Allen's Foot Ease and Society Dining in San Francisco
ITS and other ad snippets tout Dr. Kline's Great Restorer and Allen's Foot Ease claims for cures of foot ailments and nerve relief. A San Francisco society dinner feature praises Captain Richard Pearson Hobson and bridesmaid roses. Other letters endorse Fiso's Cure for throat and lung issues. The text ends with a curio about men who are adept at making love not making the best husbands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Pearson Hobson
San Francisco
Fiso
Vanburen
Ind
Lsb
A Cheap Chimney and Poultry Salt and Lamb Care
From Farm Topics we learn a cheap serviceable chimney using glazed tile and a T length for stove entry. Prairie Farmer notes salt is needed in poultry feed in winter. lambs require careful maternal bonding and early suckling to avoid chilling and death.
Calf Feed Mixture Using Barley Wheat Linseed and Soda
A breeder uses a mix of two parts barley meal and wheat meal to one part ground linseed with a pinch of carbonate of soda. One ounce of soda per peck of mix is added to balance bowels. The blend is stirred with cold water to a cream, then warmed to blood heat. It can supplement milk after five to six weeks of age and may replace it.
Handy Covers for Sap Rain and Sugar Season
Practical farming notes advise making a sheltering cover for sap buckets using a four inch by fourteen inch board, a stiff wire, and staples to shield trees during wet weather. The tip promises profits by reducing rain damage and device needs.
Indiana wedding by telephone gains unlikely support
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes the Indiana idea of attending weddings by telephone as a good plan. The piece suggests guests need not dress for the ocean voyage, while a separate odd report states a codfish stomach contained a farthing found at Eyemouth in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Indiana
Eyemouth
England
A Proper Rebuke at Princeton Theological Seminary
Dr Patton lashed into students amid peanuts in class. He warned that the stock should be consumed and urged restraint until the lecture ends. He asked future tea break refreshments to be limited to sponge cake.
Character and a Butler's Moral Reputation Told
Bridget applies for her brother as butler in a family where she cooks. Madame questions his moral character and Bridget responds with colorful bragging about his strength and toughness from Cork to Kilkenny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget
Madame
Cork
Kilkenny
Why Many Young Men Fail
A critique of clerks who stay within a routine workday, avoid extra effort, and fail to seek challenging tasks. It argues that bright men stagnate by sticking to minimal effort, arriving on time but not going beyond fixed hours, and being satisfied with easy, genteel positions.
Danger in Delay. Buckley jokes on delaying marriage
Dr. James M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate, urges Methodist youth to marry before old age. He told a newly started minister, "Don't delay too long," noting you may be unable to manage children if you wait too late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Buckley
The
Christian Advocate
Multiple Births in England Record Rare Odds
The Lancet reports England sees one twin birth in eighty, one triplet per 6,400, one quadruplet per 512,900, and one quintette per 40,980,000. A noted case describes a woman bearing seven successive triplets to a husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Mosquitoes travel with winds and trains
Mosquitoes do not fly far by rule. Light winds carry them from breeding places, but heavy winds make them cling to the nearest attachment. Railroad trains and other transport have carried mosquitoes into regions that were once free before railways existed.
A Sea Lyric Poem by William Hamilton Hayne
A meditation on the sea as music and mystery. The sea is a harp played by the winds of God, delivering vast unrest and a deep, untranslated pain. The poem compares the sea’s love to the Moon’s light and the Main’s sorrow to an endless ache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hamilton Hayne
The
Atlantic Monthly
Crank Day At White House Sparks Custody Of Cranks
The New York Times notes an elderly man named Barney Hughes claimed to be 100 and sought a house after saying the President promised it. A White House secret service officer said Fridays attract cranks, unseen by the public, and Hughes was persuaded to leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Barney Hughes
Secret Service
Mr. Hughes
New York Times
Women's idea of strength through many societies
A quip on women joining numerous societies aimed at suppressing various things, suggesting excesses in striving for impact.
Schwab's leadership praised as master of labor
A longtime intimate of Charles M. Schwab claims the steel magnate earns the world’s praise not for pure steel expertise but for his talent in handling people. He is described as the ablest director of labor the world has known, with steel workers trusting him implicitly and attributing many strikes to his absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Schwab
Schwab
Steel Trust
Charlie
Doan's Kidney Pills Ease Painful Kidney Symptoms
A historic testimonial claims Doan's Kidney Pills relieve aching backs and hip and joint pains. It describes swelling, dropsy signs, high colored urine with brick dust sediment, pain in passage, dribbling, frequent urination, and bed wetting, asserting the pills remove calculi and gravel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doan
Doctor Advocated Peruna Cures Female Ailments Says Patient
An ad claims Peruna treats catarrh of pelvic organs and female weakness without surgery. It cites testimonies from Mrs Eva Bartho and Miss Maud Steinbach praising the remedy after avoiding operation. Dr Hartman of Columbus, Ohio offers free advice and asserts wide use and cure rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Bartho
East 12Th Street
N. Y
City
Peruna
Miss Maud Steinbach
12Th St
Milwaukee
Wis
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LeRoy
N.Y
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J.C. Ayer CO
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Thacher Medicine Company
Kattanooga, Tenn
Ripans Tabules
Itoy
Ly Mall
Tarrant Co
Jay Street
New Yor
MS Machine CO
Tiffin
Ohio
C Wenens
National Cancer Medicine Company
Austell
Atlanta
Ella Carron
New England
Ales K
Malvern, Ps
Salem
Dean
Dezrrrerp, Inc
Jo. H. Huntz
Ridgeville
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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Savrt Davis
Springs
Kans
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Kansan Ie
Fatswourt
F.S. Brown
Falmouth
LT A
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Chicago
New Yack
Auy
Opie
Hartman
Columbus
Eva Barteo
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarivy
Libby
McNeill S. Libby
Wieser Oes Bute
Esa
Rowe
Ea Ar Seo Tee
H. H
Bex
BR Atignta
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