The United Shoe Machinery Company and Its Industrial Case
A U S M C is described as a major American machinery supplier leasing equipment to shoe manufacturers. The piece argues the company drives innovation, employs hundreds of machinists and inventors, and supports high wages and hygienic factory practices. It claims leasing spares obsolescence and highlights broad economic benefits for consumers, workers, and inventors.
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United States
Saint Louis
United Shoe Machinery Company
Boston
Concern
Beverly
Massachusetts
Taft
America
England
France
Scotland
Italy
Germany
Heartless Parent Quote Sparks Lesson of Worry
A fragment notes a parent’s indifference and a child taught to say should worry, highlighting a moral clash. The quoted exchange signals a focus on guidance, fear, and innocence in a domestic scene within the page segment.
Some Bacon Should Be Tasted
A father challenges his son after a misprint in a lesson book. The boy explains the quotation about eating books, arguing metaphorically that one should eat ideas. The father insists the printer swapped Bacon in the line, turning the proverb into a food joke.
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Sonnie
Judge Miller Records Kidney Pill Cure Claim
A Gray County probate judge from Cimarron Kansas reports relief from years of heart and kidney trouble after using Dodds Kidney Pills. He cites restored palpitations, dizziness, breath, eye puffiness, and back pain, noting weight and stamina improvements.
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Gray Co
Philip Miller
Cimarron
Kan
Judge Miller
Dodds
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Way to Woo Sleep Method Promises Quick Sleep
The text describes a bedtime technique that relies on maintaining a relaxed yet steady posture and suppressing movement for 15 to 20 minutes. Once the impulse to turn over becomes uncontrollable, one should shift to the usual sleeping position, after which natural sleep follows. It claims the method seldom fails and suggests trying before drugs.
Rash Relieved After Using Cuticura In Chicago
H W Foley of 400 South Hermitage Ave Chicago describes a year long itchy burning rash that worsened at night. After trying various treatments he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and recovered in three months. Advertises Cuticura available worldwide with a free sample and Skin Book.
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South Hermitage Ave
Chicago
Tlil
H. W. Foley
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Burning hotel at Horseshoe Lake prompts odd dance scene
A crowd danced by a burning hotel at Horseshoe Lake Illinois and kept tangoing and turkey trotting by the light until the pavilion caught fire. Heat and smoke forced the dancers to stop.
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Nero
Rome
Horseshoe Lake
St. Louis Republic
Advert for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Claims Relief
An advertisement extols Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as remedy for digestive relief liver stimulation and blood purification. It asserts efficacy in easing various ailments and promotes trial against competing remedies.
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Wright
Well, Bildad and Jimsonberry Discuss a Country Car
The exchange centers on Bildad living in the country and sharing a cooperative car with neighbors. Jimsonberry questions the arrangement and the car type, with Bildad answering the vehicle is a plain trolley.
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Bildad
Jimsonberry
Important to Mothera Examine CASTORIA safety claim
Inspect every bottle of CASTORIA for infants and children as a safe remedy. The notice emphasizes careful examination of each product for health safety claims and proper usage.
Multiple Indiana cases and incidents across cities prompt verdicts and fires
A selection of brief Indiana items reports a 23 year old telegraph operator in Muncie killing himself after a quarrel, a guilty verdict in Evansville for a murder with life imprisonment, a Monarch Broom plant fire in Evansville with substantial losses, and pastor Rev Hall returning to Indiana to lead Advance and New Ross churches. Other notes include a fatal collapse from a cancer operation fear in South Bend, a death by own action in Indianapolis related to Dr Stone, a welfare verdict against Marion Malleable Iron Works for a worker electrocuted, a psychology address in South Bend calling worry a national disease, Governor Ralston’s peace views, an indictment for forgery in Shelbyville, a White River Valley reunion program in Martinsville, and a death by carbolic acid mistaken for castor oil in Port Austin style.
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Muncie
J. ‘Lature
Western
Union
Evansville
William Springer
Anna Gray
Evaneville
Monarch Broom Company
Lebanon
Oakel F. Hall
Wabash College
First Congregational Church
Boston
Mass
Indiana
Advance
New Ross
South Bend
Samuel Rush
Rush
Indianapolis
Ralph S. Chappell
Richard F. Stone
Irvington
Emerson Avenue
James Ostrander
Charles Shimer
Doctor Stone
Shimer
Marion
V. V. Cameron
Wesley Stahl
Marion Malleable Iron Works
America
Stanley L. Krebs
Department of
Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Doctor Krebs
Ralston
Elbert Russell
Biblical Department
Earlham College
Shelbyville
William C. Bales
Greensburg
Robert Kinney
Bales
Jennings County
Kinney
Wilbur R. Ramsey
Belle M. Ramsey
Zell C. Swain
Laporte
Bert ‘Austin
New Buffalo
Hartford ’ Road
Donald
Ke - Forsythe
Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Praise Letter
Mrs Jessie Schaar of Grayville Illinois reports long suffering from female complaints. She says irregularity and cramps kept her in bed until using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She now has better health and highly recommends the medicine.
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Grayville
Tfl
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jessie Schaar
Main St
Grayville, Ill
Case of Mrs. Tully sends thanks to Lydia Pinkham remedy
Chicago resident Mrs Wie Lim Tully reports relief from painful periodic cramps and displacement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the product for her improved health and encourages others with doubts to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Chicago, Il
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wie Lim Tully
Ogden Avenue
Lydia E.pinkham
Really Old Enough to Vote
A touring provincial theatre company featured a juvenile leading lady who impressed audiences with her bright girlish charm. A young admirer sought an introduction and pressed the manager, who confessed he is the actress’s son, not her husband.
Melancholy and Trash in Hymns Critics Say
In the English Review Prof. W. H. D. Rouse argues hymns provoke melancholy and are poorly expressed. He contends sacred songs mix religion with low diction, praising poetry’s soul yet deeming hymns unpoetic and often trash.
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W. H. D. Rouse
English Review
Exceeded His Acreage in a Corn Feeding Laugh
A Minneapolis Better Way item recalls a neighbor with many acres of corn who serves roasting ears at dinner. The eldest daughter’s steady son takes a large first helping and is warned by the farmer that he already has fifteen acres on his plate. The note closes with ads about Mrs Winslow's Syrup and Oyonnax comb production.
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Lfe
Herbert Spencer
Spencer
America
Minneapolis
Kansas City Star
Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops Offer Relief at Druggists
For cold and sore throat treatment the ad promises relief from Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops sold at all good druggists. The message shifts to a moral cue urging readers to correct their own faults and get busy.
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Dean
Dress Idea Sparks Stage vs Street Debate
An actress notes a dress concept could work for street wear but would be too daring for the stage. The exchange highlights differing standards between performance attire and public fashion.
New Jersey Peaks at 13 275 Feet Near Trucha’s Peak
The highest point in New Jersey reaches 13 275 feet, located about two miles north of Trucha's peak, marking the state's elevation record.
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New Jersey
Trucha’s
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Parker
Beata Winsted
Danville
Edward McConnell
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Tully
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Carters
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Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Nuporm
W. B. Elastine
Reduso
Weingarten Bree
Dill Medicine Company
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Pewa
International Bible Press
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Philadelphia
Winchester
Jen
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