Kidney Pills End Backache Promise Public Free Trial
An advertisement extols Down's Kidney Pills as a cure for disordered kidneys and backache. W J Hill of Concord, N C, endorses them after relief from kidney secretions and back pain. A free trial offer via Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, and 50 cents per box are noted. The ad also promotes Defiance Starch and Crow Ball Blue products amid assorted newspaper content.
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W. J. Hill
South Union Street
Conrord
N.C
Jusice of the
Gibson Diie
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Gains National Praise
Mrs Frances Stafford of New York testifies to the vast patient group benefiting from Lydia E Pinkham's remedies. Skeptics faded as years passed and scientists take note of the compound's merit.
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Frances Stafford
E. 14Th St
N.Y
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
America
Immense tobacco purchase by Peoria firm shocks trade
Frank P. Lewis of Peoria bought forty four thousand dollars’ worth of fancy tobacco for his Single Binder cigar. The purchase, described as the largest high grade tobacco deal by a U.S. cigar maker, included a written guarantee that the entire amount would be fancy, selected tobacco. The Lewis factory is claimed to be the holder of the highest grading tobacco in the nation.
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Wen
Frank P. Lewis
Peoria Lib
Lewis
United States
Herald -Transcript
St, Lhr
A Sensible Dog at Scottish Kirk Meeting
A dog wandered among pews at a country Scotland kirk gathering. During a special collection the animal left the pews and sauntered out before the plate. A spectator quipped that a dog would have so much sun.
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Scotland
Doug Ike
The Irreverent Caddie at Chevy Chase Course
Lieut Gen Miles enjoys golf rounds at Washington with a sharp young caddie. The general, lacking skill, sends the ball sailing only a few feet after multiple mighty whacks. The caddie scolds him, urging better shots or quit.
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Miles
Chevy Chase
Washington
District of Columbia
Doctor on Food Experiments on Himself in Galion Ohio
A physician from Galion Ohio reports curing years of indigestion with GrapeNote calling it pleasant nutritious and easily digested as a nerve food and restorer. He claims it enriches blood increases red corpuscles and strengthens organs by providing a steadier fluid balance and improved repair. Advertisement from Potu m Co Battle Sky 74 a a.
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Galion
Beneft
Pootum Co
Battle Sky
The Origin of Decoration Day Told by a Civil War Veteran
A veteran recalls how two Michigan girls first laid flowers on a soldier’s grave forty years ago during a Virginia campaign. Their act spurred a nationwide May memorial tradition. The account notes Gen. John A. Logan’s 1868 order designating Memorial Day and mentions competing claims for its origin.
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Michigan
Michigan Infantry
J. B. Richartson
Army of the Potomac
Fredericksburg
Old Dominion
John A. Loran
Culpman
Cincinnati
Germany
Geo. Logan
John B. Murray
Watertown
N.Y
Ges Jagan
Boys In
Sailor Dead Remembered in Civil War Chaplain May Family
The article recalls Franklin May a Methodist minister who left his post to serve. His wife a patriot who followed to Arlington and Camp Michigan helped place flowers on thirteen graves, both Union and Confederate. Their daughters Josephine and Ella helped, and the family is buried in Mountain Home Kalamazoo.
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Franklin May
Arlington
Alexandria
Mount Vernon
Camp Michigan
Josephine
Ella
Mrs. May
Mrx
Evans
Potomac
Arlington Cemetery
Gen
Arthur
Michigan
May
Mateia
Davebter
Mountain Home
Kalamaxoo
Mich
Peruna claims heal nervous, catarrh linked illness
A Buffalo woman credits Peruna medicine with restoring health after years of social decline and fatigue. The letter links catarrh to female diseases and asserts Peruna cures catarrh, noting nervous women suffer from common female troubles caused by catarrh and that recovery hinges on treating the catarrh.
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America
England Calls American Preacher Samuel G. Smith
Independent preacher from St Paul Minnesota receives call to London church. He will sail for England in June after reviewing the ground.
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England
Samuel G. Smith
St. Paul, Minn
Methodist Church
London
Kansas Cattle Ranch In Western Kansas Sold To Investors
A 20000 acre tract in Western Kansas has been purchased by Indiana and Ohio capitalists for cattle and horses. The note lists Angus cattle Grey Horses and Long Lived stock with claims of horse longevity and age. It mentions a Swedish scientist Dr Ekenberg and a machine to convert tkim milk into powder resembling milk. The piece also touches telegraph wire longevity and a Washington real estate purchase by former Senator Pritchard now judge. It closes with assorted ads for Defiance Starch, Putnam Dyes, and Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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Kansas
Indiana
Ohio
Ekenberg
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