Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Cure for Female Trouble
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for years of female trouble. A testimonial from Mrs J E O'Donnell of Chicago claims eight years of illness ended after using the remedy, with a note offering free advice from Mrs Pinkham and an address in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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J. E. O'Donnell
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jenn LE He, O'Donnell
Oakland Woman's Riding Clu
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Agricultural College of Utah Offers Broad Vocational Training
The Agricultural College of Utah outlines its diverse programs across Agriculture Domestic Science Commerce and Engineering with three and four year certificates and degrees. Facilities include eighteen buildings libraries museums laboratories stock dairy sewing and mills with a hundred eleven acres for campus athletic fields orchards and dormitories. The faculty lists forty one members and no tuition is charged with student registration required.
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The
Agricultural College of
Utah
Thes O of Agriculture
Sonar Registraoe
Jews of Prominence in the Financial World
A historical survey lists 116 American Jewish millionaires, noting their concentration in large cities such as New York Philadelphia and Chicago and highlighting figures like the Straus brothers and James Speyer. It traces careers in banking, commerce and philanthropy, mentions political involvement of De Young Levy and Fleischman, and notes charitable works and public service across the Jewish American financial elite.
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United States
Straus Brothers
Nathan
Isidor
Oscar
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Chicago
Mobile
Denver
Atlanta
Peoria
Waverly
Padreah
Louisville
Boston
Detroit
Marquette
Mich
St. Paul
Meridian
Mias
St. Louis
Morristown
N. J. Paterson
N. J
Turkey
James Speyer
J. M. Levy
Bankin
Macy’s
Hawking
William J. Seligman
Henry Seligman
Salomon
MH. de Young
Jefferson M. Levy
Julius Fleischman
Chronicle
de Young
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
Fleischman
President McKin
The Army Nurse Corps Established Across the U S
The United States forms a regular female contingent titled the Army Nurse Corps. Nurses wear a white uniform with cuffs bishop collar apron and cap. The Geneva cross badge marks the corps on the collar. Nurses follow Army regulations and report to immediate superiors with penalties for disobedience.
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Army Nurse Corps
Army of the
United States
Medical Department
Wu comments invert Bret Harte line on Chinese peculiarity
Minister Wu replies to Wo Ting-fang and mocks Bret Harte's line The Chinese view business ethics differently stating that a man’s word suffices in China while foreigners demand written contracts He notes the respect for age contrasts with Western emphasis on money and muscle and ends with a pointed quip about wealth and power
Specimen of Georgia Wit Recalled by 1886 Quake Tale
A Georgia humorous note recalls the 1886 western earthquakes and records that during Macon city council meetings the building shook from basement to attic causing councilors to flee. The minutes clerk later closed the report with a wry line: on motion of the city hall the council adjourned.
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Georgia
Macon
Milton’s Paradise Lost Took Two to Three Years to Write
A Milton biographer notes about twenty years passed between planning and completion of Paradise Lost, with the actual drafting concentrated into roughly two to three years.
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Milton
First Housekeeping School in Berlin Guided by Empress
The Berlin housekeeping school founded by Frau Hedwig Keyl with Empress Frederick's help set a standard in organized home science. It promoted healthful living through bacteriologist and sanitary chemist insights, drawing support from court and public opinion alike.
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Berlin
Frau
Hedwig Keyl
Frederick
Frau Heyl
Frederik
Coor
Relic From Chickamauga Battle in Major Lambert Library
Major William H Lambert of Germantown Pa preserves a five foot high trunk piece from Chickamauga battlefield. It contains eleven metal fragments ranging from rifle bullets to a cannon ball.
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Chickamauga
William H. Lambert
Germantown
Salt Lake Business Adverts and Locust War Report
Fall opening at a business college promotes Ellis Cabinet bookkeeping and Gregg shorthand with inquiries from local business and educational men. A separate report notes Central Asia’s cotton regions attacked by locusts, where armies of chickens were deployed to combat the pests but eventually retreated due to insufficient feed.
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Ellis
Gregg
Templeton
Salt Lake
Central Asia
Brown Quinine Tablets and Other Noted Items
A garbled listing mentions Brown Quinine Tablets with price 250 and Stop the Cough and Cold vaxatives. It notes Europe’s biggest hospital in Moscow with 7,000 beds and 96 physicians, 900 nurses, and 15,000 patients served annually. Also references Mrs Elizabeth O Leary found dead in Fort Wayne with cash and rare currency, and a Hills of exchange in Liverpas. 83-year-old Mrs O Leary case wraps the fragment.
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Europe
Moscow
Elizabeth O'Leary
Fort Wayne
Greenbecks
Hills of Exchange
Liverpas
Mystery of Hidden Gold Near Amazon Frontiers
Reported by unnamed sources that dense forests enclose unmapped Amazon headwaters where a large Napo Indian tribe guards rumored placer gold mines. Quito gold dust is used in trade, carried in hollow bamboo points and washed by primitive methods.
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Amazon River
Quito
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Gordon, Jeademy
Salt Lake City
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Caroline Paine
Dean
Hamlin
Lang Ik Garten
Auperten, Adirews Barnard
Houston
Agricultural College OF Utah
Locan
Regi
Jente
Addrons Agricultural College OF Utah
Logan
Financial
W. J. Salomon
New Yorker
Frankfort
Paris
London
Fleischmann
M. H. de Young
Jey
Ohio
Iundla
Pino
Joux F Borns
Trinity Springs
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