Children's nurse resumes her duties with health boost
A Greenfield Massachusetts nurse reports regaining strength after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the remedy helps her stay on her feet for long shifts and return to housework and nursing duties. Similar letters from women across the country praise its benefits.
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Lydia
Pinkham
J. A. Pierson
Lancaster
Pinkham Medicine Co
Ylynn
Mass
Pennsylvania
Washington
Texas
Illinois
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Lydia B
Blood test hints at determining sex in cattle
University of Wisconsin researcher Dr. Dewey C. Steele reports experiments using cattle blood serum. By diluting the serum a hundred times and adding methyl green dye the serum turns green if from a female and red if from a male, signaling a potential sex test.
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Dewey C. Steele
University of Wisconsin
Steele
Condemnation Hints In Washington Remarks On Chamberlain
In Washington Threatened Benator Borah remarks on Sir Austen Chamberlain and Geneva efforts. He notes a strong sense of condemnation in party support while recalling a sermon moment where a clergyman warned a sleepy parishioner by name, highlighting public exposure as consequence.
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Benator Borah
Washington
Austen ‘Chamberlan
Geneva
Doctor Steenthly
George Jones
Cuticura Ad Promotes Pimple Clear Skin Kit
An old advertisement touts Cuticura for pimples and blackheads. It claims quick cleansing with Cuticura Ointment and Soap, plus hot water, followed by Cuticura Talcum for continued skin clarity.
Footbridge Opens Access to Grand Canyon Trails
A narrow suspension bridge between canyon cliffs provides easy access to otherwise unreachable areas for pedestrians horses and burros. It is securely anchored high above water and reachable from a top trail each passage designed for varied travelers. The piece notes a flood safe height and references popular mechanics magazine.
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Grand Canyon
Popular Mechanics
Tax burden on U S businesses in 1923
Report shows corporations with net income of 9.269 billion paid 2.572 billion in taxes to federal state and local governments amounting to over 27.7 percent of income.
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United States
Kiddie Katydid and Leaper the Locust Tale
Kiddie Katydid narrates the tale of Leaper the Locust who masquerades as a Short-horned grasshopper. Leaper grows meek and vows to keep his long horns, while Kiddie Katydid preserves the mystery of Katy, and Pleasant Valley renews after the grasshopper invasion.
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Leaper
Pleasant Valley
Fall
Katy
Kiddie
Leaper the Locust
Kiddle Katydid
The Chicken's Heart Superstition Explored
An essay by H. Laving King explains a South US superstition where swallowing a chicken heart is said to bind lovers and ensure constancy. It likens the act to a love philtre and compares it to magical practices in savage tribes where harming a heart or its image is believed to affect the target.
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South
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Oratorios Won Fame Handel Early Works
Handel, famed for oratorios, first saw initial performance 222 years ago in his twenties. He studied under Zachau at seven and wrote Almaira in his teens. Though his operas did well, his oratorios secured lasting fame before his death in London 167 years ago.
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George Frederick Handel
Handel
Zacha
Hallen
Almira
London
Notable Arctic Voyage and Conan Doyle’s Detective Rise
The reminiscence recalls a seven month Arctic voyage where Joseph Kaye served as ship surgeon aboard the Hope under John Gray, noting how youthful medical limits shaped his experience. It also highlights Conan Doyle as a popularizer of the detective genre and credits his medical background for realism in Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Arctic
Hope
John Gray
Arthur
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Branding as Punishment in Early Colonial Quaker Persecution
The piece traces literal branding as a legal punishment used by early colonists, linking it to medieval Europe and referencing the execution of a Quaker in Puritan New England. It notes marks of stigma and includes a bell-syndicated excerpt describing the extreme corporal penalty of branding and public shaming.
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England
New England
Norton
Bell Syndicate, Inc
German Union recruit mistaken for Yank in disguise
A Bavarian migrant joins a Union regiment, loses his uniform to a camp follower, and, dressed in ragged civilian clothes, is captured inside Confederate lines. His captors prepare to hang him as a spy under war laws, but he protests with the phrase vote forms der rule.
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Mosby
Borsa
Leutenant
Central Press Association
Poet Maurice Thompson Celebrated in Verse
The fragment praises Maurice Thompson as a strong true poet who loves thyme honey dew and morning freshness. It describes his works and singing with a golden burden on his thighs, reflecting the pollen dust of centuries.
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Maurice Thompson
Old-Time Fish and Fruit Cocktails Guide
An instructional period piece covers selecting fresh fish, proper cleaning, boiling and planking methods, and serving with lemon, parsley and drawn butter. It also details jellied chicken and fish for sickrooms, and creative fruit cocktails using pineapple, melon, citrus, and berries with sugar syrups and garnishes.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Red Cross
Northwestern Yeast CO
Ashland Ave
Chicago
NLU
Sonny
Department of Commerce
Chesterfield
Standard Oil CO
New Jersey
Ahs pSueracts
Arthur Scott Bailey
Kiddie Katydid
Che
H. Laving King
Joseph Kaye
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
McCluré Newspaper
Kathryn Perry
Irvin S. Cobb
Stickler
Western Newspaper Union
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