Canada Land Boom Opens as Corn Planting Ends
An Ontario style advisory urges readers to consider homesteading in Central Canada now as the corn season ends. It cites strong wheat prospects, rising land prices, and immigration influx from the United States and Europe. It notes railways expanding and government agents ready to assist buyers with maps and plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Canadian Northern
Scrambled shirts and boiled garments in a comic note
A humorous exchange from Youth's Companion retold by a Tit Bits writer describes the difficulty of wearing freshly boiled shirts. Mr Jones complains the boiled garment is cumbersome while Mrs Jones suggests patience. The wife notes the girl boiled it too long, and the husband quips about frying.
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Mr. Jones
Biggest tobacco purchase for Lewis' Single Binder Cigars
Frank P. Lewis of Peoria bought twenty four carloads of the finest fancy grade tobacco, the largest lot for any U S factory, to last over two years. The select crop required an extra price and will enhance Lewis' Single Binder Cigars.
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United States
Frank P. Lewis
Peoria
Peoria Star
Relation of Railroad Rates to General Business
A 1910 appeal argues higher freight rates are needed to fund railroad modernization and sustain overall commerce. It urges investors to support rate increases to finance maintenance, motive power, and terminal upgrades, warns reduced rail efficiency harms consumers, workers, and national growth, and calls readers to lobby legislators.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
Chicago
St. Louis
Iron
United States Supreme Court
Consolidated Gas Company
Poor's Manual
New York
Maine
Minneapolis
Hoston
New England
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Paraseology on Comet’s Fixed Orbit Drawn from Tribune Quote
The New York Tribune critiqued calling the comet a celestial wanderer, noting its fixed orbit and known position. It argues the statement is as misleading as claiming a dash to the pole when the dasher struggles to reach ten miles daily.
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New York Tribune
Woman Builds Flying Machine
Irish inventor Miss Lillian E Bland designs and builds a 28 foot wide biplane glider. It has completed several satisfactory glides and is controlled from the ground by ropes while propellers are fitted for operation.
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Lillian E. Bland
Strong Plea for the Infants by Mrs Howe in Milk Hearing
Mrs Julia Ward Howe testified before a Massachusetts legislative committee on the milk situation. She stood at the witness table and urged fair compensation for milk producers, arguing there is no substitute for milk for the infant and calling the issue one of life and death.
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Julia Ward Howe
Massachusetts Legislative Committee
Skin Humor 25 Years Cured by Cutiura Remedies
A Boston man recounts twenty five years of severe head and neck skin trouble, medical treatments failing, until Cutiura Remedies produced a complete cure. The testimonial from 8 P Keyes of 147 Congress St Boston dated Oct 12 1909 appears.
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Cutiura
P. Keyes
Congress St
Boston
Mass
Pimples Cleared After Ten Days Using Cuticura
A Philadelphia resident reports speedy recovery from facial pimples after ten days using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. He tried doctors for months with no results and credits the products for clearing his skin. May 1, 1909.
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Cuticura
Wm. J. Sadlier
Susquehanna Ave
Philadelphia
The Juvenile Buster at Bowling Green Dinner
The famed Champ Clark said at a Bowling Green dinner that distrust of monopolies reaches the nursery. He recounted a girl slipping a note under her plate and muttering she wished for an anti crust law.
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Buster
Champ Clark
Bowling Green
Trusts
Allen's Foot Tabs Advertise Quick Foot Relief
Take a foot-bath tonight using Allen's Foot Tabs to remove soreness and odors and refresh tired feet. Tabs relieve weariness and night nervousness, then use Allen's Foot-Ease for daytime comfort. Samples mailed free from Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Two Marriage Proposals Reported for Ethel
In confidential talk Ethel reveals to Clara she received two offers of marriage last week. Clara asks if the rumor about her uncle leaving money is true and eager for details from the Pick Me Up note.
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Ethel
Clara
Two Chicago women swear by Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
Mrs Vena Sperling recounts doctors urging surgery for inflammation and a tumor. After trying Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound she was cured. The ad promotes building up the feminine system to avoid operations and lists various female ailments the product claims to treat.
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Chicago
Lydia
Pinkhams
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Mr. Saintly
Miss Oldmayde
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nebraska
Dain Hay
John T Deere Plow Company
Omaha, Neb
Bertschy Motor CO
Council Bluffs
Kodaks
KODAK
Lincoln Photo Supply CO
Lincoln
B. F. Swanson Company, Inc
M. Spiesberge
The
West
Er & Son Co
Ss Millinery
Beatrice Creamery Co
Ah Seains
Omaha
N. W
Corlith & Harney Sts
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