Feminine independence debates in shopping habits
A long column argues women claim choice in hats and groceries while noting a few grocers push unwanted items like loose coffee. It defends Lion Coffee as pure and reliable and claims Defiance Starch offers unmatched quantity and quality.
Johnny and the river swimming boys on the North End stoop
A mother sternly keeps Johnny on the stoop while he joins a rambunctious gang and mischief at the river swim hole. He lies about swimming and ends with a damp hair check that earns a sharp rebuke with his father’s razor strop, then a Scotch minister and friend stumble home from a wedding.
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Clergyman credits Postum with curing coffee vomiting in Iowa
A country pastor recounts that his wife suffered violent vomiting tied to coffee drinking in 1896 and again in 1897. They stopped coffee and began using Postum Food Coffee, and the vomiting never returned for nine years. He endorses Postum as the source of their improved health and cites The Road to Wellville book.
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Nebraska notes record of bonds firms and new ventures
The state auditor registered Holdrege and Emerson school bonds, the First National bank of West Point saw a twenty year extension, and Farmers and Merchants Bank of Sumner received a charter with 11000 paid up capital. Holstein firm Bowman & Kranz Brothers organized in Nebraska with 100000 capital. several towns report school, depot and telecommunication developments, jail and asylum furniture deliveries, and new urban improvements including a planned town between Madison and Norfolk.
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Bowman & Kranz Brothers
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Albert Rich
Cuming County
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West Point Board of Education
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No More Headache How a Woman Was Freed from Years of Pain
A medical testimonial shows Dr Williams Pink Pills renewing blood and curing long standing headaches caused by anemia. Miss Stella Blocker of Leander Louisiana recounts relief after three boxes, noting prior weakness fever and organ involvement. Pills sold by all druggists also claim help for neuralgia sciatica nervous prostration and rheumatism.
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Leander
Louisiana
Family Counts and Forgotten Lineages
A column muses on whether lineage and family status truly define a person. It lists varied backgrounds from Abraham Lincoln to Charles J. Bonaparte, noting humble beginnings and famous ancestors, and ending with questions about the fathers of legendary figures.
Kidney Pills Claim Cures in Arkansas Town
Voice from Arkansas reports A E Carlile of Cleveland Arkansas credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing kidney trouble after 23 years. He calls the remedy the best for sick kidneys and urges all sufferers to try it, saying it saved him from a life of lung disease and backache to Bright's Disease.
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Dodd
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A. E. Carlile
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Bright
Critic and Manager Debate Hero's Death in Play
A critics question why the author kills the hero in Act II. The manager replies that without the death the audience would likely feel dissatisfied, implying a deliberate dramaturgical choice to drive the plot.
Defiance Starch Drives Quick Switch for Shoppers
Dealers report that once a customer tries Defiance Starch it becomes impossible to sell any other cold water starch. The product can be used cold or boiled, prompting rapid consumer adoption and streamlined buying choices.
Defiance Starch Claims Longer Lasting Results
The advertisement touts Defiance Starch as more flexible and lasting than competing brands, promising garments that won’t shake out or blow out and offering more product for the same price.
Absentminded Carpenter Earns Rural Fame
In southern Ohio, "Sweet" Brown the carpenter gains notoriety for extreme forgetfulness. Stories say he built a corn crib with himself inside, misplaced a leak repair by climbing roofs, marked a leak but could not locate it, and once led a cow to a spring forgetting the animal. Neighbors joke he may forget his own funeral.
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Brown
Chicago Tribune
Drowning Narrow Escape for Henry Swayze of Orange
Henry Swayze, 12, of Orange New Jersey, nearly drowned after being pulled from a canal by Alvan Dor man during a fishing trip. He has survived previous canal incidents and a skull fracture last spring, with doctors to curb his water habit after this latest rescue.
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Orange
N. J
Henry
Alvan Dorman
John Abbott
Universal Love Song in Two Cultures
The poem recalls a mother singing to her child beside a southern sea and at Lake Temagami. A wind blown wigwam sets a second scene with a brown skinned baby as a deer and hawk pass overhead. The refrain expresses enduring love in each stanza with lines about laughing weeping waking and sleeping.
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Immigration Problem Stirs Commerce Secretary Metcalf
Secretary of commerce and labor Metcalf says immigration poses the nation's gravest issue with distribution as the main difficulty. A Louisiana letter claims the state alone can provide jobs for 100,000 workers, while the western Mississippi Valley also needs workers and city concentration continues.
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Commerce and Labor
Louisiana
Mississippi Valley
Biddy Cooks Egg Claim Confuses Little Helen
A four year old recalls a kitchen mix up as Helen reports that Biddy cooked an egg herself. The mother had asked Helen to check if Biddy had laid an eye in the house. Helen returns with a warm egg and insists Biddy did the cooking.
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German Gas Demand Grows in Small Towns
German gas demand rises in towns with populations around 3000. Last year eighty new gas works were established at costs ranging from 22000 to 30000 dollars each.
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