Recovery of Mrs J A Wyatt After Pink Pills Cure
A Des Moines woman nearly starved by gastritis improves dramatically after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She credits the pills with stopping vomiting and restoring appetite within two weeks, allowing her to leave bed and resume duties. The ad cites physicians failing prior, notes availability through druggists, and ends with a women’s empowerment aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.A. Wyatt
Seventh” Street
Des
Moines
Iowa
Cheney firm oath and catarrh cure advertisement
Oath sworn by Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cagney & Co Toledo Ohio pledges payment of one hundred dollars for each cataract case cured only by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notice claims internal use targets blood mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Ends with a proverb about a man bearing shadows.
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Bratz
O10
Toleddo
Lucas Qovttry
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cagney & Co
Toledo
Ttet
Hauu
Notary Posse
Cheney &Co
Hall
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders and Garfield Tea Adverts
Many children fall ill and seek cures from Mother Gray nurse at the Children’s Home in New York. The ad touts Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for feverishness teething disorders and worms, with a free sample via Allen S. Olmsted in Le Roy New York. Garfield Tea Co advertises a liver kidney stomach action and pure blood, offering a sample and urging moral responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
J Home
New York
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
America’s Fort in Pekin Protects Legation
Washington reports construction of an American fort and fortified legation in Pekin for protection of the Chinese capital embassy. Sydney W. Meeley supervised brick and stone buildings arranged around a masonry wall with a border fort on the city wall. The complex houses the minister and secretaries with emergency refuge for residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legation
Washington
Pekin
Tts
Sydney W. Meeley
Treasury Department
China
Rural Carrier Pay Policy Reported From Washington
The Post Office says there is no plan to cut rural carrier salaries and urges Congress to consider higher compensation. Since the new policy began, out of 34 938 routes, twenty seven were discontinued mainly for readjustment to improve county service. In Kansas ten routes were saved by careful readjustment without harming patrons.
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Postoffice Department
Washington
Associated Press
Post Office Department
Kansas
Indianapolis
Ind
Olaf I. Rove
Milwaukee
New Kingdom of Norway
Wisconsin
Madison
Coal and Coke
Elkhurst
W. Va
Lewis Milan
George Eiswick
Ray McConshay
Ruston
Edward Glantz
West Bend
Wis
United States
Pearshals
Albion Johnston
William Guy
Northwestern
Glantz
Ohio House
Metzger
Ohio
Johnson
Cleveland
Des Moines
Sioux City
Iowa
Iowa Senate
House
Towa
Farmer
Peabody
Gabbert
Goddard
Colorado, Supreme Court
Denver
Colo
Steunenberg
Colorado
New York
Assembly
Albany
Al(l)isons at the Orpheum Kansas City Week of March 11
The Hight Allisons English acrobats visit the Orpheum in Kansas City for a limited tour. Acts include The Mysterious Howards with audience gifts, Rae and Broadie satire A Woman of New Words, Armstrong and Holly in The Expressman, Mitchell and Cain, Floddler singing, and Barry and Evans as comedy character creators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Allisons
Orpheum
Howards
Rae
Broadie
Armstrong
Holly
the Expressman
Anthracite Miners Unanswered As Demands Stand
New York City report says John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers has not yet received a reply from operators to anthracite miners demands sent to George F. Baer on Tuesday. W H Truesdale president of the Lackawanna Railroad says no operators committee meeting will occur for several days. Baer chairs the committee set to receive and study the miners propositions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
George F. Baer
W. H. Truesdale
Lacawanna ‘Railroad
Mr. Baer
Move to Raise President Salary in Government Reform Bill
Senator Gallinger introduces a bill to readjust federal office salaries effective April 4 1909 The proposal sets the President at 75000 dollars Vice President 15000 dollars Speaker 12000 dollars cabinet members 15000 dollars and each senator or representative at 7000 dollars
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gallinger
House ‘of Representatives
Representatives
Fire destroys Koutsky Pain Co building in South Omaha
Fire in South Omaha destroys the Koutsky Pain company building and briefly threatens the nearby YMCA. The blaze, fanned by strong winds in the business district, is estimated to cause about 60 000 dollars in losses.
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Omaha
Neb
Koutsky
Owill
Lunitic in a Locomotive at Guthrie Station
James Lindsay, labeled a lunitic, was dragged from a Santa Fe passenger train cab as he tried to pull the throttle. The train had just arrived from the North and crowds filled the platform.
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Guthrie
James Lindsay
Santa Fe
Multiple political and public crises sweep states in 1896
A flood of briefs reports detail the Iowa Senate defeat of the primary bill by 29 to 21, academic appointments like Hempl to Stanford, forged land certificates in Oregon, Bath England voting against Carnegie library funds, a $45 million Canada Pacific payment to Quebec, and a string of accidents, graft cases, and legal moves across Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.
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Iowa
Senate
Des’ Moines
Hempl
University of Michigan
Leland Stanford University
Oregon
Salem
Frank
T. “Toland
la Crosse
Wis
Bath England
Andrew Carnegie
Canadian Pacific Railway
Quebec
Williamsburg Opera House
Altoona
Temperance Study Listener Questions Drayman’s Beer Intake
A tea time tale from the London Globe recalls an elderly woman gathering temperance statistics. She asks a drayman how many glasses of beer he drinks daily, and he jokes about variable amounts, noting some days are low and others high.
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Temperance Society
Drayman
Andy
London Globe
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad Cited
An old advertisement fragment touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children with claims to ease teething pain and soothe gums and wind colic despite incomplete pricing text and garbled characters.
German doctor funds interdenominational church in St Louis
Dr August Schmidt of St Louis donates money for a church to welcome all denominations. There will be no sermon or choir and no collection plate. An organ operated by electricity will provide sacred music.
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August Schmidt
St. Louis
Lewis' Single Binder cigar quality praised
A dealer or Lewis is suggested for the Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar noted as consistently good. Mention of factory in Ports, Illinois implies production.
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Lewis
Ports
Ill
Aluminum bread tins claim to ban burnt smell in baking
Aluminum loaf tins enter the market with a claimed advantage that the usual greasing is unnecessary and that baked goods, including loaves and biscuits, escape the common burnt odor associated with ordinary tins.
Patent remedy ad promises one day cure for cold
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a fast cold cure with a money back guarantee. It notes drug fate refunds if ineffective and carries a signature from ER W. Rove on each box.
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W. Rove
She and He Debate In-Law Living Situation
In a Somerville Journal dialogue, a couple discusses whether love justifies marrying with the woman’s mother living with them, revealing tensions over family expectations and cohabitation before marriage.
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Somerville Journal
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease
An old foot powder claims to cure painful smarting nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It promises comfort for new shoes and sweating feet. Sold by druggists for five cents with a trial package free from A S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
S Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
A Perilous Pastime in Washington Star Quote
A Washington Star excerpt questions if football needs science, with the unsympathetic man answering surgical science as the required aid. The brief exchange frames football as a perilous pastime tied to medical precision.
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Washington Star
Heart Tonic Claims in Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for valvular heart disease and other heart ailments. It highlights Collinsonia from stone root as the key active ingredient, citing medical authorities and case anecdotes to claim heart tonic effects and general health benefits.
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Dr. Pierce
United States
Collinson
Wm. Paine
Paine
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