Townsends Boycott and Global Doings Highlight Page
The page bundles assorted items from Townsend including a boycott stance by youths on trusts, wartime notes on Russia and China, a California dance hall bride-to-be, Minnie Palmer’s divorce move, and theatre plans by Richard Mansfield. It notes Petrie’s discovery near Thebes of Libyan relics predating Christ, cannibalism implied, local peculiarities in Severy, a brass band practice for Decoration Day, and German trade-interest links between bread prices and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Severy
Kas
Germany
Morton
Scolding Frustrates Youths Heart and Growth
The passage laments carelessness in youths who rush into new projects. It argues brief study and unfaithful work harm future success while condemning persistent scolding as worse than thunder or winds. It calls for kindness to overcome scolders and foster better spirit.
Berlin physician touts pilocarpine as cancer cure
Dr. Louis Waldstein, once a New York physician, now in Berlin, claims hypodermic pilocarpine can stimulate the lymphatic system and white blood cells to halt cancer or consumption in early stages. He emphasizes arresting disease progress rather than full cure, differing from Koch cures and Brown-Sequard elixir.
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Louis Waldstein
New York City
Berlin
Waldstein
Renewing Their Youth in Florence Nebraska
A World Herald report from Florence Nebraska highlights renewed activity among older residents. Veterans Andrew Finkenkeler and R. W. Cowan credit Dr Williams Pink Pills with Pale People for dramatic health gains, including weight increase and recovery from rheumatism and paralysis symptoms. The piece also notes general fashion shifts in footwear for women and a Rock Island excursion promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World-Herald
Omaha
Neb
Florence
Andrew Finkenkeler
Iowa Volunteers
Austin
Texas
Alexander
World Herald
Forest Lawn
R. W. Cowan
Cowan
144Th Infantry
First
Minnesota Cavalry
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Teasing Cats and Dogs with a Milk Zinc Shock Trick
An Orange county man boasts a cat and dog teaser using a milk dish on a zinc plate linked to a battery and coil. A cat touches the milk and feels a tingling shock causing a yelp, while a dog hops off after a back somersault. Milk and a crockery dish work as substitutes.
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Orange County
New York Sun
Boy Calls Dentist’s Tooth Removal A Tug Of War
A Cincinnati suburb minister’s son avoids pain by turning a dentist visit into a tale of strength. After the tooth is pulled with a tack lifter the boy claims it did not hurt but that the dentist merely “took it out with a tack lifter.”
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Tribune
Tom Sawyer
Loyal Milking Cow Follows Children to Preserve Milk
A farmer near Hood's Mill Georgia owns a black milch cow unusually attached to his children. The animal stays in a low fenced pasture when the children are home, but tears through high barriers to follow them if they are away, believing separation would harm the milk.
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Bos
Mr. Wood
Hood's Mill
Joke at Witnesses: English Judge Mocked Women
A historical anecdote notes an English judge who, when a woman witness appeared, would stress the word now and press for her name and profession. The quip convulsed onlookers though most witnesses did not grasp the joke at their expense.
Exchange of Civilities in a Witty Exchange
Cartoon dialogue from New York Weekly shows two good fellows offering cigars while one reflects on a miserable need worse than the one he gave him, highlighting social banter in a brief satirical scene.
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New York Weekly
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Relief From Nervousness
An advertisement claims nervous prostration stems from impure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the cure. It asserts the medicine purifies blood, restores vitality, strengthens nerves, improves appetite, and ends fatigue, with numerous women reporting recovery.
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Hood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Townsend Messenger
Stout & Watt
Montana
Boot and Shoe Trust
Japan
California
Lord Sholto Douglass
Minnie Palmer
New York
Richard Mansfield
Petrie
Thebes
Egypt
Nebraska
GRE
Great Rock Island
Denver
Jno
Sebastian
Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ba Y
Sepastiay
Hegeman’s
C. C.G. Clark Co
Haven
United States Army
Tommy
Dearlet
Archbishop Wals
Dublin
Ireland
Coim
W. H. Harvey
Henry G. Miller
Corns Financial School
W. H H. Harvey
Corn
Coin
Financial School
United States
Bete Coin
Coin’s Handbook
Coin's Financial School
Cborger Currier
S. Clinton St
Fil
Hamlin
Windsor House
Boquet
Burlington
Ae Kraus & Cotm
H. T. Clarke Drug CO
Lincoln
Tettelman Hospital
Tong
H.t.clarke Drug CO
Sioux City Engine & Iron Works
Pech Mfg. Co
Sioux City
Fuz Rowers & Chase Mackineart Co
West Eleventh Street
Kansas City
Patrice OF Abrell
WAC Eington
Nensio
John W. Morris
Washington, D.C
Minerension Bureau
A. Spindel & C
Topeka
Kansas
Thomas P. Simpson
Washington, DC
Phila. Pa
Capital Publishing CO
Lincoln, Neb
HMAC
Spokane
J. Francis
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