Doan's Kidney Pills Praise From Fond du Lac Clergy
Rev Jacob D Van Doren of 57 Sixth St Fond du Lac Wisconsin a Presbyterian clergyman writes that attacks kept him bedridden for days and that Doan's Kidney Pills brought relief by loosening the data and correcting kidney secretion action. Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sells Doan's Kidney Pills for 50 cents.
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Jacob D. van Doren
Sixth St
Fond du Lac
Wis
Presbyterian
Doan
Fourthusband Marries Sixth Wife at Century Mark
Mr. Jerry Bostarth of Stenners Brooks, C, aged 101, marries for the sixth time. His bride, Mrs. Julia Ann Jenkins, aged 99, claims her fourth husband. He did not propose to someone young enough to be his great granddaughter, leaving the scene oddly quiescent.
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Jerry Bostarth
Stenners Brooks, C
Julia Ann Jenkins
Mr. Bosarth
Catarrh Cure Promoted as Blood Purifier Remedy
Local advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease not curable by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a genuine remedy taken internally to affect the blood and mucous surfaces.
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Ilall
F.J Cueney & CO
Propa
Toledo
Roth
Rear Admiral Cook Retired After Service In Civil War
Rear Admiral Cook, who commanded the Brooklyn at Santiago, has retired. A Massachusetts man, he entered Annapolis in 1860, served as ensign in the West Gulf squadron, and rose to captain by 1886. He later commanded the cruiser Brooklyn through the Spanish War, noted for his magnified physique and frank bearing. Piso's Cure for Consumption is advertised as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.
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Cook
Brooklyn
Santiago
Massachusetts
Annapolis
West Gulf
Spain
Gifts in Kind at Popes Estate Reach Vast Losses
The estate of Pope Leo XI reveals enormous in kind gifts from the civilized world to Leo XIII stored for years by well meaning caretakers. Sacks of coffee and sugar spoiled by storage, numerous furs and valuable silver from Brazil and distant regions lay ruinous, unpacked and left to decay. Losses run into a very large sum.
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Leo XI
Leo XIII
Brazil
Red Crags Ball Blue Ad Teases White Clothes
A vintage advert urges use of Red Crags Ball Blue to keep clothes white. It notes it is sold by grocers for 5c a package. A wry line adds a proverb about a barking dog and playful weather as a publicity flourish.
The Court's Exceptional Tact in a Milwaukee Court
Postmaster General Payne recalls a Milwaukee judge famed for a kind heart. An aging court crier slept through proceedings. the judge calmly interrupted with a shout to wake him and preserve order. The tale ends with a moral that strength rests on sympathy.
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Payne
Milwaukee
Crier Jones
Bilence
Polk Man Claims Cure For Rheumatism By Dodd's Kidney Pills
Polk Ark November 9 A local resident George Hiland says he cured a severe Acute Rheumatism after trying Dodd's Kidney Pills he credited as a perfect cure He recalls being unable to move and needing help before the medicine eased his pain and let him work again The note ends with a poke at Wall Street tastes for lamb with greenbucks.
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Dodd
Mr.Hiland
Gettie
Rough on the Doctor Doctoring a French Tombstone Tale
Thomas a A Janvier recounts a Provence physician who jokes with a tombstone cutter while the cutter carves an obituary. The physician laughs at the process, asking why heads are begun but left blank, and the cutter explains he continues work when someone is ill.
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Thomas A A. Janvier
France
Janvier
Provence
Sources of the Earthquakes Classified by British Committee
A British association committee traces great earthquakes to eight districts seven underwater. Five fringe the Pacific coast, one in the Indian Ocean, one in the West Indies and one in the Caucasian Himalayan region. Each quake shook the whole earth with after shocks from broken strata. The wave travels about two miles per second near the surface and up to seven miles per second at depth.
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British Association
Pacific
Indian Ocean
West Indies
English Goods Compete With Russian Goods In Asia
English face Russian competition as Russian goods enter Asiatic markets with some success. Korea and areas near the Chinese boundary see initial gains. A Moscow manufacturer, N. Lt. Konshin, leads with several representatives in China and Korea.
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Korea
Moscow
N. Lt. Konshin
China
Boy in the Cleveland Circle and a Fish Gift
A Buffalo lawyer duo with Grover Cleveland is recalled. A seventeen year old servant delivers Cleveland’s fish to S. Bissell and asks what the boy should say if asked about the tip, highlighting Prudence and humor in a diplomatic tale.
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Wilson
S. Bissell
Buffalo
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Bissell
Mr. Bissell
A Relic of Nero Rediscovered at Campus Martius
The government conducts excavations at Campus Martius and uncovers remains and foundations of the monument built by the Roman Senate in 13 B C during Nero and Quintilius consulship. The finds, along with earlier 1850 fragments in museums, enable reconstruction of a peace symbol to be completed for the Czar's visit.
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Campus Martius
Nero
Quintilius
Augustus
Spain
Gaul
London Mail
Southern exports rise in 1902 totals and share
In 1902 Southern exports reached 508,237,000 dollars, up from 472,894,000 the prior year. The gain of 7.4 percent outpaced other U S ports at 0.3 percent. The South accounted for 38 percent of total U S exports.
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South
United States
Cured of Bad Habit by Wise Bank Cashier
In an October Everybody's Magazine excerpt from The Autobiography of a Bank Cashier the narrator recalls a morning of chaotic calculations. The cashier refuses to let him quit, urging him to keep working, face the error, and accept consequences as the cure for his lapse.
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Everybody’s Magazine
Fad of Musical Composer and Ghostly Conductor Anecdotes
Curious tales surround Hermann Zumpe the Wagnerian conductor who died recently. He was a noted spiritualist believing dead composers inspired his conducting. He recounted Beethoven's spirit during a symphony and the ghost praised the performance, prompting another conductor to quip about a mistaken past move.
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Hermann Zumpe
Munich
Zumpe
Beethoven
Crowded New York Streets Challenge Pedestrian Exercise
The New York Letter notes growing street crowds make walking to work harder as daily transit times increase. Pedestrians face crowded thoroughfares during peak hours, complicating exercise and travel.
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New York
Female Clerks in London Rise Doubling in Four Years
In London the number of female clerks has doubled over the last four years, with demand rising steadily. Experts predict that male clerks may soon be extinct as women increasingly fill clerical roles.
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London
Hump System Revolutionizes Railroad Car Switching
A twelve foot high thousand foot long incline known as the hump replaces switch engines for assembling trains. The gravity-based method reduces train building costs and time, with about fifteen car riders manning the yard and racing to catch runaway cars as they roll over the hump. The experiment draws transportation officials’ attention nationwide.
New Hump System of Railroad Yard Uses Elevating Track
In Hawthorne yard a hump system pushes trains up a hill then drops cars singly or in bunches onto different tracks. Switchmen control speed and release to form trains, a process praised for efficiency but noted as risky amid flying cars on multiple tracks. Experts predict widespread adoption of hump yards in large system facilities, replacing old at grade switching.
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United States
Hawthorne
Case of Satisfied Ambition Depicting Depot Dining Delights
A New York Press quoted exchange among two businesswomen praising depot restaurants rather than scenery. One woman recalls uprooting meals from family lunch baskets to dine in stations with real tables and service, a long held girlhood ambition finally fulfilled.
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New York Press
The Nickel for Paper at a New York Hotel
A brisk man demands an envelope and two sheets of paper at a prominent hotel. He pays a nickel then refuses the free stationery, arguing that he is not a guest and would be intruding. The clerk explains the policy as a rare incident.
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New York Press
Congressional Orthography Reminder in the Cloak Room
A Kentucky congressman known for spelling flaws is remembered in a cloak room tale. Knott teased a friend who spelled words poorly though he was trusted in his town. A country lawyer misspelled horse as h o r c e on a panel and asked Congressman Smith to judge, who then questioned the final letter.
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Kentucky
Knott
Congressman Smith
John
White Paper Desired Amid War and Sinful Fears
A storm-trained seaman recalls a demand for white paper to expose truth behind centuries of battle famine tyranny and blood. The Boston Journal frames a plea for honest documentation to reveal hidden shores and avert further suffering.
Mole on Nose Sparks Skeptical Talk at Event
A brief exchange mocks a faith healer and a Julia Marlowe lookalike, noting a large mole on the woman’s nose and a sceptical reaction to healing claims. The dialogue contrasts science and spectacle with a nod to appearances.
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Gibson
Julia Marlowe
Faith
Prohibition Territory Population Report Notes State Laws
The latest statistics show about 30 090 000 people live in prohibition territory, more than a third of the population. Maine Kansas and North Dakota enforce prohibition by state law, while thirty eight states impose it by local option.
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Maine
Kansas
North Dakota
Great Tunnel to Bore Under Capitol Will Haul Trains
The twin tunnel under the capitol of Washington, granted to the Pennsylvania Railway, will be 3000 feet long at a cost of 800000 dollars with electricity used exclusively to haul trains through it.
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Great Tunnel
Capitol of Washington
Pennsylvania Railway
Murder rates per million population by country
The report lists murder rates per million inhabitants for England 5.13 Germany 5.45 France 11.55 Austria 15.42 Italy 76.11 Spain 44.70, indicating wide international disparities in homicide levels.
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England
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Spain
Mummy Wound in Colorado
Mrs Jeannette R Newcomer discovers in Grand Canyon burial village a near perfect cliff dweller mummy. The five and a half foot male figure with brown hair and intact teeth was removed to Chicago and housed at the Newcomer home likely for an educational institution. The lower body wrapping is coarse and the right leg below the knee is missing.
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Colorado
Jeannette R. Newcomer
John Newcomer
Chicago
Grand Canyon
the Colorats
Kipling Destroys Unpublished Work Forty-five Mornings
Kipling, famed author, destroyed a whole book in a heroic mood. He named the unborn title Forty-five Mornings. Robert Barr read the manuscript and judged it as good as Plain Tales, which Kipling rejected as not better. He then burned the work, deeming it unpublished.
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Kipling
Robert Barr
Mr. Barr
Barr
Happy Days Through Food Choice and Grape-Nuts
A dyspepsia sufferer recounts three years of poor digestion and weakness. After trying Grape-Nuts, he improves steadily, returns to school, and gains mental sharpness, with friends noting how well he looks. The Postum Company promotes the product and its booklet The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Shem
Sawyer
Ben
Cambridge
Hace
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State Street
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