Frances Willard Hospital Alumna Praises Pe-ru-na
Miss Georgiana Dean a former nursing student at the Frances Willard Hospital Chicago recounts her Liberia mission and nursing education. She endorses Pe-ru-na sharing successful outcomes in treating obstinate catarrh and invites a free health book from Dr Hartman Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgiana Dean
Liberia
M. E. Church
Chicago
Frances E. Willard National Temperance Hospital of
Ill
Mfg. Co
Columbus
Peruna
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Rules of Russia and World Facts in Brief
A mix of statements notes Russian marriage limits to age eighty and five marriages rule, lists 672 known volcanoes with 270 active, contrasts fortune with horse race wealth, and comments on a boy’s take on coasting and the proverb about heaping coals on an enemy.
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Russia
Scientists Measure Lightning Flash Time by Photo
Using a vibrating lens photographed lightning, researchers calculated the flash duration as one nineteenth of a second. The method relies on the multiple image in the photo and the lens’s vibration rate, applicable to the specific flash captured.
Informal Swedish Mail Box System At Coastal Landings
In parts of Sweden a unique postal practice exists where a mail steamer lands and a man retrieves letters from an unlocked pier box. Passers by expectant of letters open the box and select their own mails without challenge, relying on collective honesty.
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Sweden
Healthful old age charming grandmother headline
Mrs Mollie BarsBer of St James Missouri praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after six bottles relieved her of leucorrhea and falling of the womb during change of life. Mrs N E Lacey of Pearl Louisiana reports years of leucorrhea and bladder issues improved after eleven bottles of Compound and Liver Pills. The ad invites women to write for free health advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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Mollie BarsBer
St. James
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wild duck sold with surprise fish in its gut
A farmer sold a wild duck dressed at French's saloon. Inside the duck a twelve and a half inch fish was found, swallowed tail first. The fish measured three and a half inches wide and prompted wonder about how it fit. Local observer notes uncertainty about the duck species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Reginald de Koven A Composer of Opera
Reginald de Koven born in Mid ditown Conn on April 3 1859. He entered St Johns College Oxford in 1879 and graduated with high honors. He studied music abroad then returned to compose songs and operas including The Begum his first in 1887 Robin Hood The Fencing Master The Algerians and The Tzigane.
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Reginald de Koven
Midditown
Conn
St. John’s College
Oxford
Weather Influence on Ailing Bodies Cited
The text notes that rain and damp air affect people with corns rheumatic bones or decayed teeth causing temporary disturbances. It argues that general bodily ailments manifest in morbid areas as weather changes impact the body.
Hen Nearly Reaches Twenty Buried at Quincy Michigan
At Quincy Michigan a hen buried after living almost twenty years. The brief notes the unusual longevity and burial in the town.
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Quincy, Mich
Kline's Great Nerve Tonic Ad Claims Cure
An advertisement by Jen H. yy Ltd. at 931 Arch St Philadelphia promotes Kline's Great Nerve Tonic claiming permanent cure for nervousness and fits with a trial bottle offer. The copy stresses nerve health and travel toward fame as motivational framing.
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Kline
Jen H. Yy Ltd
Philadelphia
Cure for consumption claimed by Williamsport woman
Anna M. Ross of Williamsport Pa on November 12 1895 endorses Piso's Cure as the only medicine to cure consumption. The remark appears alongside a proverb about business success and failure equating.
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Anna M. Ross
Williamsport
Houston East and West Texas rates for fairs and meetings
Railroad passes announce special round trip fares for events in New Orleans and Fort Worth during May 1899. One fare to New Orleans fair with sale May 6–15, limit ten days. Fort Worth meetings offer one and one third fares and one fare with varied arrival dates and limits. Also clarifies a past knife offer error from T M Roberts Supply House Minneapolis and corrected prices for garden seeds and two knives.
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New Orleans
Houston East and West Texas Railroad
Northwest Conference League
Fort Worth
Texas
Grand Lodge Colored Knights of Pythias
Houston
San Antonio
H. E. & W. T. Railroad
T. M. Roberts’ Supply House
Minneapolis
Crescent Hotel Opens Season in Eureka Springs
The Crescent Hotel at Eureka Springs opened for the season on February 23. Excur sion tickets are available anytime via the Santa Fe Route. Write for details. W S Keenan General Passenger Agent Galveston.
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Ozarks
Arkansas
Crescent
Eureka Springs
W.S. Keenan
Galveston
Nice Young Man Delivers Sunday School Talk
A Sunday school lecture prompts a child asking when the talk will end. The scene features a polite exchange where a young boy inquires about the duration of the discourse.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises No Cure No Pay
Advertisement for GROVE's Tasteless Chill Tonic claims to reduce chills and fever with iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure no pay. Price 50 cents.
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Grove
Past Mistakes as Guidebooks for the Future
The statement frames errors of previous eras as lessons for progress. It urges turning historical missteps into actionable knowledge guiding policy, ethics, and innovation to avoid repeating harms and to improve future decision making.
A Household Necessity for the Family Health
An advertisement notes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a handy home health aid with buyers encouraged to visit druggists for a 10 cent box. A staged joke lines the snippet with a wife accusing her husband and a husband snapped back, reflecting a humorous kitchen scene from Detroit Journal.
Rough textured bottles mandated for poisons in New York
In an announced law today New York druggists must use poison bottles with rough surfaces to prevent misidentification at night. The measure aims to prevent accidental poisoning by ensuring the poison bottle is easily distinguished by touch.
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New York
Spec
Pittsburg
Opening of Ute Reservation for Settlement in Colorado
The Ute Indian Reservation in Southern Colorado will be opened for settlement at noon on May 4, 1899 by presidential proclamation. It covers about 600000 acres of arable mesa land deemed highly desirable. For free information pamphlets, address 8 K Hopper, D and R G R R, Denver, Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Colorado
K. Hooper
Denver
Cola
Lightning Reveals Etruscan Tomb Near Volterra
A lightning strike felled an ancient pine on a hill near Volterra exposing buried remains. Workmen cutting the tree roots uncovered the top of an Etruscan tomb beneath.
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Volterra
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad Invites Relief for Foot Ailments
A vintage notice pitches Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a cure for burning, sweating feet, bunions and sore toes. It claims to stop foot discomfort when shaken into shoes, offers a free sample, and lists Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy New York as the address.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Classification of skin color changes in African children
A description notes a supposed progression of skin color in Black children from whitish at birth to pale yellow, brown, dirty black, and finally glossy black by ages six or seven. This passage reflects biased, colorist depictions rather than scientific fact.
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Frances Willard Hospital
Maderone
Underwood
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Enum Atma and
EOS van Vleet-Mansfield Druc CO
Memphis, Tenn
Hall
Price, Zc
Winslow
Detroit Journal
Columbia, Hartford
Vedette
Columbia
Columbia Desler
Pope Mfg. CO
Hartford, Conn
Stearns
Stearns’ Electric
Sapolio
Alasbastine Co
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