Life Saved By Kidney Pills Says Salisbury Woman
Mrs G W Fooks of Salisbury Maryland wife of the Sher if of Wicomico County describes eight years of kidney trouble. She felt tired weak short of breath and bloated after meals. A doctor warned of Brights disease and she was laid up three weeks. After three days of using Dean's Kidney Pills the back pain disappeared and she was soon cured. For sale by all dealers price fifty cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Colosseum Expensive Italy spends twenty thousand dollars yearly to keep the Colosseum in repair.
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Mra
G. W. Fooks
Salisbury
Sherif
Wicomico County
Bright
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
How has tea spread and won friends worldwide
The passage reflects on tea as a dainty drink with global reach and suggests a life rule about focusing on the good in others. It urges to honor and imitate strength seen in people, implying faults fade as in time. This moral note attributes the guidance to Amiel and frames tea as a cultural emblem.
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Amiel
Tramps Abound in Wellington England Town
In Wellington a small west country town of 7 000 residents accommodated 5 245 tramps last year reflecting a high influx of vagrants. The statistic highlights social strain and local welfare burdens during a period of economic hardship.
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England
Wellington
Famous Red Cross Ball and Farewell in Japanese
A jumble of 1900 era notices and quotes cites the Russ Company paying South Bend’s Todt farewell in Japanese saying Sayonara. The piece weaves stray remarks on poverty, salaries in Johannesburg and India, Piso’s Cure claims, and a London hospital death ruled accidental after a vein injection during surgery.
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Red Cross
The
Russ Company
Misread Text on Mica Production Report
Fragmentary note quotes a London engineer complaining about tea quality in the country and mentions Iudia as the leading mica producer supplying about half the world’s requirements. The garbled lines include a grocer retort and unclear product references.
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Iudia
London
German toy exports reach 13.7 million dollars
Germany’s toy industry centers at Sonneberg with exports last year near 13.7 million dollars. The United States was the leading customer, purchasing about 4 million dollars worth of German toys.
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Germany
United States
Sonneberg
The Modern Farmer Life Compared With Fifty Years Ago
A historic portrayal contrasts past farming life with today noting urban comforts and modern utilities. It highlights daily mail telephones acetylene lighting and updated homes as evidence of evolving farming prosperity and national progress.
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W Ho
Loghauar
Elfy
United States
Global news tally: monarch rule, wrecks, and world events
The Dagblatt says King Oscar will resume government June 1. A double freight-train collision near Echols Kentucky killed eight and injured four. Ivan Kaleleff, who killed Grand Duke Sergius, was executed in St Petersburg. A deadly tornado near Snyder Oklahoma brings death toll to about ninety seven. The United Brethren conference in Topeka voted to unite with Congregational and Methodist Protestant churches. A mass shooting in Caledonia LT left several dead before suicide. A $10 million Carnegie pension fund for college teachers was incorporated in Albany. Northern rivers overflow after six days of rain. farming lands flood. Morris Algoe faces blackmail charges in Omaha. A policeman was found murdered in Alexandropol. The Wilhelmina was declared confiscated by the Sasebo prize court. Seventeen anarchists released in Barcelona on King Alfonso’s birthday. Rio Grande floodwaters devastate crops. aid requested from El Paso. Moro chief Pala reportedly killed on Jolo. Kenosha post office block burned. casualties reported. A Kr Koch trial jury deadlocked. mistrial declared. London electric light and pneumatic tube bill advances. Chicago street railways consider municipal sale. Prescott resident A D McDougall dies. four others incapacitated by gas in Santa Barbara tunnel. Des Moines ex-employee Spencer confesses embezzling $5,000. Dr Frederick W Spiers dies in Lansdowne. Booklovers Library director.
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Ivan Kaleleff
Sergius
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Snyder
Oklahoma
United Brethren General Conference
Topeka
Kans
Cale
Whitehead
Terrill
Carnegie Fund
Albany
N. Y
Maly
Morris W. Algoe
Edward Rosewater
Omaha Bee
Alexandropol
Transcaucasia
Wilhelmina
Vladivostok
Cardiff
Sasebo
Barcelonia
Spain
Alfonso
Rio Grande
Berino
N. M
el Paso
Manila
Pala
Jolo
Leonard Wood
Calkin
Kenosha
Wis
John Smith
Postoffice
G. R. Koch
1A. Bebhardt
New Ulm
Minn
Johannesburg 3 town shocks traveler on rapid growth
A South African traveler describes Johannesburg with corrugated shanties and dust on wide streets. Commissioner Street is the business hub as modern skyscrapers loom over the old fort, and the city is portrayed as a young, unruly imitator of older civilizations.
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Johannesburg
Commissioner Street
America
Do You Want the Earth
An advertisement for a Southwest focused information pamphlet titled Do You Want the Earth. It highlights opportunities for farmers stock-raisers fruit-growers merchants and professionals and claims climate soil crops industries and social life details unavailable elsewhere. Free copy offered by C F Warren for the A T S F Ry Co Salt Lake City Utah.
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Great Southwest
C. F. Warren
A. T
F. Ry. Co
Salt Lake City
Utah
Six Shots Are Enough Revolver Doctrine
An excerpt discusses carrying a six shot revolver, citing Richard Harding Davis in Scribner’s. It recalls Civil War era advice that the weapon is handy though not essential, with a personal anecdote of carrying it during an Atlantic campaign and using it rarely. The author notes limiting to six cartridges to assume a failed hit means no further shots needed.
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Richard Harding Davis
Scribner's
Atl
Bank and Bankrupt Meaning From Medieval Bench Law
An explanation notes that the word bank derives from a banker’s bench used to transact business. The term bankrupt comes from penalties for defaulting bankers, including expulsion from the guild and breaking of the bench.
Aged Man Credits Longevity to Cautions and Habits
A 103 year old man in New York claims his long life stems from avoiding danger and smoking and drinking since youth. He says he has never ridden a trolley or elevated train and has never consulted a physician, noting his robust health as proof.
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New York Times
Bluebeard Hoch Convicted of Murder in Chicago Case
Chicago Johann Hoch, a self proclaimed bigamist with ties to ten marriages, was found guilty of murder in Judge Kersten s court. The jury recommended the death penalty for Hoch who allegedly poisoned his last wife Marie Welcker Hoch after a brief illness and fled with her sister s money.
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Chicago
Johann Hoch
Kersten
Hoch
Marie Welcker- Hoch
John
Taft Holds Off on Foreign Ship and Panama Materials Purchases
Secretary Taft will not buy foreign built ships or abroad material for the Panama project beyond immediate needs. The policy remains to supply canal work from the cheapest market and to await instructions from Congress, with the president and Chairman Shonts aligned.
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Washington
Taft
Panama
Congress
Dent
Shonts
Fear in Indo China Threat Highlights Naval Defense
Paris deputy Francois Delanele urges urgent strengthening of Indo-Chinese defenses against a possible Japanese invasion. He warns Japan could deploy 100,000 troops quickly, using sea mastery to reinforce initial landings, with China as a second, backed threat.
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Paris
M. Francois Delanele
Re- Publican
Indo-China
Aperial
Japan
China
Chinese Officials Abandon Exclusion Treaty Talks Amid Chinese Boycott Fears
Chinese officials abandon plans to move negotiations on the new exclusion treaty after a wave of resentment in China. Reports say Chinese merchants may boycott American goods broadly, threatening impact on trade. The Chinese legation denies plans to sue in U.S. courts, while appeals go to the state department.
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Washington
Bopa
China
Peking
Department of Commmerce and Labor
Chines
Supreme Court of the United States
State Department
Living on Simple Food and the Rye Bread Idea
The article notes a theoretical claim that a man could exist on 1 percent of kilos (313 pounds) of rye bread daily, but explains realistic limits. It suggests bread enriched with butter or sausages and daily substitutions with other foods, along with warm coffee, mirrors what many people actually do.
Railroads and Progress: Westward Growth Shaped U S Industry
Professor Hugo Meyer testifies before a Senate Interstate Commerce Committee in Washington on May 4. He argues that westward agricultural expansion created markets for eastern manufacturing, boosting steel, boots, shoes, textiles, and cotton milling, while criticizing the Interstate Commerce Commission for narrow views and warning against bureaucratic rate regulation that could hinder national growth.
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Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Washington
Hugo Meyer
Chicago University
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi
Europe
New England
Ni York
Otio
Mississippi River
West
East
A Watershed Concept Explained Through a Misstep
The passage describes a hazy notion of a watershed and recalls an unsuccessful attempt to define it. It explains a watershed as terrain where soil rises sharply on one side and slants on the other, forcing water to rise on one side and fall on the opposite side.
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India
Piso
Vanburen, Ind
St. Thomson Hospital
Frederick ‘Thomas Kennedy
Paskagy Red Cross
South Bend
Dagblatt
Oscar
Echols
House of Commons
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Chicago Street Railway
A. D. McDougall
Prescott, Ann
A. Packard
Charles Card
William Kimball
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Cal
Carl M. Spencer
Des Moines
Iowa
Embensling
Spencer
Frederick W. Spiers
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Philadelphia
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Booklovers'brary
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Bluebeard Hoch
Celestials
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