Italian Captain Botskin Endorses Peruna for Catarrh
Congressman J D Botkin and Captain O Bertoletto credit Peruna with curing chronic stomach catarrh after years of failure with other remedies. The letters praise Peruna and Mapalin as effective for catarrhal affections, urging readers to seek Dr Hartman’s free medical advice if unsure of results.
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Bertoletto
Hertoletto
Botkin
B. Hartman
Columbus
Washington
J. D. Botkin
Rink
United States
Verona
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Ohio
Horse Stealing a Lost Art in Illinois Past Era
A sheriff recalls horse theft as a once common crime in Illinois, describing county sheriffs and farmers forming joint associations to pursue thieves. Telegrams and public notices spread the stolen-horse description, leading to swift recoveries. Severe punishments, rigid enforcement, and farmer juries kept crime rare and profitable theft disappeared.
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Illinois
Remarkable Coincidences in Reigns of English Queens
A Boston Transcript note observes three great literary and military peaks under Elizabeth Anne and Victoria. Elizabeth’s 1558 to 1603 era shines with Shakespeare Bacon Sidney Spenser and Shakespearean dissent. Anne’s brief 1702 to 1414 era sees Addison Congreve Defoe Pope Swift and Newton broaden discovery amid Marlborough’s battles and union of England and Scotland. Victoria’s era, the longest, spawns advances in literature art music medicine science education and philanthropy, ending ancient abuses and expanding life and alleviating suffering.
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Elizabeth
Anne
Victoria
Shakespeare
Bacon
Sidney
Spenser
Ben Johnson
Annetie
Addison
Congreve
Defoe
Pope
Prior
Swift
Newton
Herkeley
Duke of Marlborough
England
Scotland
Queen Victoria
Boston Transcript
High Prices Paid Singers at Covent Garden and Abroad
The record at Covent Garden reaches 48000 dollars for Adelina Patti in 1870 for sixteen appearances. Patti later earned as much as six thousand dollars per night in American tours. M. Jean de Reszke tops male singers with a sixteen appearance contract totaling 36000 dollars. The famed Lasalie earned 2000 dollars per performance, and during the Golden Jubilee of 1887 he joined de Berkes to yield nightly salaries exceeding 5000 dollars.
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Covent Garden
Mme
Adelina Patti
Mme. Patti
New Orleana
M. Jean de Reszke
Lasalie
de Berkes
A Futile Mercy Bonnets for Horses and Indignant Females
A provincial critique scoffs at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for gifting thousands of horse bonnets while ignoring deeper suffering. The author argues real relief requires aiding people, not horses, and imagines a society distributing bonnets to aggrieved women as a sharper satire.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Rich Men in Difficulties Borrow Carfare
A tale of wealthy men occasionally lacking pocket change. Rockefeller once borrowed five cents for a streetcar, and Uncle Russell Sage was reportedly broke at times. A prominent financier left with four cents and borrowed a cent from a newsboy, later paying fifty-one cents the next day as interest. The anecdote ends with the quip about nature.
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John DB. Rockefeller
Russell Sage
Himellf
Thirty-fourth Street
Sixth Avenue
Upper West Side
Newaboy
Statra
Thirty Fourth Street
New York Press
Mother Gray's Sunset Powders for Children Ad
The advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Sunset Powders for Children used at a New York Children's Home. It claims cures for feverishness and stomach troubles, worm remedies, and over 30,000 testimonials. Sample free by writing to Alien 5 Olmsted Laltoy NY.
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Mother Gray
New York
Olmsted
Laltoy
N.Y
Ungallant Men at Wesleyan Class Day
At Wesleyan University Middleton Middleton the graduating women did not sit with the men for class day. The men voted to abandon the platform seating and sat crosslegged on the ground Indian fashion. They built an amphitheater to seat guests while inviting the women to sit with other guests away from the ground.
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Wesleyan University
Middleton
Conm
Positions for Students at Salt Lake Business College
One hundred students from Salt Lake Business College Templeton found good positions in the past year, far surpassing other state commercial schools. Details are furnished free. Also notes on Angora goat hair wigs and Petaluma hens with large poultry output and egg shipments to San Francisco.
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Salt Lake Business College
Templeton
Lineattre
Petaluma
Cal
San Francisco
Change of Life Testimonial Ends in Patient Healing
Mrs E Saipan of Los Angeles testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured hot flashes and chills after two years of suffering. She praises the product's health benefits and endorses it for helping women regain strength, though a tax claim dispute is noted.
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Dean Mra Pskean
Waa
Safeee
Germus Meliot
Mas. E
Saipan
Hill Se
Los Angeles
Cal
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