Change of Life Cure Promised by Pinkham
Mrs F B Heappen of Macon Georgia reports suffering from illness during the Change of Life with a painful right side and immobility. After two weeks on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she could rise alone and regained strength. The letter notes 200000 canvass replies and 98 of 100 benefited, with the product sold by druggists nationwide.
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Macon
Georgia
Lydia E. Pinkham
F. B. Heappen
Holt Avenue
Revenge at Last in Electric House Heating Theme
The Newark Advocate notes a future where next generation uses electric heating and asserts a stance of staying to mock the furnace as it becomes commonplace. The piece casts a wry, defiant mood about technological change and comfort in a household context.
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Newark
Cascarets Promises Relief for Bilious Distress
An early 20th century advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle bowel cleanser for all ages. It claims cures for sick headaches dizziness biliousness indigestion gas sour stomach and similar distress by morning. Available in drug stores for 10 cents a box.
Hog Sanitation System Spreads Across States
The United States Department of Agriculture reports rapid adoption of the McLean county hog sanitation system to prevent roundworms and filth-borne diseases. Campaigns in Iowa Illinois Nebraska and Missouri reflect growing interest with extension agents promoting clean pens soap scrubbed sows and pasture rotation to improve pig health and profits.
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United States Department of Agriculture
McLean County
Iowa
Illinois
Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Missouri Agricultural College
Ohio
The
Dakotas
United States
Corn Belt
Department
Washington
Understanding idiosyncrasy and allergic reactions
A discussion of idiosyncrasy and anaphylaxis explains why individuals react differently to foods drugs and odors. It cites a lobster allergy a strawberry intolerance and varied responses to animal serums with hay fever as a common example. The piece notes the mystery of why some people are sensitive to certain substances and criticizes the use of the term anaphylaxis as a long substitute for clearer explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorr
Basel
Eyesight best at about eighteen years old study finds
Public Health Service examined ten thousand people to compare vision across ages. Half were school children aged six to sixteen, half were workers from eighteen upward. Results show normal vision rises to age eighteen, then declines, with sharper drop after forty five. Good eyes improve with schooling. poor eyesight worsens with schooling but improves with industrial work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Public Health Service
South Carolina
Maryland
Delaware
New York
United States
Market report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Latest markets summary covers live stock and meats with price changes across hogs, beef, veal, lamb and pork, plus stocker shipments and regional wholesale trends. It includes fruit and vegetable notes, dairy prices and cheese holdings, as well as cotton spot and futures movements for the week ending February 13 to 19.
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S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C
Chicago
New York
Rochester
East
Texas
San Benito
Florida
Midwestern
Virginia
West Virginia
Imperials
Philadelphia
Boston
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Wisconsin
Texas vegetable shipments show varied carloads and stable prices
Austin reports the first Texas onion car of 1925 along with three from California and a total of 71 cars from other states. Texas cabbage spinach grapefruit lettuce mixed vegetables beets carrots and tomatoes appear in 61 24 51 6 2 2 2 car totals with prices largely steady for fob and cash track sales from 60c to 15 per ton. Demand improves as few cars remain unsold and field contracts set beets and carrots at 10c to 20c per bushel.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
California
F.o.b
New Orleans Rice Market Slows as Demand Dims
In New Orleans the rice market eased with A M A fancy Blue Rose offered at 63/8 to 64 cents for the best lots. Buying remained limited to current needs with only small pocket lots taken. Foreign orders were nominal and long grains in light supply. Fancy Honduras and Carolinas traded around 74 7/8 and 7 7/8 cents respectively, with fancy screenings at 34 1/2 to 36 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Honduras
Carolinas
Mrs. Catt Quits Politics to Embrace Peace Effort
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, a leading suffragist in Miami, announced she is quitting national politics to devote her efforts to abolishing war. She said the danger of war and public reluctance to give it up convinced her it is her duty to fight for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Carrie Chapman Catt
Senate OKs riot claims bill over Houston 1917 conflict
Washington reports the Senate approved a bill authorizing claims by about a score or more Texans for damages from the August 3 1917 Houston incident involving over 100 Negro troopers of the Twenty fourth United States Infantry stationed at Camp Logan. The measure, passed by the House, moves to the president.
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Washington
Senate
Texas
Houston
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
Camp Logan
House
Many Miners Entombed in Sullivan Disaster
An explosion of gas in the City Coal Company mine near Sullivan Indiana killed about fifty one men and trapped 121 miners as the worst Indiana coal field disaster to date. Rescue efforts and inquiries followed the Friday blast.
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Sullivan
Ind
Indiana
City Coal Company
Russo Japanese Pact Ratified by Soviet Central Committee
The central executive committee of the Soviet Union ratified the Russo Japanese treaty in Moscow, confirming the pact between the two nations and marking a formal step in their diplomatic engagement.
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Moscow
Soviet Committee
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West
Ine
Ir Union
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England
Bellans
cRebetel Abe Rtc
Reinhardt Plant Company
Rox W. Ashburn
F. W. Heitmann Co
Houston, Texas
Galveston
Nature
Nujol
R. Jolly
Baptist Hospital
Lamar
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