Platte valley with hundreds of new farms and ranches and rapid town growth. To help eastern visitors, weekly excursions from Omaha and Denver will run at reduced rates, managed by the Colorado Colony Company with offices in Omaha and Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver & Gulf Railway
Horace Greeley
Colorado
South Platte Valley
Omaha
Denver
Colorado Colony Company
New York Life Bldg
17Th Street
Fresh Volunteer Lapses Etiquette Asserts Introductory Gaffe
A Boston Herald anecdote recalls a Tampa lieutenant who failed to salute Gen Wade and his staff, explaining he had only recently arrived and had not yet been introduced. The moment underscores inexperience among some volunteers and the strict military decorum expected by Regular Army officers.
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Leutenant
Tampa
Gen. Wade
Boston Herald
Of Interest to Homeseekers in Western Minnesota and Dakota
Advertises farm lands along the Chicago and North Western line in western Minnesota and South Dakota at low prices and easy terms. Promises growing wealth from crops, dairy, and stock raising. Direct inquiries to W. B. Kniskern, G. P. and T. A., 22 Fifth Ave., Chicago.
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Chicago & North-Western
Minnesota
South Dakota
W. B. Kniskern
G. P
T. A
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Matrimony Bonds Seen Through Cash Dividends Jibe
A witty observation argues that marriage bonds would attract more interest if they offered cash dividends. The remark frames matrimony as a financial proposition with a humorous tone.
Cosmo Buttermilk Toilet Soap Advertises Soft Skin
The ad promotes Cosmo Buttermilk Toilet Soap claiming skin becomes soft white and healthy and notes the product is sold everywhere. A separate line remarks that burglary as a profession is apt to prove confining, implying a cautionary or ironic note.
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COSMO
Biliousness Defeated by Dr. Ayer’s Pills in Texarkana Ad
A promotional notice extols Dr. J C Ayer's Pills as a cure for biliousness and constipation. Testimonials from Texarkana Arkansas Rockport Texas Shark Arkansas and others praise mild but thorough action and reliability. The ad invites readers to request Dr Ayer's Curebook with cured stories and lists the Lowell Massachusetts address.
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J. C. Ayer
PeTe ER J. DuFry
Rockport
Texas
Dr. Ayer
J.C. Ayer Co
Lowell
Mass
William Eagan A Noted Player of Early Baseball History
William Eagan, with ties to the Pittsburg and Brooklyn clubs and the Syracuse Eastern League team, rose from Harrisburg and Albany majors to join Pittsburg via arbitration. A versatile infielder, he showed defensive prowess and solid batting, with extensive minor league seasons from 1889 through 1897.
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Illiam Eagan
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
National League and
American Association
Syracuse
National Board of Arbitration For Adjustment
Camden
N. J
Harrisburg
Keystone Capital
Harrisburgs
von der Ahe
Comiskey
Brotherhood
Players’ League
Eagan
Chris
Albany
Albanys
Chicago
National Board of Arbitration
Padden
Eaglan
Curtis Welch
Welch
Lagan
The Pope's Diverse Gardens and Animal Collection
The Pope owns a notable menagerie with gaudy parrots pelicans ostriches and fawns and tends a vineyard as a central hobby. His garden grounds are extensive a park rather than a formal garden with large cared for tracks and natural scenery under his supervision.
Woman Recovers From Neuralgia With Pink Pills Claim
Mrs. Nancy Flynn of near Goshen Indiana survived a near heart neuralgia attack after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She credits the remedy with restoring her health after two years of pain and near death. The piece notes other neuralgia forms and that doctors prescribe the pills and druggists sell them.
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Nancy Flynn
Goshen
Indiana
How Schley Is Pronounced and Other Advertisements
Discussion on Commodore Schley’s name settles on the pronunciation Schly per naval officers. The page also reproduces health and patent medicine ads, including Cascarets, Piso’s Cure, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, COSMO BUTTERMILK SOAP, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, Judas Iscariot lampoon, Dee’s Cough Balsam, No-To-Bac, ATH-LO-PHOROS, and moral aphorisms about God and eternity.
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Schley
Commodore Schley
Schlay
Schly
Ills of Women and Lydia Pinkham's Remedy
Letters from Mary Rothoen of Chicago and Henry Dorr of Cincinnati praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanitive Wash for curing womb disorders headaches and weakness, claiming renewed health and gratitude to the famed remedy.
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Mary Rothoen
Marianna St
Chicago
Ill
Pinkham
Henry Dorr
Findley St
Cincinnati
Ohio
Lydia KM. Pinkhaim
Lydia
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Beauty
St. Louis Sv
Curiaco
New York
Boston
C. S. Crane
St. Louis
A.J. Smith
Age
Cleveland
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Ind
Edward W. Walker Carriage CO
Goshen, Indiana
West 11Th St
Triumph
WM. C. Willard
MFGC
Second St
St. Louis, Mo
Thompson
John W Morris
Washington, ON
D. Gee
Kay
William Eagan
Great Barrington
Mags
Troy
N. Y
Troy Club
Manchester
National League
Dover
N. H
James Garry
Portland
Springfield
Rochester
Rom
Goshen, Ind
Chicago News
C. C
Christ
Anna M. Ross
Williamsport
Hall
Price
Heaven
Hell
Judas Iscariot
Dee
God
Eternity
Athlophores Co
New Haven
Conn
Charity
Y.c.hubinger Bros
Keminiciowa
Newhaven
Moville
Keith's Enamel
Keith
Keith Enamel Starch CO
Epw
A. Marx
Alvany, N. Y
Candy Cathartic
Erling Remedy Company
Chicano
Montreal
Hartford
Ren
Goya
U.S
Druggista
Ht. A. Grebs
Ablanta
Kehen Specialty Co
Dr. Kay
W.N.Y. Chicago
J. A. Shepherd
Iowa
B. J. Kay Medical Co
B. J. Kay
KB. J. Nay Medical Co
Sherman
James A. Shepherd
Neb
G. W. McKeehan
Pleasant Township
Appanouse County
Lowa
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