Peruna advertised cure for female catarrh claims
An advertisement asserts female catarrh causes backache and dizziness and promotes Peruna as a universal cure by treating the underlying catarrh. It cites Mrs. M. Brickner’s testimonial from Milwaukee and invites readers to write to Dr. Hartman for free medical advice at The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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Eleventh Street
Milwaukee
Wis
M. Brickner
Boise
Peruna
Hartman
Startman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
What Is Home and Irrigation in Kansas
What Is Home portrays home as a spirit beyond form and routine, nourished by inhabitants and nature. Irrigation in Kansas argues dry prairies can become a garden of the west, boosting corn to 300,000,000 bushels and livestock value to 180,000,000 dollars.
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Kansas
Ansas
New York Press
Earrings Show Regional Origins of Italian Women
The length of earrings worn by Italian organ grinders signals their home region. Longer earrings indicate southern origins, while shorter ones mark northern origins. The practice reflects geographic origins through jewelry style.
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Italy
Dutch Wedding Sweets Recalled as Hruldtulkers
A 19th century Dutch wedding custom is described where sweets called Hruldtulkers replace cake. Children hand them round in flower-trimmed baskets. The text notes uncertainty about attire, whether it is a shirt waist or a girl going to bed.
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Holland
Grape-Nuts Help Child Recover Health and Strength
A Denver doctor recommends Grape-Nuts as a primary food to treat a four year old with swollen feet and stomach derangements. The mother notes rapid improvement after replacing cane sugar with the grain’s natural sweet, calling the child “rosy-cheeked” and healthy again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Treacherous Black Panther of Africa Described
From McClure's Magazine a vivid profile portrays the black panther as more ferocious and elusive than a Bengal tiger. The animal is said to shun daylight, lurk in a cage corner with piercing eyes, and attack even mates, underscoring its dangerous reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
McClure
The Departed in a Park Benjamin poem
A reflective verse on the departed as shadows over memories. The speaker recalls lost loved ones and the ache of their absence, contrasting echoes of summer song with the farewell voices riding the breeze. The poet Park Benjamin laments desolation yet clings to tender remembrance.
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Park Benjamin
A Fund of Humor From William Winter
William Winter, famed dramatic critic, is joked about as writing the worst hand. An amusing Scotland travel letter to H Stoddard in New York was read aloud proving not the writing but the content lifts laughs. Mrs Stoddard initially resists reading, but Mr Stoddard says it is humorous to look at the writing.
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William Winter
Horace Greeley
Winter
Scotland
H. Stoddard
New York
Mrs Stoddard
Mrs. Stoddard
Mr. Stoddard
Immense Coil of Rope For Oregon Raft Tow
The largest rope coil in the city was made for a tow line for the Oregon Rafting Company raft from Inman and Poulson mills. It contains 150 fathoms of four and three quarter inch cable weighing about three tons and costing around 1000 dollars. The raft carries 650 000 linear feet of piling, equal to 6 500 000 feet lumber measure, and will be towed to San Francisco by the steamer Francis Leggett now loading lumber.
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Oregon Rafting Company
San Francisco
Francis Leggett
Inman & .Poulson’s Mills
Portland Oregonian
Shoes for a Giant at Quincy Mine
A Calumet shoemaker finished a custom pair for Louis Mollenen known as the Quincy Hill giant. At 19, seven feet eight and 300 pounds, his shoes measure 16.25 inches long, six inches wide and weigh five pounds each. Mollenen works at the Quincy mine and has refused offers to exhibit him.
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Calumet
Louis Mollenen
Quincy Hill
Mollenen
Mollonen
Quincy
Chicago Record-Herald
Crusade Against Wearing Hats Sparks London Snickers
In England a push to ban hats argues hats slow hair loss and grayness. London circles deride the claim as an assault on a Briton’s right to wear a hat everywhere and even while sleeping if allowed.
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England
London
House of Commons
D'Annunzio Resists Autograph Hunters For Book Copy
The Italian writer D'Annunzio refuses autograph pleas unless the request is written in one of his books. The incident shows the author leveraging the situation to aid his publisher and himself, while fans press for mementos.
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D’annunzio
Dean's Kidney Pills Cure Normal WV Man
A. C. Sprague of Normal West Virginia recounts two years of kidney pain and sleepless nights. After three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills were taken, he says he was cured and regained ability to ride and travel. Advertises Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Price 50 cents. A remark on personal liberty ends the feature.
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A. C. Sprague
Normal
Dean
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Wabash R R Plans World’s Fair Travel Specials
Less Than Half to St Louis and Return via Wabash R R Tickets sold Tuesdays and Thursdays in August rate from Omaha $8.50 Daily round trip rate $13.80 Wabash the only line landing at its station main entrance World’s Fair grounds saving time and extra fare Information from Harry LE Moores G A P D Wab R R Omaha Neb
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St. Louis
Wabash R. R
Omaha
Wabash
Wabash Station
Harry LE. Moores
Harry E. Moores
Gen
Neb
Steam Turbine Pump Adaptation Mentioned
The article describes a centrifugal high pressure pump using a reversed steam turbine principle with water entering the exhaust end and accelerating through fixed and movable vanes to a high outlet velocity. It also notes Russia's Lourdes like shrine at Sarov and the canonization of Saint Seraphim on August 1, 1903 with attendance by the czar’s family.
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Russia
Lourdes
Sarov
St. Seraphim
Father Seraphim
Evar
Czarina
Avarina
David Bell Macgowan
Memorial to Le Conte at Yosemite by Sierra Club
The Sierra Club of California erects a lodge memorial to geologist Joseph Le Conte in Yosemite Valley. The structure is a sturdy lodge with a large 25 by 36 foot room, a stone fireplace, and small rooms near the entrance at the far end, located at the upper valley. The August Atlantic presents essays on Unpunished Commercial Crime by George W. Alser and tributes to Hawthorne by Bliss Perry, with Mason on dissonance and Dunn on Temperance and Judgment to Come.
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Joseph le Conte
Yosemite Valley
Sierra Club of
California
Atlantic
George W. Alser
Bliss Perry
Hawthorne
Bowdoin College
Daniel G. Mason
Martha Baker Dunn
England's Great Artist George Frederick Watts Dies in London
George Frederick Watts, the eminent English artist, died recently in London. He rarely worked from living subjects and favored fragmentary wax and clay studies for parts of his figures. He believed a major aim of his principal works was to take the terror away from death.
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George Frederick Watts
London
Ralph Connor Opens New Novel in Leslie’s August
Leslie’s Monthly Magazine for August features the start of Ralph Connor’s The Prospector in the August Fiction number. First chapters promise a stronger tale than The Sky Pilot or Black Rock, with eleven other stories by George Hibbard Henry C. Rowland Alice MacGowan Holman F. Day H S Greene Rex E Beach and more. J Adam Bede humorist of the house of representatives writes The Spellbinders with many good stories. The wahine with curly hair enjoys an ocean dip the most.
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Leslie
Ralph Connor
the Prospector
Sky Pilot
Black Rock
George Hibbard
Henry C. Rowland
Alice MacGowan
Holman F. Day
H. S. Greene
Rex E. Beach
J. Adam Bede
House of Representatives
Mixed era miscellany and quips from old papers
A collage of brief, non-linear clips includes jokes about golf caddies and a French baron, notes on Governor Odell’s airship project, a postal advertisement for Piso’s Cure, a bishop’s burial act in Albany, and a boast about De Fiancée Starch.
Portrait mislabeling and aging saint in straw hat
An inventory clerk for a large Lon Con firm catalogues pictures for a sale and records a painting of an elderly man with halo as a man in a straw hat. Separate items include Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children offered at 25 cents by Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York and marketing lines on Defiance Starch asserting superiority over rivals.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Defiance Starch Upsizes Pack Weight at Same Price
A consumer notes that Defiance Starch packages 16 ounces per pack while keeping the same price as 12 ounce competitors. The claim suggests superior value and potential price-per-ounce advantage for the brand.
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Earth
le Conte
Baron Alphonse Rothschild
T Baron Alphonse
Mgrle Baron
the Marine
Hemecy Co
Culeage
Sr Odell
Newburg
T Piso
City of
Albany
Tie
Doane
Darkey
Ricard
LifeAn
Rosa Adams
Roger Hanson
Lydia E. Pinkham
Prineman
Lydia EE. Pinkham
Louisville
Prannaya
Lydia E. Pinkham Men. Co
Lyon, Maes
Handy Blueing Book
Handy Blueing Book Co
E. Lake St
Chicago
Ill
Saint Louis
Bagusge
Kelley
Meal Estate Agency
Billings
Thompson
W. WN. U
Defiance
the Defiance
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