Miss Annette Kellerman World Champion Swimmer
Australian star Miss Annette Kellerman, famed world champion swimmer, has won forty long distance contests from one to thirty miles and nearly crossed the English Channel. She credits early aquatic habit and Fred Bee's stroke as inspiration for her career and plans another Channel attempt despite seasickness and storms. Also note on self care for men with Chamberlain remedies package sold by Cook & Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Annette Kellerman
Miss Kellerman
English Channel
Captain Webb
Fred Bee
Self Consciousness and Vanity in Adolescent Girls
The piece mocks vanity and extreme self scrutiny in girls. It argues gossip and perceived criticism are common, urges self awareness, and promotes accepting, constructive criticism to improve character and happiness.
Tips For Traveling Abroad And Cheap European Pensions
The article discusses European pensions as reliable and affordable lodging for travelers. It notes modest pensions offering good meals, with board at about one dollar per day and higher rates around $1.50. Readers are urged to use careful judgement, as at home, when selecting accommodations.
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Brook
Tipping, coins, and travel tips in old Europe
The excerpt advises carrying copper coins to avoid tipping costs and notes how women can travel with ease in Europe due to abundant porters. It suggests a tenth of expenses as a tithe practice and warns travelers to be prepared for luggage needs with cheap, instant porter service.
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Europe
America
Ev Station
Moving and papering a new house safety note
The guide advises delaying hall and stairway work until furniture is moved in. It notes that movers struggle with heavy items on a square staircase and suggests hanging sheets to protect papered walls. It also recommends laying hall carpets after moving and placing other carpets before family effects arrive.
Baths For Fatigued Bodies A Warm Bath Recommended
When the body is fatigued or mental work is heavy a cold bath is harmful and exhausting. A warm bath aids recovery from fatigue and, if kept reasonably long at around 70 degrees, helps calm strained nerves and facilitates rest.
Insect Resistance of Dyed Skins Versus Natural Skins
The article states dyed rugs and dog or goat skins resist moths because curing and dyeing include poisons that deter insects. In contrast natural skins like polar bear tiger and leopard, though treated with preservatives, are more prone to moth attacks than dyed hides.
Best Bath Towel Replaces Harsh Crash Towel for Baby
The article notes a baby friendly bath cloth choice favoring softer cotton birdseye diapers over harsher crash towels for delicate skin. It emphasizes gentleness in infant care materials.
Cure Deafness Only By Constitutional Remedies
Advertisement claims deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It asserts local applications fail and promises one hundred dollars for any deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes mail order note to send for free circulars from F J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Taleo Tsall
Bramile Dille
Bathing Towel Size For Newborn Wrapping
Readers are advised to select the widest towel available and cut it long enough to reach the bottom of the mother’s skirt when pinned at the waist. The towel then becomes the proper prop for rolling the baby up after a bath.
Hygienic Pie Crust Suggested For Delicate Digestion
A printed recipe claims a hygienic crust suitable for children and adults with weak digestion. It uses one cup flour one teaspoon baking powder one and a half teaspoons salt melted suet and milk to form a soft dough for one large pie.
What Not to Wear Style Cues From Old Portraits
The description highlights tightly drawn back hair, a thin face, and a high coiffure. It notes gray or navy veils, round hats with full faces and peaked crowns, and linen collars and cuffs. images show sallow complexions and sharp facial features.
Strawberry Ambrosia With Pineapple layers
Select fine ripe berries and arrange in a deep glass dish with alternate layers of chopped pineapple. Between layers dust with powdered sugar and fresh grated coconut. Pour orange juice over the top and chill thoroughly before serving.
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Mike
Ebonizing Furniture With Logwood and Iron Vinegar Wash
Instructions describe whitening and darkening wood by washing frames chairs and furniture four times with a boiling logwood solution drying between applications then applying an iron acetate mix made from iron filings and vinegar to finish the ebonized finish.
Chicken liver paste on brown bread
A description notes small pieces of chicken with its own liver pounded with cream and a touch of coriander pepper to form a delicious paste for spreading on thin brown bread slices.
Wearable Earthenware Care Advice
A line advises cleaning or rubbing clean earthen or granite ware with dasop corisuea to preserve a smooth finish and prevent scratching.
Poultice Preparation Trick for Skin Protection
A practical note advises applying glycerin to the skin before a poultice to prevent sticking. This simple barrier helps keep the preparation from adhering to the flesh and eases removal.
Popcorn Sealed In Glass Jar Stays Fresh
A report notes that keeping popcorn tightly closed in a glass jar preserves freshness. The airtight container limits exposure to air and moisture, helping kernels retain texture and flavor longer.
Dr Shoop Restorative Promises Heal Inside Nerves
An advertisement urges readers to mail for free samples and a book on treating stomach and kidney ailments by addressing weak inside nerves. It claims general symptoms reflect deeper causes and promotes Dr. Shoop Restorative from Racine Wisconsin, with J H Stewart selling the product.
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Dr. Shoop
Blighted Life and Old Maid Wait for Bashful Lover
In Leslie's Weekly a dialogue asks how an elderly sister's life was blighted by Waiting for a bashful lover. Miss Pertleigh laments that she became an old maid while awaiting a proposal.
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Mr. Slowcoach
Flirting With Brook Trout Advice From Circle
A local fishing note explains why a farmer boy often catches bigger brook trout by staying hidden. It describes using “flirting” to place bait under bridges and logs, bending the rod to cast the worm precisely.
Valorous London Lord Mayor Remembered For Duty
A historical profile honors a valiant lord mayor of London noted for public service and leadership during his tenure. The piece recalls his civic reforms and steadfast dedication amid the city’s challenges.
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Valorous
London
Lord Mayor Draws Sword Against Pursuing Hare Tale
In a Household Words vignette a lord mayor sits under a tree with his escort as hounds bay nearby. A city scout cries the hare approaches, and the lord mayor vows courage, declaring he fears nothing as the chase closes in.
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Marylebone
Remarkable Rescue In Fedora Tenn From Lung Ailment
C V Pepper of Fedora Tennessee recounts a dramatic recovery after hemorrhages of the lungs and throat left him near death. He credits Dr King s New Discovery with instant relief and rapid healing, allowing him to return to work in three weeks. Stewart s Pharmacy offers 50 cent and 1 dollar sizes with a trial bottle free.
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Fedora
Tenn
C. V. Pepper
Dr. King
Stewart's
A Well Won Banquet
A boy at Tenth and Main asks a man for a dime for newsboys’ dinner. The man replies there is no notice in the papers, and the boy offers to hurry to a lunch counter after receiving four dimes. The man gives him a dime.
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Tenth
Main Streets
Kansas City Star
Fortunate Texan praises Dr King’s New Life Pills
Mr E W Goodloe of Dallas says in the past year he has become acquainted with Dr King s New Life Pills and finds them effective against malarial biliousness. They do not grind nor gripe and cost 25 cents at Stewart s Pharmacy.
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E. W. Goodloe
St. Louis St
Dallas
Tex
Dr. King
Stewart's
Veal Fricadellen Recipe
Chop veal and cooked ham fine. Mix with breadcrumbs lemon peel pepper salt mace parsley and milk. Form small balls, dip in egg and breadcrumbs then fry until brown. Serve with warmed joint gravy around balls and garnish with parsley and lemon.
Foley's Kidney Cure Promises Quick Relief
If you inquire you will learn how many suffer kidney and bladder troubles. For those not beyond medical aid Foley's Kidney Cure will cure and never disappoints. Sold by all druggists.
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Foley
Father’s Talk Sparks Return of a Loan Date
A Yonkers Statesman snippet shows a father asking about intentions and a debtor recalling borrowing five dollars six months ago. The exchange hints at family matters and repayment timing within a casual reminiscence in a public notice-like brief.
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Yonkers Statesman
Electric Bitters Cure of Cedar Grove Man Told in Letter
A Cedar Grove Maine resident, Geo H Parris, writes that after liver and kidney troubles he used Electric Bitters and recovered. He notes one bottle relief and three bottles cured him. Stewart's Pharmacy advertises the remedy as best on earth for stomach liver and kidney troubles, price 5 cents.
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Geo. H. Parris
Cedar Grove
Stewart
A Straight Tip Musical Quip From Geck
Geck, already tiring guests with songs, offers one last number before leaving. He asks Lady about the importance of the programme order, remarking on the formalities of a concert hall program.
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Geck
Cruel Maud and Ella in A Hyena Laugh Delay
Two women banter about a hyena in a cage failing to laugh as they wait. Maud notes the creature’s silence after twenty minutes while Ella points out the hyena eyeing her new hat, adding a comic domestic vignette.
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Maud
Ella
Foley's Honey and Tar Endorsed for Lung Trouble
A. A. Herren of Finch Arkansas claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs colds and early lung trouble including consumption. He asserts no one using it has been dissatisfied and says it is sold by all druggists.
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A. A. Herren
Finch
Ark
Foley
Vacation Tours By Iowa Central Railway
The Iowa Central Railway offers lower excursion rates for summer to eastern resorts and western states including Minnesota Wisconsin Colorado Utah California Washington Oregon Montana Wyoming and South Dakota. Tickets on sale June 1 to October 31 1907 with liberal stopover privileges and flexible routes. For full particulars consult agents A R Catte GC PP TT.
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Iowa Central Ry
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Colorado
Utah
California
Washington
Oregon
Montana
Wyoming
South Dakota
Catte
Camp activity drives order in Nebraska Woodmen
The largest Modern Woodman camp in Nebraska is No. 120 of Omaha with 1,068 members. By Jan 1 last, death claims paid totaled 30,560 with disbursements of 56,500,734.35 dollars. Camp 47 at Sycamore NL recently initiated its five hundredth member. A clerk pro tem should be appointed if vacancy occurs.
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Nebraska
No. 120
Omaha
Camp 47
Sycamore
Masonic Ties Span Islands and States in Lodges
The Manila lodge presented past master Eugene Stafford with a Jewel of Islands scenery including Mayon volcano and two palms. In Indiana, Masonry grows to 82,000 members in 800 lodges as Illinois plans a centennial celebration. Noble Butler initiations reveal four Butler brothers in Cannon lodge with seven in total.
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Manila
Eugene Stafford
Philippines
California
New York
Tyler- Keystone
Mayon
Masons
Sheboygan
Wis
Samuel A. Johnston
Scottish Rite
Indiana
The
Voice Review
Jamaica
Connellsville
Illinois
Kaskaskia
Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania
Western Star Lodge
Fairbanks
Murat Temple
Indianapolis
Noble Butler
Cannon Lodge of
Columbus
Ind
Emmett Butler
Benjamin Butler
Frank Butler
Elijah Butler
Butler
Fraternal Benefits and Member Dependents Highlighted
The Manchester Unity of England is the largest fraternal benefit society with 1,023,414 members. It stresses that a lapse in a fraternal certificate can affect a member and their family, serving as a tangible asset. The Ladies of the Modern Maccabees report over 80,000 members and emphasize that such certificates complement charity, granting benefits to beneficiaries.
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Manchester Unity of
England
I Fired the Stick Healing Sore With Arnica Salve
John Garr of North Mills North Carolina writes how after forty years of a persistent sore resisted all treatments until Bucklen’s Arnica Salve healed it. The ad promotes Arnica Salve for piles burns and similar ailments.
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Chamberlain
Cook & Sherman
Bane
Masonic
He.stafford
ROYAL
R. Stuart & Sons
Lombardo’s
Fruit Store
Chas. Hays
Southwest Corners Square
Bruty’s Livery Stable
Payne$Bros
Frank Bruty, JR
Prop
Eldorado
Jown ME
Steen
Madison Street
Iowa
E.E. Vroqman
Aity
B. C
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