Free to Twenty Five Ladies Defiance Starch Contest
Defiance Starch Co offers 28 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition with 5 tickets available per state Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri. Send in the most Defiance 16 ounce starch trade marks mailed to Omaha Nebraska by September 1 1904.
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Defiance Strach Co
St. Louis Exposition
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance
Defiance Starch Co
Omaha
Nebr
Union Pacific Lands Selling Acres Across States
The Union Pacific owns 400000 acres in Kansas wheat belt sold at 6 to 9 dollars per acre. Colorado grazing lands 1.50, Nebraska ranch lands 1.75, Kansas ranch 2.50 to 5 per acre. One tenth cash, balance over ten years. Excursions on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. Des Moines Iowa agency address 228 Bth St. Courtship and novels are more interesting than marriage and history. A Woman opens a telegram like a child opens a jack in the box.
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Union. Pacific
Union Pacific
Great Wheat Belt
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Kansas Ranch
Union Pacific Land Agency
Des Moines
Hard Sell Cures, Ice Fire, and Migrant Partitions
An 1880s-style column lists quack remedies like Mall’s Catarrh Cure with testimonials and price, notes a Toledo wholesale house signatory, and cites Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. It reports a Goodland Kansas ice house fire and Parisian use of silver leaf for wounds, plus New York streetcar conductors required to dry transfers to avoid moisture spreading disease and describes Japanese portable partitions forming small rooms with sliding paper shutters.
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F.J. Cheney & CO
Toteto, C
F. J. Cheney
Bia
WaLpina, Kinnan & Marvin
Toledo
Hall
New York City
Civil War veteran touts Dodd's Kidney Pills in letter
Think Know. Salesville Ohio May 2. Civil War veteran N J Stephens writes of long kidney and back pain. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with relief and improved health at age 63. He asserts the product cures backache and endorses its quality over others.
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Salesville
Ohio
N. J. Stephens
Dodd
Mr. Stephens
Old threshing woes fade with Nichols & Shepard machine
Read the era’s ads praising improved threshing gear from Nichols and Shepard Co of Battle Creek Michigan to cut grain waste. The snippet also lists amateur musicians sought, pawned rings, quality cigars, starch products, and Mother Gray’s Powders for Children, with various brands and locations.
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Nichols & Shepard Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Stata
National Nsiness College
Quincy
Kidney trouble blamed for women's problems in old advice page
An old column urges cures for kidney trouble as the root cause of women’s ailments. It cites Mrs. William W Brown of Paterson, New Jersey, praising Dean’s Kidney Pills and offers a free trial by mail. It also includes various medical and consumer tips and jokes from the era.
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William W Brown
Jane St
Paterson, N.J
Dean
Postum Cereal Beat Coffee for Health Claims
A reader testifies that switching from coffee to Postum cured stomach and nervous troubles, with family and neighbors noting improved health after quitting coffee. The ad promotes Postum as a coffee alternative from Postum Co. and hints at product benefits and endorsement during the era.
Big Three Cornered Affair At Readville Track
Efforts to match Italian driver Glaudo Fogalin against H L Bowden of Boston and 5 B Stevens of Rome NY in a sixty horsepower three car race at the Massachusetts Automobile club meet on Readville track May 30. Fogalin will race a replica of the Italian cup racer, Bowden a Mercedes, and Stevens a car that divided honors with Bowden at Ormond. The contest hinges on driver skill as all cars share equal horsepower. Fogalin, new to track racing, had refused a $40,000 offer for mining stocks recently.
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Glaudo Fogalin
H. L. Bowden
Boston
5. B. Stevens
Rome
N. Y
Fogalin
Bowden
Ormond
Stevens
Massachusetts Automobile Club
Readville Track
Fitzsimmons Proposes Bout With Kid McCoy Why The Match Could Happen
Bob Fitzsimmons calls out Kid McCoy proposing a fight at six or twenty five rounds. If McCoy accepts a six round bout he can fight within three weeks before a Philadelphia club, with catch weights. For a middleweight title bid, McCoy must go twenty or twenty five rounds and allow three months training. Fitzsimmons will post a weight and appearance forfeit and bets $5 000 to $10 000 on the side to prove seriousness.
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Fitz
Kid McCoy
Bob Fitzsimmons
McCoy
Fitzsimmons
Oldfield Seeks Reinstatement After Winton Work
Barney Oldfield, famed automobile driver, is at his Toledo home and has completed his work with Alexander Winton, seeking reinstatement.
Long Walk Bet by Two Canadians Against a Wealthy Frenchman
Two French Canadian men wager with a Quebec financier to walk from North to South America. The Paris paper reports he has deposited 7600 for payment if they succeed, with no time limit but no motorized travel. European journals largely deem the feat impossible.
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Quebec
South
America
Paris
Arthur Fp Duffy to sit out season and go abroad
The world's champion sprinter Arthur F P Duffy will not compete in the coming season in this country. He has been advised by several well known athletic trainers to stay out of spring college competition due to his condition. If he follows the advice he plans to go abroad to meet English sprinters rather than race the current front runners capable of running the hundred in under ten seconds.
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Duffy
Arthur FP
Lave Cross Displays Massive $500 Bill
Lave Cross, sole proprietor and manager, proudly shows a $500 bill described as a beauteous object. He keeps it in fine shape, ironing creases twice yearly, and uses the relic to illustrate money matters, often triggering envy in the less fortunate.
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Lave Cross
Lave
Milwaukee postpones golf season opening to May 7
The cold backward spring forces postponement of the Country Club at Milwaukee golf links opening to May 7. Local officials report delays in course readiness and event scheduling, with members urged to watch for further notices.
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Milwaukee
Fight Promoter Feigning Rivalry Aims at Faked Bout
The Chicago Inter Ocean argues that the Philadelphia Jack O'Brien versus Kid McCoy bout is a staged publicity stunt. It claims McCoy missed the middleweight limit and fought one round, while the supposed quarrel after the Ryan O'Brien clash appears prearranged to fool the public and boost anticipated profits.
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Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien
Kid McCoy
McCoy
Ryan O’brien
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Corbett Off for England to Meet English Lightweight
William Rothwell known as Young Corbett sails April 16 aboard the American Line steamship St. Paul for England. He plans to meet Ben Jordan, a clever English lightweight, in a trip described as mainly for pleasure with some aim of future boxing engagements.
Weather moderates end of season club sentiment
A growing sentiment among club members favors avoiding team play with other clubs. The usual games with Onwentsia Kenosha and St Paul may be dropped this season due to this mood.
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Onwentsia
Kenosha
St. Paul
Vanderbilt Record Stands As Mile Mark Remains Fast
The article notes Vanderbilts record in the mile at the Florida tournament, despite some records being broken at the Nice event. It mentions W K Vanderbilt Jr retaining the wonderful mile time of 39 seconds, while Rigolly posted the best time of 25.5 seconds for a kilometer, equivalent to about a mile in 4 minutes 20 seconds.
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Vanderbilt
Nice
W. K. Vanderbilt Jr
Florida
Rigolly
Griffo Arrives in New York in Physical Decline
Albert Griffiths known as Young Griffo, once the cleverest lightweight, arrived in New York on April 14 from the west a physical wreck. Sportsmen may send him to an institution to recuperate. He expressed desire to box at John L. Sullivan’s benefit, but his condition likely bars it.
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Griffo
New York
Albert Griffiths
Young
Griffiths
John L. Sullivan
Foreigners May Compete Edward P Martin of Univ Baton Golf
Vice-President Edward P. Martin of the University Baton Golf association announces that foreigners may compete. The note outlines eligibility and participation rules for international competitors in upcoming events.
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Edward. P. Martin
The
Univ: Baton
Golf
Association
An- Sén
The Sluts Mie Vets Coree Deeper Than Ever Plummet
A vivid account describes extreme poverty in Tokyo and in London and Gorky refuges, contrasting wealth and destitution. The narrator claims to have witnessed extreme wretchedness unseen by most, noting the reluctance of guides to probe such dire conditions.
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Tokio
Far East
London
Gorky
Darkest Tokio Shitaya Desolation and Civic Poverty
The excerpt portrays extreme poverty in Tokio, focusing on Shitaya near Ageno Park. It describes starving residents who barter farthings for scraps, rely on pawnbrokers and rent by the night, and endure filthy housing, disease risks, and cold. The piece warns of scavenging for food, inflated prices, and the social wreckage of urban slums.
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Tokio
Shitaya
Ageno Park
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Mall
Goodland
Lewis
Peoria
Atchison
Meyer
Mother Grey
Mother Gray
Nuree
Olmsted
le Roy
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
N.Y
Laundry Blue Co
Michigan Street
Piso
W. O. Endsley
Vanburen, Ind
England
Dover
Christine Nilsson
Korea
Postum
Ita Place
Postum Co
Esch
Wellville
Porto
L. P. Moers
Oldfield
Savannah
Birmingham
Hoe
Pardington
Muegge Institute
Vets Coree
Firat Shogun
Tokio’s Chief Bank
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