Because of the Doctor by Helene Hicks
Thelma Byron, a vibrant patient, challenges Dr. Allison after surviving a fatal prognosis. Lloyd Bromley and Thelma elope to a romantic escape, where truth, love, and danger collide as she confronts the doctor who doomed her with a two year deadline. Five years later an accident leaves Bromley dead and Thelma seeking meaning and accountability from the famed physician.
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Tegins
Thelma Byron
Lloyd Bromley
Allison
Dortoy
Lloyd
Meniterrancad
Thelma
New York
Hemin
Hell
Darling
Liosd
Lloyd Hremley
The Young Lady of Oshkosh and the Theatre Boss
Oscar Hammerstein recalls a New York theatrical debate about managers and personal boundaries. He cites a tale of a poor clerk denied by a young lady and vows future success with cool, far seeing resolve, the country’s mood reflected in stage life.
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Oscar Hammerstein
New York
Busiacas
Oshkosh
Mr. Hammerstein
Pnss
Balloon Plant Drifts Far as It Sways in Wind
A Balloon plant in the garden shows a yellow fruit about the size of an egg that resembles an empty bag. As it matures the bag dries, releasing a gas that lifts the fruit, which sways on its stem before breaking loose and rising 75 to 100 feet into the air, traveling to a distant spot to seed the spread of its kind.
Heritage of Civil War Vet Capt John L Ely
Capt John L Ely of Company B 17th Ohio now living at 500 East Second Street Nawton Kansas recalls kidney trouble from Civil War. He says Donn's Kidney Pills cured his chronic condition after 1901, ending years of pain and weakness. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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John L. Ely
Co. B
17Th Ohio
East Second Street
Nawton
Kansas
Ely
Donn
Foster-Milburo Co
Muffalo
A Little Gourtebin Comedy at a Manchester Party
A well-to-do bachelor teased by nine women who each cast a secret ballot for him as wife. Nine votes were cast, each for a different woman, ending in the bachelor remaining single while friendships fractured and the women vowed not to speak to him again.
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Gourtebin
Manchester
Tl Raurry
Temalug
Broker Up
Three Boys With Eczema Use Cuticura Soap and Ointment
A 1908 notice recounts Kate Keim’s report of three sons developing eczema over months, worsening until Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured them after a few weeks. The narrative accompanies other fragmentary items from the Kansas City Journal column, including light dialogue and quotes.
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Kate Keim
29Th St
New York
N. Y
Tragedy on a Broadway Car Ends in a Push and Fall
A crowded Broadway surface car, six in a single seat, ends with a small man shoved into the aisle as a pretty girl clings to the end seat. A nervous passenger cries mercy while bystanders wonder if an outside crime occurred. The scene blends with unrelated ad-like and medical text fragments from the page.
Trained nurse touts Postum as coffee alternative
A Wilkes Barre nurse writes that switching from coffee to Postum Food Coffee drastically reduced her headaches and indigestion within two weeks. She notes benefits for nursing mothers, improves milk flow when coffee dries it up, and observes easier serving at home. Read "the Road to Wellville in stories, There's a Reason."
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Wilkes Barre
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