Nervous Dyspepsia Cure Promoted By Pink Pills For Pale People
An elderly Des Moines woman describes recovery from severe anorexia and gastritis after failing two doctors. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with stopping vomiting, restoring strength, and renewing appetite, praising the medicine to friends and noting availability from Dr Williams Medicine Co. A Siamese king gifts a jeweled thimble to the queen. Salt influenced ancient trade and voyage preservation. A man’s funeral phonograph song and a gaffe about Congress dinners are noted. A new Ohio congressman visits Washington and humorously recalls meals.
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Willams
J. A. Wyatt
Seventh Street
Des Moines
Lown
A Perfect Hand: The Hand Behind a Postum Spotlight
A curious tale from an early advertising era details a woman’s hand praised for its perfect contour. The image, photographed for Postum and Grape-Nuts ads, circulated without a name to spark public intrigue and reader curiosity across magazines and newspapers.
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America
Friends of Postum
The
Postum Co
Windy Spring’s Carouse and Winter’s Residue Poem
A poetic fragment by Frederic Lawrence Knowles reflecting on spring’s arrival and lingering winter remnants. The lines contrast windy spring growth with graceless boughs and snow’s careless carpentry, underscoring life’s subtle ascent on life’s stairway.
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Frederic Lawrence Knowles
The Lake Rescue That Brought Two Hearts Together
Winifred, a pale girl with yellow curls, is saved from a heat danger by a stranger who carries her home. As days pass, she learns he is gravely ill and later shares a bond formed by gratitude. The man recalls a lost daughter and asks Winifred’s mother to consider a new life with him.
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Winifred
Nps
Willfred
Mama
Katharine
Gabe
Roosevelts Fight Over Tariff Draws Party Lines
The report outlines planned indictments including high officials, with Secretary Hitchcock submitting a confidential study to the president and Attorney General Moody. Midshipmen Lofland and Chaffee resign from naval service after hazing earlier reinstatement. The Dominican treaty and Panama canal finances are discussed as Congress debates tariff, with standpatters opposing Philippine tariff concessions and the president showing willingness to accept court review provisions in rate legislation.
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Interior Department
Washington
Hitchcock
Moody
John H. Lofland
Oskaloosa
Hart W. Chaffeel
Michigan
Minneapolis
Lofland
Lacey
Sixth
Panama Canal
Louisiana Purchase Company
Treasury
Senate
Philippine Committee
Philippines
Roosevelt
Root
Taft
Tyrolean wedding custom and Kipling Roosevelt joke
A Tyrol wedding rite is described where a tearkerchief is given to a bride to dry tears on leaving home and is kept until death. Frank N. Doubleday’s England trip includes Kipling tales about a Panama revolution rumor linked to Roosevelt, which the president did not find funny.
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Tyrol
Frank N. Doubleday
New York
England
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Cape Town
South Africa
Dr. Jameson
Panama
Canal Zone
Republic of Panama
Roosevelt
Jameson
Doubleday
Washington
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Siam
Sullivan County
Ohio
Congress
Poeta
Comeraia
Daily Story Pub, Co
Ake
United States
Senator Lodge
Committee On Foreign Relations
Nexdore
Price
Gripine To & Dealer
Pars
Fleischer
Wells Bidg
Milwaukee
Wis
Vas
Martha Washington
Vici Kid
Martha Grom
Mayer
Western Lady Shoey Bend
Randie
Marie Washington
F. Mayer Boot & Shoe CO
Milwaukee, Wis
Dodds
Defiance
Defiance Starch
Alan
Stacchtog
H.S. Howlad
Madison ‘Avenue
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