Mountain slide in California creates lake in Santa Paula canyon
A massive earth slide in Ventura County reshaped Santa Paula canyon and formed a new lake in the South Fork area. The event, dated April 10, altered the canyon surface and raised the creek head about 200 feet above prior ice water levels. Nearby Ferndale and local observers report the mountain top shifted after the slide.
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Sisa Range
Santa Paula Canyon
South Fork
Ferndale
Santa Paulas
Bald
Steckel
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Water Company
Santa Paula
Ventura County
Dress in White to Live 1,000 Years Says Boston Sage
Boston's Dr. John Fair heads a new cult named New Life claiming humans can live to 1,000 with rules: wear white, avoid death thoughts, eat nuts and vegetables, sleep eight hours, exercise and work eight hours, and keep a daily half hour of repose. Aimed at 250,000 adherents, the plan includes a draughty open window and specific meal guidelines.
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Boston
John Fair
Old Almanac Founder Thomas Shaped Early Farmers Almanack
In West Boylston the once thriving home of Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmers Almanack, was drowned by a Metropolitan water district basin. Born 1766, he learned arithmetic late but shaped an enduring publishment begun in 1792, while the magazine avoided zodiac imagery. Portland reports the first public wireless telephone test by A Frederick Collins linking across the harbor.
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Boston
West Boylston
Metropolitan Water Board
Robert B. Thomas
Farmers’ Almanack
Mr. Thomas
Robert Bailey Thomas
New England
Lie
Cambridge University
Robert
Ferguson
Kent
Osgood Carleton
United States
Portland
A. Frederick Collins
Newark
N. J
Has Read Bible 23 Times at Ithaca Woman
Mrs. Sarah Harty a 93 year old resident of Ithaca N Y claims the regional Bible reading record after finishing the Bible for the twenty third time She says she is too old to attempt another reading and she can recite hundreds of verses though rheumatism has limited her activity recently
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Ithaca
N. Y
Sarah Harty
Simple paint test guards against adulterated white lead
An easy chemical test detects impurity in paint materials used nationwide. The National Lead Company offers a free House owner's Painting Outfit No 49 from the 1902 Trinity Building New York, including color schemes and specifications to ensure pure white lead with the Dutch Boy Painter trademark as proof of purity.
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National Lead Company
Trinity
New York
Notable Quip on Money and Wives in Variety
Hewitt jokes about being pinched for money while Jewitt notes women have different tactics. He says his wife kisses him when she wants any. The dialogue reflects playful urban comedy from the era.
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Hewitt
Jewitt
Cure of Eczema in One Month with Cuticura
An elderly patient details a six month eczema ordeal marked by extreme itching and sleeplessness. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, he slept soundly within 24 hours and was fully cured in a month. Testimonial from W. Harrison Smith Mt Kisco NY dated February 3 1908.
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W. Harrison Smith
Mt. Kisco
N. Y
Four year old Elzena asks about vaccination and promotion
A four year old girl in kindergarten learns about vaccination. After reassurance the child eagerly asks if promotion will be on her arm or leg, revealing her humorous view of school advancement.
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Elzena
A Cure for Fits Dr May Laboratory Offers Free Trials
The ad touts epilepticide cures for fits and nervousness and promises free trial bottles literature and testimonials mailed to applicants who write to the Dr May Laboratory 548 Pearl Street New York City for testing and history of epilepsy.
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Dr. May
Pearl Street
New York City
Man should resemble a river says a riddle
A quirky scene shows a woman reading a proverb about rivers and wealth as a man replies with a biting joke. The text shifts to a legal-style oath by Frank J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo 1886, touting Hall's Catarrh Cure with a public-notary seal and drug-store endorsement.
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Frank J. Cuzney
Frm
F. J Chengry & Co
Toledo
County
Stan
Asid
Hall
Frank J. Cheney
A. D
A. W. Gleason
NoTary Public
F. J. Cheney & CO
All Drugeista
Lall
Coal prices rise amid smoke and chatter of inevitability
The clumsy fragment mentions coal costs increasing this year and the idea that prices always rise in smoke. Mentions sore eyes treated by Pettils Eye Salve from Howard Bros. Buffalo and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies. Also notes Prussia employing many women in brick yards.
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Howard Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
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All Sum Foal Instrument
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Catelon
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