Allen's Foot-Ease Powder for Feet
An old fashioned promotion extols Allen's Foot-Ease as a clean healing antiseptic powder shaken into shoes to prevent friction and soften tired feet. It touts 30,000 testimonials, claims savings on stocking wear, and warns against imitations while urging readers to insist on the original. Also briefly notes lemon juice and celery salt as deli seasoning.
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Haseen
The Quiet Crossing of Thomas Jefferson and Nan Bryerson
In the evolving Chiawassee era, Thomas Jefferson Gordon faces pressure from Caleb and Major Farley while watching rivalries form. He forms a tentative bond with Nan Bryerson as he contemplates leaving for school to pursue a future as an iron master or preacher. The social web tightens around power, class, and changing landscapes of industry and faith.
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Andy
Paradise Portal and Blooming Town of Gordonia
The scene follows Tom Gordon in transit to Gordonia, a growing iron town near Leb iman with Chiawassee plant and laborers cottages. Tom worries about homesickness as he meets his father, who jokes about his growth and trunks before they drive toward a summer in a landscape reshaped by progress. The issue includes a note on color blindness and a light exchange about old Busby reflecting regional humor.
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Tom Gordon
Thomas Jefferson
Lebanon
Paradise Portal
Gordonia
Chiawassee
Tom
Caleb
Pappy
I Knew Him Well Griggs-Hickson Borrowing Request
A dialogue from a Boston Transcript exchange notes Griggs-Hickson seeking a loan and the speaker's refusal. It contrasts with Briggs who says he knows him as well as the speaker and would not lend a cent. The judge adds a line about personal change during engagement touching on drinking smoking and golf and the narrator giving up "the girl" as a consequence.
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Blackmail case threatens life punishment in England
A serious blackmail case arising in England may incur penal servitude for life. The case involves alleged extortion and coercive threats directed at a party, with authorities pursuing lengthy prison terms for conviction.
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England
Great North Country Temagami Canoe Experience
The piece extols Indigenous canoe heritage and invites readers to Temagami Ontario this summer to paddle with local children who canoe expertly. It highlights summer camps along Temagami Lake promising two years’ work in one, famed fishing and hunting, and easy Grand Trunk Railway access. A free descriptive publication is available from W S Cookson in Chicago. Also includes a brief humorous exchange about a dental accident.
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North Country
Temagami
Oatario
W. S. Cookson
Merchants Loan & Trust Building
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Maize Not Pellagra Cause Says European Committee
London May 14 Dr Sambon a member of the Field committee reporting from Rome states the committee has proved maize is not the cause of pellagra. The parasite conveyor of the disease is the simulium repans a biting gnat. The report credits diligent workers but notes few take public credit.
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London
Sambon
Rome
Dr Martel's Female Pills and Other Remedies
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Prominent Patent Remedies Advertised for Mothers and Skin Ailments
An advertisement touts Will Interest Mothers and Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children from New York’s Children’s Home, claiming cures for constipation feverishness teething disorders and worms with 40 000 testimonials. It promotes sample free and lists Alle S. Olmsted Le Roy NY as contact. It also recounts a 16 year battle with a skin disease cured by Cuticura Remedies and tests to new readers, ending with Murine Eye Salve claims and directions to obtain from druggists.
Woman Escapes Operation After Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Elwood Indiana resident Mrs Sapre Mullen credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her after considering an operation. The testimonial urges other women to try the remedy for displacements inflammation irregularities backache indigestion and nervous prostration. It notes the product has aided thousands over thirty years and invites confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lyon Mass.
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Elwood
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Sapre Mullen
N. B. St., Elwood
Lydia
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