Boston Doctors Fight Rochelle Salts in Baking Powder Ban
At a Massachusetts legislative hearing on a bill to curb wholesale closures of public health, eminent Boston physicians testified against the healthfulness of Rochelle Salts and urged a law prohibiting baking powders that leave the dangerous drug in food. Dr Hartang, Dr F B Foster, Dr C O Kepler, and Dr G M Palmer testified.
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Committee On Public Health
Massachusetts
Boston
Hartang
F. B. Foster
C. O. Kepler
G. M. Palmer
Calumet Baking Powder Promotes Safe Food Use
Calumet Baking Powder leaves the food free from Rochelle Salts Alom or any injurious substance. Therefore recommended by leading physicians and chemists.
Public plates and wedding day banter in wild mix
A cluttered collage of captions and snippets covers marriage cues, social bows, eczema cures, and a Paderewski anecdote. It mixes couplet gibes, fashion hats, and insistence on Castoria with a father beating time, a charitable judgment, and a knot hole joke, all in a stream of headlines and product pitches.
Nine teen witnesses at Standard Oil inquiry in Cleveland
Inter state commissioners Prouty and Clemons hear from nine teens about Standard Oil tactics. Testimony highlights L Lane of Mansfield who says he drove independent peddlers from Northern Ohio towns. Lane recalls orders to target towns like Youngstown Canton and Mansfield with aggressive pricing and gifts. Elizabeth Protzman testifies she logged rival oil shipments for the Dayton office and passed records to superiors.
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Cleveland
Ghia
Prouty
Clem Ols
Standard Oil
Ofter
L. Lane
Mansfield
Standard Oil Company
Lane
Princeit
Ohio
CM Lyons
Standard Cf
Youngstown
Canton
Girard
Warren
Revenon
Massillon
Elyria
Oberlin
Soungstown
Willicant H. Vahey
Elizabeth Protxman
Dayton, O
Brogght
Draymen
Col Switzler Dead Nestor of Missouri Journalism
Col William F Switzer aged 87 died in Columbia Missouri at 3 30 am Thursday. He was famed as the Nestor of Missouri Journalism and author of a comprehensive Missouri history and a Boone County history. His last years saw him assist in the Columbia Statesman and he left a university history unfinished. He leaves three children and major works to his name.
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Columbia
William F. Switzer
Missouri
Switzer
Columbia Statesman
William Hirth
Col. Switeler
Boone County
University of Missouri
Col. Switzler
Michael Davitt Sinking in Ireland to Relatives
Michael Davitt, long ill in Dublin, Ireland, was reported sinking to his relatives in Washington by his wife via cable. A sister, Miss Davitt, received Sunday morning a message saying he was sinking and another late Sunday said he was very low. The other items note ceremonies in Tokyo marking the Battle of the War of Japan, the arrest of Don Jaime of Bourbon’s secretary in Barcelona, Judge Landis aiding Zion City factions, and Tuskegee’s twenty-sixth year anniversary of its normal school.
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Michael Davitt
Washington, D. C
Dublin
Ireland
Mr. Davitt
Barcelona
Spain
Don Jaime of Bourbon
Don Carios
Great Norse Poet Henrik Ibsen Dies at 78
Norway mourns as Henrik Ibsen, towering dramatist and poet, dies at 78 after a prolonged decline. King Haakon sends condolences, theaters close, and the nation observes a period of grief with state funeral anticipated.
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Lbsen
Sigurd Theen
Hison
Haakon
Ibsen
Queen Maud
Storthing
Itme
Free Alcohol Bill Passes Senate and Conference Push
Washington DP reports the free alcohol bill cleared the senate after committee passage and moves toward conference action, with debate on effective date and impact on wood alcohol producers versus consumer interests. Other items include Kentucky trotting record, Missouri executions appeals, and local political appointments.
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Washington, DP
Senate
House
Aldrich
McCumber
Allison
Kay
Mrs T C Willadsen and the Lydia E Pinkham Cure
A historical testimonial claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured Mrs T C Willadsen of Menning Indiana after doctors failed. The letter praises Pinkham's guidance and asserts the compound restored regular health and monthly cycles, arguing it surpasses local physicians in treating female illness.
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Pinkham
Lydia EB. Pinkham
St Lynn
Mass
Ham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Meant for Mereriment A Humorous Slice of Then Current Says
A garbled humor column offers wry quips on cynicism dieting and simple life jokes about undertakers auto revenge and vegetarian dressing. Readers note puns on Greek math and insomnia cures via automobile riding while politicians quip on success and obligation with light satire.
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Badger
Close Quarters and Civic Puzzles Across News Clippings
A collage of snippets spans financial, political, and social reflections. Notes on government bonds in a U S prison context mingle with quips about cultivation of a big howl and a burglar turning out lights. The miscellany also includes terse exchanges about marriage prospects and a critique on hard times versus work.
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United States
Falla
Toledo
Cunxer
Toleés
No Kowtowing Tale Of Gov Hoadly In A Buckeye hotel
A humorous anecdote recounts former Ohio governor George Hoadly entering a Buckeye hotel where the clerk, mistaking his name for room allocation, directs him to room ten with a blunt quip. Hoadly insists on his gubernatorial identity while the clerk retorts with a sharp line about kissing.
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George Hoadly
Ohio
Hoadly
Buckeye
Register
John Hancock
Sam George Hoadly
State of
Notable Figures and Odd Ancestry in a Patchwork Digest
A Pennsylvanian traveling congressman and flour salesman, George R Patterson, is noted. Retiring headmaster LB Abrahams of Jews' Free School Bell Lane Spitalfields reveals 63 years of service. Ancestors include Richard Knight, drummer in the Continental Army, and Lady Henry Somerset known for temperance work and a playful disguise at Eastnor castle.
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George R. Patterson
Congress
Annie Knight Gregory
Seliigagrove
Richard Knight
Gregory
Henry Somerset
Dudley
Eastnor Castle
Duchess de Montmorenci
Henry
Random facts and oddities from old newspapers
A collage of quirky notes and trivia from various papers. It mentions smoking cars on English railways, Indian alligator meat tasting veal, wood seasoned for planes, survival stats, Paris hair markets, art and crime links, Swiss public coffins, Defiance Starch ads, a soda fountain scene, language missteps, and stray classified snippets.
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India
Paris
Switzerland
Iaw
West Virginian Recovers from Kidney Troubles with Dean's Pills
W L Jackson of Parkersburg West Virginia recounts severe kidney distress including night urination and catheter use. After using Dean's Kidney Pills the urine flow returned and pain faded, and he remains cured eight years later, still active at over 70. Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box. FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY.
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W. L. Jackson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Almost a Catastrophe and a Glimpse of Telegraph History
A young woman bursts with joyful gossip to her aunt in a moment of affectionate tension. The piece then shifts to a survey of historic telephone networks and tariffs in London and Guernsey, noting municipal ownership, large exchanges, and cross channel rates. It ends with a string of witty quips.
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London
Brussels
Guernsey
United Kingdom
Paris
London Wall Exchange
Post
Post Office
Inverness
Corkix
Tommy
Chicago Tri- Dune
Wall Street
Puck
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