Multiple world events and local tragedies reported
Snow falls in Marquette and Houghton Michigan. A teen killed in Morriston New Jersey football game. Fire in Bristow Tennessee opera house destroys business district. Inventor Joseph Glidden dies at 93 in DeKalb Illinois. Kidnapping fears for Buffalo girl. Panamanian floods devastate Los Santos. Cotton frost damage in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Yellow fever stable in Havana. Sugar rebate indictments in New York. Puerto Rico and Morocco unrest noted. Major fires and accidents referenced with varied outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristow
Joseph H. Glidden
Dekalb
Ills
Summerfield
Kansas
the Sun
Vincenzo Raymundo
Chicago
Raymundo
Sicily
Morocco
Bosie Becker
Fred Becker
Buffalo
N. Y
Panama
Los Santos
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Doan's Kidney Pills Restore Health to Veteran Patient
A veteran from Indianapolis recalls severe kidney trouble in 1897 with headaches dizziness and pain. After using Doan's Kidney Pills the swelling subsided and urine normalized. He has been well for nine years and cites the 50 cent box sold by Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Frank Doremus
Roosevelt Ave
Indianapolis
Ind
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Copper superstition and animal wisdom across fields
A farmer relates a folk belief that a thunder storm avoids a copper vein on a farm, while a skeptical narrator notes superstition even among skeptics. The piece also surveys how various animals handle illness and water, from fever retreating to dark spaces to llamas and certain gazelles drinking little, and how some cattle and goats yield Roquefort cheese without much water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patagonia
Far East
Western America
Lozere
France
Man quits coffee after 40 years finds renewed vigor
A 70-year-old North Dakota man describes abrupt coffee cessation and switch to Postum. He reports relief from nervousness, regained strength, and improved concentration for writing and accounting tasks, praising his health improvement and urging others to persevere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Dak
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Longtime East Liberty voter keeps tax receipts for decades
Charles King of East Liberty near Pittsburg, age 78, shows tax receipts spanning 41 years on registration day. Born in Baltimore in 1828, he moved to East Liberty in 1857 and has voted from Fremont to Roosevelt, a stalwart Republican and longtime contractor and brick manufacturer aiding the town’s growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles King
East Liberty
Pittsburg
King
Baltimore
John C. Fremont
Theodore Roosevelt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marquette
Houghton
Charles Sugdan
Morriston
N. J
China
Peking
Moscow
John Gadomaki
Gazette Polska
Bandita
Warsaw
Havana
J. R. Kean
Medical Department
New York City
National Wholesale Druggists* Association
MacLaren
Buckingham
Quebec
Jane Mitchell
Frankfort
Rolla
Clerk
McKee
Clark
Cape Girardeau, Mo
Charles M. Smith
Leavenworth Penitentiary
St. Louis
Taft
Indiana
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Yaman
Subd
Richard
Croker
Tammany
London Magazine
Putnam
New York
Nebraska
Castorta
Ouro
Toledo
F. J. Cumer
Tied
Ike
J. Cheney
Cheney & CO
Tatedo
Ail Druga
Hall
Paper Department
Aroit
Senv
Eee Leading
Teyou
Ator
Sloans Liniment
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
Hume
Rte
Howard E E. Burton
Kere Colo
Carbonate Sa
Thompson's
N. U., Salt Lake City, No
California Fig Syrup Co
California Fig Syrup Go
Gofornia
Sranelsee
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