Lydia E Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound
A portrait of Lydia E Pinkham and her family origins detailing how her herbal remedy grew from kitchen experiments with roots and herbs into a famous medical product. It notes her marriage to Isaac Pinkham, early prosperity, the pamphlet campaign, and the expansion with her sons and daughter guiding the enterprise as the business faced 1878 financial strains.
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Isaac Pinkham
Pinkham
Marto
Lydia BP
Haro
Estes
Yaa Lynn
Mass
Jay
Abe
Pinkham Sons
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Lydia EB Pinkham
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Herreve
Imeane
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mra Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Terpen
Lynn
Lydia EB. Pickham
Isahtet
Manhattan the New Nevada El Dorado mining rush
A new mining boom erupts around Manhattan Nevada as prospectors flood from Tonopah and Goldfield. The camp lacks law and order with prices soaring, autos bid high, and rooms and meals scarce amid a frenzied exodus of up to 2000 people daily.
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Goldfield
New
Nevada
Manhattan
Tonopah
Nye County
San Antonio
Rockies
Serra Nevadas
Witny
Isteat
Salt Lake City Strings Out Gambling Despite No Arrests
By order of Mayor Evra Thompson gambling in Salt Lake was closed Tuesday night with no disorder or arrests. The mayor issued his mandate to Chief George A. Rheets, who assigned Detectives Shannon and Raleigh to notify gamblers and enforce the order. Within minutes, open gambling houses obeyed the closure.
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Salt Lake City
Evra Thompson
Salt Lake
Thompson
George A. Rheets
Richard L. Shannon
George Raleigh
Lineman Killed Grasping Live Wire at Work
Vancouver BC lineman William Burgens of British Columbia Electric Railway was electrocuted while soldering a transformer on a high pole at Powell Street and Dunlevy Avenue. He slipped and grabbed a live wire to stop falling, receiving a fatal current. Also reports: a Durango shootout left both men mortally wounded, a Salt Lake City glass factory expected, German gunboat Panther to show flag in South America, and Montana land fencing indictments in U.S. court.
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Vancouver
B. C
William Burgens
British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Powell Street
Duntevy Avenue
Durango
Colo
Thompson
la Plata County
Po Meemun
Jesse Sténie
Dutangy
Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Manufacturers & Merchants’ Association
Grans
Washington
Buenos Ayres
Parana
Asuncion
Republic
Heroic fireman dies saving aged woman in Minneapolis hotel blaze
Eight people die from suffocation or jumps as West Hotel fire spreads from an elevator shaft. Captain John Berwin perishes after rescuing Mrs. Barlow of Los Angeles, who survives after clinging to a projection. Fire caused by crossed wires, chaos ensues.
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Minneapolis
West Hotel
Fie
John Berwin
Ufe
B. D. Barlow
Los Angeles
Mra. Barlow
Citizens in Canon City Rally Against Repeated Arson Attempts
After Wednesday night’s bid to ignite the Smelter, a $2,000,400 plant, Canon City sees its fifteenth arson attempt in two weeks. Citizens and guards patrol nightly. threadmen fled, fired upon by guards yet escaped. Electric lights illuminate alleys to deter property damage.
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Canon City
Cola
Freight Rate Mass Convention Opens Vigorous Campaign
Wichita Kansas delegates from commercial and farmers groups met in a 600 member convention to form a permanent body. They adopted resolutions urging Congress to grant a railway rate commission power to regulate railroad rates and planned county by county organization to push a state bill to control corporations. The gathering was non partisan and aligned with reforms similar to Indiana Governor Winconald's effort.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansan
Idaho Senator Threatened After Anonymous Letters
Idaho Senator Heyburn has received anonymous death threats postmarked in Idaho. Indiana Congressman John Chaney, once tied to Governor Steunenberg’s inquiry, also faced threats. Neither gave the letters weight after Steunenberg’s assassination. Dr William R Harper Dead In Chicago President of University of Chicago and Hebrew Sanskrit authority died Wednesday afternoon from cancer. He had suffered a two year toll from a cancer at the head of the large intestine discovered after an appendectomy.
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Idaho
Washington
Heyburn
John ©. Chaney
Indiana
Steunenberg
William R. Harper
Chicago
William Ratney Harper
University of Chicago
Harper
Mrs Chadwick Nearing Penitentiary in Bank Conspiracy Case
Cincinnati report states the U S court of appeals denied a rehearing of Cassie L Chadwick's appeal for a new trial. The appellate court had earlier upheld a Cleveland district court verdict finding Chadwick guilty of conspiracy to wreck a universal bank and sentenced her to ten years in the penitentiary.
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Cincinnati
Cassie L. Chadwick
Cleveland
United States Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals
District Court of Cleveland, O
Chadwick
Questionable Medical Claims From Obscure Patent Pills
The text describes alleged mislabeling and dangerous claims about supposed medicines for women, touting easy use and nerve benefits. It mentions harmful components, organs, and various dubious products like Favorite Prescriptions, with warnings of impropriety and possible misuse in treating nervous disorders.
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Treall Ieee Ae Bt
Ion Fy
Ieee
Not the Only One Soutine Song Profitable to Write
The piece notes that writing songs like Violate and Oh Those Tyars has proven profitable. The manuscript of Violate was rejected by most major London publishers before finally being accepted and printed. It quickly gained popularity and has sold steadily since.
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Tyars
London
The Race Question: a puzzling problem for minds
A provocative line argues the best path for humanity is to eat Pillsbury's Vitos for breakfast, presenting a bold breakfast slogan as a satirical note on intelligence and choice.
The Tempter and the Tempted Burglar Note
A burglar who ransacked a home left a note pinned to the pillow, quoting a biblical verse to justify the crime. The note accused the homeowner of wealth and repentance urged, claiming the burglar fell not for want but for temptation.
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Continental
Weather and Lightning Phenomena Explained in Old Text
The excerpt discusses lightning physics noting that storms arise from air resistance and heating cooling cycles. It explains thunder as a loud but harmless accompaniment and mentions explosive gas reactions from heated water vapor forming into water.
Remarkable Memory Feat in Sunday School Recitation Contest
Ten children competed with two prizes for memorizing Bible verses. A sixteen year old won first prize admitting to 12,236 verses in ninety days, covering nearly the entire New Testament and parts of the Old. The second prize went to an eleven year old with 1,215 verses memorized, while about 19,000 verses were learned in total.
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Gretto
Palma
Geneaia
Land Otopia the Devil's Noses Carnivorous Plant
A New York Herald description of a carnivorous plant named land oktopia found near Lake Nicaragua. It feeds on living animals with flexible sticky branches and many suckers. The report likens it to the octopus of the vegetable world and notes a $50 round trip winter rate to California via the Great Salt Lake Route offered by Balt Lake Route agents.
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Lake
Nicaragas
Poe
Dunstan
Bela
New York Herald
California
Balt Lake
Soq
J. L. Moore
D. P. A. Balt Lake City
Small Town Visit Brings Playful Tale of a Tiny Infant
Loulen Alcott, visiting a Connecticut town, recalls a very small baby born days earlier. The conversation turns humorous as she jokes about shrinking the infant into a quart tankard with a cover. An older listener asks with sympathy if the infant survived.
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Loulen Alcott
Loulen M. Alcott
Connecticut
Mint Alcott
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promise Relief From Distress
Reading in a 19th century style ad lists Dr Williams Pink Pills claimed to cure obstinate stomach and heart trouble. The testimonial voice asserts dramatic relief from dyspepsia and headaches, praising the pills sold by Seaplats and the Dr Williams Medicine Co in Schenectady, N Y.
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Williane
Dayton
Dr. Williams
Dr Medicine Co
Echeusctady
Nineteen at One Room in East End Lodging House
London inspectors investigating a child's death found a crowded east end room where nineteen Russians slept in nine beds with beds nearly touching a central stove, no ventilation, and water streaming down the window panes.
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London
Railway Employ Across United Kingdom and Regions
The railway companies of Great Britain employ 12 thousand men in England and Wales while Scottish and Irish companies employ about 40 thousand. The figures reflect regional employment by railway firms in the United Kingdom.
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United
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