Germany Aims to Wipe Out Consumption Worldwide
Berlin reports dramatic drops in tuberculosis deaths due to Dr Delbrueck policies and the 1884 sick insurance law. By 1910 Germany's rate fell to 15.29 per 10 000, with experts predicting near extinction by 1940. Funds support preventive housing and sanatoria, lowering disease in model dwellings.
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Berlin
Germany
England
Delbrueck
Goeber
Munich
Europe
London
Rome
Madrid
Mosca
Vienna
Budapest
Paris
Bismarck
Imperial Insurance Office
Greatest Nerve Vitalizer Known for Men and Women
Advertises Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers as a miracle nerve invigoration remedy. Claims to cure insomnia nervousness loss of energy and weight, with separate notes for men and women. Promotes free trial boxes and full price mail order through Kellogg. Mentioned address in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Elysze
Kel Joge
Kellogg
Hoffmaster Block
Battle Creek
Mich
Kelloge’s Sanitone Wafers Offered By Mail Order
An advert lists Kelloge’s Sanitone Wafers with a 50 cent trial box for nerves and a request to send 1 cent in stamps for postage. It notes the regular 1.9 size available for sale in Waterloo through WH, W. Taggart, and W. Kehuneman & Co, with no free taxes from druggists.
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Kelviggo
Rattle Creek
Mich
Paia
Waterloo
W. Taggart
W. Kehuneman & Co
Cities to Demand Increased Powers
Officials from Des Moines Cedar Rapids Burlington and Sioux City urged the Iowa legislature to allow cities under the commission form to levy funds for fire protection. The resolution will go to the next general assembly as Prof. R B Prive of the University of Kansas highlighted Kansas’ local self government gains and public utility ownership. Burlington leads for the 7R18 convention as 226 delegates attend. Fort Dodge Mayor Ed Ford argued for municipal water works and electric lighting.
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Kansas League of Municipalities
Municipal Research Bureau
Kansas
Kansas Cities
Burlington
Inwa Teague of Municipalities
Fd. Ford
Fort Dodge
Ife
The Kind Delivers a Punchline About Pawnbrokers
A quip notes one class of buyers who always take the pledge and keep it. The joke asks who they are and answers pawnbrokers. It closes with a reflection that good times cannot always be measured by cost.
Publishers Attack New Law Over Mails Regulation
New York Sept. 26 Publishers plan legal action against a new act approved Aug 24 alleging unconstitutional power over the press. James M Beck says the law forces biannual disclosure of editors owners stockholders and circulation and requires paid content to be labeled advertisement, aiming to regulate journalism itself.
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New York
Congress
James M. Beck
Beck
Sinclair at Vegetarian Dinner Denounces Old Laws
In New York, Upton Sinclair criticized existing laws as archaic, saying we discard machinery aged over ten years yet tolerate statutes formed three centuries ago. He urged reform and modern standards for governance.
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Upton Sinclair
New York
Mr. Sinclair
Croxone Promises Fast Relief for Kidney and Rheumatic Ailments
An old advertisement touts Croxone as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder trouble and rheumatism. It claims rapid, permanent care by cleansing kidneys, dissolving toxins, and aiding blood filtration. Three doses daily over a few days allegedly cures backache and urinary disorders.
Actress Pat Campbell Stricken in London Home
Hendon sept 26 physicians treating actress Pat Campbell report anxiety over her condition at Kensington Square home since Sept 16. Four specialists disagree on whether pneumonia is the cause and an immediate operation was deferred. Most of the time she remains unconscious.
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Hendon
Pat Campbell
Campbell
Kensington Square
Rules for Happiness from Mrs Palmer
A girl asks how to be happy and Alice Freeman Palmer shares three simple rules. Commit something good to memory daily, even four words. Look for something pretty every day and never skip. Do something for somebody each day, never skip. These rules, spoken long ago, still work universally.
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Alice Freeman Palmer
Cedar Valley Baptist association opens in Nashua
The fifty third annual Cedar Valley Baptist association meeting in Nashua hosts about forty churches and over one hundred delegates through a three day session. Highlights include sermons by Elijah B. Jones and J Earl and an automobile trip to the Little Brown Church at Old Bradford with a service led by J B Smith.
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Washua
Ffty
Cedar Valley Baptist Association
L. Spurgeon
L. F. Foreman
Osage
Elijah B. Jones
D. D
Cedar Falls
Jones
Thos. Mellroy
Riceville
John L. Rey
Central College
Pella
Madison Reynolds
Fairbank
John Earl
Des Moines College
Young People’s Society of the Churches
Cedar Valley Seminary
J. Willard Griffin
Waverly
Little Brown
Old Bradford
J. B. Smith
Waterloo
Jesus
Shallenberger Cures Wide Range of Iowa Patients
Letters from Iowa patients praise Dr. Shallenberger for treating kidney and liver disease, goiter, asthma, cataracts, and other ailments. Recipients include residents of Conrad, Earlville, Marshalltown, Marble Rock, Oelwein, Hazleton, Turkey River, Oneida, Independence, Manchester, Kanawha, Gilman, Garwin, Clarion, and Fort Dodge, with dates spanning 1902 to 1909 and many reporting improved health and weight gain.
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Joseph Mishler
Conrad
Iowa
Shallenberger
B. S
Hartbeake
Earlville
Jones
Marshalltown
Jotica
Chicago
Pack
Sayer
Clara Theel
Thorpe
Miss Theel
Hy Kirkner
Independence
Towa
Alvin Johnson
Rowan
Emma Hazelwood
Hazleton
Hazelwood
Ed. Torry
Turkey River
J. J. Mosher
Oneida
Daniel A. Rudy
Liscomb
W. H. Anderson
Fraser
John N. Powers
Manchester
Wa. Roozenboom
Kanawha
Walter Alden
Gilman
William Bond
Garwin
Catarth
Ile
Milton F. Tripp
J. TL. Huffer
la Porte
Cal Kubo
Walker
Yeou
Wim
Fueltng
Roa
Fort Dodge
Taw
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Bigantic Fund
NEW Law
Pee
Mae Campbell
RULES
District Baptist
Nashua
Cedar Valley Association
Sama T
Premo Mrc. Co
Chicace
Jicenes National City Bank
Choace
Dolters
Premo
S. A. Asquith & Bro. Walters & Simpson Jewelers Druggists
West Fourth St
Premo Mfg. Company
Cesses Orr
Wilbert Shallenberger
Hotel Ellis, Waterloo
Consulta
Tion
State Board of Medical Examiners
Meery
Oliver
Bright
Drexel State Bankee
W. E. Miller
Brandon
Lowa
Miller
Chas. Nick
Rhodes
Thomas Markey
J. G. Elliott
R. Francis
J. le Haigh
Hopkington
N. R. Holmes
H. F. Klemp
Kuittel
H. M. Scott
Vinton
Henry Bailey
Montour
Isaac Smith
Webster Ye Town
H. C. Whitney
Vincennes
Henry Gibbs
Dundee
A. Meritt
Ellsworth
Standling
A. K. Bratteig
August Gosse
Oelwein
Dr. Shallenberger
J. W. Arnold
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