Favorite Prescription for Women’s Ailments Promoted
An advertisement touts Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a newspaper feature, claiming it cures female weaknesses with ingredients listed on bottle wrappers. It urges readers to contact Buffalo for a free booklet, promotes The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, and mentions Dr. Pierce’s Pellets for stomach, liver, and bowels.
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R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Common Sense
Wabash Time Card at Howell Westward Schedule
Westward trains listed with passenger and freight numbers and times. Eastbound schedules shown. Local freight trains carry passengers per note. For details contact C S Cranz and F C Mcmitran in St. Louis and Des Moines.
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Howell
St. Louis
F.C. Mcmitran D. P
F. A. Des Moines
Dutch Dink at Kroonstad Unearths Boer Treasure
Two Boer children digging near a church in Kroonstad South Africa find gold and silver coins beneath the surface. A sexton joins and they uncover a treasure worth about 5000 dollars. The church had served as a hospital and refugee housing during the war, suggesting the treasure was buried by a now deceased person.
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Wa Sasa Ot Hile
Kroonstad
South Africa
A Gentle Discharge From a Newspaper Office
The piece recounts Hugh Ful lerton recalling meddling owners in newspapers. He describes a scene with him lounging at his desk when a visitor asks if he works there. Ful lerton notes the owner corrects him about tense, saying you mean you did.
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Hugh 8
Fullerton
The Higher Patriotism and Grant on Lee Memorial Day
The Columbus Dispatch notes General Frederick D. Grant’s proposal to mark January 19, 1907 as a national memorial day for Robert E. Lee’s birth centennial. It links Lee and Grant as wartime foes now united in peacetime, signaling a search for higher patriotism from Americans today.
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Frederick D. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Columbus
Edinburgh banker leaves estate for statues and towers
John Stewart McCaig a Scotch banker left almost all his estate creating statues of himself and kin and artistic towers on his land. His sister challenged the will but the Edinburgh court of sessions upheld it.
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John Stewart McCaig
Edinburgh Court of Sessions
Unappreciated Ambition in Witty Exchange
A middle aged man sighs that his hair is his most ambitious feature. His friend asks for the answer and the man retorts that it is always coming out on top, delivering a quiet quip about his appearance.
Demurrer raises questions in court battle
Client says the other side filed a demurrer and wonders what it means, while a friend asks for clarification. The lawyer notes it may involve costs. The exchange reflects a cost concern in a New York legal dispute.
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New York
Misquoted remarks spark call for careful wording
The exchange features Borem stating he has been misquoted, emphasizing the need to weigh words, as Miss Patience Gonne quips about giving less generous measure. The dialogue, sourced from Philadelphia Presa, highlights tensions over misquotation and precision in speech.
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Borem
Did Not Know Him, Bill Asked for Five Dollars
Jill recalls a stranger who asked for five dollars. The Yonkers Statesman notes the man’s claim of three days acquaintance and the habit of chronic borrowing, highlighting the suspicious nature of the request.
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Bill
Jill
Yonkers Statesman
Beyond His Ken Dialogue on Sunday Offering
An exchange from the Detroit Free Press quotes a parent and child discussing church offerings. The boy questions whether the minister receives all the money collected each Sunday while the parent defends the minister’s prayerful conduct.
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Detroit Free Press
Fragmented inquiry about names and actions in garbled text
The user provides a garbled string asking about Boshi She Do and others with unclear intent or context, making it impossible to extract a coherent news item or proper nouns for a summary. The fragment lacks identifiable events, dates, organizations, or outcomes.
Fragmentary Legal Quotation Report Ends Abruptly
A damaged OCR fragment quotes a legal phrase about hearsay and proposal language, ending mid sentence with unclear punctuation. The readable bits reference a matter of hearsay and pronouncements, but no clear parties, dates, or actions are established in the fragment.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Ad Claim
A dated advertisement urges daily scrubbing of the body inside and promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for internal cleansing. The prose cites health benefits for stomach bowels blood liver and tissue and markets tea and tablets at 35 cents by F D Stubenrauch.
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Hollister
F. D. Stubenrauch
Summer Rock Island tourist fares to Colorado and West
Rock Island lines offer summer tourist tickets from Pella Iowa to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo at 21 75 with return by October 31 from June 1 to September 15 July 10 to 15 special round trip 19 25 due to Elks meeting July 16 to 21 return to August 20. Also low rates to Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden Yellowstone and Pacific Coast with side trips. Full details available from Pella Iowa ticket agent.
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Rock Island Lines
Pella
Iowa
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Elks
Glenwood Springs
Col
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Utah
Yellowstone National Park
Pacific Coast
Rock Island
Colorado
Gem City Business College Ad in Quincy Illinois
The largest successful business college in America offers bookkeeping shorthand typewriting penmanship banking and more. With twenty teachers and 1400 students the 100000 college building houses courses leading to ready employment. Free 64 page illustrated catalogue on how to qualify for stenographer or bookkeeper positions. Address 15-24 D. L. Musselman, Pres., Quincy, Illinois.
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America
Low fares on Great Western Tuesdays to Minnesota and beyond
The Chicago Great Western railway offers homeseeker tickets at about half rates to Minnesota North Dakota and Canadian Northwest every first and third Tuesday of the year. Apply through any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minn. State group size and travel date when applying.
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Chicago Great Western Railway
Minnesota
North Dakota
Canadian Northwest
Great Western
J. P. Elmer
St. Paul
Minn
Hairy elephants and mammoths in natural history notes
A review of fur growth in elephants and mammoths notes an undercoat of woolly hair in extinct mammoths and occasionally in living elephants. Instances include Basel zoo, Berne congress remarks in 1904, Rustum elephant in Berlin, and a London calf born in 1902 with a hairy coat.
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Siberia
Natural History Journal
Zoological Gardens
Basel
Congress of Zoologists
Berne
Rustum
Regent’s Park Gardens
Berlin
Meeting in a Mountain: Simplon Tunnel Precision
In the twelve and a third mile Simplon tunnel project two work parties aimed to meet at the heart of the Alps. Calculations for length, level, and direction showed length off by about thirty one inches, level error under four inches, and directional error under five inches from one end and under four from the other.
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Simplon
Alps
Senator Sherman Laughs at Journalist Fort Interview
The story recalls how Senator John Sherman, in New York, agreed to a Fort interview after a comical start. Fort’s card greeting at Fifth Avenue Hotel sparked a reluctant mood, but a single joke melted his reserve and yielded a long, important interview. An Orleans funeral anecdote adds contrast to the piece.
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John Sherman
New York City
Homer Fort
George Alfred Townsend
Sherman
Fort
Fifth Avenue
Ohio Statesman
Kia
New Orleans
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