Judge Ries and Williams Pink Pills A Lifesaving Cure
The Kentucky Post recounts Judge Ries of Louisa Lawrence County Kentucky describing his lengthy illness from rheumatic and nerve issues ending in paralysis. After failed medical trials he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health and liver function. The article notes the pills are sold by medical firms and claims broad curative uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Live
Louisa
Lawrence County
Kentucky
Hie
Peankfort
Washington
Kentucky Post
Rie
Yonre
John
Hot Springs
Ark
Chead Judes
Silnrian Springs
Wakeshaw
Wic
Williams
Hughes
Ries
Saca Benes
St. Vitus
Pr. Withiawe Medicine Co
Schenectady
The Shy Australian Major on Board an Australian Liner
A shy Australian Major on a recent voyage asks the pursuer for an interview claiming a lady awaits in cabin No 4. The purser confirms a list showing Captain Higginson as companion, and dawn reveals the portmanteau contains a lady’s garments, exposing the misnaming as a Salvation Army disguise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Payn
the Independent
Higginson
Little Drops of Water Poem by Julia Carney
A passage notes the familiar nursery verse Little drops of water Little grains of sand attributed to Mrs. Julia Carney. It explains the poem’s long popularity and its display in the Illinois Woman's Board of the World's Fair with the Knox County Columbia Club sending the lines to the New York Observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tlinois Woman's Board of the World's Fair
Julia Carney
Knox County Columbia Club
New York Observer
How Maple Sugar Is Made in March and April
The article explains maple sugar production from sap collection to boiling. Sap flows from holes and spouts into buckets, then into vats for processing. Two boiling methods are described: long pans for gradual reduction and evaporation through tubes for faster syrup production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s
Chipmunk Hunt Memory From March Woods
Charles Alexander Eastman recalls a Sioux childhood chipmunk hunt timed for March after thaw. groups of boys used imitation calls and blunt arrows to trap chipmunks, then hunted them from sunup to nine, with lively competition and safety tricks described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Alexander Eastman
Stright
Chipmunks Scattered as Sunny Day Ends Harmless Chase
The entry recalls a playful pursuit of chipmunks, described as a joke on a boy and a triumph for the brave animal. As the sun rose, all were killed or gone and the chase moved to another place with the creatures refusing to answer call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nicholas
A Kansas Cyclone Strikes Williamstown Area
The account recalls a June 21 cyclone from Topeka to Lawrence, with a dark greenish funnel destroying Wil liamstown. Homes and barns were leveled, several people saved by luck or shelter, and a six member family found refuge beneath stairs as their house collapsed. A baby and an elderly woman endured remarkable survivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Steele
St. Nicholas
Topeka
Lawrence
Williamstown
Uas
Relation of the Ears by Dr Urbantschitsch
Vienna author notes two ear relations beyond known eye links. Bilateral hearing shows reciprocal effects. treating one ear can improve or restore function on the other. Operations on the transmitting apparatus may halt decline in the opposite ear and even restore normal hearing in some progressive deafness cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbantschitsch
Vienna
Revue de Laryngologie
Knotty Point for a Judge in a Will Case
A Kentucky judge called a late will dispute baffling as one of the most puzzling prop ositions he faced. The testator left a large estate to his widow and an unborn child, with split heirs if the child was a son or a daughter. The widow bore twins, a girl and a boy, and the estate was settled by agreement with each party receiving one third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. FE. Clark
Kentucky
Lindel
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Afro American Catholic Education Reach Noted
It will surprise a great many people to learn there are 160000 Afro American Catholics in the United States with thirty one sisterhoods teaching in 108 schools serving over eight thousand children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
The Spiritual Conflicts of Life in Jacobs Wake
Reverend Talmage speaks on the midnight struggle at the brook Jabbok. He portrays Jacob wrestling an unseen adversary until daybreak, the angel blessing him, and how such trials refine faith. The sermon parallels modern hardships from poverty to temptation, urging trust in God and the dawn of deliverance.
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Jacob
Jarvis
Genesia xxxii
Gots
Camela
Joseph
Daniel
David
Joan the Baptist
Peter
Paul
John
Vashti
Josephine
Mra. Sigourney
John Wesley
Catherine
Mr. Burns
Montreal
John Brown
Edinburgh
Lord Claverhouse
Hugh McKail
Latimer
Christ
Wall Street
Broads Street
Fulton Street
Chestnut Street
State Street
Lombard Street
Callar
Hell
Angel
House of God
Gol
Jesus Christ
Hannibal
Alps
Ther‘Ropy
Balaklava
Israel
Phers
Rossini
Paris
Isaac Watts
Hill of
Zion
Troubie
Asacobd
Jesus
Lazarus
Jace
Struggie
Church of Christ
Luther
Melanchthon
Philipp
Trumpet Calls on Unredeemed: Warnings from a Sermon
A sermon warns that prayer and right living must guide believers. It condemns hypocrisy, greed, and indecision, while stressing that religion should lead to good deeds and compassion for others.
Compact coaster car slides down Lokout Mountain
A short, compact man with a heavy blonde mustache rode a one wheeled block down Lokout Mountain from the Point Hotel to the engine house 4700 feet in three and a half minutes, one third the time of a car. About 100 spectators watched the daring descent.
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Point Hotel
Little auk discovered in Stonington Arctic drift
A Greenland dove, a little auk moved from its Arctic home, was shot and mounted by a local. The eight inch web footed bird has black wings with white tips a white breast and a coal black bill. It dives swims and sleeps tucked under its wings and lays a pale blue egg.
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Ocean
Stonington
Connecticut
Arctic Circle
Arctic
Greenland
North Pole
Capric Electrolysis Promises Hemorrhage Control
The Electrical Review reports Dr Augustine Gcelet of New York has developed capric electrolysis to control bleeding. A copper electrode near the bleed releases oxi-chloride of copper, causing coagulation to stop hemorrhage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electrical Review
Augustine Cgcelet
New York
Kilmer's Swamp Roar Promotes Kidney and Bladder Cure
Advertisement notes Kilmer’s Swamp Root cure for kidney and bladder troubles with free pamphlet and consultation from Binghamton New York. Mentions Hall’s Catarrh Cure and reward offer, testimonials, and druggist sales. Claims of various health remedies, animals trained to aid life savers, and porcelain origin in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Binghamton
N. Y
F. J. Cheney & Co
Tolelo
Hall
Precaution Against Cold and Humorous Travel Tale
A travel anecdote about Mrs Inchbald describes her plain directness and charm. After a long day in pouring rain a coachman offers his arm and she quips that the man would be a dry death, delivering a witty line to fellow travelers.
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Mra Inchbald
Sings of the Negro Travelers on Night Roads in Rural Delaware
The article notes how rural Delaware communities hear the singing of African Americans at night. It describes the habit of “running” where groups move from cabin to cabin, regardless of hour, and the white residents encounter these groups on the “big road.” Moonlit nights fill the roads with choruses, whose distant music mystically enchants listeners.
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Telaware
General Sherman Visits Post and Observes Signaling
The tired General Sherman visits a military post and observes heliograph signaling. He shows curiosity but misunderstands the device, then jokes about aging and old methods before departing across the green parade.
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Sherman
Pott
Fragmentary note on light, heat, and eye injury
The damaged text hints at dangers from intense light and heat to the eyes and mentions navigation secrets held in snail shells. The fragment references coal fire and visual injury without clear, verifiable details.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription Endorsed By North and South
Readable letters praise Dr. Pierce medicines for female complaints including falling womb and bearing down pains. Mrs J T Smith of Oakfuskee Alabama recounts six years of suffering and says seven months of regular use of Discovery Prescription Pellets and Golden Medical Discovery restored her health.
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Peter Ts
S Pierce
Cone
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgi Institute
Buffalo
N.Y
Alien Sharrant
Hartnoy
Helkirk Co
Manitoba
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
J. T. Smith
Oakfuskee
Cleburne Co
Ala
Iol
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Promises Relief
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a restorative nervine and tonic for women, claiming it calms nerves, aids digestion, relieves morning sickness, and even cures insanity linked to nervous debility. It touts herbal composition and offers a 14 page booklet with home treatment for ten cents.
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St. Vitua
Pierce
Pieres
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Joan M. Rice
Het
Covington, Ky
Migginson
Higchinson
Salvation Army
Clarence D. Crockett
Hood
D. M.hocker
Murfreeshore
Tenn
Earth
Chipmunk Hunting
Kansas
DR. Talmage
Brooklyn
Marculins
Immanuel
Aum
Greenland Cove
Fort Worth
Texas
Brown
Hocouse of Commons
China
U.S
Arin
Sherman Mad Hix
Mrca
W. O. Gaunek
Seventh Street
Torre
Ana
Pigree
Ie Bong
California Fig Syrup. Co
Lovell Diamond Cycles
Apticts Engz
Lovell Diamant
Boeyeles
John P.lovell Arms CO
Boston, Mass
Particu Wa Ware
L Dowe
W. LL. Douglas
Keery
Ren
Lustra
St Perl
Syry
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