Recipe for Long Life from a Centenarian in the Poorhouse
Juanita Rodriguez, nearly a century old, defies modern medical advice by smoking coffee and remaining cheerful. Alfredo Sanchez ensures she has smoking material in the poorhouse while she lives by a philosophy of eating and drinking freely and staying devout to the Virgin of Guadalupe. She once had a home near Santa Rosa infirmary but now relies on the facility after selling her small plot two years ago.
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Alfredo Sanchez
Juanita
Juanita Rodriguez
Virgin of Guadalupe
Santa Rosa Infirmary
Echo of a Mexican Revolution Survivor in San Antonio
Juanita Rodriguez aged 100 recalls the Mexican independence struggle from Guadalupe to Mexico City and the 1866 move to San Antonio. She remembers Hidalgo Maximilian and Miramon, the temple bell a tocsin, and her family’s wartime suffering and exile while smoking corn husk tea cigarettes.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ends Child Pain Claims
An old ad claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has cured wind colic and diarrhea for mothers and children over many years. It promotes the product as harmless and advises asking for the specific syrup from A Coliman, with a price of twenty five cents.
Little Girl Heroically Rescues Four Toddlers From Fire
Viola May Schaefer an 11 year old in Cincinnati took charge at 834 Hathaway Street after a gasoline valve leaked fire started. She carried four babies to safety and helped douse flames while the fire department was en route. Her hands were badly burned and she worried about feeding the youngsters.
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The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hathaway Street
Viola May Schaefer
Gertrude Daugherty
Alfred Courts
Coles Courts
Helen Courts
Lida Miller
Covington
Viola
Ray McGee
Noted Broadway Figure Dies After Typhoid Fever
Paul Tupper Wilkes, actor and adventurer, dies of typhoid fever. His history includes two duels and two marriages. He wed Hita Hone Mackay in 1892 and later Ethel Fisher after a 1905 Dakota divorce. A 1895 duel with Warren R. McVeigh occurred near Palisades. a second duel with George Sheppard reportedly ended in Sheppard's death.
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Paul Tupper Wilkes
Broadway
New York Sun
Hita Hone Mackay
New York
al Rete
Thaw
Ethel Fisher
Warren Radcliffe McVeigh
Palisades
Fort Lee
George Sheppard
St. Paul
Sheppard
Revivalist Rev. James Axtell Says Resurrected Sermon Stirs Seattle
In Seattle the Rev. James Axtell of Cents was carried through the streets as if dead then revived at a prominent corner. He delivered a sermon titled Voice From Hell and returned to his coffin amid the crowd.
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James Axtell
Cents
Seattle Times
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Hawes von Gal
Sterling
Wien
Saul Woltson
Notaseme
Richeson News
Inez Hanscomb
C. T. V. Richeson
Avis Linnell
Hyannis
Miss Hanscomb
Hnita Rodriguez
Miguel Hidalgo
Mexico
Miguel So Y Costilla
Guadalupe
City
Juan Diego
Ita Rodriguez
Bexar
Padre Hidalgo
Rodriguez
Guadalajara
Maximilian
Mexico City
Cuernavaca
Maxmilian
Miramon
Mejia
Inci
San Luis Potosi
San Antonio
Vera Cruz
Burro
Texas
Lyfar
Velva
Penick
Kaufman
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Panama
Will &S
Oxford
A. Coliman
Little Girl
Rochester
Express
Wenner
Columbia
Stannard
Buco
Kaufman’s Department Store
Cor
Theo Artzt
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