Painful back cured by kidney pills says Lindgren
Charles Lindgren of La Porte Indiana testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured his excruciating back lameness and soreness after he began using them in 1897. He endorses the remedy publicly and notes a three year lapse before reaffirming his faith. Free trials and 50 cent boxes offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Charles Lindgren
L. A
M.S.A. R
la Porte
Ind
Dean
Doan
Lindgren
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
The Wedding of Jack-In-The-Box and the China Doll
A toy wedding tale from St. Nicholas depicts Jack-in-the-Box marrying a china doll amid closet theatrics. The scene features the Moon shining through the door and other toys gossiping about the match while the couple stay devoted in their secret, happy union.
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Jack-in-the-box
Katheting Pyle
St. Nicholas
The Albino Robin in a Southern Ohio Grove
Henry Holcomb Bennett recalls a 1900 sighting of a perfect albino robin in a southern Ohio grove. The white fledgling depended on its parents, attracted curious purple grackles, and died soon after being found starving with pink eyes and a pink beak.
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Ohio
Henry Holcomb Bennett
St. Nicholas
Disappearing Coin Trick Described by Chicago Tribune
The article details a sleight of hand illusion where a marked coin is placed in a glass of water and seemingly vanishes. A covert wax and rubber band setup hides the coin in the cuff or pocket, then the performer sues to reveal it elsewhere, with the audience distracted by the water glass.
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Chicago
Tribune
Elephants learn to fear and obey through cruel training
A historical note describes a circus elephant in Indiana tricked into submission by a new keeper who provoked him then had others beat him. The elephant, chained and unable to fight, finally submits, illustrating why elephants are so controllable. A second item reports Mexico’s sagacious malanarpes birds using telegraph poles as observatories and storehouses, turning poles into homes and fortresses.
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Indiana
N. Y
Mexico
Malanarpes
Keeps Him Tired Right Along
In a Philadelphia Record blurb a housekeeper asks a tramp if he ever grows tired of doing nothing. The tramp replies he cannot be tired from doing nothing that he cannot do nothing else.
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Philadelphia Record
Serious Developments In Carnegie Steel Forgery Case
London reports L H Greig a bookkeeper at Carnegie Steel Co remanded after brief hearing over forged foreign checks totaling 9 500 allegedly signed by Col Millard Hunsicker chairman of Nickel Co. Prosecution hints at wider scope with forgeries embezzlement and theft of correspondence. Police seized documents at multiple addresses and noted removal of names with chloride of lime. Col Hunsicker said some money recovered but loss may reach 75 000.
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London
L. H. Greig
Carnegie Steel Co
Col
Millard Hunsicker
Nickel Corporation
Pittsburg
Carnegie Co
Kingstom-upon Thames
Exeter
Grieg
Hunsicker
Bloody Brooklyn Tragedy Shocker in Maspeth Home
An alarm to Maspeth police sent an ambulance from a Brooklyn hospital found Joseph Alstrefski dying from a stab wound after his wife claimed she had been drinking and abusing their daughter. The woman, after being ordered to the station, fatally cut her own throat, both dying later at the hospital.
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New York
Maspeth
Brooklyn
Joseph Alstrefski
Alstrefski
Porter shot protecting woman in boarding house row
In St. Louis on September 23 Oscar Fulgar, a black porter, was shot by an enraged husband while trying to defend Mrs. E Summers, a boarding house keeper and invalid. Summers says Fulgar threatened with a razor. Summers reportedly did not shoot until then. Boarders accuse Summers of heavy drinking.
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St. Louis
E .G. Summers
Oscar Fulgar
Fire destroys barn at Lincoln hospital for the insane
A Wednesday fire at the Lincoln hospital for the insane four miles from Lincoln, Nebraska, destroyed the big barn and many horses carriages and grain. The main hospital building was threatened and patients not in the violent ward were released and kept in corridors while crews fought the blaze. Superintendent Greene says the fire was incendiary in origin.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln Hospital
Greene
Fatal shooting ends life in East Joplin district
Stella Lister in East Joplin was killed when a bullet pierced a panel during a Wednesday incident. Joseph Knotter, son of a local resident, reportedly attempted to defend the assailant but the shot struck the young man in the head, killing him instantly. Authorities investigate the sequence of events and apprehend the suspect.
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Joplin
Estella Lister
East Joplin
Ann
Jozeph Knotter
Ftir Howes
Frisco System Adds Observation Cafe Cars on Key Routes
Frisco System extends service with handsome Observation Cafe Cars on its trains out of Saint Louis and Kansas City. Under Fred Harvey management these cars offer a spacious library observation room with comfortable chairs, writing material, current newspapers, and periodicals, plus electric lifts and fans for passenger comfort. Trains depart Saint Louis and Kansas City daily via the Frisco System.
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Frisco
Saint Louis
Kansas City
Fred Harvey
Union Label Disputed Rights in Kitchen Talk
A fragment from a Cincinnati Commercial Tribune item quotes a cook and a house mistress arguing over hours and wages within the "Housewives" union No.17. The snippet connects to broader 19th century labor and domestic life themes, reflecting satire on unions and gender roles in urban households.
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Housewives’ Union No .17
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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Grand Rapids
Mich
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Jack
Dolly
France
Noah
Albino Robin
WHITE
E. G. Summers
Nebraska Insane Hospital
Chance
Klee
Winds
Fowler
Daily Ews
Joe Drows
Fac Simits Signature of
Ea Umm Orsee
ST. Jacobs
Hamlin's
Wizard Oil
Bears
Castoria
the Certaur Company
New York City
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