Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed in Vermont Letter
Graniteville Vermont resident Mrs. Barclay reports relief from nervousness and other symptoms during the change of life after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts decades of cures for female illnesses and urges trials at low cost, claiming the remedy brings complete restoration to health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graniteville, Vt
Lydiak E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mars
Barclay
R.F
Graniteville
Borrowed Smiles and Cardinal Gibbons Entertaining Jokes
A neighbor asks Jimmy about his father’s poultry while the boy jokes the birds ate it. Lippincott’s praises Cardinal Gibbons as democratic and good for a laugh, recounting a Baltimore journalist’s visit and a comic request to see Mrs. Gibbons when the cardinal was away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
Cardinal Gibbons
Catholic Church
America
Lippincott’s
Baltimore
Father Fletcher
Farm Owner Returns From Fair Seeks Rest At Home
The owner of the farm, after a county fair, asks his wife if all is well on the homestead. She confirms tasks are done, animals tended, and chores complete, allowing him to rest and prepare for another day of farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
Sarah
CoLtor
Surrey
Vera Rogers Returns From Midwest Visit
Miss Vera Rogers returned last evening from a several week visit in Chicago Joliet and Champaign Illinois.
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Vera Rogers
Chicago
Joliet
Champaign
Ill
Listen To Your Pains And Eat Right For Health
A promotional piece equates sickness with a broken coal wagon and urges early treatment by addressing the digestive tract. It promotes B C Corn Flakes and Egg O See Wheat Flakes with milk as easy to digest meals. The ad touts quick nourishment for children invalids and busy adults and credits the O See process for easy eating.
Tribute to Champlain Explorer Amid Lake Champlain Centenary
A long tribute outlines the 1609 Champlain discovery of Lake Champlain and the forthcoming three century celebration joint by New York and Vermont. It highlights Iroquois clashes, Ethan Allen, Macdonough, Benedict Arnold, Fort Ticonderoga, and the planned pageants, processions, and exhibits from Burlington to Isle La Motte with dignitaries including Taft and Laurier attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Edgerton
Lake Champlain
Hudson River
Fulton
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
Schuol
Canada
Ethan Allen
Vic Deroga
Benedict Arnold
Macdonough
Champlain
Fort Ticonderoga
Continental Congress
Isle Lamotte
New York
Vermont
Burlington
Cardinal Gibbons
Crown Point
Ticonderoga
Plattsburg
Royal Savage
Revenge
McComb
Congress
Taft
Wilfrid Laurier
Daughters of the American Revolution
Seth Warner
Baker
Warner
Allen
Montgomery
St. Albans
Champlain Valley
Hudson
War Department
Champlain Celebration Promises Vast Commemorations
The piece envisions a multi nation tribute to Champlain with a New York legislature delegation, speeches by Elihu Root and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and a statue on Isle Lamotte. It notes parallels to history and the scale of modern progress, contrasting Champlain’s era with today’s advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champlain
North America
Isle Lamotte
New York
United States
Canada
Phineas T. Barnum
Plattsburg
N. Y
Elihu Root
Henry van Dyke
Burlington
Wilfrid Laurier
Bliss Carman
Artillery Against Air Craft In Harper’s Weekly Note
Harper’s Weekly notes Newton Forest on adapting artillery for aerial warfare. The Krupp works in Essen designed a high angle fieldpiece and a fortification or shipboard weapon. It fires a nine pound shell at 2000 feet per second and is issued to the German war office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton Forest
Harper's Weekly
Krupp Works
Essen
German War Office
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chas. Barclay
Lake
Munchausen
New England
Julius Caesar
Gaul
Plattsburg and
Shakespeare
Bacon
Oliver Cromwell
Fea
Huntingdon
Tennyson
Weill
Rome
Christopher Columbus
West Indies
Fort Ticonderoca
Gibson
Fox & Dewey
Deering
Wooley Bros
Washington
Iowa
J. J. McKeone
J.J. McKeone
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