Jamestown Exposition Excursion Details and Routes
Notes describe daily excursion trains from Port Tampa and Jacksonville to the Jamestown Exposition with seven day limits and price 2.40. Endorsed not good in parlor or sleeping cars. Through Pullman sleeping cars from Florida Georgia North Carolina points via Atlantic Coast Line. Request illustrated folder with maps hotels and descriptive matter.
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Setotland Neck
Port Tampa
Jacksonville
Florida
Atlanta
Augusta
Georgia
Wilmington
North Carolina
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
A Word for the Onion
A column arguing that eating onions improves health and mood. It claims meat grease and starch cause biliousness and lists onion eaters as open hearted, jolly, and wise about diet. It asserts onions provide better nourishment than bread and can prevent irritability and illness.
Rats as Judges of Ivory
An ivory dealer boasts that rats, paid a weekly cheese and bread wage, are his experts in judging ivory quality. He claims gnaw marks reveal animal glue content, xlucina, which marks superior tusks and cannot be detected by humans.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Cured by a Goat and Other Oddities from Shelbyville
An Indiana farmer Eli Edwards aged 69 near Shelbyville reports nervous tness cured in five seconds after startling a goat in his corn crib. He credits the goat jump as the remedy after years of failed medical advice. The note is followed by ads and brief items on Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup and local observations.
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Eli Edwards
Shelbyville
Ind
Edwards
Kennedy
E. IT. Whitehead & Co
R. J. Reynolds
Robacco
SACC
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Endorsed Worldwide
A long standing claim promotes Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething relief and diarrhea cure. The ad asserts immediate comfort and sells through druggists for twenty five cents per bottle with a guaranteed compliance notice under the Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Failed In Small Things.
An anecdote from Sunday Magazine about a congressman's forgetful umbrella and domestic misunderstandings. Mrs Blank scolds her husband for misplacing her umbrella on a Baltimore Washington trip. A rural couple Bridget and Mike discuss education and the law of compensation with rustic humor.
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Mike
Michael
Leiké
Sunday Magazine
Remarkable Rescue in Fedora Tenn by Dr King’s New Discovery
In Fedora Tennessee a patient with severe lung hemorrhages reports instant relief after using Dr King’s New Discovery. The cure stopped coughing and reduced bleeding, enabling work within three weeks. Trial bottles are offered at EK T Whitehead & drug store for one dollar.
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Fedora
Tenn
CL V. Pepper
Dr. King
EK. T. Whitehead & Drug Store
Commonwealth
To Mothers In This Town Delicate Children Relief
Advertisement promotes remedies for infants and children including powders to settle the stomach and a worm cure. It touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for general health with price and retailer E. T White head & Co. Also mentions DeWitts Little Early Risers and a Vatican financial reform note.
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Hollister
E. T Whitehead & Co
A Fortunate Texan Promotes Warome and New Life Pills
A Dallas reader, E W Goodloe of 10s Street, touts Warome and Dr King’s New Life Pills as a superior malaria and bilious remedy. DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel is recommended for scratches, burns, and common hurts, with Whitehead & Co. selling the products.
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E.W. Goodloe
Dallas
Tex
Dr. King
Whitehead & Co
DeWitts
DeWitt’s
E. T. Whitehead & Co
Curious Chinese Hair Cutting Ceremony Becomes San Francisco Event
In Chinatown Sunday night Fong Hock hosted a grand banquet at the Eighth street restaurant to honor his son’s first haircut. About 150 guests attended as wives and children shared the table with the family heads. The feast featured birds nest soup and other luxury dishes, costing $1,800, while gifts for the child ran into thousands. Prominent clearinghouse members visited to offer congratulations. The ceremony marks the son’s entry as a family member and heir.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Chinatown
Fong Hock
Anglo-Californtan Bank of
San Francisco
Eighth Street
Happy Father
San Francisco Clearing House
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Liddell CO
Charlotte, N.C
E. J. Whitehead & Company
H.W. Mixon
Mar
Scotland Neck
Jamestown Exposition
W. J. Crate
Hes Traffic
White, New Pass
Agt
Wilmington, N.C
America
Cotton Journal
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Lencivn
Ivory
E. T. White 'Co
Steubenville
York City
Bridget
New York Sun
le Roy
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Washington Herald
Saka DeWitt
E. K. Whitehead & Co
Vatican
Peter
Lot
Phaiting
Ashby B. Pyle
N. Std
Richmond, Va
Hudson’s
Main Street
Norfolk, Va
S. S. Ball
Ravenswood
W. Va
Eno
Dewitt
E. 0. Dewitt & Co
Chicago
South
Cooper Marble Works
Bank Street
Norfolk
Virginia
Reynolds
F. I. Mont
Schnapps
Knolds
United States
Winston-Salem, N
You One
the Commonwealth
Scotland
Neck
Keeley
Keeley Institute
Greensboro
A.C. L. Railroad Company
Weldon
Kinston
Wid Kinston
N.C
N. N.C
Greenville
Norfolksmouth
Washington
Plymouth
Parmele
Tarboro
Tween
Hobgood
Mymouth
J. Craig
Bore Condoe Bethel Parmele
Robersonville
Everett Williamston
Jamesville
Plymouth — Ly
T. C. White, Gen. Pass
Apt
N.B. Josey Co
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N. B. Josey Company
North
Chas. Miller Walsh
Quarrier
Speeci
J. Y. Savage
Agen
Nor
Undertakers
M. Hoffman
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