Senator Sullivan Endorses Doan's Kidney Pills For Sick Kidneys
Hon Timothy D Sullivan of New York urges Doans Kidney Pills as highly effective for kidney distress. He testifies the remedy restored health and praises its value, noting friends share the satisfaction. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo sells at 50 cents a box, available from druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy D. Sullivan
New York
Congress
New York State
Doan
Sullivan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Busy Bushweeds Hyker and Pyker Talk Job Change
Hyker asks Pyker about leaving his bank job three weeks ago. Pyker says he is now self employed and looking for another job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyker
Pyker
Hyner
Yellow Crust on Baby Cured by Cuticura Soap
Mrs John Boyce of Pine Bush recalls a baby with yellow crust on the head that caused itching and cracking. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment the scalp cleared with a few treatments, prompting her to recommend the remedy to other mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Boyce
No One to Run It Simple Alarm Clock Tale
An Irishman helps a friend get a job for a contractor. A wind up alarm clock set for 6 30 fails after the worker sleeps in. The boss pays him and tells him to leave. The clock malfunctions exposing a dead cockroach and the punch line the engineer is dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick
Pat
Mike
Patt
Nellie the storyteller and a birthday lie
A Pittsburg Dispatch report recounts Senator Tillman of South Carolina narrating about Nellie, a girl whose stories grew larger in school and Sunday school. Nellie recalls a friend claiming May is earlier than September, and her mother warns her of lying as in Ananias and Sapphira.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tillman
South Carolina
Willie Bangs
Nellie
Ananias
Sapphira
Mamma
Pittsburg Dispatch
Plagiarism Talk Stirs Two Playwrights in London Paris
Clyde Fitch discusses two young playwrights Riter the plagiarist and Swett the originalist. Riter touts his farce Little Bo-Peep as a success in Liverpool and Paris Odeon while claiming royalties from England have not been sent. Swett notes a superb run in Paris and asks about royalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Fitch
Riter
Liverpool
Paris
Swett
Why They Waited
Two young men on a drive with little experience found the horse yawn and lose its bit. Two hours later another passerby sees them waiting by the roadside. They explain they wait for the horse to yawn again so they can reinsert the bit.
Song of the Baldheaded Man and the crown of glory
A historical poem notes various figures from Socrates to Nero and Robespierre with bald heads and wigs. It contrasts hairless leaders with those ruled by intellect and deeds, citing Monroe and Carleton among others.
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Caesar
Socrates
Peter
Paul
Earth
Johnson
Pope
Gibbon
What Was Needed
Judge Henry Bosworth of Springfield Massachusetts favors curfew reform but notes the real need is a bell to summon youths home in the morning rather than at night. He suggests better morning discipline over early curfew enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Bosworth
Springfield
Mass
Kept Tobe the Dog as Sale Question Goes Awry
An elderly Black man in Grand avenue near Twelfth stalls a white man trying to buy his dog. The man offers a quarter, but the original owner, after thought and humor, chooses to keep Tobe, suggesting the hound would not betray him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darkey
Grand Avenue
Twelfth
Dawg
R. M. Ward
Kansas City
Women's Appetites Reflect Frugal, Selfish Eating Views
A provocative column ridicules female eating habits and appetites. It suggests women eat poorly when alone and mocks the idea of women enjoying substantial meals, claiming women would starve without men.
Blackmailing Instrument on City Steps
A street musician mutters about a instrument named Moosic asking for a quarter to move along. A passerby dismisses the whistle box as a bad concert whistle, while another claims it plays the tune and draws more money. The exchange frames a humorous street scene with local character banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signor
Pietro
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Senator Sullivan
Takoma
Achan
J. Iscariot
Truth Chary
Herod
Danton
Robespierre
Marat
Guy Fawkes
Jeffries
Glencoe
Nero
Kalamazoo
Doubness
Michigan
Eeek
Jaques Sane Co
Bankers’ Accident Co
Dee Meinenian
Thompson
Castoria
Bateman
Godfrey
Hail
Journal of Health
Beyoe Af Otel
Samuel Pocher
Ani
Werapper
Charles H. Fletcher
B. Halstead Scott
Chicago
Ills
William Belmont
Cleveland
Ohio
Brooklyn
Wm. L. Bosserman
R. J. Hamlen
Detroit
Mich
Wo. I. McCann
Omaha
Neb
J.R. Clausen
Philadelphia
Channing H. Cook
St. Louis
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