Great Railway Electric Trains Serve Chicago to Midwest Routes
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway runs electric lighted trains with compartment, sleeping, dining, buffet library smoking, and coach cars between Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Minneapolis. Buffet observation parlors on day trains. sleeping and dining cars on other routes. Tickets via agents or John Oliver traveling agent, 95 Adams St Chicago.
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Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Minnesota
Southern
Central Dakota
Illinois
Wisconsin
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Iowa
Missouri
South Dakota
North Dakota
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
John Oliver
Adams St
Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Short Line Route Explained
The Short Line between Chicago and Omaha runs directly east to west. The line covers under 500 miles with two through trains daily in each direction and superior sleeping and dining car service. For timetables maps and details contact John Oliver St. Chicago.
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West
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Omaha
Milwaukee St. Paul
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Weat
John Oliver
Adams St
Love and Death as archers lure women to harm
A historical column ponders why love leads to suffering for wives and mothers and promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female diseases. It claims the medicine clears drains, heals inflammation and ulcers, and strengthens weak women, inviting letters to Dr. Pierce in Buffalo, confidentially.
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Love
Death
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N.Y
Mrs. Brown Credits Dr. Pierce Remedies For Health Return
In Orono Maine Mrs. Harry A Brown writes of severe uterine displacement and ulceration improving after five months on Favorite Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and Dr Pierce Pellets. She says she weighed 120 pounds before and 160 after six months, and will not seek other doctors.
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Harry A. Brown
Orono
Penobscot County
Maine
Dr. Pierce
Stamp Offer for Paper and Cloth Bindings
An offer lists 21 one-cent stamps for a paper bound book and 31 stamps for a cloth binding. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce in Buffalo.
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R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Why We Nenewell His Youth
A humorous tale from the Atlanta Constitution features Why We Nenewell jesting with Brother Dickey. He jokes about plans to marry a young woman who promises to reform him, shave his gray whiskers, cut his hair, stop rheumatic limping, and secure marriage for a hundred dollars, making him look young.
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Dickey
Atlanta Constitution
Burns and Scalds First Aid Guidelines
The text outlines home treatment for skin burns and scalds. For unbroken skin apply white lead paint glycerin fresh lard linseed olive or oils or soapsuds. For broken skin use an equal oil and limewater mixture, cover with soft linen moistened with the oil mix, then loosely bandage and rewet as needed. Do not uncover the injury.
The Finishing Touches
A clever college girl returns home and asks for study in psychology linguistics and religion. Her mother counters with a roast filled curriculum of roastology bollology stitchology and domesticology, then orders her to don an apron and pluck the chicken.
Bursting Boiler Seen From Cab Window
A Baltimore and Ohio locomotive explosion in West Virginia years ago killed both engineer and fireman. The witness described the blast lifting the engine as high as telegraph poles, followed by a dense smoke cloud and a fireball, with the crown sheet blown out and no visible white steam after the blast.
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Baltimore and Ohio
West Virginia
Baltimore Sun
Inexpensive Homemade Tooth Powders and Mouth Washs
The New York Post notes that most tooth powders use chalk as a base mixed with a soap and flavoring, sold cheaply. It suggests making your own by combining one-eighth ground Castile soap with seven-eighths chalk, adding mint or wintergreen if desired, and bottling it. It also recommends bicarbonate of soda solution as a mouth rinse and plain salt and water as a dependable antiseptic fluid.
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Materia Medica
New York Post
Local chronology of Dugger area life through March
Weekly notices record deaths arrests and events from January to March. Notable items include Andrew B. Fisher's death January 5, saloon disputes in Paxton and Farnsworth, Uncle Harvey Wilson turning 90, horse theft report by Charles Crawford, deaths of Ed Pearson Lydia Jane Gilkerson Noah Gogbill, and a church trial verdict in February.
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Harvey Wilson
John
George Reeves
Mt. Vernon
James W. Hinkle
John Giles, Jr
Lydia Jane Gilkerson
Noah Gogbill
Apple and Street Revenge in St Malo Tale
A young Englishman endures repeated harassment by St Malo customs officials, sparking a street level quest for redress. The narrative centers on clashes with officials and the resulting friction in the port city.
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St. Malo
Englishman and douanier clash over hidden creature
A British traveler hands a creature to a black bag minutes before landing. A French douanier seizes the bag, forcing the opening and provoking a dramatic struggle that leaves the writer both entertained and relieved that justice prevailed.
Two Scotchmen and Their Legacies in California
In early California two Scots settled there. One carried a thistle, symbol of Scotland, while the other brought a small swarm of honeybees. Time passed and the thistle spread as a challenge to farmers, while honey sweetness flourished across the western slope, a lasting blessing.
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California
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
Fatigue and Disease in Daily Medical Practice
In every day’s practice fatigue plays a larger role than any other single casual condition in promoting or permitting disease. This observation, attributed to Sir John Paget, underscores fatigue as a major health factor.
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Sir John Paget
Is Squiggs a camera fiend as implied by a snapshot
The San Francisco Bulletin quips that Squiggs resembles a camera fiend in the first shot his wife took while the Chicago News notes that few men reach the top because the summit moves away as fast as one climbs.
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Squiggs
San Francisco Bulletin
Chicago News
Burkhart electrocuted. families move. multiple town incidents
The record lists deaths and accidents across several towns including March 16 electrocution of Sandford Burkhart, March 27 burglary arrests in Farmersburg, April 1 house fire on George Leach, and typhoid death of Thos Pogue Jr in Terre Haute. It notes real estate suit verdict of $3,000 for Pahde vs Pate and a Union town edition on May 4.
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Sandford Burkhart
Sol. T. Wolfe
Rocky Ford
Colo
Wm. Payne
Clarence Branson
John Irwin
Farmersburg
John Rose
Fairbanks
George Leach
Thos. Pogue, Jr
Terre Haute
Pahde Vs. Pate
Greene County
Wm. A. Wilkey
New Lebanon
Wilkey
Robinson
Ills
Thos. F. Roberts
Briggs
John Denney
Cel
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Cairo
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St. Augustine
C. L. Stone
Louisville, Ky
Chas. Mankedick
Sullivan
Ind
Hattie Harper Merom
P. H. Blue
IL. A. Stewart
P. Poynter
Harry Kirkham
Bors & Oe
Ateornes
Local Chronology
Buif & Bays
Jaw Partnership
Gertrude White
Wm KE. Parrott
Andrew B. Fisher
Railroad Junction
Aaron Alsop
Paxton
Wm. Higdon
Shelburn
Geo. Kimberlain
Oaktown
Charles Crawford
James Goodwin
Ed. Pearson
Gill Township
Denver
Mark Duffett
Farnsworth
John Huff
Engle Vs. Sherman Et al
M.S. Wilkinson
Center Point
Merom College
Aquilla Branham
Byron Riggs
Staffordshire
Catherine Parks
Sarah Holland
Ellen Boles
Dan Yaden
Samuel H. Ridgeway
Dugger
R. H. Crowder
Paul Reid
Wm. L. Dix
Philip Schute
C. M. Lutz and
Charley
Zimri Payne
Burchard
John Kelley
Depot
Burehard Hawking
Hawking
Eid. Eaton
Wm. M. Eaton
Betsy Curtis
C. P. Combs
New
Mra. A . Gooldy
G. A R
Amos Goodwin
UNION
Hick Rich
Frank Richardson
Island School House
Ralston
J. A. McClanahan
Leach Business School
A. D. Leach
Sol T. Wolfe
Insurance
Cor. Public Square
Sullivan, Ad
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