Blind Physician Bolton Gains Noted Appointment in Chicago
The Chicago tuberculosis hospital at Dunning has announced Dr. J. W. Bolton, a man blind from infancy, as attending physician. Bolton, 25, graduated from the Illinois State Hospital for the Blind, once traveled selling typewriters, and later completed medical studies, claiming to diagnose by touch and to read with raised type books in bed.
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Helen Keller
Chicago
J. W. Bolton
Dunning Asylum
Bolton
Illinois State Hospital For
Medical College
Whiskey for Sickness and the liquor debate
A Statesville physician historian notes that liquor is not a necessity in medicine though some old practices used it. The piece argues doctors now favor alternatives and promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a quick cure for ulcers and skin troubles citing Mrs. Bruce Jones of Birmingham who recovered in two weeks at 25 cents.
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Lanamarn
Statesville
Lanmdark
Bucklen
Bruce Jones
Birmingham
Ala
English Drug Company
Hopes Williams Will Sell Whiskey in North Carolina
Washington June 3 Col W H Osborne internal revenue commissioner hopes N Glenn Williams will use the new permission to sell 275000 dollars worth whiskey stored at Williams North Carolina and thus end government litigation. Williams may pay tax and sell gradually before year end avoiding court order to move whiskey to a bonded warehouse in Louisville.
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Williams
Washington, D. C
Col. W. H. Osborne
Internal Revenue
N. Glenn Willias
N. C
United States
Louisville
Union Station
Charlotte
Southern, Seal Air Line
Norfolk, Southern and Piedmont
Northern Lines
Handing it To Blease, Columbia Record
Governor Blease condemned a mob at Hampton after Richard Henry Austin killed Fred H Edenfield near Allendale on April 30. The mob cut parts of Austin's body for souvenirs while preserving a thumb in alcohol in a glass vial. The governor, who carried the grim relic, denounced the morbid act and questioned why white men would crave such preservations.
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Blease
Columbia
Richard Henry Austin
Fred H. Edenfield
Allendale
Ben
Hampton
Austin
Uncle Rastus Tries a Car for the First Time
A Georgia story recounts Uncle Rastus viewing and riding in his first automobile. The car speeds toward a tree before stopping safely in soft grass. He asks how to stop the car when no trees are nearby, prompting a puzzled response from the owner.
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Rastus
Uncle Rastus
Wildwood
Samuel J. Tribble
Georgia
Moitor
Pusson
Faustus
Monroe remedy claim boosts swift relief for bowel trouble
Advertorial notes that a single dose of buckthorn bark and glycerine in Adler-Lku, a German bowel and stomach remedy, purportedly relieves constipation and sour stomach instantly and draws off old foul matter, with claims of previous cure of appendicitis. The piece mocks spending on ads based on promoter trust.
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Monroe
Advy
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J. L. Everett
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R. B. Redwine
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Rock Bottom
Grow Bros. Gash
E. M. Griffin & CO
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia Military Institute
Stonewall Jackson
Jackson
Wise
William T. Poague
Rock Bridge
Instructon
Richmond
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Washington Monument
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Manassas
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Washington
Lincoln
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Lee
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New York
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Hudson River
Sydney
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Cape of Good Hope
America
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George Island
Victoria
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Leonnardt CO
Buttals
Raglioh Drog
Draguinte
Monroer
DR. Simmons
C.f.simmons Medicine CO
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Heath Hardware CO
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