Woman Recovers From Nervous Trouble After Pinkham Compound
West Danby New York resident Mrs Dewrrr Since Eaves describes relief from nervous trouble and sleeplessness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes husbandry duties and four daughters, with eldest and younger girls also benefiting. The ad claims forty years of use and testimonials from women nationwide.
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West Danby
N.Y
Haya
Lydia B. Pinkham
Hays
Mrs. Dewrrr
Lydia E. Pinkham
President Wilson Calls for Debate on German Submarine Policy
President Wilson asserts sole executive responsibility for foreign policy and urges the House Rules Committee to bring to floor study and a vote on resolutions warning ships of belligerents from arming merchant vessels. He convenes leaders from foreign affairs to seek a decisive show of unity and end agitation with a confidence vote.
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Aston News
Seaace
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Congress
United States
Poul
House Rules Committee
House
Stone
Representative Flood
Kern
Senate
White House
Pou
Germany
Henry
Committee On Rules
Cordiary
Woodrow Wilson
Untitled Notice of Collection on Past Due Accounts
Credit agency pursues past due accounts with demand for payment and collection actions. Affected party named as debtor and issuer seeks to recover owed sums through standard debt collection procedures. General terms indicate due date and potential accommodation for payment arrangements.
Methodists in Iowa top Protestant denominations by members
Iowa Methodists exceed 200000 members in the state, more than the combined membership of any three Protestant denominations. Des Moines district shows a 15.5 percent rise in church membership. statewide 3 to 6 percent gains reported. Washington county notes over 280000 dollars of old debts wiped, boosting local merchants.
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Iowa
Vernon
Otn
Tt Chassell
Iowa Methodist
Methodists of Laws
Lown Pow
United States
Des Moines
Methodist Church of
Hla Grove
Decorah
Algona
Washington
Washington County
Crall
Washington Business Meus Association
She
U S Sues for Recovery of Loans to Stranded Americans
United States Attorney Walter A. Manice sues to recover 67.83 from a borrower who used a 2.75 million dollar Congress fund aiding Americans stranded abroad. Secretary McAdon announced 2,600 delinquent names and forthcoming restitution suits.
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New York
Europe
McAdne
Butter Seller’s Long Contract Net Shows $21000
Mrs. David Hughes, wife of a western Knoxville farmer, contracted with O J Kendig to supply all butter from her cows for 24 years. At 80 cents a pound May to November and 35 cents November to May, she produced over BUCO pounds totaling about $21,000 in payments. She averaged 63 pounds weekly, with occasional weeks near zero, and used the proceeds to buy two farms in Marion County.
Senator Allen Aids Students in 1916 Hay Perk Fund
Ames State Senator Joe Allen has donated 660 dollars to send 44 of the 1916 hay baby perk winners to the Ames winter short course next year. This marks the third year he has funded expenses for the perk winners to Iowa State College.
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Senator Allen
Ames
Joe” Allen
Tila
Mwa State College
Cattle Bring High Prices at Des Moines Sale
Several hundred buyers attended the Town Shorthorn Breeders' association sale at the state fair grounds. Ninety prize animals sold from $100 to $925 a head. The first seventy cattle brought in $11,120 total, averaging $158.25 each. The overall sale average was $153 per head.
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Des Moines
Town Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Death of Pioneer Elizabeth Healey in Dubuque
Mrs Elizabeth Healey said to be the oldest resident in Iowa died at her home in Dubuque at age 96. She had lived there eighty three years and arrived on the first boat that plied the Mississippi from St Louis to Dubuque.
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Dubuque
Elizabeth ‘Healey
Iova
Mississippi
St. Louis Toubuque
Nearly Half Million for Roads Eldora
Hardin county under the board of supervisors and County Engineer E W Dunn will spend 450000 over three years to gravel grade and drain 175 tiles of county roads. An additional 200000 will fund steel and cement bridges and culverts. The project aims for an 80 percent complete and satisfactory system, noting only two counties in the United States match this level.
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Eldora
Hardin County
Board of Supervisors
E.W. Dunn
United States
Flood Claims Victim at Lon Moles River Rescue
Oskaloosa, Ray Ellis, 18, rescued Charles Thomas from a tree amid turbulent Lon Moles River flood waters. Thomas was in the tree from afternoon until evening when rescued. county engineer Rommel died attempting to dynamite through a gorge. Rommel sank, his body not recovered.
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Oskaloosa
Ray
Ellis
Charles Homas
Lon Moles River
Thomas
Ells
Romunel
Enginver
Mahaska County
Gorge
Wigs
Rommel
Aid for Flood Victims in Des Moines Area
Des Moines reports engineer W P Peterson of the Rock Island railroad was sent by Governor Clarke to Oska joosa to assess flood prevention along the Des Moines river. A massive ice gorge at Given has backed water for miles, driving residents from homes as water levels threaten areas beyond typical high-water reaches.
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Des Moines
W. P. Peterson
Rock Island Railroad
Clarke
Oskajoosa
Des Moines River
Given
Tottoms
Jockey Wiley Faces War Time Offer From Bucharest Prince
Jockey William Wiley, four years riding for Romania's prime minister, received a cablegrant offer of 12000 dollars from Prince Carl I in Bucharest to ride his mounts this season. Unsettled European affairs and travel difficulties may force Wiley to refuse. Wiley spends winters at his Ottumwa home each year.
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Otiumnva
William Wiley
Romania
Prince Carl 1
Bucharest
Europe
Wiley
Ottumwa
Water System Sold At Auction Fort Madison
At a foreclosure sale the Fort Madison water works system was bid in by C F Street of New York former general manager for 23000 The Citizens Water Company was the only other bidder offering 32000 The Citizens company which was voted a franchise at a December election announces it will install a new plant. Genes summer Sunday School Exhibit at Fair Des Moines Iowa Sunday schools will be represented at the Iowa State fair this year with an exhibit of the latest lesson materials and samples of work by younger students in modeling and other handicraft The recommendations of the conference held here meet with the approval of the state convention at the Town Sunday school association in Dubuque June 20 23.
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Fort Madison
Fort Matison
C. F. Street
New York
Citizens' Water Company
Citizens” Company
Genes
Des Moines
Iowa
Town Sunday School Association
Dubueque
Small Boy Prevents Wreck West of Adelphi
Hitle Clair Bishop saves a passenger train by discovering a broken rat on the Wabash two miles west of Adelphii. The boy told his mother who alerted the sexton foreman and the train, due in sixty minutes, was lagged and repairs completed. Ackley will manufacture auto plates. capitalists plan a plant for number plates, expecting immediate profit.
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Adelphi
Wabash
Adelphii
Hitle Clair Bishop
Ackley
Sluty Years On Same Farm
Altoona John Jackson Post died on his farm three-fourths mile east of Altona after over sixty years on the same property. Born April 4, 1828 in New York he immigrated to this country at age 27 and settled in the area.
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Altoona
John Jackson Post
Altona
New York
Counly
Farm Lands Sell for 320 Percent Return in County Deal
Mundy and Seale sold a Liberty township farm three miles north of Cremans to Lockard of this city and Mrs Gara Baeghly of Ascamh Alabama for 320000 dollars. The eight year old farm had improvements added at a cost between 7000 and 9000 dollars.
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Mundy & Seale
I. Lockard
Gara Baeghly
Alaacre
Liberty Township
Mundy & Avot
Cremans
Explosion Shakes Maplewood. Dozens Left Homeless
A dynamite blast at Maplewood sewer project injured twenty eight and killed at least two as thirty frame houses were demolished and windows shattered for miles. The Crorey Construction Co powder house stored the dynamite. ambulances, police, and fire units rushed in from St Louis as crews searched wreckage for victims. The blast left a sixty by fifteen foot crater and cause remains undetermined.
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St. Louis
Maplewood
St. Louis Op
Crorey Construction Company
Mfe
NO ORDERS TO SINK DIVERS
London reports Lord Robert Cecil states British policy on merchantmen and submarines. Defensively armed merchant ships must not fire unless a submarine shows hostile intent, despite German claims of offensive rules. The passage cited misreads the two text portions when read together.
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London
Germany
Atgn
Lord Robert Cecil
Durazzo Seized by Austrians in Albanian Port Action
Vienna reports Austro Hungarian forces have taken full possession of Durazzo after surrounding the town on three sides and advancing from the southeast with minimal opposition. Italian and Albanian troops reportedly withdrawn from Durazzo by Italian transports. Durazzo, a coastal town near Avlona, holds ancient ruins and lies about 110 miles north of Avlona.
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Vienna
London
Durazzo
Rome
Duraszo
Avlonu
Four British Ships Sunk Off London Coast
Four British steamers were sunk with about thirty lives lost. The Wigan and Dido were the largest victims. the chief officer and two crew members of twenty nine were landed while others were missing. Later reports added the sinking of the Pastnet and Tummel with seven and two crew losses respectively, while Dennby’s crew were rescued.
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Londo
Wigan
Car Barn Fire Destroys Massachusetts Street Cars
Merrimac March 2 fire destroyed 11 horse cars and two plows of the Massachusetts and Northwont Street Railway company in the car barn causing about 100000 dollars in loss.
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Gurnap
Merrimac
Mass
Massachusetts & Northwontara Street Railway Company
Fire near New Dreadnaught in Quincy dock
A fire broke out at the dock where the dreadnaught Nevada lay in Quincy Massachusetts. Flames rose about ten feet but the Nevada remained undamaged.
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New Dreadnaught
Quincy
Mass
Nevada
Morning hot water cleanse touted for health
An old advertisement extols drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It promises relief from constipation biliousness and nervous days and promotes a morning bath as part of a health regimen citing drugstore availability and Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a cleanse aid.
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Pierce
Unclear fragment hints at Ocean’s heist with sleeves
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a hat trick up his sleeve and references Ocean’s, Patrice, and Gary. Unable to determine a clear event, persons, or organizations due to garbled phrasing.
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Patience
Ocean
Hy Patrice
A Wrize Ware
Cuticura Skin Care Ad Offers Pore Cleansing Solution
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soup to treat pimples blackheads redness and roughness by cleansing pores. It urges frequent sample requests via a Book Address postcard from Cuticura Department L Boston and notes sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Ady
Ruling idea Judge Twenty Five and Costs
Motion regarding costs and legal ruling outlines the judge’s stance on expenses. Thure purchases a new tire for the motorized vehicle, reflecting a minor ancillary detail in the docket.
Claims Swamp Root Saved Her Life in Kansas Ad
A Kansas woman Emma A. Boggs testifies Swamp Root restored her health after rheumatic pain left her bedridden for weeks. She praises Kilmer & Co. and notes she has used the product for years, supporting its claims. The letter, notarized, invites others to try the remedy and mentions sample bottles and sales at drug stores.
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Montgomery
C. L. Dukes
Emma A. Boggs
Swamip-Root
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Proverbial Sayings Inspire Modern Family Quips
A quip about hair and fairness mirrors shifts in family discourse as discussions move from the prodigal son to the giftless son-in-law, reflecting evolving social jokes and tensions in contemporary life.
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