Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People Promoted Despite Nonsense
An advertisement promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a cure and vigor booster. It features testimonials about fevers, debility, and nerve issues, mentioning East Vassalboro and locations in New York and Ohio. It also touts a machine capable of producing cement bricks and relates dubious claims about sexual health and moral themes.
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Williame
Beret J
Worth
Vassalboro
Wil
The Diamond River Chapter VI Continues
Harvey Jethroe faces a tangled case as Hargraves offers to defend him while police threats loom. Taylor, a wary witness, denies complicity, and Perrott Lane cables tie Harvey to a Rio Janeiro and New York fraud link. Hargraves plots a quiet defense and the escape of a jailed client.
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Holgecomb
Harvey
Joseph Taylor
Jethroe
Taylor
Ezekiel
Hargraves
Stark
Stargraves
Brazil
Perrott
Lane
Harvey Martin Jethroe
Rio Janeiro
New York
Algona Bay
Thomas Edgecome
Verrott
Pacific Hotel
Mr. Hargraves
Rouse
Joss
Pattec
Cincinnati
Central Station
Angle
de Hargraves
Jetteroe
Easroe
Taney
Prisoner Identified in Mining City Case Faces Lawyer Visit
A shabby man at a station is arrested after a tense sequence with an officer. solicitor Hargraves letters to Joseph Taylor at the Pacific Hotel, seeking private talk about the case tied to the night’s dreadful crime and the man W is charged with.
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Ena Hs
Kloss
Hargraves
Joseph Taylor
Pacific Hotel
Harvey Martin Jethroe
South America
Mr. Taylor
Taylor
Hazard
Hargravese
Jethroe
Hlargraves
Ike
Trust Magnates Good Men
Ida Tarbell the Standard Oil historian stays at Hotel Brunswick and defends exposing the company. She says pulpits and newspapers should draw morals while she compiles facts for the public and notes Rockefeller and church ties, insisting he has no bad habits and gives generously.
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Ida M. Jarbell
Standard Oil Company
Brunswick
Boston
Kansas City Journal
Myr
Rockefeller
Law as Practice: Office Breeding Over College Training
The University of Chicago studies suggest the legal mind is formed by study and philosophy rather than merely office work. Noted figures like Marshall and Webster are cited, arguing that a great lawyer learns by thinking about law, with country office practice producing the era’s best.
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University of Chicago
John Marahail
Ben Hardin
Napolene
Tennyson
Matt Carpenter
Rufus Choate
Salmon P. Chase
William Wirt
Marshall
Blackstone
Webster
Pinkney
Robert Toombs
Benjamin Ilarrison
Washington Post
Puzzling Behaviors in Steel Tends to Challenge Researchers
The article notes steel fatigue under strain and recovery after rest, the benefit of gradual loading to strengthen beams, and the inconsistent test results of new steel. Experts say some steel improves with time while other batches crack or become brittle, with no clear explanation yet.
Geography of nations drives commerce and war outcomes
Gilbert H. Grosvenor argues that knowledge of human nature and geography leads to business success. He cites German growth with South America, Turkey, and eastern Asia, and Japanese wartime gains as proof. He says the Czar failed by ignoring Japan’s geography and misjudging expansion needs.
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Gilbert H. Grosvenor
South America
Turkey
Asia
Japan
Can't Dodge Em Japanese Cities Draw Gymnastics Praise
A Yonkers Statesman note quotes Gotham on American cars heading to Japanese cities and praising Japanese gymnasts, reflecting light commentary on cultural and sports topics.
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Gotham
Yonkers Statesman
Yalk is Said to Be Cheap But Yet Comes with Tradeoffs
A terse saying notes that Yalk is cheap in price but comes with drawbacks. It is described as a common remark among married men highlighting perceived value versus cost.
Stone Ball Revolves at Marion Cemetery
In Marion Ohio a 36 inch stone ball on a heavy pedestal at the cemetery slowly turns from north to south. Erected by banker C B Merchant the ball has shifted over five inches since August while weighing 4200 pounds and mounted in a socket. State Geologist Edward Orton Jr. suggests heat expansion and resultant creeping or circumferential lengthening causing a pulling stress as possible causes.
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Marion
Ohio
C. B. Merchant
Edward Orton, Jr
Cemetery Association
Winning His Own R file and a Fraud at the Raffle
August Belmont cites a fraud at a directors meeting describing a rural raffle scheme. Participants drew numbered steel disks where the innkeeper’s wife won with unusual frequency until a child failed to draw the hot disk, exposing the manipulation.
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August Belmont
Mr. Belmont
New York Tribune
Mean disposition noted in auto learning request
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip questions a man’s temperament after refusing to teach a woman how to drive a car, implying a mean disposition. The dialogue mocks reluctance to share practical skills and highlights gendered expectations in learning tasks.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Clear Complexion Promoted By Cuticura Remedies
An advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap for pimples blackheads red rough and oily skin and disfiguring humors. It claims rapid mild results and benefits as a shampoo and for rough hands. Also promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and ships distances. Includes grand offers from Greer Co and F Lewis Granite Oklahoma threats.
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Abiap'e
Waldorf Astoria Manager Earns $500000 Salary A Year
An article notes the Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York pays its manager a yearly salary of five hundred thousand dollars. The text then digresses into a string of Dutch origin words and a poem about Mary and her lamb, reflecting linguistic curiosities and social commentary.
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Waldorf Astoria
New York
Barefoot and Miss Bots Marry in Roswell NM
A Philadelphia paper notes statistics on women marrying ages, citing Roswell New Mexico as the wedding locale for Barefoot and Miss S M Bots. It highlights marriage likelihood by age groups and comments on social pressures.
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BE. Barefoot
S. M. Bots
Roswell, N M
Philadelphia
Senator Sullivan Endorses Doan's Kidney Pills
Hon Tim D Sullivan of New York Congress endorses Doan's Kidney Pills as invaluable for sick kidneys. He reports relief, cites friends' satisfaction, and recommends the remedy. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo distributes. price 50 cents per box. sold by all druggists.
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Baye
Doan
Timothy D. Sullivan
New York
Congress
New York State
Sullivan
Dean'sidney
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Mrs Pinkham Invites Women to Seek Help for Female Ailments
An appeal encourages women to write to Lydia E. Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts for advice on female weakness. Letters are read and answered by women, offering confidential guidance from extensive experience and a vegetable compound claimed to restore health. The ad urges immediate action and asserts widespread success.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Youngest General Freight Agent Leads Burlington System
Conrad B E Spens named general freight agent of the third district to the Burlington system and is stated as the youngest such executive in the country at age seven. Holland exported 626,789 gallons of wine to England last year, prompting speculation in an English paper about who drank the wine and how they liked it.
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Conrad BE. Spens
Holland
England
Methodist minister and British Infantry on flexible command
A minister jokes that God made man and then improved with woman. The British Infantry rejects fixed commands, using phrases like lies that hedge and slope arms as soldiers move, with men standing at ease after a mouvement and arising without orders.
Cure for Stomach Trouble Absorption Without Drugs
A promotional article touts Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers as a safe drug free cure for stomach trouble including indigestion gas and heartburn. It offers a free sample or two boxes for 75 cents, claiming absorption to be the cure and promising harmless relief.
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Mull
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