Peruna touted by U S minister to England in testimonial
U S Minister to England Lewis E Johnson son of former Senator and Attorney General Louis E Johnson endorses Peruna for catarrh. Letter from Washington urges readers to use Peruna, claiming it reaches root causes, not temporary relief. Offers free book from Dr Hartman and free advice if results are not prompt. Columbus Ohio based Hartman Drug Manufacturing Co advertises product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis E. Johnson
Hartman
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co
Columbus
Ohio
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
California Fig Syrup CO
Defiance Cold Water Starch Promises Quality and Value
The ad targets housewives hesitant about new market products urging a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch. It boasts guaranteed superiority and lists a 16 oz package versus 12 oz from competitors, arguing quality and quantity will win over sustained users.
When a Man Lacks Wind to Raise Funds for Sugar
A man in distress faces failure to mobilize funds and a grocer must use much sand to offer sugar below cost, illustrating hardship and price pressure in tough times.
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills Ad
Catarrh is a blood disease requiring internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to affect the blood and mucous surfaces and is sold as a prescription product. testimonials available. Also touts Hall's Family Pills and offers price details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Texas Leads World in Rice Production Says 1902 Report
James Barker of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway notes Texas holds the world record for rice. Best rice lands run along the M K and T line. A Texas book offer is available on request. The ad also touts photography and a Defiance Hot Head pipe remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
James Barker
Wainwright Bldg
St. Louis
Disposal of the Dead a Problem in Cities
An examination of historic graveyard crowding and burials in cities like London Paris Havana and New York argues for stricter cemetery laws and urban reforms. It notes mass graves overcrowded paupers remaining in trenches and suggests converting famous cemeteries into parks with monuments relocated or replaced by trees. It cites a public health rule restricting new graves south of Eighty Sixth Street and calls for wider enforcement within 100 miles of populous towns. It also mentions Crater Lake Oregon as the deepest known US freshwater body.
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London
Paris
New York
Boston
Colon
Havana
Gen. Wood
L Ondon
Calvary Cemetery
Newtown
Calvary
Corona
Elmhurst
Woodside
Eighty Sixth Street
Mount Auburn
Greenwood
Laurel Hill
Philadelphia
Mussulman
Constantinople
Louis Windmuller
Scientists rebuffed in bid to dig Abraham tomb site
Constantinople reports the Sultan refused American Harvard graduate Banks permission to excavate Tel Ibrahim near Babylon. Banks sought to unearth the Ur of Chaldees, supported by Rockefeller funds, but religious and political objections, plus past Porte friction, delayed any Ottoman digs. A German team works nearby.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Banks
Tel Ibrahim
Babylon
Abraham
Tower of Babel
Machpelah
Hebron
Palestine
Sarah
Mr. Banks
Harvard
Chaldees
Mesopotamia
John D. Rockefeller
Porte
Cathal
Bagdad
Ottoman Empire
America
Six Europeans Enter Buddhist Priesthood in Burma
The Burmese Buddhist scene welcomes six European men into the priesthood, expanding the ranks of non-native monks as international religious exchange grows within Burma.
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Burma
Rapid Progress By the South in Population and Industry
The south shows dramatic growth 1880 to 1900 with population rising 44 percent and farm values up 157 percent. Cotton output nearly doubles, cotton spindles rise over 2.7 million, and manufacturing expands with 92 thousand plus establishments and railways growing 143 percent.
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South
United States
Southern
Cows Respond to Violin Tune at Cambridge Hospital Concert
In Cambridge Massachusetts a hospital charity concert featured a violinist who claimed to speak cow language. He played chords that drew two cows from a distant field to the fence where they looked, ears forward, and stamped when the tune continued, then lowed in response. Dr Dixwell and others witnessed the event.
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Hospital Music Fund
Cambridge
Mass
City Hospital
Orpheus
Dixwell
Ingalls Grave to Receive Native Kansas Boulder Marker
A Missouri dispatch reports John J. Ingalls grave at Mt. Vernon cemetery will be marked with a native glacial boulder from Kansas. A letter from Washington dated December 10, 1890, describes a preferred rock monument with a bronze inscription bearing the Ingalls name.
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John J. Ingalls
Mt. Vernon
Kansas
Atchison, Kan
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Senate
Washington
Sousa’s Son-In-Law Marries in Atlantic City
A few days ago in Atlantic City John Philip Sousa’s 18 year old mother in law became his mother in law through a marriage with Henry Bell s age 74. The groom is described as spry. Sousa has two children older than the new grandmother. The note adds that men admire clever women more than handsome ones because they are rarer.
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Sousa
Atlantic City
John Philip Sousa
Henry Bells
Grady Predicts His Own Early Death
The obituary note recalls Henry W. Grady who died at 39, predicting to a friend he would not live to old age. He mused on unlikely future images of baldness and cane, asserting a life of riotous blood and energy would end young.
Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine
The ad claims Bromo Quinine tablets stop coughs and treat colds. It lists price five cents and promotes the product in an old time medicinal tone with no additional facts.
Fragmented ad copy on starch and remedies
A garbled note discusses store stock and selling De fiance Starch in 12 oz brands while customers prefer 1 oz packets. It also features quips about great men and a teething medicine for children named Mrs. Winston and a remark on a newborn's future.
Defiance Cold Water Brand Promoted In Frugal Ad
An old advertisement touts Defiance Cold Water Brand at 116 oz for 10 cents claiming superior quantity and quality. It extols Ball Blue logo mentions a 2 oz package for 5 cents and warns about exaggerated slander from copperhead figures. It contrasts large roosters with family meals and mocks gas meters that “never fail to register.”
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Defiance Cold Water
Wabash Railway Tickets Promote South Destinations
Advertisement notes tickets two dollars for one way or round trip on the Wabash to many south and southeast points with sales on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. It promotes winter resort rates and urges inquiries at the Omaha office or via Harry E. Moores. It also includes unrelated testimonial snippets and assorted quips from other ads.
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Wabash Railroad
St. Louis
Wabash Corner
Farnam St
Omaha
Harry E. Moores
Neb
Defiance Starch Claims Superior Quality and Quantity
The passage asserts many would dwell in misery without fault finding and promotes Defiance Starch as superior in both quality and quantity. It contrasts imitation of many birds with virtue and notes Put-it-Off delays until a partridge drum signals action.
Unclear Prose Passages on Moral Quandaries and Odd Rules
A set of aphoristic lines discusses staying power of undertakers over boxers, a blind horse judging its rider, bright yellow clothes as unsightly, white attire for Red Cross events, and a grocer offering a 2 oz package for five cents. The piece ends with a wry note about the old being asked to explain why the good die young.
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U. S
England
Hien Lewis
Sokasons
Winchester
Weather
Libby
Maxz
Schmoller & Mueller
Isfacturers
Hot-Head
Jake
Geological Survey
Crater Lake
Oregon
Sultan
Mark Ingalls
Ingalls
Defiance
Slander
Copper- Head
Kentucky
Piso
Br. Kine
Arch Street
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mamie Kerens
9Th Ave
New York City
Lydia KE
Pinkham
Amanda T. Petterson
Atwater
Minn
Dean
Pixxham
Lydia K. Pinkham
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