Turkish Women and Army Revolt Report Link Dismay
Paragraphs describe women's broader rights in Turkey as a factor in the army revolt in Constantinople where a Turkish women’s club house was burned amid fanatic mob action. A separate note touts land irrigation prospects in Rock Springs Wyoming with claims of perpetual water rights and healthy climate offered by Linwood Land Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Constantinople
Linwood Land’ Company
Rock Springs
Wyo
Co-Operative Living and the Shifting Home Role
A 1920s reflection notes a growing shift in life away from the individual home toward cooperative influences. It cites Chicago stores selling hundreds of thousands in ready to eat meals as evidence of changing domestic life and signals that while cooking and outside food options expand, the home’s vital principle endures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cory Department
End of Self Government and Eastern Colorado Promises
Whitman argues government should train communities to self rule and self reliance. Eastern Colorado offers cheap land from 10 to 20 dollars per acre, with crop potential and growth. Lincoln County highlighted as a top agricultural area, guided by W. S. Pershing of Limon, with rail and government surveys backing settlement. A golf anecdote about Oscar Asche ends with a punchline from a caddie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
W. D. Scott
Ottawa Canada
E.T. Holmes
Jackson v
Walt Whitman
Colorado
Lincoln County
W. S. Pershing
Limon
VV. P
Colo
Dakota
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Pat
Alralta
Piper
Allen W. Ward
Farmingdale
Pennlyton Whanty
Sith Dakota
Ward
Wester
Dea
Permingdals
South Thait
May Day Fires and Meat Advice from Old Baltimore Pages
A fragment from Baltimore American includes meat quality tips such as red meat should be bright, fat white, odor mild, and fresh meat should swell when boiled. It also references Mrs Winslow’s oil, and notes Beltaine as May Day in Gaelic regions with Druids using fires for cattle protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highlands
Scotland
Ireland
A Cure for Neg Chalets and Hog Cholera Remedies
An adptive note extols Sloan's Liniment as a cure for hog cholera also called swine plague. Directions urge isolation and pen fumigation, mixing liniment with milk, and giving hogs a tablespoonful twice daily for three days. Letters from Indiana users praise quick relief and a free book offer from Dr Earl Sloan. A second section describes Hogarthian inn signs with a caricature of wedlock and mischief at Madingley road inns.
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Sloan
A. J. McCarthy
Idaville
Ind
G. W. Balubaugh
Peru
Earl
Boston
Mass
Origin of the Anvil in Early Times
A collage of brief items notes ancient anvils described in biblical terms, then shifts to a Houston fest feature about Annie Bugelworth, a Burlington Conn girl who wears overalls and works like a man, amid local controversy. It ends with a French conscript Julien Touchard, 3 feet 2 inches tall, born 1888, facing military revisions.
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Boston Globe
Isaiah
Orient
Annie Bugelworth
August Bugelworth
Burlington
Conn
Eugelworth
Annie
London Telegraph
Julien Touchard
Manves
Department of
Orne
Council of Revision
Julien
Julien Touchara
Naar Pated
Arar
Fragmentary tale of pain and humor in a crowded street scene
Anxious, scraped snippets show a nurse soothing a boy under anesthesia, a witty exchange about talking on the telephone, and a note on Finnish iron ore discoveries. The piece wanders through characters and stray facts, ending with mention of a new ore field in Nyland and the Ladoga lake region.
Feared Operation Leads Tonin Man to Health After Kidney Pills
James Greenman of M2 East Front Street Tonin Michigan recounts a near operation for kidney trouble. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with passing multiple stones and restoring health after months of pain, weight loss, and weakness. The ad notes the product sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box. It then discusses how Oregon got its name, citing French exploration, Carver's 1778 London book, and origins of the term from western explorations and a possible Aragon reference.
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Hogarthian Inn
Strand Magazine
Cambridge
Madingley Road
Mischief
Hogarth
Oxford Street
London
Wallingford
Norwich
James Greenman
East Front Street
Tonin
Mich
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Oregon
Portland
Oregonian
Great Lakes
Red River
Saskatchewan
Rocky Mountains
Upper
Mississippi
Aragon
Spain
Jonathan Carver
Connecticut
Carver
Why He Was Honored at Carle Bad Germany Hotel
A Springfield Union reader recounts a hotel visit in Carle Bad Germany where a guest was serenely treated. The register read "James the 1st. King of Buffalo" in a native printer’s rendering of the American name James 1 King Buffalo NL, causing bemused observation among other guests.
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Springfield Union
Carlebad
Germany
James the 1St
King
Buffalo
James 1
True Sport of City Planning Says Quality Over Quantity
A Baltimore News piece urges better managed cities to curb congestion reduce tenement districts and lower death rates. The text emphasizes practical urban improvements over sheer size, noting the ease of action in directing behavior and the need for quality in development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baltimore News
Cuticura remedies praised for skin cure in 1907 ad
An old testimonial from H. A. Brutskoff of Chicago claims Cuticura Soap and Ointment plus Cathaia Pills cured widespread itching and eruptions within three weeks after trying many doctors and variants. The note appears in a 1907 advertisement, paired with other items from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Brutakoff
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Potter Drug & Chem. Gorp
Boston
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted for Women's Health
An advertisement claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures numerous female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors and nervous prostration. It urges women to write for confidential free advice and mentions a blue book on licensed premises in England and Wales with stats on licenses convictions and drunkenness.
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Pinieham
LeNa V. Henry
Adrian
Lydia EK
Pickham
Lydia E. Pinkham
England
Wales
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Price
Chicago Scale Co
Illinois
R. T. Felix
Goura
Ud Uc
New York
Sioux City P CO
Castor
Prego
Bears
Oscar Asche
Mr. Asche
Ron, Hem
Marine
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin
Norfolk
Carney
Cato
Logan
Russa
Mandy
Allen
Olfusted
le Roy
N.Y
Pittsburg
Manhattan
Roe
Pittsburs
Hades
Dmie
Finland
Nyland
Ladoga Lake
Avalig
Washington
Maryland
Isador Rayher
Paris
Henry
Miss Stubbies
Miss Brubbles
Genevieve
Maureta
Mauretania
Men Bay
Pior
Ates Toastie
Ostasd
Lydia
Pinksham
Milica Boxee
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