Farmer Hopkins Relates Daughter’s Recovery Tale
In Rugby Indiana a farmer recounts how his daughter Clara suffered long with neuralgia and nervous prostration. After doctors failed, Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People restored her health, taking about a dozen boxes. Pills purportedly boost blood and nerves and aid female troubles. Sold in boxes of six for two dollars fifty, mailed by Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
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Rugby
Indiana
Clara Hopking
Dennis Hopkins
Bartholomew County
Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins
Claratus
Chile
Willian
Clara
Meixing
William Pink
Tor Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Three Leaves in the Wind Sees Sewing Machine Swindle
Dora, Bess, and the Engaged One boast of a beloved old sewing machine and chase a dream trip to Richmond. An eager agent touts a modern model, inflating hopes with samples. The trio is duped into paying thirteen dollars each, totalling forty-nine, for a shabby machine, and the agent disappears with their money as Topsy pursues. In the end a note from a boy reveals the gift to be a $65 sewing machine, a prank ending in tears and a bittersweet present.
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Dora
Bess
Richmond
Bens
Julia
Sue
Mater
Tess
Boreas
Trowb
Isdy
Bive Eyes
Bessie
Beas
Indies
Blue
Dees
Lax
Tripe
Topsy
Fess
Surrey
Mother
Tessie
Biatcolm
Humor Inanimate Objects Atop A Desk
A dated anecdote describes a writer discovering a blotting pad hidden in the desk center after a chaotic tidying. A mischievous pad appears exactly where the inked sheet rested, then a slender pencil vanishes and reappears from above the ear, illustrating dry humor in everyday objects.
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Bee
Funch
Lavig
Doston
Hard Tack Train Sent to Tampa for Cuban Invasion
A train load of hard tack from Atlanta factories Black's candy and Lewis' cracker works was shipped to Tampa for the army bound for Cuba. Government orders rose from 100,000 to 800,000 pounds to meet troop demand as preparations indicate an early invasion.
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Atlanta
Tampa
Cuba
Tampare
Black's
Lewis’ Cracker
Atlanta Constitution
Tuberculosis in fish shown to be fatal to fish only
French bacteriologists report that tuberculosis can be transmitted to fish and proves rapidly fatal to them, whether bacilli come from humans rabbits or other fish. Tuberculosis bacilli from fish cause little effect in rabbits and fowls, suggesting attenuation. Gish St Louis Globe-Democrat fragmentary mention.
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St. Loula
Giobe-Demerat
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