Digestive tonic promises cure for weak stomachs
An advertisement cites Dr Williams Pink Pills as a remedy for dyspepsia and gas in the stomach. It quotes Ipswich resident Minerva Ladd describing relief after three weeks, claiming belching and pain diminished and appetite restored after a course of the pills. It encourages readers to request a free copy of dietary guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerva
Ladd
Ipswich
Dr. Ywilliams Medicine Co
Schenectady
WM. Y
Prisoner uses strong language in police court note
A police court note recalls a constable saying the prisoner needed another officer to restrain him. An advert promotes Garfield Tea for liver and kidney issues and general health, and mentions Lewis' Single Binder Cigars from Peoria Illinois.
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Police Court
London ‘Telegraph
SENTENCE SERMONS OF SELFLESS LIVING AND DUTY
A collection of brief maxims urging humility charity and piety. It contrasts selfishness with serenity reminding readers heaven and virtue come through humane deeds and steadfast faith. Each line underscores moral discipline and the perils of pride envy and worldly success.
Railroad Worker Credits Grape Nuts For Curing Indigestion
A railroad employee reports years of indigestion from irregular meals and heavy foods. After using Grape Nuts nearly every meal, his stomach distress and brain fog vanished, and he says his digestion and focus improved, crediting the product and the Postum Co notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Mysterious scholar Valdermere in an India tiger tale
The narrator, after surviving a tiger attack in India thanks to a mysterious rescuer named Jean Valdermere, encounters him in a camp with friends. Valdermere impresses with vast knowledge and a magnetic presence, while fellow explorers doubt his motives and predict a looming loss linked to Castleman’s dearest aim. The story hints at a secret society and prophetic warnings as the plot advances.
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New York
Liverpool
New York Harbor
India
Ingland
Castleman
Lat
Jean Valdermere
Clime
Lfe
Valdermere
Valdemere
Hughs
Vandermere
Wigmore
Society of
Science
Faghs
Reichenbach
Young Professor and Woman in Small Town Parlor
In a Massachusetts college town a witty young woman challenges a professor’s talk on specialties. At a social gathering the professor boasts specialists can win, and the woman counters that the least experienced man may succeed in falling in love.
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Massachusetts
No Sale Auction Turns Into Sudden Bidding War
An excited man at a horse auction announces a lost $100 bill and offers $50 to the finder. Bids surge from $60 to $97.50 as the crowd chimes in, until the finder admits the bill was for a suit of clothes bought a month earlier.
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Gaar
Sye
Grand Settling of Accounts Ends Day of Shopping
Mrs. Compton and her mother, after a city shopping spree, haggle over small change and bills to settle the day. Mr Compton tries to bridge the coins with a $2 bill while family shares from cousins create a tangled accounting.
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Mother
Lucy
Edward
Katherine
Peanut Shell Replaces Lobster in Police Slang After Street Clash
In Minneapolis a newsboy and a teamster argued on Fourth Street leading to a physical scuffle. The boy taunted the man with terms from police slang, prompting the teamster to pursue. The boy dodged through doors and alleys and escaped as the crowd watched.
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Fourth Street
Halaltar
Minneapolis Journal
When We’re Done with All the Waiting in Love
Poem excerpt credited to M. Lewis in Houston Post describes longing for reunion and a future meeting. The speaker imagines shared laughter, kisses, and a nearsighted climb to a vale beyond life, awaiting a loved one in a dreamlike vision.
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M. Lewis
Houston Post
Mourning for Late Train Echoes Harper Quip
A Chicago witness recalls President William S. Harper of the University of Chicago and his remark that the station attendants wore black neckties in mourning for the late train. The anecdote frames Harper as punctual and wry in a moment of travel delay.
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William S. Harper
University of Chicago
Harper
New York
Flarper
Society Woman to Run Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco
Mrs Herman Oelrichs of New York plans to personally run the Fairmount hotel, a $3,000,000 project. She owns the hotel and recently awarded decorating contracts exceeding $500,000. After negotiations with eastern hotel managers, she withdrew offers and declared she would manage and own the house.
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Herman Oelrichs
New York
Twice Made American Citizen
Patrick J. McHugh of Holly Springs Mississippi was naturalized in 1888. A warehouse fire destroyed his papers, but he re-applied and regained documentary evidence of his American citizenship after more than twenty years in the United States.
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Patrick J. McHugh
Holly Springs
Miss
Fle
Patrick
Americas
Great Scott Tells Addison County Tale of Typhoid Recovery
B C Scott, a Vergennes meat dealer and former Ethan Allen Poat G A R commander, recounts severe typhoid with kidney weakness and nocturnal urination. After a month on Dean's Kidney Pills he recovered, weighs 230 pounds, and credits the remedy. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Addison County
B.C Scott
Vergennes
Ethan Allen Poat
Saya
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
King of Italy Receives Annual Gift of Cigars
The Emperor of Austria presents the King of Italy with 10,000 American cigars each year as a formal gift.
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Italy
Austria
Vindication for Dr. Pierce in Defamation Suit
A verdict favored Dr. J V Pierce against Curtis Publishing for publishing defaming statements in Ladies' Home Journal about Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The World’s Dispensary Medical Association official testified the medicine uses native roots and glycerine, with no alcohol or harmful ingredients, and rebutted claims of alcohol opium or digitalis.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Curtis Pub- Nehing Co
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Dottor Pierce
Curtis Publishing Co
Foree
Dr. Pierce
May Sunder
The
Ladies
Bok
United States
Curtie Publishing Company
Thoughts on Education in 1900s Policy Notes
Tuskegee to receive 500000 from the Dotger estate of South Orange New Jersey. Public and school libraries hold fifty five million volumes. A well-regulated playground ranks beside a good school. Indiana’s delegation largely college bred. Mt Pleasant normal school’s nearly forty percent male students. Harvard graduates’ share of living alumni rose from 56 to 60 percent since 1900. Pennsylvania has 187 high schools with four year courses. need 1000. School nurses seen as fad vs family physician during typhoid. The educated learn most from study. each state should have a competent high school inspector.
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Tuskegee
Dotger
South Orange
N. J
United States
Indiana
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Journal of Education
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria, IL
Edgar
Scott
Supreme Court of the State
Dodds
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