Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription Promises Health For Women
An old advertisement extols Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a powerful tonic for feminine health. It claims benefits for nervous symptoms and general strength, targets women at work or households, and promotes Go Ridges Gold Medal Discovery. It invites readers to write to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute for confidential guidance.
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A Change in Japanese Character and American Attitudes
Observations on Japan seeking Western approval and a shift in self perception after Portsmouth speak to a broader theme of national image. The piece notes American press temper and Japan taking responsibility for its standards, signaling reduced dependence on foreign validation. It also cites rail and agricultural statistics from 1905 and a brief comic exchange illustrating domestic life.
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Japan
Portsmouth
Mary Crawford Fraser
Kansas items and notes from across the state
A compendium of brief Kansas items reports Horton to build a new hospital, Iola smokers, Wichita smallpox, rural school closures, Chanute steel workers strike, theater ownership, Dr. R W Wright’s death at 81 in Oswego, labor demand, Emporia horse reputation, Hutchinson streetcar extension, Parsons fundraising, Iola fountains, Nemaha farmer press, a soap faker in SE Kansas, straw hats, skunk farm near Logan, Wichita dealer trust issue, Dead Deadly death, locust forecasts, Caney gas cap, Baker university festival, Southwest Kansas editors meet, old Emporia chewer swears off, police dog dispute, Marais des Cygnes flood high water, western hunter eagle, Independence AOU W mortgage burning, Topeka bridge question, Hiawatha pronunciation quarrel, Marysville ad payroll concern, Gaylord teacher tense joke, Wetmore wolf hunt, Salina civic league, Lawrence festival invite to Lindsborg, Washington Palladium counterfeit money tale.
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The Coffee Debate Promotes Postum From Coffee Trade Ties
A group of coffee importers and roasters defend coffee and push Postum and Grape Nuts as safe, urging readers to test effects by stopping coffee for ten days. They claim coffee harms one in three users and urge public proof through factory inspections and personal trials.
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Boston
Peruna Exempt from Internal Revenue License
The internal revenue commission has decided that Peruna as now manufactured is exempt from internal revenue license. The top medical and pharmaceutical authorities in the United States have approved the product, and it is noted that Peruna has carried Columbus' name to all continents and now enjoys the same fixed status as any other recognized medicine.
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Columbus Dispatch
Count Boni Sued for Divorce Over Actions
A Houston Post item reports Count Boni facing a divorce suit amid claims his conduct harmed the marriage. The piece notes remorse and complications stemming from alleged behavior.
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Gough
Houston
Post
Springfield Girl Hops Across Ice on Ohio River
A St Louis Globe Democrat notice notes a colored girl seen hopping south across the Ohio River on cakes of ice and infers her former address as Springfield.
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Ohio River
Springfield
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Father Names Wrong Child at Baptism
A Gilbertsville father of a large family brought his fourteenth child to church for baptism. After several name suggestions from the priest, he chose Michael. On leaving, he revealed to the priest that he already has eight Michaels at home and this was a girl.
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Michael
Boston Herald
Allen's Foot-Ease Powder Advertises Comfort
In a Pinch Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE a powder cures painful smarting nervous feet and in growing nails. Greatest comfort discovery of the age makes new shoes easy. A cure for sweating feet. Sold by all druggists 25 cents. Trial package free Address A 3 Olmsted Ro N
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Olmsted
England's Decline in World Power
St. Joseph News-Press notes England can no longer advance and faces backward steps. The article says the nation once a world conqueror loses empire dreams as industry stalls, property slips away, and poverty grows among its people.
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St. Joseph
Foolish Fellows Cartoon Reveres Old Thoughts
The piece riffs on fathers and mossbacks who once deemed the Black Crook indecent, noting how outdated moral standards have shifted. A humorous snapshot contrasts past censorship with present attitudes toward entertainment.
Business Methods in Farming Move Toward Profitable Practice
The Boston Globe notes a shift as farmers nationwide recognize the need for business discipline. It highlights fertilizer and soil rotation as key issues, warns the West about eastern and southern shortages, and stresses that a stronger business mindset increases farming profitability.
Engaged Couple Sparks Laughing Remark in Cartoon
A humorous cartoon panel shows a wife admiring a couple and noting their happiness. The husband smiles and says they are only engaged, turning the moment into a playful misunderstanding.
Measure on railroads and airship passes under debate
A humorous dialog in Brooklyn Life presents two politicians discussing railroad passes and a bill to force entry into the city by airship as a fanciful proposal. The exchange satirizes legislative overreach and transport policy.
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Brooklyn Life
Graft talk sparks debate on big life insurers
A suave solicitor dismisses graft allegations as mere press and public concerns. The exchange hints at controversy in life insurance circles while noting salvation’s paradox of freedom and cost.
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Frank J Cheney Oath Notice
State of Ohio Toledo city Lucas County Frank J Cheney makes oath that his senior partner at J Dugmer & Co does business in Toledo and that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each gala of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn this day Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Send for testimonials. ENEY & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by all Druggists 75 Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Indiscreet Indiana Resort Visit Reported
A brief anecdote from Harper's Weekly recounts a Roxley widow’s stay at an Indiana resort for a purpose. The tale follows a politician who returns, then buys twenty pounds of pork to gauge its weight, claiming his family never eats pork and that the purchase was a framing exercise.
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Towne
Harper’s Weekly
Engagement News Shared Quietly Among Friends
A playful exchange about announcing an engagement, with a suggestion to share the secret only with a best girl friend. References to Old Henpecke and a near danger arising from watching a Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew are noted in a light, anecdotal tone.
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Senator Sorghum States Goal To Convert Colleagues
A Washington Star quote captures Senator Sorghum declaring a lack of concern for colleagues’ views and a clear aim to force them to adopt his own thinking. The remark highlights his confrontational approach to persuasion in politics.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
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