Orphans of Kansas Pure Drug Law Targeted
The Kansas fight against noncompliant patent medicines, labeled orphans after manufacturers vanished, leads to analysis of fifty samples by state and university chemists, with plans to destroy those failing to meet the law. Weston’s old town history recalls Weston as a bustling river hub before 1857, now home to about a thousand residents.
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Kansas
Crumbine
Weston
Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth
St. Louis
Kansas City
Food Inspectors Find Lard Adulteration in Parsons Cream
The state pure food department detected lard in dairy cream from Parsons, with analysis showing ten percent lard mixed into cream sold at 26 cents a pound. The dairy operator risks action by authorities as the adulteration is exposed.
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State Pure Food Department
Parsons
Board of Health
A Case of Pork The World Attacks the Beef Trust
The Brown County World argues pork packers manipulated hog prices by lowering them to four cents and holding for three months then sharply raising to justify higher pork prices. The paper condemns the tactic as a grave wrong against the public and calls for redress.
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Brown County
Beef Trust
the World
Cawker City Builds Early Kansas Public Library
Cawker City claims the first public country town library in Kansas funded without municipal support. Local women staff the library with Miss Carrie Watson of the University of Kansas noting it as a fine small library. The town preserves historical material in its newspaper runs up to 1883 and awaits the Record’s offer to house future quarter century files.
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First Country Town Library
Cawker City
Kansas
Carrie Watson
University of Kansas
History of
Cawker
Record
Caldwell News Celebrates Twenty First Birthday
A Sumner county newspaper, Caldwell News, is lauded for reaching its twenty first year of publication. Senator Simons of Sumner offers congratulations recognizing the paper’s foundation and its contribution to the community.
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Simons
Sumner
Caldwell. News
Aloes
Hand Mixed Paint Proves Most Scientific For Painters
Advocate argues that on site hand mixed paint is the most scientific option, likening it to a doctor’s prescription. He asserts genuine white lead and pure linseed oil ensure quality, and National Lead Company offers free testers from its New York offices.
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National Ledd
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York
N. Y
Maiden's Prayer Impresses Young Listener at Chicago Event
Walter Damrosch recounts a matron with her young nephew attending a Chicago musical entertainment. The boy, unfamiliar with most selections, reacts as Mendelssohn's Wedding March begins and asks what piece it is. The matron calmly explains it is the Maiden's Prayer.
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Hope
Walter Damrosch
Chicago
Mendelssohn
His Great Fault
A humorous exchange between a would be author and Crittick about moving to the country and needing a gardener. The man jokes about a plot of ground being too large for him to manage while Crittick quips that he could never handle a plot.
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Crittick
Catholic Standard
Times
Garfield Tea Ad and Philosophical Snippet
A clipped composite text presents a Garfield Tea advertisement claiming a simple pure laxative made of herbs and a brief aphorism about action and deathlessness. The fragment also notes a bachelor giving up ease for a strenuous life and references drug stores.
Random Adv Items and Quotes from a Vintage Ad Page
A collage of midcentury marketing lines includes Red Cross Ball Blue urging grocers, a faith quote attributed to Chapin, Lewis' Single Binder cigar promotion, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and a quip about ignorance and doubt.
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
One Lesson Wholly Wasted
Mr McSwat and Lobelia argue over a coat given to the Volunteers. A five dollar bill hidden in the coat lining is found by Lobelia who spent it on a rubber plant. The exchange ends with Mr McSwat adjourning the house.
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Lobelia
Billiger
Bill
Hotel Clerk Probes Complaints Over Shabby Condition
A bell boy tells a hotel clerk the guest complains the place is old and worn. The clerk notes the guest wants everything modern and new, starting with fresh stiff towels.
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Harper’s Weekly
George Meredith
RED Cross
TBP
Chapin
Billiger McSwat
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lena V. Henry
Norristown
Thompson
MI Onroe Drug
Quincy
Tinols
United States
Inexhan
Snake River
H. A. Stroud & Company
Twik Falls
Jerome
Aezica
Twin Falls, Idaho
Wyoming
Wheatland
J. R. Mason
General Immigration
Wheatland, Wyo
Jas. B.seager
Olds
U. S
Govern- Gines
W Engine Specialists
Ment
Olds Gas Power CO
Seager
Lansing
Midh
Boston
Washington St
San Francisco
Col
Jessie and Ecker
Eleventh St
Omaha
Farnum St
Binghamton
Washington St. Minneapolis
S. Third St
Portland
Ore
Seventh St
Elgin
River St
Kempton
Houston
Tex
Travis St
Norfolk
Miami
W. L. Douglas
W. LL. Douglas
Brockton
Maas
Roos
Sloans
Ube
Ick
Ron
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