A Tale of Two College Friends and a Doctor's Son
A businessman recalls a World’s Fair era tale about two college freshmen a stubborn ex farmhand and a brilliant doctor’s son. The ex farmhand overcomes limits with ministerial aid and study while the doctor’s son loses his inheritance and disappears after sending a college fund. The piece notes coffee and cacao consumption trends in the United States with import and per capita data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gret
Jack
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and” Labor
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted for female cures
A long advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for female ills for 30 years. It cites testimonials from Mrs. W. P. Valentine of Camden New Jersey and Mrs. J. P. Endlich of Erie Pennsylvania and invites others to try the remedy, offering free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. The ad also mentions other products and items briefly, including eye salve and various industrial notes.
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Camden
N. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
W. P. Valentine
Lincoln Ave
Camden, N. J
Readsbé Doan's Kidney Pills Ad Sparks Woman's Cure Claim
Minnesota woman Mrs A Heiman of Stillwater says Doan's Kidney Pills cured her chronic back pain and illness after 1899. She recalls fainting from kidney issues and credits the remedy with saving her life. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
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Minnesota
Doan
Stillwater
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, Co
Global facts jumble of early twentieth century notes
Tangled tabloid excerpt covers umbrellas in Asia, British exports of cars and pins, meat import reliance, bamboo rail orders, pearls demand, new Zeppelin cabin, a Mexican studying American etiquette, cholera treatment advances, U S and Canada fire losses, nautical chart notes, a giant Van Diver tree, Yakutsk cold and urban layout, Buckland village oddities, Sir Oliver Lodge fog clearing experiments.
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China
Japan
Great Britain
Thetallan State Railways
Birmingham
England
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E. Pinkham
Saffe
J. P. Endlich
Erie
Coe
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
New Mexico
Spain
Connecticut’ Game Commission
Illnois
Russia
Sloan
Albert W. Price
Fredonia
Kans
L. T. Ilurat
Coatesville
Ind
R. KR
New York City Gas Company
Supreme Court
Iimporis
New York
Australa
British Isles
London
Madrid
Takoma
Takoma Biscuit
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company
Geneva Exblé
New York Sun
Mme
Guadalupe de Haro
Mexico
India
Canada
San Francisco
Baltimore
Chelsea
Mass
G. R. Putnan
Blue Hill Bay
Maine
Timan
Ainos Farm
St. Joseph
Yakutsk
Siberia
Sberia
Buckland
Hastard
Iagmauchus
Ashburton
London Standard
Liverpool
Oliver ‘Lodge
The
Marine Journal
Lodge
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