Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Miss Pratt
Miss Alma Pratt of Holly Michigan endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female weakness after claiming it revived her energy and helped her gain seven pounds in three months. The missive cites relief from illness when pushed to the limit in schools and seminars. A $5000 forfeit warns authenticity of the ad claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Pratt
Lydia E. Pinkham
AtMaé Pratt
Holly
Mich
McClure's April Series Exposes Missouri Corruption
Lincoln Steffens opens a McClure's April installment on The Enemies of the Republic. The Missouri piece delivers a relentless, fact driven critique of how corruption operates as a system in government, highlighting the bribe-giver as the true source of misgovernance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure
Lincoln Steffens
Missouri
Steffens
Defiance Starch Demand Limits Grocers Sale
Some grocers avoid De fiance Starch due to 12 oz stock that cannot be resold to buyers who order the 16 oz Defiance package. Old sofas and chair backs can be dyed with Putnam Faceless Dyes. A man rarely loosens up until he gets tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance
Putnam
Defiance Starch Promotes Benefit Over Trade Rival
An ad touts Defiance Starch as superior to competitors claiming a third more for 10 cents. It implies health or moral angle by noting many men turn religious when ill.
Laundry Blue Co. bluing sample offer in Chicago
An old advertisement promises a 10 cent sample of a laundry bluing that equals 20 cents worth of alternatives. It directs readers to The Laundry Blue Co. at 144 Michigan Street, Chicago, for sample requests. The copy includes garbled text about ease of use and a wiggle phrase likely indicating a branding slogan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samnle
Laundry Blue Co
Michigan Street
Chicago
Labouchere Ferries Libel Loss In Major Suit
Henry Labouchere, noted British journalist and Truth editor, lost his forty fourth libel suit, ordered to pay $5 000 damages for claims about a physician's qualifications. He had won nineteen, lost eight, hung verdicts in two, settled five, and had ten withdrawn prior to trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labouchere
Henry Labouchere
Truth
The Atlantic Monthly April Contents Teeming With Topics
The April Atlantic Monthly presents diverse pieces from Christian Science to The Sicilian Highlands and The Ethics of Business. Also includes Notes on the Scarlet Letter and The New American Type along with fiction and essays on medicine, Darwinism, and byways of literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Monthly
Christian Science
Defiance Starch Claims Superior Hold and Value
The advertisement asserts Defiance Starch delivers longer lasting stiffness that won’t shake out or blow out and offers about one third more product for the money compared with competing brands.
Parlor on the veldt prompts honesty claim and old ads
A tale from the veldt contrasts De La Rey and Chamberlain with a makeshift parlor. Frank J. Cheney swears to pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh cure failure while promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure and other remedies in a jumble of provincial notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Chamberlain
de la Rey
de la Re
Statesman
Onto
Toledo
Cy Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
KJ. Cheney & Co
Duing Ualues
Paredo
Notary Penuican Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
State Farmer's Mutual Insurance Co. member duties
A notice from B. R. Stouffer secretary of State Farmer's Mutual Insurance Co emphasizes member responsibility for losses and expenses, with assessments every two years after initial insurance. It notes over $60,000 paid in losses and invites neighbors to join. The closing remark laments wives watering plants of their lords generosity with tears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Farmer's Mutual Insurance CO
Four Color Pictures in the April Century Feature
The April Century issue will include four color pictures for Easter with frontispiece by Violet Oakley and works by Anna Whelan Betts Maxfield Parrish and Jules Guerin. Other art includes Edith Wharton's Villas Near Rome and a Madonna print by Morales. Also ad notices for The United Mutual Hail Insurance Assoc and various consumer items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet Oakley
Anna Whelan Betts
Maxfield Parrish
Villa d'Este
Tivoli
Villa d’Este
Mr. Parrish
Edith Wharton
Rome
Timothy Cole
Morales
Jules Guerin
Greeley Square
New York City
Nebraska banks show deposits rise in March report
Nebraska State Banking Board totals for 500 banks show deposits up by over 1.7 million since last November, with 119,675 depositors and an 82 percent reserve. Loans and discounts reach 34.95 million. total deposits 38.78 million. Notable local items include Lincoln jobbers organizing, Chadron YMCA building dedication, and reports of weather effects on oats in York county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
State Banking Board
Follmer
Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Knox County
State Board of Equalization
Insurance Department
Consul Talbot
Modern Woodmen
B. E. McProud
North Bend
University At
Puget Sound, Wash
Siltleligh
Ee Ervere
Ranchman Gordon Area Man Found Burned in Barn
Iran CC Diamond aged about sixty living eighteen miles southeast of Gordon was found burned to death in his burned barn. Coroner’s inquest in Valentine ruled accidental death. He was a widower with two grown sons living alone on the ranch amid threats he feared for his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon
Iran CC
Diamond
Lewis
Valentine
Both Hands Shot Off in Accident at Ainsworth
Sherman Eddy fifteen-year-old son of Chris Eddy living three miles south of town lost both hands when a shotgun discharged while resting both hands on the barrel. The incident occurred near Ainsworth as reported in the local dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
View Ymca
Chadron
Virginia
Gage County
Geneva
Sherman Eddy
Chris Eddy
Ainsworth
York County
Fred Martin
William Gees
Martin
Daniel Gesselman
M. FB
Seward
J. L. Glascock
Beck
Leigh
Schultz
John Puls
Bennington
Prout
Boyd County
Supreme Court
Alexander Blair
Mickey
Frank Sheldon
Peterboro
Ont
York
Neb
Nebraska
Sheldon
William Otto
Bradshaw
Board of University Regents
University
Board of Regents of
the State University
G. E Condra
H. S Evans
F. H. Frye
M. M. Fogg
H. D. Nordyke
Dakota City
John Halladay
Halladay
Colored Minstrel Company
Beatrice
Iroquois, S. D
Forgery Suspect Detained in Petersboro Ontario
A message to Sheriff Brett states Frank Sheldon, sought for forgery, is under arrest at Petersboro Ontario. Deputy Sheriff Afterbaugh set out for the prisoner to bring him back for the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
York
Brett
Frank Sheldon
Petersboro
Ontario
Afterbaugh
Methodists Plan Semi Centenary Event in St Pauls Nebraska
The Methodist State Historical society organizes the semi centennial of Methodism in Nebraska. The June 9 gathering at St Pauls church features Dr C B Mitchell of Cleveland on The Achievements of the Methodist Circuit Rider and maybe Bishop McCabe on The Debt of the Church to Her Veteran Preachers. A discussion of old time preachers’ experiences is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Methodist State Historical Society
Nebraska
St. Pauls Church
C. B. Mitchell
Cleveland
McCabe
Fortune for Beatrice Woman Heir to $2,000,000 in Scotland
Mrs. Mary Sisson widow of Dr. William Sisson of this city received word from New York that she has fallen heir to two million dollars in Scotland formulation of fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrich
Mary Sisson
This City
William Sisson
New York City
Scotland
Finds an Old Coin in Columbus Home
George J. Hagel found a well preserved silver dollar dated 1799 while counting his cash in Columbus. The discovery adds a rare historical coin to his holdings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
George J. Hagel
Hastings asylum cash report shows unexpended appropriation
The Hastings sane asylum secretary of state filed a biennial cash report. It shows over half of the appropriation remains unexpended. The superintendent has spent 151,506.59 for salary, board and clothing and has 388,188.41 on hand. March expenditures were 10,796.02 out of a 14,153.96 monthly appropriation. Repairs since the biennium began total 9,920, leaving 7,989.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hastings Insane Asylum
Spring Blood Purifier Promises Cure For Spring Ailments
Dr Hartman calls spring blood impurity a universal issue for digestion liver kidneys and circulation. He endorses Peruna as prevention and cure and offers free medical advice from Hartman Sanitarium Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Ate Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
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Thomason
Frank J Cheney
A. D
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Sec'y
South Omaha, Nebr
United Mutual Hail Ins
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Ginaston
Scabottla
Peoria
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Nebraska State News
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BRICF
Methodist
Marjory Hampton
New York
Star and Crescent
E. Z. Walker Comet
Cook of
Walk
F. P. Kirkendall & CO
Omaha
Lincoln Paint & Color Co
Lincoln, Nebr
Wilfred Laurier
Ottawa
W. V. Bennett
New York Life Building
West ON Earth
California
Buckstaff Bros
N. U
Uuhes
Aoe Ata
Defiance Starch CQ
Omaha, Neb
Beggs’ Blood Pub
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