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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1906
Page
7
A concise portrait recounts Lydia E. Pinkham and explains how her Vegetable Compound began and how the Panic of 1873 prompted its public sale in drug stores. The piece highlights the product’s rise and Pinkham’s role in popularizing herbal remedies through a period of medical doubt.
A biography of Lydia E. Pinkham born in 1819 in Lynn and her rise from teacher to founder of the Vegetable Compound. It details her family, the 1878 financial crisis, the kitchen laboratory, early advertising, and the preservation of patient records guiding a world renowned remedy for women’s health.
A detailed guide to building a foldable sewing screen with denim backings, blue cretonne pockets, and brass nails for hanging spools and tools. It describes assembly options, decorative options, and hinges or straps as simple supports, noting potential curved designs by a carpenter. It also mentions a bottomless pit in Hawaii and peculiar nocturnal sounds in Montreal, plus a humorous anecdote from Boston rail service and a note on lighting efficiency from Sir James Dewar.
A Boston doctor secured a yew from the old Tisbury churchyard, claiming it was planted by the Arundel family over 700 years ago. The tree, 36 feet in circumference, will be transplanted to Dr. Banks’s Vineyard Haven lawn, linked to Gov. Mayhew’s baptismal history, as a memorial for the town.
William Travers Jerome was not the sole winner without party nomination. In Massachusetts John B. Moran won the Suffolk County district attorney contest in Boston, securing the endorsement of enough voters to defeat the fusion Republican–Democrat nominee.
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