Tub cure fad and giant beast bones found near town
The Plainville Times notes a local trend of tub cure exercises, where participants wash and wring linens in a tub for sport and health. It also reports Geo M. Shroaf's excavation of dinosaur remains on the R. R. Yeagy farm, yielding a seven inch tooth and a three foot lower jaw, suggesting a gigantic beaked herbivore once roamed Paradise Flats and raising questions about the region's prehistoric wildlife.
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Belleville Society
Preeman
Geo. M. Shroaf
R. R. Yeagy
Paradise Flats
Plainville Times
Compensation for Saloon Keepers Stirs Michigan Legislature
A Lansing bill to compensate saloon-keepers displaced by temperance measures prompts a Detroit Journal letter. A Sanilac County widow recounts poverty after her husband’s delirium tremens death, contrasting a bartender friend’s fortunes from liquor profits and property gains.
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Lansing
Michigan
Detroit Journal
Sanilac County
Cry of the widow on temperance policy echoes public misery
A plea condemns licensing revenues from saloons while neglecting protective measures for distressed families. The piece contrasts a pension and hotel profits with the plight of drunkenness's victims, arguing governors should shield children and wives from the saloon trade.
Danger Signals Warn Kidney Trouble in Advert
An old advertisement extols two danger signals from kidney issues. It notes clear amber urine as sign No 1 and back pain as No 2, claiming dropsy diabetes and Bright's disease may follow. It promotes Doan's Kidney Pills with Wa-Keeney Kansas user W C Wollner praising relief from nocturnal urination and back ache after using Gibson's drug store supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
Dean
Wa-Keeney
W. C. Wollner
Wa-Keeney, Kans
Doan
Gibson’s
Classified notices from a Kansas town listing sales and notices
A mixed local classified page offers pickled pork at Haters and various for sale items including a house with barn and eight lots, a four room cottage, land for sale with wheat acreage, Hereford bull calves, and a 320 acre farm near Wa Keeney. Also wanted ads for pork and tillable land, plus a strayed calf notice and a no hunting notice. Contact details include John Redig Herman Long W M Smith Mrs Ellen Bowman Brownie Limbecker and Osterkamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hater’s
John Redig
Herman Long
Osterkamp
S. Phone
W. M. Smith
Wa-Keeney
Kans
M. F. Reynolds
F. W. Potter
Sheridan
Trego
Manhattan City
Chillicothe
Browné& Limbecker
Manhattan
Oyster Season Opens At Star Grocery
Lincoln press dispatch reports a Lincoln county bull fight in Logan township where Wm. Streader was attacked by a young bull, knocked down and unable to rise for about an hour while the event drew attention to local animal encounters and county sporting oddities.
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Lincoln Press
Lincoln County
Wm. Streader
Logan Township
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Ad Claims Safety for Children
An old advertisement asserts Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy contains no narcotics and is the safest choice for children. It warns that mismanaging a cold may lead to pneumonia or bronchitis and markets the product as a universal cure available in 25 and 50 cent sizes.
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Chamberlain
Bull Attack Leaves Man Scarred and Fighting For Life
Streater a muscular man about thirty engaged in a rough life struggle as a bull charged and trampled him after a pass aimed at his head. Neighbors arrived with a horse and pitchfork to drive off the animal. His clothes torn except necktie and one pants leg, S bit the bull’s tongue and the man escaped with serious injuries. Salesman Wanted We need more salesmen to handle our high grade line of Nursery stock. We pay cash each week, pay expenses while, canvassing, give exclusive territory, and furnish a complete canvassing outfit free. Experience in our line not necessary. Write The Griesa Nurseries, T. E Griesa, Prop., Lawrence, Kan.
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Streater
Mr. S
Griesa
Eurseries
T. E Griesa
Lawrence
Kan
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Peacock
Trego County
Av Wae
Geo. W. Frewen
Jones
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NEW Bank
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John A. Nelson
K. Murray
L. Schmitt
Dr RE Spencer
Royal Gfe
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New Opera House
R. S. Leisenring
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Gunmaberlain's
HF. Klene
Mason
T. W. Bundy
W. S. Gorrell
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W. ¢. Brown
Fresh Park
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