Nebraska Prosperity and Grain Exports Spur Local Hopes
In the Nebraska economic roundup, Omaha Trade Exhibit highlights a strong year with vast corn and wheat crops, hay, and livestock fueling farmer cash flow. Governors note rising exports of corn and cornmeal, while Alexander Carnegie funds a state library drive, and wage hikes at Carnegie Steel lift 10,000 workers, signaling broad prosperity.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Europe
England
Alexander Carnegie
Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Co
F. A. Harrison
National Capitol Holiday Quiet Ends Week in Washington
Capital Wates Wasineoton reports a holiday week in Washington with few national news items. Many congressmen left for home or took vacation, while those remaining engaged in social events and catching up on correspondence.
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Wasineoton
D. C
Nebraska
Bucklen's Arnica Save Promises World Famous Cures
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica as a universal salve for cuts burns boils sores felons ulcers tetter rheum fever chapped hands and skin eruptions with a cure guaranteed. Sold for 250 sellers at WF Bassett's drugstore.
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WF Bassett
Old People Made Young by Electric Bitters
Vermontville editor J C Sherman reports Electric Bitters lift old age ailments. He says the tonic eases nerves sleeplessness digestion rheumatism and heart trouble and improves appetite for his wife as well. Sold at W F Bassett's drugstore.
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J. C. Sherman
Vermontville, Mich
Echo
W. F. Baasett
Ballard's Horehound Syrup Ad Promises Cure
An advertisement touts Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a cure for coughs throat and lung troubles including whooping cough. A Clearwater Kansas testimonial claims a bottle cured quick consumption. Price is 25 cents plus 4 cents tax, sold by D J Scanlon.
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Bullard
W. B. Evans
Clearwater
Kans
Ballard
D. J. Scanlon
Go Lovely Rose Poem Fragment by Edmund Waller
The excerpt presents a speaker urging a lovely rose to tell a woman of wasted time and the danger of beauty. It notes beauty’s value when hidden and exhorts the rose to appear and be desired, yet accept the inevitable decay. The fragment ends with the poet’s signature as Edmund Waller.
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Rose
The Lame Tiger of Hulduani
Ram Deen recounts a perilous night with the lame tiger of Hulduani pursuing a mail cart to Kaladoongie. Nandha, fearless yet frightened, is dragged by the tiger into the jungle as Ram Deen battles fear and preserves the tale of courage.
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Ram Deen
la Kooab
Raw Deen
Goor Dutt
Kaladoongie
Nandba
Conchwan Ji
Moradabad
Nandha
Gunga
Nandla
Kaladoougie
Lal Kooah
Nandlen
Nandia
Bine
Westminster
Wife’s Advice Sparks Life-Saving Cure with Discovery
Winfield Tennessee resident F M Ross credits his wife’s urging for Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. He describes rapid recovery from a severe cough after failed doctor treatments. The medicine, claimed to cure coughs colds bronchitis pneumonia asthma hay fever and all chest and lung ailments, is sold at W F Bassett’s drugstore with guaranteed results and 50 cent trial bottles.
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F M. Ross
Winfield, Tenn
Dr. King
W. F. Bassett's Drugstore
Piles Cure Promoted By Buckeye Based Ointment
An old advertisement touts Tabler's Pile Ointment as a cure for all piles. It claims the active buckeye principle heals blind, bleeding, and prolapsed piles without surgery, with bottles at 50 cents and special tubes at 75 cents, mailed by D. J. Scanton.
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Nature
D. J. Scanton
First Baby Arrival Prompts Joy and Fear
The article extols expectant motherhood and the arrival of the first child as a key life event. It promotes Mothers Friend a liniment claimed to ease childbirth and reduce pain, urging readers to request the free booklet Before Baby is Born from The Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta, Ga
Swift's S S S touted as cancer cure in testimonial
A promotional testimonial claims Swift's Specific SSS cures cancer by purging blood poisons. The letter from Winston, North Carolina, recounts hereditary cancer and a now-improved patient cured after eighteen weeks of treatment, with an offer for a free book.
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Swift
Winston
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Cmas. Callahan
Fred A. Gapen
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Pullman Palace Car Company
Wagner Company
Pullman Company
Peter Maher
Kid McCoy
Coney Island
Peter
McCoy
Wates
Bucklen
Arnica Save
Edmund Waller
Mery
S. M,. Idol
New York Weekly Tribune
Aes Nation
THE
Telegraph
Sidney
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SA Mer
M. H. Tobin
Schlitz Beer
Palace Livery Barn
M. E
Washburn
J. Free Dawson
Rose Street
Union Pacific
Portland
Puget Sound
Helena
Montana
Salt Lake City
Utah
E. R. Breisch
Ozmanlis
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