Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Ad Claims Blood Purification
A long promotional notice extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a stomach reviewer and blood purifier. It promises liver and kidney cleansing, improved blood production, and stronger nerves, with endorsements, free medical book offers, and a sales pitch for the patent medicine. It ends with a comic quip about a village hose company arrival.
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Pierce
R . Pierce
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
Cuticura Soap touted as world’s greatest skin soap
An advertisement claims Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are the purest emollients for preserving and beautifying skin, cleansing scalps, stopping hair loss, softening hands, easing baby rashes, and serving various sanitary needs. includes a quoted line about resolving the race problem by banning betting.
Catarrh Cure Advertised By Toledo Firm
An old advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by boosting the body's defenses. It includes a $100 reward for proof of failure and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio, as the contact, with a note about taking Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Lerof Sertimontnis
J. Ohne & CO
Toledo
Lane
Soc
Jollier and Jinks Weigh Fame Versus Routine Life
The Dallas News quotes Jollier and Jinks debating the lure of fame. Jollier admits abandoning high ambitions to avoid loneliness of the top rung, choosing a more grounded, steady life.
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Jollier
Jinks
Fame
Dallas News
Cure a Cold in One Day Promoted by Laxative Tablets
An advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as a one day cure for colds. It promises a refund if the remedy fails and features a line of signatures on the Vox. The Detroit Free Press quotes a prideful rebuke about ancestors from a family.
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Rista
Detroit Free Press
Louisville
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad Repeats Offers
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup with claims to ease teething pain and wind colic at 25 cents a bottle. The copy repeats the product pitch and then rails against talkative people who bore listeners with chatter about themselves and their belongings.
Church Union Nears After Century Split
In St. Louis the Northern Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyterian churches move toward union after a century long division. A single Cumberland dissent was cast by Elder T W Keller of Knoxville. Ratification expected at May meetings of both assemblies in Des Moines and Decatur.
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St. Louis
Torrey
Alexander
Northern Presbyterian Church
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Wnen
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
Des Moines
Decatur
T. W. Keller
Knoxville
Tenn
Cumberland Committee
Dickson County
Yerkes Dies at Waldorf Astoria Shunned by Wife
Traction magnate Charles T. Yerkes died at 2 20 pm yesterday at the Waldorf Astoria New York after a long illness with a complication of diseases Mrs Yerkes declined to discuss her husband condition saying she had not been at the hotel and would not comment further A servant quoted her as refusing to see reporters Yerkes had been ill for some time at his Sixty eighth Street home
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Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Charles T. Yerkes
Yerkes
Sixty-eighth Street
Fifi Avenue
Mr. Yerkes
Boston Brokers Fail Rise in Copper Stocks Help Undo Firm
Boston December 31 The rise in copper stocks on the Boston stock exchange helped precipitate the suspension of H R Leighton Co a Boston brokerage firm with about forty offices mainly in New England. The company assigned for the benefit of creditors though not a member of any exchange.
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Boston
Boston Stock Exchange
H. R. Leighton & Co
Stock Exchange
New England
Convict Seeks Hidden Money to Pay Bills in Yankton
James Collins, jailed for obtaining money under false pretenses, claims he hid 425 dollars at the old Milwaukee depot site and asks officers to have it dug up. An effort will be made to locate the treasure to pay lawyers and a doctor.
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Yankton
James Collins
Sioux Falls
Milwaukee
Chicago Doctor Sentenced to Forty Five Years in Murder Case
Dr Oliver B Hart a St Louis resident was sentenced in Rogers Park to 45 years in the penitentiary for the murder of 10 year old Trene Klokow. He drugged and maltreated the girl in October, morphine caused death, neighbors found him semi conscious from self harm attempts. Physicians testified he lacked mental responsibility, likening his mind to that of a 12 year old.
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Chicago
Oliver B. Hart
St. Louis
Trene Klokow
Rogers Park
Barnes
Hart
Wisconsin anti-pass law case ends in judge's ruling
Grand Rapids Wis December 31 Judge Webb rules that the anti pass law prohibits the use of transportation provided otherwise than by purchase by state officers. The defendant a Wisconsin Central Railway attorney also served as notary public and received transport as part of his company remuneration.
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Wisconsin
Grand Rapids
Wis
Webb
Wisconsin Anti-Pasa An Fa Lesal Amt
Wisconsin Central Railying Company
Wisconsin Central Railway
Keeps Lid On Tight Through IllinoisPayroll Graft
Butte County state’s attorney orders all gambling houses closed in Belle Fourche S D citing illicit profits from the irrigation project payroll. He warned paraphernalia would be seized if any dives reopen after recent attempts to restart gambling operations.
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Belle Fourche
S. D
Butte County
Aged Woman Killed in Fire in Minneapolis Tenement
Mrs. Loraine Bucklass, sixty nine, died in a morning fire at 619 Minnehaha Avenue. A slow burning oil stove exploded as she slept, the blaze consuming the three story Higgins block. Twenty seven families were left homeless by the fire.
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Minneapolis
Loraine Bucklass
Minnehaha Avenue
Milwaukee Factory Growth Shows Multi-Million Investments
Milwaukee each year 1905 saw new factories and additions totaling 9 to 10 million dollars. About twenty new plants opened creating work for over two thousand artisans, marking a major milestone in the citys industrial history.
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Milwaukee
Dee
Foreman dies after accident unloading horses near Miles City
Abe Settle foreman for the A B Clark Horse company of Custer county died in Miles City from injuries sustained while unloading stock from a train. He fell between the chute and the car and the wheels passed over his arm and leg. The incident occurred while dealing with horses shipped to Rosebud on December 31.
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Helena
Mont
Abe Settle
A. B. Clark Horse Company
Custer County
Miles City
Rosebud
Man with Five Penitentiary Terms Arrested in Clinton
John Sievers of Clinton, Iowa, already twice released after five sentences from Anamosa, was arrested for robbing three Clinton businesses. He had just returned from prison less than two weeks earlier.
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Lowan
Clinton
Iowa
John Sievers
Anamosa
Burglars Wreck Express Safe in Hammond Heist
Burglars entered the Hammond Wisconsin depot last night, blew open the safe and made off with one book of American Express limited checks and 23 cents. The safe was wrecked and office furniture damaged. Entry gained via a back window with no clue to the culprits.
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Express
Hammond
Wis
American Express
Gossip and custody of pug dog stir divorce chatter
The Catholic Standard notes a Swellman divorce case not yet decided with a hitch over custody of a pug. Cutting shrugs off the matter as trivial, while the Cleveland Plain Dealer riffs on a street roll found by a man who returned fake stage money, sparking new accusations.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Proposing to a Sensible Girl Highlighted in Somervilla Journal
In a dialogue from the Somervilla Journal two elderly men praise Niss Watkyns as the most sensible girl they know, with one advising against a marriage proposal, calling discretion wise for the moment.
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Gaston
Niss Watkyns
Alphones
Somervilla Journal
Corruption and honesty quoted in Houston Chronicle remark
The Houston Chronicle quotes a dialogue contrasting honesty and corruption in politics. A poetical citizen claims election exposes bosses, while a practical citizen counters that it is only a rift in the loot, echoing Tennysonic phrasing.
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Tennyson
Wouston Chronicle
Wedding and divorce suits cited in local chronicle
The article mentions a wedding suit that was expensive and a divorce suit priced in Houston Chronicle terms. It presents a brief, fragmented reflection on attire costs tied to marriage events.
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Houston Chronicle
Prisoner Admits Embezzlement Amid Claims of Diligence
A prisoner confesses to embezzling from partners, insisting he was a hard worker who took more interest in the firm than anyone else. The judge imposes four years in punishment, citing capital consequences.
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la Figaro
Special Mrs Pearson case ends with Dodd's Kidney Pills
Vestry Mississippi January first reports Mr Pearson telling how his wife suffered kidney disorder causing spasms. He tried doctors and finally Dodd's Kidney Pills, noting weight gain and full recovery after successive boxes. Ends with a quip about tainted money.
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C. W. Pearson
Pearson
Dodd
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Price
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J. W. Diemer
M. D
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California Fig Syrup Co
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Putnam
Bette
Woodward & CO
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