Allen's Foot-Ease Promotes Comfort for Tired Feet
An advertisement extols Allen's Foot-Ease as a clean wholesome antiseptic powder for the feet that provides rest and comfort, reduces friction, and saves wear on stockings. It notes 39,000 testimonials and warns against imitations, urging buyers to request the original. A brief recipe suggests jellied veal seasoned with lemon juice and celery salt.
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Senate Debates Railroad Bill Amid Lorimer Probe
The Senate laid aside the railroad bill for Senator Lorimer of Illinois to explain charges of corruption in his election and ordered a privileges and elections inquiry. The day also honored the late Representative Griggs of Georgia with eulogies. The House focused on the sundry civil and bureau of mines funding with $488,000 allocated to date.
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Lorimer
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Representative Griggs
Georgia
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Curtis
Owen
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Simmons
Burton
Bailey
Supreme Court
Senator Overman
North Carolina
Hughes
New Jersey
Chamberlin
Clay
Gore
Poynter
Stone
Secretary of Agriculture
Bad Weather Hurts Corn Prospects Across Belt
Unseasonable cold and wet in the corn belt slow growth and force replanting in many areas. Seed corn prices rise to 6 to 8 dollars a bushel in central Illinois as farmers face uncertain yields while oats fare better under cool damp spring conditions.
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Corn Belt
Nebraska
Ilinois
World traveler Brown reaches San Jose after 25000 miles
William Brown who started from Newfoundland on December 25, 1906 with four dogs on a around the world trip for a $10000 purse arrives in San Jose California after covering 25000 miles. The report also notes other science and agriculture items from the era.
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William Brown
Newfoundland
San Jose
Cal
Air navigation advance tied to birds and nostrils
Prof Ernest Huebner cites a June Century article tracing a discovery that migratory birds ride storm currents and that nostril sensation guides takeoff. French tests show pigeons with nostrils sealed delay arrivals, suggesting future instruments to read air currents for long flights and wartime use.
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Ernest Huebner
Chicago Trade Review notes easing business mood and steady production
The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade reports softer speculation and easier business, with better money conditions, lower food costs, and declining merchandise stocks. It cites sustained production, rising factory output, and broader travel while noting cautious orders for immediate shipments and farm prospects uncertainty. Bank clearings fall 2.9 percent year over year. Fourteen district failures are listed, with six liabilities over $5,000.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Trade Conditions Reported Weak in Northern Regions
Trade advices show irregular activity with quietness as a prevailing feature. Unseasonably cool weather in the northern half of the country dampens retail expansion and reorders. Northwest and Pacific coast reports appear strongest. Business failures in the United States for the week ending June 2 totaled 160, with Canada reporting eighteen.
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Northwest
Pacific Coast
United States
Canada
Labor News Items From North America and Europe
Reports across North America and Europe cover union activity and labor policy. Bakers' International Union adopts six day week in New Orleans. A F L label section reaches 500000 members. Australian Labor party gains majorities. German Building Trades settle a lockout. Toronto forms a labor party. Australian workers plan a daily paper. International News: George L Berry announces one day pay assessment May 22 to 28 for tuberculosis home fund.
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New Orleans
A. F. of L
Toronto
Canada
Sioux Falls
S. C
Aberdeen
Lead
Huron
Deadwood
Belgium
England
United States
Fasentum
Labor Party of Australia
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Ft. Worth
Texas
Labor Temple
Building Trades Council
Germany
Berlin
George L. Berry
Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
National meat and grain prices and a canal proposal
Price lists from multiple cities show cattle hogs and sheep values, plus grains like wheat corn oats and rye across Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee New York Buffalo Toledo. The National Association of Manufacturers in New York urged government support for a deep water canal through Canada to aid ore and grain transport from the lake regions.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
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National Association of Manufacturers
New York City
Canada
The Great North Country Canoe Heritage
The article celebrates Temagami Ontario as a place where Indigenous canoes and knowledge thrive. It invites visitors to have local children paddle for them and notes summer campers can advance two years of work. It highlights fishing, hunting, and easy Grand Trunk Railway access, with a free descriptive publication available from W. S. Cookson in Chicago.
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Ontario
Temagami Lakes
Grand Trunk Railway System
Cookson
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Chicago
Unlucky Accident Baffles Dentist and Tools
In a humorous exchange a patient accuses the dentist of breaking a tooth while the doctor quips that he broke his best forceps, turning a minor mishap into a wry anecdote.
Gnat Suspected as Pellagra Carrier in Europe
London May 14 Dr Sambon reports from Rome that the Field committee has proved maize is not the cause of pellagra. The disease is spread by a biting gnat species simulium repans, not corn, according to the committee.
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T. L. Haecker
London
Isle-of- Wight
Julius Boeckh
Lansing
Iowa
Mississippi River
Committee On Disease In
Europe
Sambon
Rome
United States
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
Dr Martel's Female Pills and Other Patent Remedies
An assortment of medical advert items touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a long standing standard for women's ailments and promotes Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a quick cure for constipation. The page also includes a free pile remedy offer from Rea Company and light social quips about courtship and heaven.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Advertises Mother Gray's Sweet Powders used at Children’s Home New York to cure constipation feverishness teething disorders stomach troubles and destroy worms with testimonials. Druggists sell 25 cents sample free address Alle Olmsted Le Roy New York. You may not be able to eat your cake and have it too but you can drink your drinks and have em bad.
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Mother Gray
New York
Alle Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Skin Disease Healed by Cuticura Remedies Testimonial
A Brooklyn resident describes a sixteen year battle with a severe skin disease that worsened in heat and left him unable to walk. After trying doctors with little success, he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and says he was cured, praising the remedy and expressing gratitude. The notice ends with a political quip about money in politics.
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Leonard A. Hawter
Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Marine Eye Salve Trial Size Ad for Red Itchy Eyes
An old advertisement touts Marine Eye Salve for red itching eyelids and falling eyelashes with aseptic trial tubes priced at 25 cents. It directs readers to ask their druggist or write Marine Eye Remedy Co. in Chicago. A second line offers a social moral about newlyweds and happiness.
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Marine
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Woman Cures Operation Doubts With Lydia Pinkham Remedy
Elwood Indiana resident Sadie Mullen credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after months of disability. The advertisement urges women to consider the remedy for displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and offers confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham.
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Aioe Elwood
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
M Sadie Mullen
N. B. St
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