World War on Rats Prompts International Campaign
A detailed account of global and American efforts to exterminate rats tied to disease, with Denmark estimating annual losses at two million dollars. It notes scientists urging eradication, U S agricultural research, and a Pacific Coast campaign against bubonic plague tracing to rat infestation.
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Denmark
Amerca
Europe
Hamlin Town
Sam
Wolvome
Tienther
Francs
England
Agiai
Fiels - Institute
Danger
Pest Rosette Woficla
Cneis
Vmnes
Pacific Coast
Marine Hospital Service
Uncle Sam
San Francisco
Oakland
Los Angeles
Seattle
Uncle Bani
New Orleans
Rupert Blue
Blue
India
We Spectator
Herr Zuschlag
Great Britain
Sis
Britain
United
Foolish Insurance Plot Ends With Blacklisted Agent
A New York man recounts a failed life insurance pitch by a persistent agent. After enduring a medical exam and dubious tests, the candidate avoided a policy but later learned the agent was blacklisted by New York Life, unable to secure any future coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Life
Wall Street
New York
Frank Vat Jonst
Dixon
New York ‘ Life
Mand
Facets of Fame for Longfellow and Other Authors
A collection of anecdotes about famed writers like Longfellow Hawthorne Howells Emerson and Rascoe highlighting public perception of fame. It recounts dinner table misreadings mistaken identities and prankish publicity stunts that amused both authors and onlookers across years and locations.
Southern Standpoint Grammar Talk At Public Dinner
Alphonse Smith of the University of North Carolina spoke at a New York public dinner about an English grammar drafted from a strictly Southern standpoint. He recalled a Tennessee critic’s praise and paralleled wartime pedagogy with a tongue in cheek example about Confederate soldiers and Yankees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphonse Smith
University of North Carolina
New York
Prof. Smith
Hall's Catarrh Cure Exposed As Internal Remedy
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications as the disease is constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and targets the blood and mucous surfaces. It is advertised as a legitimate prescription from a top physician, combining tonics and blood purifiers to produce cures. Send for testimonials. Toledo company sells by druggists. price not stated.
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Lantz
Hall
Hal
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Price
Toke Hall
Hatfield McCoy Feud Victim Tom Hatfield Dies in Kentucky
The New York Times reports the death of Tom Hatfield of the Hatfield clan in Louisa Kentucky. The feud that began forty eight years ago over a pig on Tug River has claimed about sixty victims as transitions between Kentucky and West Virginia persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tug River
Kentucky
West Virginia
New York Times
Tom Hatfield
Louisa
Hatford
McCoy
Cincinnati
Hattiell
Old Randolph McCoy
Old Rand
Anse
South
Union
Come
Dad
John Logan
Sam Bird
Hattela
Bern
Frank Phillips
Ald Randolph McCoy
Ald Randolph
Calvin
Alephane McCoy
Phil Tumbler
New Season Go Carts and Mattings Displayed
Cate stores showcase full assortments of the new season go carts with updated styles and patterns. An advance stock of mattings adds to the offer with attractive effects and quality. Prices are plainly marked, and credit terms are flexible with small weekly or monthly payments. Cash prices are the lowest in the city and long credit terms never exceed ten percent.
A Health Ad for Doan’s Kidney Pills
An advertisement links kidney trouble to nerves headaches and backache and promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills as a remedy. It claims pills cleanse the blood remove uric poison and cure kidney related ailments with testimonials from readers praising relief and long term benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Oysters and Domestic Bliss in a Chicago Cartoon
A humorous column fragment depicts a man praising kidney pills and oysters opened at home by his wife. It contrasts upscale oysters with shellfish bought raw, while recounting a party trick of adding freshly opened oysters to a women’s luncheon ensemble, praised as a social innovation. The piece ends with a humorous exchange about Indiana’s inhabitants and trades.
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Tes
Jena
Fevestimtes
Tetogical Survey
Saya
Colombia
Bo Fanez
Bullecin
America
J.om. Offutt
Northwest
Washington
Dean
Aystera
Auttio
Avi
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Tiwa
Empire State
Matt Frank
Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
New England
Salem
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mr. Longfellow
H. E. ¥. Stannard
John Strange Winter
London
William D. Howells
Shays
Thyserponi
Rostoe
Rogelle
Koe
Wilam Rascoe
Liverpool
Leo X
Lorenzo de Medici
Ralph Waldo Emerson
California
Sackett
Mr. Sackett
Mr. Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emergon
IL G Sackett
Bush Street Dime Museum
Emereon
Cme
Weiter
Mason and Dixon’s
Hatfields
Green McCoy
Milt Haley
McCoys
James Brown
Hatfield
John Hatfield
Rutherford McCoy
John
Bec Eilis
Eilis
Ven
Wilay Hatfield
Eilis Hatfield
Tia
Hatfeld
Hell
Tobacco Trust
Maittings
Peter Grogan
Cate
Clude
H and I Streets
Teli Bett
Doan
Sabouraud
Paster Institute
Paris
France
Pasteur Institute
Newbro’s
Herpicide
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mach
Garber
9Th
Pa. Ave
Philip O. Affteck
Fa. Ave
Edward Stevenr
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