Landlady Uses Smoked Out Tactics To Oust Lodger
In Vandalia Missouri a landlady rented two houses and tried to oust a subtenant by using a kettle of greasy rags coal oil and sulfur to create fumes. The plan forced the lodger to abandon his rooms by Saturday noon while the other tenant stayed. He later played baseball at Columbia University and was injured the next day with an uncertain recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandalia
Nation
State University At
Columbia
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Promoted by Arlington Pharmacy
Ad claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests all kinds of food after years of research. Warns against starving to cure indigestion and touts the product as the sole remedy. Arlington Pharmacy advertises the remedy to readers.
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Arlington Pharmacy
Queen City Dancing Club Hosts Closing Dance at Assembly Hall
The Queen City Dancing club and their ladies enjoyed their closing dance of the season at Assembly Hall last evening. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin advertises value and guarantees relief for constipation indigestion and stomach trouble with price points from 10c to $1.00.
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Assembly Hall
Dr. Caldwell
Arlington Pharmacy
J C Archias Resigns From Seed Store Post
J C Archias resigns from his position at Archias Seed store on East Main Street ending his long association with the business.
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Archias
East Main Street
Physician in Monticello Formulated Syrup Pepsin
A practicing physician in Monticello Illinois formulated Dr Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin and was associated with Arling ton Pharmacy. reports say a man named Frank ne Birch of Hannibal suffered painful injuries in an incident.
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Monticello
Ill
Dr. Caldwell
Ask
Arlington Pharmacy
Frank Ne. Birch
Hannibal
Free Book Coupon Offer In Sedalia Drug Stores
A Sedalia promotion offers a 25 cent bottle of Worre'e Insect Exterminator to obtain a coupon valid for one of 75 books. Sample titles include Vicar of Wakefield, A Study in Scarlet, A Christmas Carol, She, The Scarlet Letter and Kipling works. Buyers may choose from 66 additional books at participating drug stores.
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Sedalia
Vicar of Wakefield
Sir Marvel
Scott
Conan Doyle
Dickens
Rider Haggard
Kipling
Marian Harlan
Testimonial Praises Chamberlain Cough Remedy in England
A Warrington man lauds Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as best for bronchitis saying it saved his wife who was bedridden for six years. The product is sold by Mertz Hale Kautzman and Otis Smith with a depot in Strasburg burned by flying engine sparks destroying about twenty four feet of roof.
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Chamberlain
William Savory
Warrington
England
Mertz & Hale
J. L. Kautzman
Otis W. Smith
Missouri Pacific
Strasburg
FOLEY'S KIDNEY CARE Cited By Fordville Editor
In a postscript to a business letter the editor of Fordville Ky Miscellany states he was cured of kidney trouble by taking FOLEY'S KIDNEY CARE. All druggists carry it.
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Fordville, Ky
Foley
Walnut Lake
Ark
Cardus
Lizzie Mannell
Carrie Nation's husband robbed in Marion
David Nation, husband of Kansas reformer Carrie Nation, was robbed of 78 dollars in cash, jewelry, and his return ticket to Wichita while visiting his sister in Marion. He attended a dog and pony show and reportedly visited a saloon after the circus.
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Carrie
Marion
Ind
David Nation
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Wichita
Hayseed Farmer Rebutts City Joke With Quick Wit
A Missouri farmer driving a wagon with sheep heads visible beneath a top box is taunted by a city man who jokes about Noahs ark. The farmer immediately fires back that there is room for a jackass and the man can get in, delivering a sharp, humorous retort.
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Missouri
Noah
Cardus
Rocky Mountain Tea Promise Boosts Digestion
A vintage advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea as curing digestion and assimilation problems. It claims to renew red blood, firm flesh, and bone and urges readers to ask their druggist about the 35 cent product.
Finger of Scorn Sign Post tale from New England encounter
A Kansas man visiting near Boston discovers a signpost showing a hand pointing west. He asks a farmer about it and learns the local joke: the Yankee who erected the sign says it points west to keep him from pointing scorn at Kansas, doing the teasing for him.
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Kansas
Best Way to Cure Backache Exposed
Claim connects backache to kidney disorder and promotes FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE as the remedy with instruction to take no substitute and to buy from all druggists. The tone reads like an old fashioned medical advertisement urging treatment via a specific product.
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Foley
Visit to the capital excursion from St
A brief note reports an excursion organized from St to the capital. Details on participants and exact destination are limited in the readable text.
Wall Paper Season at Dexter's Book Store Sedalia
Spring goods on display at Dexter's Book Store promoting Pittsburg wall paper line with wide variety of patterns and colors. Emphasizes low prices, high volume profit, no house-to-house solicitors, 22 Ingrais color options, and full line of affordable to premium wallpaper.
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Pittsburg
Sedalia
Louis to Sedalia excursion passes via North Jefferson
A Sunday trip from Louis to Sedalia carried through North Jefferson with several excursionists stopping to visit the capital city, Jefferson City, according to the Jefferson City Tribune.
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Louis
Sedalia
North Jefferson
Capital
Jefferson City
Cold relief praise spurs local buy for Chamberlain remedy
Marion Rooke of T. M. Thompson importers at 1658 Milwaukee avenue Chicago reports a severe cold kept her awake and fatigued. She says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy relieved symptoms quickly and she recovered soon. The product is sold by Mertz Hale J L Kautzman and Best Bon Bons Boston Cafe. Old papers offered at the office.
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Mertz & Hale
J. L. Kautzman
Otis W. Smith
Sunday saloon closing drive in Kansas City sparks war of words
Police Commissioner Gregory brands the movement political, vows to enforce the Sunday closing law. He says he will deploy every day and night officer to shut down saloons and other establishments interfering with mails, including trains, if needed.
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Kansas City
Gregory
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Queen City Dancing Club
J. C. Archias
Thorne
WM. Courtney
de Witt
E. C. Boice
Somers Point
DeWitt’s. Arlington Pharmacy
New England
Bos
Mannell
Ladies’ Advisory Department
Chattanooga Medicine Company
Chattanooga, Tenn
Dexter’s Book Store
East Second St
Sedalia, Mo
Marion Rooke
T. M
Boston Cafe
Loney Sterling Remedy Co
Chieeco
Charles Koeppen
Green House
Ohio Street
Koeppen
Ohio
Moniteau
THAT
John N. Dalby
A. P. Morey
W. A. Latimer
Third National Bank
Sedalia Missouri
J. N. Dalby
R. H. Moses
Henry W. Harris
D. H. Smith
J. H. Mertz
N. H. Gentry
Chas. H. McAninch
Samuel C. Gold
Morris Harter
James T. Montgomery
J. H. Bothwell
E. R. Blair
B. F. Blair
Sedalia National Bank Capital
E. F. Yancy
W. H. Evans
H W. Menschke
Charles E. Musick
J.H. Bothwell
Martin Renkin
Col
H. G Clark
D. F. Brown
Henry Lamm
W- Murphy
W. A. Lower
Ben Mindlin
Ohio ST
Chas. van Antwerp
Evans Chemical CO
Cincinnati
Lawler’s
West Main
Morris Bros
Er (Igar
Pca
California
Cook Reme Co
Masonic Tempie
Chicago
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