Christmas Reunion Behind the Michigan Central Depot
Ben Will confronts his estranged mother at a city drugs store and a saloon, learns of family darks and missing father, and discovers his mother in a poorhouse. After a snowy, bleak morning, a Christmas meeting unfolds as mother and son plan to go home together.
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EN Will
Michigan Central
Edward
Flabbins
Will
Ben
Bess
Daniel Flabbins
Ben Will
Remarkable 113th Birthday for Mrs Freeman in Clarion
Elizabeth Freeman, known as Mrs Elizabeth Freeman, lives in a soa township area about 20 miles from Sere. Born in 1793 near Connellsville Fayette county she has witnessed all US presidents from Washington to the present and lived through three centuries. She has 11 children 55 grandchildren 20 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. She smokes a pipe and remains active and healthful and has been a Presbyterian for over 80 years. Clarion correspondent notes her Bible memory and lifelong reading.
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Betty
Elizabeth
Soa Township
Sere
United States
William Freeman
Freeman
Presbyterian Church
Clarion
Baltimore Sun
Cow tree milk praised by travel tale from tropics
A globe trotter recounts Humboldt's note on the palo de vaca or cow tree that grows on rocky mountainsides and oozes a thick yellow milk at sunrise. He claims the milk is richer than ordinary milk, containing fat sugar casein and phosphates and is sought by locals with jugs. The tale locates cow trees in Canary Islands Memerara and Ceylon.
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Tropics
Globe Trotter
Humboldt
South America
Canary Islands
Memerara
Ceylon
Whistie Joke On Train Delay At Canobie Lake
A Boston Herald writer recalls a crowded Salem to Derry train where an elderly woman in a poke bonnet asks a railroad official how long the stop will be. The brakeman answers four minutes then quips two to two two two, prompting the dame to remark that he thinks he is the whistle.
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Salem
Derry
Boston Herald
Canobie Lake
Attracting Settlers to Western Canada in 1906
The Canadian West draws settlers with rich soil and the No 1 Hard wheat. Wheat yields reach 90 million bushels and oats 76 million, while 160 acres free homesteads lure newcomers with $10 entry. Rapid railway expansion, a broadly accessible common school system, and strong law and order complete the appeal.
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Prairie Provinces
Canada
United States
Vision of Son Death Sparks Milan Murder Telepathy Case
A Milan woman awoke and said her son John that Leopold Lazzaroni, her other son, was dead. Doctors say Leopold was murdered at three a m and the next day suspects were arrested. The vision is debated as a verified incident amid other column filler on farming life and literary quips.
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Milan
Italy
Lazzaroni
John
Leopold
Leopold Lazzaroni
Pure Food and Drugs Act Note on Munich Beer Consumption
The document discusses Berial No. 384 under the National Pure Food and Drugs Act, claiming compliance with all requirements. It notes a rise in beer issues in Munich, with beer consumption decreasing over the last seven years from 120 to 70 gallons per capita.
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Governmen
Ane Guaranty Tat
Munich
Indorsement for Coah's Kidney Pills by Chicago Woman
Miss Frances Gardner of 369 Jackson Boulevard Chicago Illinois reports personal relief from kidney complications after five years of illness and costly remedies. Five boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills cured her in weeks and restored health appetite digestion and sleep. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Frances Gardner
Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
Ill
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Duke Dyke Fights Wildcat on Locust Mountain
Thomas Dyke while returning home from Ashland battled a wildcat on Locust Mountain near Mount Carmel Pennsylvania. He leaped on the animal after it sprang and broke its back, then received minor scratches from a physician. Later Fisk Goodyear trained about fifty gray squirrels to fetch nuts and perform a nut cracking display at Thanksgiving.
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Thomas Dyke
Locust Mountain
Mount Carmel
Ashland
Fisk Goodyear
Burchtown
Mr. Goodyear
Cure for Eczema with Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Mary Metzger of Sweetwater Oklahoma details severe eczema last year with intense itching and bleeding. She used Cuticura Remedies as directed, experienced quick relief, and now recommends them to others. Date given June 28 1905.
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Mary Metzger
Sweetwater
Okla
Highest Suspension Bridge Plans Span Colorado Gorge
Work starts on a suspension bridge over the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River Colorado where the channel is fifty feet wide at the bottom and two hundred thirty feet at the top. The bridge will reach two hundred sixty seven feet above the water with plate glass flooring and steel railings as part of an electric railway project. Also notes about constipation remedies Brandreth's Pills and general health advice are included in the item.
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Royal Gorge
Arkansas River
Colorado
Catarrh Cure Claims Not a Quack Remedy
A collage of old ads and anecdotes describes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that purports to heal catarrh by purifying the blood. It mentions testimonials, a Toledo address, and a note on using Hall's Family Pils for constipation. A juror quip and a deer escaping a jeweler unfold in separate items.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
R. Paxton
Boston
Mass
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Cincinnati
Baltimore
Louteville
Attractions OF Western
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G. A. Park
General Immigration and
Louiaville & Nashville Railroad Company
Louisville, Ky
Ascum
Woodby
Philadelphia
Cutiura
Brandreth
Putnam
Mr. Dustin Stax
Ice Trust
Bank Street
Providence
R. I
Dodds
Carters
Gatarah
Ely
Havreven
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Agula
Allan Herb Tablet Co
Buffalo
Atom
A.L.D
Buffalo Oil Paint 2 Varnish Co
Buffalo, N
Amel
Western
The
Dominion
Ottawa
H. M. Williams
Law
Ohio
Sri Taya
Mme
Stevens & Co
D.C
Detroit
Wetab. Iti
Defiance Cold Water
S Starch
Winchester
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