Lydia Pinkham Advertisement Claims Cure for Ovarian Troubles
A Ontario reader reports relief from a five year struggle with ovarian trouble after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the remedy stopped discharge and weakness, avoided surgery, and led to renewed health within weeks. The letter urges others to write Mrs. Pinkham for free advice and mentions a $5000 forfeit for falsified genuineness.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Maes
Larren Eaters
Walkerville
Ont
Cleanliness and health in daily living
The New York Ledger notes cleanliness as central to health, stressing clean air and skin to prevent impurities entering the blood. It warns that breathing pollutants and dirty skin can seed disease, skin disorders, and blood poisoning if not kept clean.
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N, Y. Ledger
Government Mines in Prussia Ownership and Output
The Prussian government owns and operates 17 collieries eight lignite mines 14 iron mines five metalliferous mines other than iron three rock salt mines five iron works and eight metal smelting works six salt works and five quarries with a yearly output exceeding 30 million dollars. It also owns specific collieries Ibbenbaubren in Westphalia Deister Osterwald in Clausthal and half of Obernkirchen in the same district.
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Prussia
Ibbenbaubren
Osnabruck
Westphalia
Deister
Osterwald
Clausthal
Obernkirchen
Chicago Chronicle
Lake Tanganyika Holds Remnant of Ancient Sea
Recent studies of Tanganyika’s animal life show it hosts oceanic species unlike other African lakes. Researchers contend a sea once connected to the open ocean occupied the region now home to Tanganyika, with the lake as its last remnant.
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Lake Tanganyika
African
Africa
Tanganyike
Chicago Tribune
Fragmented Gags and Sketches Amid News Snippets
A collage of humorous exchanges and quotes fills the page. A flirtatious dialogue hints at dead-set propriety, while jokes about snoring dogs and a recruiting officer provide light relief. Vienna taxes offer a policy note amid a miscellany of wry observations on happiness.
Misapprehension in War Press Gangs Dialogue
A brief dialogue from the New York World contrasts Miss Cockleigh and Miss Gayleith discussing the War of 1812 era and imagined press gang life, noting their curiosity about how it might have felt to live in those days.
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Cockleigh
Gayleith
N. Y. World
Charley Lamb in Accident Report At Wall Street Gain
A fragment notes questions about Charley Lamb after an accident and mentions a $19,000 gain in Wall Street. The brief item implies concern for Lamb's injuries while noting his financial activity. No further details are provided in readable text.
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Charley Lamb
Wall Street
Puck
Talking Chimneys Tell Old Bohemian and Lady Stories
A New Year mood shifts through six brick chimneys atop varied buildings as they discuss tales of a once celebrated Young Good Fellow, a rich Beautiful Lady, and a weary old actress. The chimneys narrate entwined fables of ambition, debt, family, and social ascent with somber, reflective tones. Jessie Llewellyn
Baron Hugo Orthet Seventy-Year Bedbound Millionaire
The Philadelphia Press profiles Baron Hugo Orthet a millionaire who never rises from bed. For ten years he has not dressed or left his rooms. Physically sound, he travels by bed in a carriage and private railway car while managing vast estates with sharp wit and business acumen.
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Baron Hugo Orthet
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Kazan
Philadelphia Preas
Ten Men and a Safe in a Big Life Insurance Safe
A New York Press account describes a vast sub basement safe in a major life insurance firm. Ten officials hold parts of the overall combination. five open the outer door, three the next, and two the final door, each cooperating with others to move the bolt. The arrangement is called a safe within a safe.
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New York Press
Fu Tyre
B. Co. D
Secret marriage leads to quick divorce suit
A couple wed secretly and agreed to live apart a year before revealing it. They did not keep the secret, and within three months the wife sued for divorce charging willful absence, reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Cleveland Plais
Western Canada praised by British and American travelers
A delegate from Ohio reports Western Canada a fine country near Lacombe Alberta with good water, abundant hay, and rapid cattle growth. Tough Spender notes a Somersetshire farmer expanding to 220 acres and 4,000 bushels of wheat, while a British retiree lauds the climate, land, and potential for settlers who show perseverance.
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Ohio
Western Canada
Lacombe
Alberta
Red Deer River
Tom
Ouling
United States
Tough Spender
The
Westminster Gazette
Canada
Somersetshire
England
Ieve
Manitoba
Tle
Assiniboia
Mexalenan Hall Fights Draw Elite To Bull Ring
In Mexico City the swagger set attended a bull fight replacing amateur circuses. Bulls fought fiercely while four hundred society members applauded. Luis Mlanes, after a bold estacada baja, battled a bull and earned public acclaim and ears for his prowess. A following list named distinguished attendees.
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Mexico
Luis Mlanes
St. Louis Republic
Asiatic Notes on Plants and Customs
The smallest flowering plant is Wolffia microscopica from India. China uses vast lumber for boat building with millions of crafts. In Oshima Japan a bride brings a tub of water as a dowry. East Indian schools value mental arithmetic, teaching multiplication to forty times forty. A northern Indian tombstone recalls a missionary who translated Scriptures into Pushto and was accidentally shot.
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China
Oshima
London Globe
India
Khutmutghar
The Teosinte Plant as Fodder Crop
Bulletin 102 from the Kansas station describes teosinte as a native Mexico annual resembling corn or sorghum. It usually has jointed leafy spikes instead of ears, rarely flowers or seeds in the U S, and offers large forage returns in the southern states. Louisiana reports over 50 tons of green forage per acre, but Kansas conditions limit its value compared to corn or sorghum.
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Kansas Station
Mexico
United States
Florida
Culf
Louisiana
Kansas
Plowing Under Crops Promotes Soil Improvement
S Ri Keach argues in the N Tribune-Farmer that green manuring, though doubted by many farmers, delivers soil benefits when crops are plowed under. Even with cost concerns, a leguminous or hardy cover crop can enhance soil texture, reduce weeds, and add humus, especially if land is worn from annual cropping.
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S. Ri. Keach
Tribune-Farmer
Rural drift toward farms signals hopeful trend
A growing rural retention trend is noted as modern farm improvements raise living standards and reduce youth migration to cities. The Boston Globe comments that urban life tends toward mental moral and physical decline, highlighting renewed rural appeal and stability for the next generation.
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Boston Globe
Honey consumption and wintering in bee colonies
An author notes a gen colony consumes about one and a half pounds of honey daily to sustain heat brood and wax, with similar use during honey flow and about 25 pounds through winter. He favors a colony with around 20 percent bees, larger than common hive sizes, and questions the 20 000 bee ration estimate. Butter production timing varies with temperature and can be forecast using a thermometer.
Open lands auction in Indian Territory attracts settlers
Beautiful Indian Territory offers last large tract of uncultivated land for settlement. A copy of an attractive book on present day conditions in this wonderful country will be sent on request. James Barker, 1 Pass. 1, MK. & T. Ry. By. building, Oklahoma.
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Indian Territory
James Barker
Solailwright Bidg
Helping It Dieng Lady Visitor Comment
A fragment from the Chicago News quotes a visitor and the prison warden discussing a handsome, kind looking man described as one of the loveliest murderers, reflecting a sensational crime context in a correctional setting.
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Chiange
Record of the Past Proclaims Doan’s Kidney Pills Cure
The advertisement claims over fifty thousand public testimonials that Doan’s Kidney Pills cure kidney and urinary disorders from headaches to diabetes. It highlights Samuel J. Taylor of Goshen Indiana who states after years of illness and crutch use he found a permanent cure and has not needed medicine for five years. A free trial offer and dosing details are provided with Foster Milburn Co and Buffalo as the sender, price fifty cents per box.
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Dean
Kidsey Pilla
Samuel J. Taylor
South Third St
Goshen
Ind
Jacob C. Mann
Dozo
Doan
Taylor
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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Pepsi Syrup CO
Monticello, Ills
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