Four years ago grip leaves Mrs. Morrison cured by pills
Mrs. Morrison of 1023 Cavan Street South Bide Pittsburgh recalls a severe four year grip that left her thin with backache nerves and weak digestion. After taking Dr Williams Pink Pills she reports rapid improvement restoring health and strength and urges others to try the medicine. The pills claim to act on blood and nerves and are sold 80 cents a box or 2.50 for four by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Willie Pik Pilla
Morrison
St. Vitua
Dr. Williams Medicitg Co
Schensctady, NX
Insects and flowers influence, Darwin and others note
Professor Darwin argues insects drive floral evolution, comparing insect work to a florist. Lord Avebury likens insect selection to shaping garden beauty, while Phiteau reports insects rely on scent over color. The text suggests insects visit many blooms indiscriminately, including currant, lime, plane tree, willow blossoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darwin
Lord Avebury
Phiteau
Ghent
Man credits Dean's Kidney Pills for cure after kidney ordeal
An Indianapolis veteran recounts severe kidney trouble in 1897 with headaches swelling and pain. After refusing amputation and using Dean's Kidney Pills his symptoms subsided and he has remained well for nine years. He endorses the product as sold by Dex. Feeler Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Frank Doremus
Roosevelt Age
Indianapolis
Dean
Feeler-Milburn Co
Buffalo
The Play That Is Never Read Sequel of an Ambitious Playwright
A brittle satire follows a young playwright chasing a producer who promises to read the manuscript but delays and excuses. The tale parodies the theater world, tracing missed deadlines, vanity, and hopeful longing as chance after chance stalls the reading of the play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B Society
Auguste
Wright
Tie
Andie
Walt
Mamie
Copper Superstitions and Trades of Toulon Workers
An observer notes rural belief that thunderstorms avoid copper veins and a miner’s spot may hide copper. In Toulon, naval arsenal workers moonlight as carpet beaters, distributors, carriers, shoemakers, watchmakers, and barbers. A Nebraska visitor calls New York a “short change” town after seven incidents of underpayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulon
France
Arsenal
New York
New York City
Nebraska
Curious Postum Contest Draws Thousands for Word-Building Prizes
The Postum Cereal Co. offered 31 boxes of gold and 300 dollars to top word builders from the Jetters I O Grape Nuts. Begun February 1906, prizes were to be awarded April 30 but corrections and counting stretched to September 29. L. D. Reese of Denver won 441 words for the gold prize and 8 KC Fraser of Lincoln, Pa. won 9,921 words for the $10 gold prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Cereal Co
Ltt
Battle Creek
Mich
United States
L. D. Reese
15Th St
Denver
Colo
Pelvum Cereal Co. Ltd
Bartle Creek
Mion
Frost Safe Frost Boxes Defend Pipes With Air Gaps
An Orange Judd Farmer article explains frost protection for water pipes using three dead air spaces from below the frost line to the tank. It details a simple frost box built around the pipe with inner and outer boxes, six inch outer dimensions, and two-inch air gaps to prevent condensation and freezing in varying climates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saya
Orange Judd
Home Water Supply Delights Delaware Farmer’s Windmill Idea
A Delaware farmer explains to Orange Judd Farmer how a windmill powers a large water tank feeding hot and cold water to the bathroom cellar kitchen stalls hog houses garden and yards with an on lawn fountain. The windmill also cuts fodder and grinds feed, performing more than a man can do.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange Judd
Farm Bits and Potatoes and Pecans Growers Hope
The Indiana crop fears 50 percent larger than last year’s banner output shows the need to select seed in the field at digging time rather than from the hill next spring. Native pecan trees in Texas Nut Growers association yield $20 to $65 per tree in five to twelve years after top-working with improved varieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
State Bureau of Statistics
Texas Nut Growers Association
Rat Ridders and Home Remedy Tips from a Historic Note
A fragment describes pest control methods for rats in a house. It advises spraying spirits of turpentine into holes, applying a cloth with egg white and red pepper, and whitewash mixed with copperas to walls, stones, and rafters in a cellar as an alleged effective measure.
Lime on Clover Land for Clover Recovery
Lime on clover land often proves a food remedy for clover sick soil especially when clover dies out due to extreme soil acidity. Some soils require additional fertilizer with lime to grow clover successfully.
Milner James The Most Artistic Safebreaker Of His Time
Lecorg the detective recalls Milner James a famed safebreaker who opened over 700 safes without tools or gunpowder by precise combination work. He notes James taught through study of locks and three safes of different makes, stressing the car against the door and delicate tumblers.
Day of Triumph Postponed and Louvre Treasures Noted
The piece humorously chronicles Dudekins failing to outwit Miss Wesacee while a Louvre Gazette notice highlights a chalk bust of Amenemoplis IV and four blue porcelain sepulchral urns from the tomb of Rameses II. The urns reportedly contain organic matter undergoing chemical analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louvre
Akhoumalon
Amenoplis IV
Rameses II
Women Who Charm: Lydia Pinkham Product Endorsed
Women who suffer painful or irregular periods and related symptoms find relief with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A testimonial from Mia Chas Brown of Hot Springs Arkansas claims the remedy rebuilt her health after years of weakness and improved confidence and vitality. The advertisement urges troubled women to take the product to restore health and strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia BL Pinkham
Mia Chas
F. Brown
Mothers’ Club
Cedar Terrace
Hot Springs
Ark
Mra. Pinkham
Abia Kininge
Lynn B. Pinkham
Lydia BR Pinkham
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Malachiya Bay
Sebastopol
Alti
Winalow
Cher Alice Waits
God
Home Water Supply
Welows
Milner James
Dudekins
Ant Ghe
Dudekinns
Dodd
Pista Omer
Mhoxsau
Ry Io
Chas. F Brown
W. L. Douglas
W.llaugias
Raugias
Gallareni
Douglass
Peice
Ted Cal
Ganvassers
Rome
Vurlachty
Mum
Seemanen
Arto Anton
Thal
Martha Washington
F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co
Milwaukee, Wis
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