James W Van Cleave fought boycott and labor excesses
The New York Evening Post lauds James W Van Cleave as a sturdy fighter against union boycotts and labor excesses. His stance against closed shops and “follies and vices of labor unions” backed by the National Manufacturers Association is praised for upholding constitutional principles and the judiciary as bulwark.
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James W. van Cleave
Buck’s Stove and Range Company of
St. Louis
Supreme Court of the United States
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
William Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Buck’s Stove and Range
National Manufacturers’ Association
van Cleave
United States
America
Labor
New York Evening Post
Cure for Skin Disease Promised by Cuticura Remedies
Leonard A. Hawter of 11 Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn New York reports a sixteen year battle with a severe skin disease that worsened in warm weather. After trying many doctors he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills twice and says he is now a changed man with a true cure. He cites relief and happiness as proof of the remedies’ effectiveness.
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Leonard A. Hawter
Nostrand Avac
Brooklyn
N. Y
Truce to bury dead urged amid war talk in 1910
Michael Corcoran in Brooklyn Eagle argues that a truce to bury the dead is allowed by civilized nations and praises royal generosity of 1910. He compares famine deaths of 1847 48 to Irish patriotism and says the war will resume after the royal obsequies.
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England
London Times
Europe
Michael Corcoran
Brooklyn
Hagle
New York Reformers Plan Money Silence Society
A prominent New York social reformer outlines plans for a society that forbids any discussion of money. Members vow to avoid mentioning prices, fortunes, or financial value to curb money as the dominant topic and keep it from social conversation. Eligibility hinges on a promise to exclude money from all dialogue.
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New York
New York Sun
Amsterdam
Maurice Suche
Correction notice reprints Epiphany misprint
The Concordia Blade corrects a typographical error in a church notice that misnamed Epiphany as Whist Sunday and clarifies the intended Whit Sunday observance.
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Concordia
FEED CHILDREN On Properly Selected Food
A reading letter describes improved health in children after changing the diet. The mother credits fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, Postum, and less meat and potatoes for sturdier kids. A teething baby with stomach trouble improves after Grape-Nuts with milk. Read The Road to Wellville. There’s a Reason.
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Wellville
Rhubarb Shortcake With Pie Plant Filling
A simple inexpensive dessert uses a biscuit crust and two thin cakes rolled with butter. Fill with stewed rhubarb and raisins, then bake. Top with whipped cream for added richness.
Simple Breakfast Batter For Cups And Muffins
Combine flour and baking powder, mix in egg and milk, then bake in a buttered tin or gem pans. Finish by drizzling melted butter and sprinkling sugar with cinnamon. Serve warm for breakfast or break apart.
Simple Potato Bake in Earthen Dish
A recipe describes layering thin raw potato slices with butter salt and cracker crumbs in an earthen pudding dish. Repeat until used, cover with crumbs and butter pieces, pour enough milk to just cover, then bake slowly until lightly browned.
Tasty Egg Enriched Rice Mixture Bake
Instructions describe combining beaten yolk with cold boiled rice and sweet milk then adding flour and baking powder. Fold in stiffly whipped egg white and bake immediately for a light enriched dish suitable as a tasty treat.
Strawberry Orange Cocktail and Light Wheat Batter
Slice large strawberries and macerate with strained orange juice in the ice box. Serve one third full in punch glasses with sugar and chipped ice. Beat egg yolk milk salt and flour then fold in stiff white. Bake immediately to keep batter light without rising powder.
Practical Home Preserves And Tips From The Kitchen
Step by step hints cover rhubarb preserves with lemon sugar and grape juice options. Included are cream filled raspberry treats, coffee custard, freezer instructions, curtain washing, onion peeling, fabric storage, oven tempering, pan oysters, silver cleaning, sponge use, moth prevention with sassafras, bread storage, tenderizing methods, dish care, meat storage, and onion flavor cautions.
Silversmith Denies Reworking Initials on Wedding Pitcher
A newlywed couple asked a silversmith to reset initials on a large silver pitcher for a gift to another couple. The shop sent it to the work rooms but was told the initials had already been erased four times and cannot be redone.
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New York Sun
Parlor Car for Horses Ships in England
The Consular Report describes horse cars built in England for three horses with a groom compartment in front. The stalls are padded and a shutter allows horses to view the groom, claimed to reduce fret during transit. Total weight does not exceed ten tons.
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England
Flareback Evident in Comet Observations
Astronomers note a flareback event as the comet appears to brighten abruptly, sparking discussion about recent solar activity and its effect on the celestial object. The Boston Transcript reports heightened interest among observers tracking the unusual tail and outbursts.
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Boston Transcript
Pie Cure Free: Wonderful Pile Remedy Offered by Rea Co
Free offer for a pile remedy sent to sufferers via Rea Company in Minneapolis Minnesota. Advertisement promises relief and invites readers to request the sample by mail.
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Rea Company
Dept. B5
Minneapolis
Minn
Mrs Keppel to Quit Society
Mrs Keppel plans permanent withdrawal from society following illness since King Edward's death and her husband’s appendicitis. Her daughter Betty will be brought out by relatives next season, while the royal patronage is withdrawn.
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Keppel
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Guatemala Timber Lands Project Bond Offering Details
Officers of Guatemala Export Company include J H Green as president and H F Miller as vice president. Mortgage bonds dated May 1 1910 offer 100 500 and 1000 denomination payments of 60000 semiannually from November 1 1912, redeemable after May 1 1913. Bonds secured by first mortgage on 2 000 000 acres in Peten including 800 000 acres with 50 000 ft per acre timber. Land near the De la Passion and Salinas Rivers 750 miles from New Orleans. Logs deliverable to Chicago New York Liverpool and Hamburg under 25 per 1000. Sinking fund 15000 monthly commencing May 1 1912 to retire bonds in 5 years.
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Guatemala
J. H. Green
Milwaukee
Wis
H. F. Miller
Chicago, Ill
Wm. E. Hamilton
Sec’y-Treas
W. H. Momsen
E. F. Mertz
Chicago Title & Trust Company
Chicago
Department O Peten
Republic of Guatemala
de la Passion
Salinas
Mexico
New Orleans
Guatemala Export Company
W. C. Howe
The
American Lumberman
New York
Liverpool
Hamburg
Guatemala Ex port Company profits and land bonds offer
The Guatemala Export Company predicts over 15 percent net profit in 1911 and over 100 percent earnings on capital after railroad completion. Each $100 bond admits equal stock and 20 acres of land, with equity estimated at ten million dollars. American Lumberman notes Guatemala's timber wealth and its potential for development.
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Guatemala
Odds and Ends From 1909 Inventions and News
A miscellany notes liquor taxes, insect intelligence, oil pipelines from Oklahoma to New York, German savings banks, Sardis excavations, Tokyo railway plans, Signore d Annunzio on vocabulary, egg preservation by electricity, a bread clock from Milan, dog kennels for hotels, Byron's sparing diet, crab season profits in Maryland, Mark Twain prank in England, and French domestic servants in Paris politics.
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Milan
Hotel World
Picnic party encounters bizarre green creature
A city picnic on a stream bank ends with a green creature emerging from the water. Girls scream as the party hesitantly approaches the animal while a young man jokes it may be a source of frogs legs. The Argo naut.
Allen's Foot Ease Powder Promises Foot Comfort Worldwide
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as the original antiseptic foot powder that cures while you walk. It claims over 30 000 testimonials and asserts imitations lack lasting power, urging readers to demand the advertised genuine article and refuse substitutes.
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Allen
Concrete uses spark builds for airships and flowers
The Philadelphia Press notes that with concrete barges in hand cement makers will likely expand into new products such as airships and artificial flowers, signaling broader industrial versatility and innovation.
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Philadelphia Press
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
Medicine advert promotes Mother Grays Sweet Powders for children curing feverishness headaches teething disorders and worms. Claims to break up colds in 24 hours and to be pleasant and harmless. Sold by all druggists 25 cents sample mailed free Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Mother Gray
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Doctor Arrested Over Fractional Bills Scam
A Pennsylvania doctor was arrested for assembling fragments of old five dollar notes and passing them off as legitimate currency. The case highlights how the whole can be less than the sum of its parts in counterfeit schemes reported by the Cincinnati Times-Star.
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Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Times-Star
Restorative Eye Treatment Advertised by Howard Bros
A brief ad notes a remedy that purportedly restores normal conditions despite severe eye disease or injury. It cites druggists and Howard Bros of Buffalo New York as sources or distributors for the product.
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Howard Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
First Women Appointed to Congressional Library
Miss Bessie A. Dwyer, now employed in the Manila library, is noted as one of the first women appointed to a position in the Congressional library in Washington.
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Bessie A. Dwyer
Manila
Congressional
Washington
Drink Habit Can Be Stopped, Free Trial Offered
A small health notice promotes a home treatment to end drunkenness. It claims the habit is injurious and easily stopped with a simple method. The ad invites readers to write E. Fortin in Chicago for a free trial.
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E. Fortin
Dickey
Chicago
Ill
Coal mine tolls rise with workers killed and injured
The United States Geological Survey reports 22,840 miners killed in coal mines over the past seventeen years and about 50,000 seriously injured, underscoring dangerous conditions in the industry.
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United States Geoogical Survey
Digestive Remedies and Harsh Claims in Old Ad Claims
An OCR fragment lists Dr. Pierce's Pellets touted to regulate stomach and bowels and cure constipation alongside Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain and wind colic. It also notes sharks of the far eastern seas reaching up to 26 to 50 feet. The text resembles a 19th or early 20th century advertisement with product pricing of 25 cents a bottle.
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Dr. Pierce
Far
Indian Ocean
Street food cars hawk meals in Paris Moscow and Berlin
Cooked dishes are sold from automobiles in the streets of Paris Moscow and Berlin. Vendors fire up hot meals from cars as city life shows how street commerce adapts to modern urban spaces.
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Paris
Berlin
Moscow
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promises Health to Women
In Elwood Indiana Mrs Saphie Mullen recounts relief after six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ending a three month illness and severe pain. The ad claims the remedy cures displacements inflammation and other female ailments and invites letters for free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Saphie Mullen
N. B. St
Edwood
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Brockton
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Carteers Pills
Canada
Shaw
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Ponchewan
Ratoes
GEO, A
Hull
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Wisconsin
Nowep Union & Madison
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Dodds
Piels
Guare ™ Y
First Mortgage
Case & Company, Bonds and Securities Bank
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LTA
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
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Freeman-Barber Company
Croton-on-Hudson
Wrebit
REA CO
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Mine
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New York Harbor
Germany
Prussia
Sardis
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Tokio
Signore d’Annunzio
Rochester
Lord Byron
Athens
Trelawney
Baltimore Papers
Tidewater
Maryland
Mark Twain
St. George’s Hall
London
Mr. Clemens
Clemens
France
Chamber of Deputies
M. J. B. Medard
Humphrey Clinker
M. Medard
Pettit’s
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Dr. May
W. H. May
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Thompson's
R. V. Pierce
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
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