Odds and ends from a distant era of news and notes
A mosaic of brief items recalls world events and personal milestones. references include Prussia energy ratios, Panama Canal dynamite estimates, Austrian royalty on autos, mono rail derailment claims, women suffrage debates in London, a bronze memorial at the University of Michigan, California university honors, notable births and careers, and railway crew quirks highlighted by a three-brother conductor on a Philadelphia line.
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Panama Canal
Austria
Europe
Lora Curzon
London
University of Michigan
Angell
Arthur Hill
Saginaw
Misa Mary J. Phillips
California State University
Misa Almira Catherine Johnsson
College of Letters
California
Karl Lohmeyer
Konigsbers
Dantzig
Lydia Pinkham product hailed by user as cure all
Mrs Euna Wuerato of Vienna West Virginia credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with dramatic relief after ten years of illness and urges other women to try it. The advertisement details cures for female complaints and offers free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. Also notes inventor Octave Chanute credited in Chanute Kansas for aviation work and Prince Edward entering Dartmouth Royal Naval Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dia E. Pinkham
Vienna
W. Va
E. Pinkham
Lydia F. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Euna Wuerato
Lydia Pinkham
Rica
Todlay
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia
Easy Kidney Cure Advertised By Dean's Pills
A classic promoting kidney health claims cure of back pain headaches and urinary disorders with Dean's Kidney Pills. Testimonial from P W Champion of Salem St Marion Ky describes deranged kidneys stones and pain resolved by the product. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Also mentions California self supporting homes near Sacramento offering healthy living and fruit colonies with ample family housing and profitable poultry.
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Bright
Dean
W. Champion
Salem St
Marion
Dean's
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
California
Sacramento
B. Marks
Box A. Galt
Munyon’s Eminent Doctors Free Medical Diagnosis Offer
In Philadelphia Munyon’s advertises free medical examination blanks to diagnose diseases. Doctors will determine if a cure is possible and inform the reader, with no obligation to follow advice. Send for a medical examination blank to be returned for expert evaluation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munyon's
Jefferson Streets
Hiadelphia. Pa
Paris Photographers Meet Popular Fashion Demand
Photographers in Paris focus on the popular fashion trend as street and studio shots rise in demand. The scene highlights widespread interest in stylish portraits amid changing sanitary and social conditions shaping public tastes.
Cure for infant boils with Cuticura remedies
Mrs M A Schwerin of Detroit describes an infant with sixty boils at six months old that disappeared after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. A scalp hummer persisted each spring but healed with the same regimen, and no outbreaks in two years. February 24 1908. Potter Drug and Chem Corp sole props of Cuticura Remedies Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian
Mra M.A. Schwerin
Spring Wells Ave
Detroit
Mich
Potter Drug’ & Chem. Corp
Boston
White lace veil and larger hats define current fashion
The article notes white lace veils are more widely worn than other styles and that hats are larger now than they will be later in the season, signaling a trend toward bolder dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moes
Colorado
Proper milking hygiene and equipment advice
Farmers' notes emphasize practical milking practices including using metal strainers with 100 wire screens, cleaning screens with a brush, and avoiding pressure from bottom mounted screens. It warns that poor strainers can raise bacterial content and advises pasteurized sweet cream for better butter keeping quality.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Inc
Prussia
David Warfield
San Francisco
Napa
Cal
Melter Moss
New York
Warfield
Mary Gabrielle Bradt
Otto Killanl
Bayard Taylor
England
Anti- Suffrage Association
A. J. George
Massachusetts
Antis
Great Eastern Railway
Edna L. Foley
Boston Consumptive Hospital
Chicago Tuberculosis Institute
Smith College
Chicago Institute
Miss Foley
Will
United States Service
United States
Philadelphia
Reading
Lehigh Valley
H.M. Saltman
Strewman
Barthers
Havn
Present Post
Octave Chanuté
Chanute, Kansas
Chanute
Prince Edward, of Wales
Crown Prince of Wales
Royal Naval Academy At
Dartmouth
Osborne
Fedal Haarlem Gil
Haarlem
Orignal
Sly ‘Dimula
Sighead Medicine Co
James
Buttonwood St
Holland Medicine, Co
Cale Importerscranton
Munyon
Perry Pavio
Paris
Rolivia
Siam
Caticera
Libby
Poortess
John Burroughs
Mr. Burroughs
Missouri Dairyman
United States Department of Agriculture
Cheyenne River
Rt. Saul
Oregon
oFinning
Lannie Operations
Arly
Gazette
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