Personal testimony on a tuberculosis remedy from Elmer Hilligoss
A 1911 letter from Elmer Hilligoss describes his daughter Evaleen’s tubercular bone disease and claims improvement after using a medicine from Nature's through a stranger. The note urges others to seek the remedy, cites health gains, and provides Seattle contact for more information about treating tuberculosis bronchitis catarrh and related ailments.
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Evaleen
Elmer Hilli
Elmer Hilligoss
Toire
Bank
Seattle
Prominent Democrat Praises Hodge As Governor Material
Co. C. Dill of Spokane County and permanent chairman of the state democratic convention in Walla Walla calls Bob Hodge the strongest governor candidate. Dill quotes an Spokane Press interview praising Hodge as a rugged, honest, people’s man with broad appeal and potential to draw votes beyond progressives.
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Co. C. Dill
Spokane
Walla Walla
Bob” Hodge
Hodge
Otil
Bob Hodge
Kier Hardie
King County
License drinker, not the dealer proposed by Rice
J O Rice a broker in St Louis argues for licensing drinkers rather than dealers as a liquor solution He says alcohol will always be consumed and laws fail where breweries operate He proposes every drinker pay a license fee of 1 or 5 dollars annually as set by the state
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St. Louis
J. O. Rice
Rice
Prohibition
Man Lived Two Months Without a Stomach Dies
In Montgomery Creek California on August 28 John Broadhurst reportedly lived two months with no stomach, unaware of the missing organ, before his death in the town.
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Montgomery Creek
Cal
John Broadhurst
Engineer Broadhurst Dies After Cancer Battle
At 45 Broadhurst, an engineer at the Hercult smelter, died after cancer led to stomach removal. He was treated in Redding two months ago, where physicians avoided revealing the operation’s nature. Initial recovery gave way as cancer affected his intestines.
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Broadhurst
Hercult
Redding
Try New Life Relief Machine Promises Quick Pain Cure
A Seattle advertisement touts Try-New-Life as a rapid relief machine for rheumatism indigestion sciatica headaches backache and nervous sleeplessness. It claims minutes of use free demonstrations at stores and home use with testimonials from H A Patrick of Seattle and notes a corrected address 1531 Second Avenue. Stores listed for demonstrations and sales include Hamilton Beach and Bartell Drug.
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Patrick
Second Avenue
Turner Charged in Lumber Scheme After 15 Million Shingles Sold
Deputy Prosecutor Crawford EB. White filed an information charging Turner with larceny for allegedly selling 15,000,000 shingles to Eastern and Middle West lumbermen without possession or ownership. The scheme involved forged bills of lading and below market offers. About $25,000 in receipts began to accumulate before his arrest last Saturday.
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Crawford EB. White
A. Turner
J. Rufus Wallingford
Turner
Shorthand Record Set In New York Supreme Court
Nathan Hehrin, official stenographer of the New York supreme court, averaged 276 words a minute for five minutes to break the world shorthand speed record. He also achieved a 97.3 percent accuracy. Twenty one writers entered. five qualified. Dictation included a lecture a jury charge and court testimony at 200 240 240 wpm. A small penalty was applied for errors.
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New York
Nathan Hehrin
New York Supreme Court
Rehrin
World famous doctors to photograph Joliet man with inverted interior
In Joliet on August 2 a group of renowned physicians will gather to take X ray photographs of Charles Schuppel, a farm hand whose internal organs are completely misarranged. Those on the right side are on the left and those high in the body sit much lower. Schuppel has refused large sums offered by exhibitors.
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Joliet
Charlies Schuppel
Schuppel
Gubernatorial Nominations Meet GOP and Cross-Party Picks
Incomplete primary returns show Amos Musselman nominated by Republicans, Woodridge Ferris by Democrats, and L. W. Watkins by Progressives. Seventeen of 18 Detroit aldermen accused of graft sought re nomination, with most presumed successful.
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Detroit
Amos Musselman
Woodridge Ferris
L. W. Watkins
Market price list shows farm and retail rates across commodities
The report lists average prices paid by local commission merchants to producers and prices paid by retailers to merchants. It covers fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry, and feed, with notes on grade variations and freshness. Specific items include apples, potatoes, carrots, turnips, tomatoes, lettuce, cantaloupe, timothy hay, wheat hay, bran, shorts, and pork products along with live poultry and eggs markets.
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Commission
Gooso
Washington
Puget Sound
Distilled Malvoisie Bath Ad Reproduced in Bulletin
Distilled baths of Malvoisie wine are advertised in Paris amid claims health benefits. A hectoliter cask yields 100 baths with wine poured back after each 20 minute soak, and after the 100th bath the remains are distilled into eau de vie. The notice circulates among wine growers and is printed in Bulletin des Halles.
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Paris
Bulletin Des Halles
Vancouver moves to close Alexandra Street houses
The Vancouver police commissioners via Mayor Findlay instructed Chief Chamberlin at a special meeting to immediately close the houses in the big Alexandra street segregated area, aiming to benefit the city's moral welfare.
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United Press
Vancouver
B. C
Alexandra Street
Findlay
Chamberlin
Taft Heads to Columbus for Ohio Centennial
President Taft accompanied by Major Rhoads and Assistant Secretary Foster rode from Beverly by car to Columbus to attend the Ohio centennial celebration. He plans to return to Beverly Friday evening.
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Rhoads
Foster
Taft
Beverly
Columbus
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