Adulteration of Common Foods Exposed by Senate Committee
A Senate Pure Food Investigating Committee hearing in Chicago revealed widespread adulteration of everyday foods. Dr. H. H. Wiley testified that up to 90 percent of liquid and solid foods were tainted, with examples including coffee, tea, flour, canned meats, and spices.
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Ood
Chicago
H. H. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
United States
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Congressional Committee
A. J. Wedderburn
United States Department of Agriculture
Ex-Gov Altgeld's Wife Embraces Country Life in Rogers Park
Mrs. John P. Altgeld, former Illinois governor's wife, is depicted as patient and poised, preferring home life with husband over society duties. The couple now reside in a Rogers Park house surrounded by nature, where she enjoys tranquil veranda views and imagines stories among lilies and roses.
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John P. Altgeld
Ilinois
Brooklyn
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van Braam
Dinwiddie
Pittsburg
Indianapolis Journal
Washington Star
John
Mary
Aged Skin Itching Treatments and Home Remedies
Aged individuals suffer itching without rash due to nervous weakness. Warm baths with carbolic acid, silk stockings help varicose veins. Iron solution after meals aids pale children with morning headaches. Many nervous people fear a throat lump, eased by valerian. Skin foods are myths. rest and calm protect complexion. Calloused feet stem from ill fitting shoes. soak feet nightly in hot alum water and guard with felt.
Advertising Is Not an Exact Science Says Kingsley Times
A Kingsley Iowa Times column argues advertising pays for those who study it yet remains non exact. It stresses persistence choosing proper media and steady effort. It warns against short abrupt campaigns and praises thoughtful honest planning to build a lasting local reader base.
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Icingsley
Iowa
Adulteration in Food During Appetite Scandal
Testimony details widespread food fraud with fake condensed milk, artificial wines, and adulterated tea. Experts warn such products harm health and deceive buyers while claiming billions in adulterated goods flood the market yearly.
Fortunes of War Bring Prize Money To Vaults
The great naval celebrity, carrying several installments of prize money, heads to safe-deposit vaults. An intimate friend asks what he has, and the celebrity explains these are the fortunes of war referenced so often.
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Washington Star
Practical people question a Woman's husband as a choice
The remark argues against labeling a husband as a woman's choice when many cases show him being a necessity rather than a real selection. It suggests rethinking the phrasing to reflect dependency and social expectations.
Rural visitor mocks elder on Lincoln Avenue ride
A young man with a chin beard and flashy attire mocks an older passenger on a Lincoln Avenue streetcar. The elder regains composure, then signals the motorman after a taunt prompting the stop. Passengers remain seated as the car halts at the corner.
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Lincoln Avenue
Greatest Heat Breaks Record At Columbia University
An experimental electrical furnace at Columbia University produced a new heat record, reaching 6 500 degrees, about 20 degrees above a Parisian rival. Prof. Tucker led the project, vaporizing steel and quartz and even platinum, with practical outcomes including artificial diamond production and valuable calcium carbide and silicon carbide byproducts.
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Moission
Paris
Columbia
The Lunatic's Repartee at a Victorian Asylum
A Melbourne Australasian excerpt recalls visitors touring a lunatic asylum in Victoria. In the corridor a man checks a clock and asks if it is correct. a patient replies that it could not be right inside the asylum, prompting a moment of dark humor.
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Victoria
Melbourne
Flinty coats for plants light from rubbing cane
A scientific note explains that rubbing two pieces of sugar cane in the dark produces a tiny light due to a flinty outer skin on reeds and leaves. This hard coating helps the plant stand upright and protects the tender inside from insects.
Farmer's Wife Praised for Diligence and Practical Wardrobe
The remark credits the farmer's wife for her ceaseless work and her practical decision to skip long curls for her son once he begins wearing pants.
Businessmen divided over schemes prompt near consensus
Businessmen critique schemes for lacking investigation while some concede both sides, showing division and cautious acceptance amid pressure.
Quips and Quips Varied From Many Pages
A mosaic of jokes and witticisms from multiple papers features repartee on marriage, fortune, and social mores. Dialogues touch on education, chesslike bets, mistaken town status, and petty misadventures across Philadelphia Brooklyn Yale Indianapolis Washington Judge Chicago and Detroit publications.
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