Nebraska Notes From Across Many Towns
A jumble of local items from Nebraska covers May blossoms in Shelton Beatrice baseball chatter and town club news. It notes Russians heading to Sugar City Colorado for sugar work and a new government post near Blair. Also reported are a death in Weeping Water a wedding in Bayard and Falls City issuing bonds for 30 000.
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Parmners
Bick Ty Pave
Tours
Sugar City
Col
Elde
Falls City
J. H. Miles
Presbyterian Church
Hastings
Doctor on Death Bed Healed by Kidney Pills
A physician in Portland, once near death from diabetes with six doctors at his bedside, was cured after his aunt urged Dodd's Kidney Pills. The claim says the remedy revived him and that similar treatments aid conditions from rheumatism to diabetes, with kidney disease improving. Also notes a Vienna memorial for Empress Elisabeth and various consumer ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
E. Ap Rose
Yates, Genter, Kans
Dodd
Bright
London usurer Sam Levis left an endearing legacy
A fragmentary tale recalls Sam Levis, a notorious London moneylender, who died leaving a fortune and a strange, nine days wonder among his acquaintances. He began late yet grew rich by avoiding losses, helping a poor artist with a modest request by giving a 50 pound loan but presenting a 650 pound note in a gesture of generosity.
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Sam Levis
London
Afm
Aceon
Poe Oh
Sas
Sam Lewis
Bette
John Brown juror dies at Charles Town survivor noted
John Brown Jeter who left George W. Boyer one of the jurors in the Harper's Ferry case has died at Charles Town West Virginia The lone surviving juror is William A. Martin who lives at Deleplane Virginia
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John Brown Jeter
George W. Boyer
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Charlestown
W. Va
William A. Martin
Deleplane
Shoop Restorative Ad Promises Cure and Free Offer
An advertisement urges readers to request Dr Shoop's Restorative with express paid delivery for six Bettes. It promises payment of 6.50 only if cured and otherwise free. Mentions Virtuama Tablets for “brain-ing” and general debility with guarantees and drugstore distribution details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoop
Racine, Wis
Kidd Drug Co
Rigg
O Street
Liscoln
Neb
Medicine advertisements and quack cures from 1900s paper
An assortment of patent medicine pitches and quotes including Piso's Cure for Consumption touted as infallible, Weeman's Pepsin Gun, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and various dubious lines. A farmer’s nervous prostration remark and odd aphorisms accompany the ads.
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N.W . Samuel
Ocean Grove
N.J
Douglas Factory Expands to 6000 Shoes Daily
W L Douglas plans a major plant expansion adding 16000 square feet and a 400 hp engine plus 150 hp boiler to boost daily output to 6000 pairs with weekly payroll of 22000. Salesmen report 25 percent higher sales, driven by advertising. Half page ads will run in leading city papers and Youths Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Youth's Companion
Brockton
Mass
Times
Also Mentioned on This Page
T. Pearce
Diller
Nebraska
May
Shelton
Kearney
Beatrice
Baseball
Fesintiene
Soni Aang
Minden
Seana Nan
Blair Ig
Cass Couinty Tost
James Ticke
Infaries
Kment Barrie
Dagnapes
Peter Longuest
Burlington
Wymore
Europe
W. Debating Club
Plattsmouth
Elmwood School
Antone Smith
Sutton
Miss Smith
B. M. Miller
Utica
W. D. Bowers
Seward
James C. Elliott
West Point
Republican
A.J. Langer
Langer
Bayard
Marie E. Burtrum
Arthur E. Delahayde
E. F. Wagner
Elisabe
Vienna
Elisabeth
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
Lemby, N.Y
Garfield
Apeetanin
Mermas
Weeman
St. Jacobs Oil
W.n.u.lincoln
Douglas Factory
Washburn
T. M. Roberts’ Supply House
Nicellet Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
G & J Tire Company
Thompson
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