No-To-Bac claims vast cure reach and nationwide sales
Special report from August 11 recounts offers to buy No-To-Bac and its plan to remove it from the tobacco market. H. S. Turner denies any deal, noting No-To-Bac’s claimed cures, guarantees, and broad distribution through traveling agents and druggists across the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nroaco
Cnre
Porporal Street
United States
Canada
Sterling Remedy Co
Raundolph Street
Chicago
The Old Lady Reflects On Fans And Etiquette From Youth
A graceful seventy year old recalls from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat a time when girls were taught to carry a fan into drawing rooms. She recalls commands from her mother to use the fan to avoid awkwardness and to unfurl and wave it with practiced ease.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Old Time Floor Staining and Patent Remedies
A collage of home fix ideas and ads. It describes permanganate floor stain and metallic paint for iron, notes on white lead hazards, and lists army counts for China and Japan. Includes cures for skin diseases with Tetterine, Hall’s Catarrh Cure promotion, shorthand courses, and Kilmer’s Swamp Root kidney remedy.
Budget of Fun. Amorous Sketches From Various Sources
A collection of humorous snippets from New York Journal Puck Truth Buffalo Courier and others. Jokes about forgetting loved ones posthumous reminders joining lovers on ships and maps of witty exchanges between families and friends appear as short gags and quips. Names include New York Journal Puck Buffalo Courier Truth and Harper’s Bazar.
Mnemonic schemes fail in theft case and jury tale
A collection of brief vignettes shows a memory tricks fail when a man forgets a package Rivers entrusted to Banks. The mnemonics joke contrasts with a juror hearing issue in a Omaha court as a man tries to be excused. The judge tests hearing and crowds laughs at the outcome.
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Banks
Rivers
Basks
Chicago Tribune
Omaha
John Doe
Mr. Doe
Doe
Burnt Zulus Dreaded the Ice
A St Louis Globe Democrat excerpt recalls E A Forster of Chicago describing a joke at the 1904 World Fair. Two Zulu guides are lured into an ice house at a brewery with bare feet. When the cold ice hits, they scream and writhe, claiming severe burns.
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E. A. Forster
Chicago
Tribe
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Lions a Drag in the Market Says Zoo Attache
Fred F. Sampson of the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens at Laclede argues that lions are no longer costly or in demand. He notes the craze now favors rare mountain white wildcats from Russia, fetching fortunes like 12,000 dollars, due to their scarcity and captivity challenges.
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Fred. F. Sampson
Cincinnati Zoological Gardens
the Laclede
Russia
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Taking a Telephone to Bed Doctor Adopts Two Phones for One Price
A doctor in the East End rigs an office and bedroom setup so he can answer calls at night without leaving his room. Two electric boards route lines. he carries the office phone to the bedroom each night, effectively using two phones for the cost of one.
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Anowe
East End
Pittsburg Dispatch
Georgia in Brief roundups farmers and politics
Georgia in Brief surveys farmers concerns over cotton sacks waste, pharmaceutical ties, tax digest shifts, road and railroad land claims, and a statewide drive to reclaim Western and Atlantic railroad land. Notes tax value declines, alliance moves, court bribery probes, and crop conditions across counties.
Southern Specials Report On Progress And Unrest
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company ends a four month miners strike by agreeing to 3.84 dollars per ton, putting 2,000 men back to work. A Darlington habeas corpus hearing frees three suspects in the Pepper killing, with one bail granted. Knights and Ladies of Honor hold their thirteenth annual session in Jackson with 32 lodges represented and 1,776 state members. The Alabama coal strike ends after talks with company leaders. Rumors about Drexel Morgan reorganizing Central railroad properties are denied in Savannah. North Carolina alliance holds annual convention in Greensboro and discusses a statehouse exchange. The state crop summary shows strong corn, tobacco, cotton, and fruit yields. Populists in Mississippi nominate Dr A M Newman for congress in a crowded Jackson convention, with Republicans and populists mingling.
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Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Columbia
S. C
McCullough
Lucas
Norment
Appell
Darlington
Pepper
Watts
McCollough
Grand Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor
Jackson
Miss
Alabama
Baxter
Debardeleben
McCormick
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company
North Carolina Statehouse Alliance
Greensboro
Statehouse Exchange
Billarp’s Letter to Malcolm Johnston on American culture
A reflective column reviews Miss Rutherford’s American Authors and honors teachers, poets, and Catholic figures like Father Ryan. It contrasts Southern and Northern literary life, analyzes English and American attitudes, and laments political corruption, labor strife, and foreboding prophecies of revolution.
Joyful Japanese Fresh Troops Rush Into Corean Territory
A London Times dispatch from Shanghai says Japan is pouring fresh troops into Corea with upwards of 50 000 soldiers now in Corean territory. The Chinese fleet remains passive as Japan runs war fever high. In Washington the House Ways and Means Committee met to consider Mr McMillin's tariff bill amendment on free alcohol for arts and medical compounds.
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Corean
London Times
Shanghai
Japan
Corea
China
Manchuria
House
Ways and Means
Wilson
West Virginia
McMillin
Tennessee
Santo Guillotined in Lyons for Carnot murder
Santo Caesario, condemned for President Carnot's murder, was guillotined at Lyons at five o'clock Thursday morning after a brief walk from his cell. He shouted Courage comrades Long live anarchy before the knife fell. In Paris the great anarchist trial ended with all thirty defendants acquitted.
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Santo Caesario
Carnot
Lyons
Caesario
Paris
Boll Worms Ravage West Texas Cotton Fields
Boll worms are destroying cotton at an awful rate in west Texas. Plantations from twenty to two hundred acres are stripped of all bolls, leaving farmers alarmed over losses and prospects for harvest.
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Texas
Royal Baking Powder Co Address Listing
Royal Baking Powder Co located at 106 Wall St New York City area noted in historical directory. Indicates business presence and mailing address for the firm in the era.
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Royal Baking Powder CO
Wall ST
New
Ayoe
Eae
Verities of 20th century finance and world events
A compilation notes the Bank of Japan capital at 20 million yens and yen parity with silver. It recalls Europe’s four year drought in 954 with 3,000,000 deaths, a warm room door triggering snow, a sensitive Bank of England gold scale, Astor bronze doors for Trinity Church, Craggs reaching Chicago with 8,000 barrels of herring earning $10,000, and a German metal process boosting fuel economy. It also reports cheap corn in Russia, cattle grazing due to harvest prospects, and Caucasus barley and wheat fed to livestock, with grain valued at forty-five pounds per cent.
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Lapland
Bank of England
Astors
Trinity Church
New York
Craggs
Norway
Chicago
Russia
Caucasus
Unclear Liver Trouble Remedies and Travel Ads
A fragmented early 20th century ad notes symptoms of liver disturbance and promotes Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as a cure. It also advertises Central Railroad and Ocean Steamship Company travel to Boston and New York with round trips including meals and staterooms, and Karl s Clover Rest as a blood purifier product.
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Boston
New York
Central Railroad
Ocean Steamhip
Tick Inc
Ude
Central R. R
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Savannah
Hall
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Ohio
Epther
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HE Was
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American Literatum
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Ihayeason
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America
London
London Echo
H Rr Most
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Newport
Tuxedo
Central Park
Pety
White House
Atlanta Constitution
Santo Guillotined
U. S
Agricultural Department
Bank of Japan
Europe
Karl
California Fig Syrup Co
GEO
BALM
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Gloucester
Dewan
W. L. Soene
Douglas
Nrockton
Mass
W. L. Douglas
Tregrery
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Packer
Hendle
Progress 'Fe. Co
Meridian
Linn
Mallary Bros. & CO
New York City
East Withh Street
Druggiata
Pearline
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