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Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham,
q builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex-
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
all kinds; SO, if we but take the pains
to lind them, in the roots and herbs
OF the field there are remedies ex-
PiOooIy QCSl&ucd W cure Uuc NdIlOuS
ills and weaknesses of the body, and
1t was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
clnes for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina-
zion of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink
MANS n friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and 1t became quite popular among
ALI this so far was done freely, with.
OUT money and without price, as a
labor of love.
> But in 1873 the financial crisis strucb
lynn. Its length and severity were toe
much for the large real estate interests
OF the Pinkham family, as this class
Oh business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen
MAJ year dawned it found their prop
cry swept away. Some other source
VI income had to be found.
vAt this point Lydia. E. Pinkham'.
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
Inc three sons and the daughter
with their mother, combined forces t.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

Monthly periods were so distressing
dreaded their approach. This was my
condition for four years. Doan's Kid
ney Pills helped me right away when
began with them and three boxes
cured me permanently"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
Spanish Drug store Regulation.

In Spain drug stores are permitted
to sell drugs all day on Sunday, but TO
deal in perfumery on that day Is un'
lawful. Candy cannot lawfully be sold
later than II o'clock in the fore'
noon unless no clerks or assistants
are employed Proprietors may keep
open all day If they do the work them
selves.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
PacIfylng the Male Brute.

When man Is walked up by the
cook going downstairs to get his
breakfast and goes to sleep right away
again, the only way his wife can pacify
him Is to tell him he never closed his
eyes all night and 1t is wonderful the
way be can go to his work without
having had any rest.-New York
Press.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

argued that the medicine which was
SO good for their woman friends and
nelghbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were STEPPED on the stove,
gradually filling a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties Of
the medicine were, to a great extent,
self-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
lily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia e. Pinkham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
| tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in it's manufacture.
Lydia e. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done it
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful to pre-
serve record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-recelved
careful study, and the details, includ-
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent vast collabora-
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter in law, the present Mrs.
Pinkham. She was carefully instructed
: in all her hard-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when it's origina
! tor passed away. For nearly twenty.
five wears she has continued it, ano
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped hel
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham
now the mother of large family, took
it up. With woman assistants, some a.
< capable as herself, the present Mrs
D Pinkham continues this great work, ane
S probably from the Office of no othel
s person have so many women been ad
1 vised how to regain health. Sick wo
: men. this advice is "Yours for Health
: freely given if you only write to asi
Q for it.
Such is the history of Lydia e. Pink
s hams Vegetable Compound mad
a from simple roots and herbs; the on
great medicine for women's ailments
;. and the fitting monument to the nool
q woman whose name it bears.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

1898 | was suffering
so with sharp pains
in the small OF the
back and had such
frequent dizzy spells
that l could scarce
ly get about the
house. The urinary
passages were also
quite irregular.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
important to NJ others.
Force Respect From Peasants.

The sanitary officials in southern
Italy who try to protect the natives
against malarial mosquitoes, wear mill
itary uniforms in order to inspire re
spect in the stubborn peasants.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had It's Birth and How the "Panic of '73" Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman, whose
no;den name was Estes, was born in
T,vnn. Mass, February 9th, 1919, com
no from a good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as woman of an alert
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

Spinach From Arabia.
Spinach was first cultivated In
Arabia.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

This air balloon, now in the Arsenal
museum, Vienna, was captured by the
Austrians at Wurzburg in 1896. 1t is
one of the six made by the French
Aeronaut Society during the years
1794-9 for use during the war, and is
the only one of them now in existence.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
Another Honor for shakespeare

An ingenious Scot has tried to JUS
tify his assumption that Shakespeare
was born at Paisley, by saying that
his abeelities would justify the infer
ence."
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
fake LAXATIVE BROMO Qunine Tablets. Drug
FISTS refund money II It fails to cure. K. W.
GROVES signature II on each box. Csc.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
AN EVERYDAY STRUGGLE.
Too Many Women Carry the Heavy
Load Of Kidney Sickness.

Mrs. e. w. Wright of 172 Main
street. Haverhill. Mass, says: I'm
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-02-01
DON'T FORGET

A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue onl
cents The Russ Company, South Bend, In,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

maya zines. In very large measure the
original English idea Is being adopted In
the west, and the road of easy gradients
and long tangents is the type aimed at.
A commercial reason exists for this, 1t
being an established factor that the maxi
mum load to be pulled by an engine is de-
termined by the heaviest grade, and the
wear and tear of the rolling stock Is de-
pendent in a large degree on the curves to
be rounded during the journey from point
to point on the line. SO on a road as nearly
level as can be laid, and as nearly straight
as can be built, more cars can be hauled by
single engine and at less expense of
deteriorating wear.
Hills that used to rise in majesty, notch
ing the horizon with great gaps, have been
reduced to the conditions of mere hum
mocks; gorges between these hills have
been filled with earth, and some wide val
legs have been spanned with immense en-
bankments. Lines that used to twist In
and out like the trail left by the poets
serpent have been Strengthened until now
they are almost devoid of Hogart's line of
beauty. The shortest distance between two
points is the idea. To achieve this is merely
bit of calculation by the engineer in
charge. The route is determined, and then
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

cars run instead of dump wagons Cuts are
made and fills built up in weeks nowadays
that used to require years Great embank-
ments grow almost overnight under the new
regime.
When the contractor undertakes a really
heavy piece of work nowadays he eQuips
his outfit with one, two or three or even
more steam shovels, dump cars of a num-
Ter that at one time would have been a
respectable equipment for a railroad itself;
some locomotives, force Of men, anG goes
to work. A temporary track is laid and
the steam shovel is set upon 1t. Another
track within reach of its giant arm is laid
down, terminating somewhere out on the
grade. Sidings and passing tracks are put
down and a practical railway system is es-
tablshed Dump cars are pushed up to the
steam shovel and loaded at rate that
almost passes belief. When one string Is
loaded a locomotive whisks 1t away and
another lot of cars is pushed in for the
next load. Out at the end of the track the
cars are dumped automatically, and this
process is kept W without cessation till
the work is finished AS often as need be
the track in the cut is lowered and that
on the fill is raised, and finally they come
level. 1t is simplicity itself. The only
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

people by warning them or a massacre the
savages had planned for that night. The in
habitants OF the town OF Henderson We're
the intended victims, but owing to the
warning the people were able to fee, though
the town was burned During his entire
residence in the state he was never mo-
Tested.
His long and eventful life began In the
state Of Maine February Is. 1915. 1t is re-
lated that he was converted to Methodism
at the early age OF or years, and he has
been connected with that church since. He
was married at the age OF 20 to Mary Eliza
beth Russell, at that time 16 years old He
then emigrated to Illinois. where he was
first licensed to preach by Rev. Peter Cart
wright presiding elder OF the central con-
ference of that state.
1t was after he had spent several years in
Minnesota that he came to Nebraska per-
manently to preach. This was forty years
ago, and he has been a resident of the state
ever since. Weighed down by his long years
of service he asked eight years ago to be
placed on the superannuated list and his
wish was granted, though he occasionally
nils the pulpit yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Presson are still enjoying
good health in spite OF their advanced age
They were the parents OF fourteen children
eight Of whom. Ave daughters and three
sons, are still living.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
Dorothy and Dean.

Aunt Mollie was very i'll and the twins
had been cautioned to keep as still as little
mice for fear of making her worse.
They sat forlorn and sad in the big sit
ting room with some picture books, but II
is very hard to whisper all the time If you
are only years old, even If you do love
your auntie and want her to get we'll
The big tears were just stealing down
Dorothys cheeks when mamma came in
and said: Hurry to the kitchen. dears."
Out in the kitchen sat an old woman with
a kind smile. and she took Dorothy and
Dean by the hands as she whispered: I've
come to borrow the twins for the day. They
can make as much noise as they please and
It. won't hurt anybody"
Have you got some little boys and
girls" asked Dean.
mo. But l wish / had 1 have a nice
big dog and a gray cat and parrot, so If
you will come, you can play with them,
though Polly bites once in a while"
II know It will be dreadful lonesome, -
whispered Dorothy in mammals ear. IF
1 hang my handkerchief on a stick by the
gate. will you come after us?"
Mamma promised, records writer in the
Central Presbyterian, and presently the
twins were trudging away through the
snow to the big house a few rods away.
where Mrs. Wright lived. Two very sober
little children took off their wraps in the
warm kitchen. but in a few minutes they
were as happy could be with the cat
and old Rover.
who wants to bake a little pie?'' said
said Mrs. Wright. and both children were
soon supplied with patty and dough TO
make apple pies for dinner.
After dinner they played games and
looked at pictures and had little party
on table that had belonged to Mrs.
Wright when she was little girl Dorothy
forgot all about her signal on the gatepost,
and was very much surprised when mamma
came after them.
I'VE have only been here a little while.
mamma" said Dean. Mrs. Wright said
We might gather the eggs and do ever so
many things II you didn't come after US"
"A little while? You came over at 5
O'Clock this morning and now It Is l. I am
afraid Mrs. Wright is tired Of your noise, T"
said mamma.
Indeed I'm not" salr the kind old lady.
II want TO borrow them every day till your
sister gets we'll Please let them stay for
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

Iowa miss is an accomplished musician and
bright young woman of 10 years. She is
possessed OF a sweet voice that is being Gull
tvated by the best of instructors. During
recent home entertainment Miss Roose-
welt sang Yankee Doodle Boy" which was
reproduced on a Photographic record and
forwarded to the young lady's namesake in
the White House. The record was ac-
knowledged in nice letter from Mrs.
Roosevelt
The Iowa branch OF the Roosevelt family
came from New Jersey In an early day
The grandfathers Of the president and Van
and Theodore Roosevelt of this county
were brothers, and a correspondence Is
kept up between the Iowa families and the
one in Washington. The heads of the
Roosevelt family separated in an early day
one branch locating on the Hudson and the
other across the river in New Jersey. The
Iowa family belongs to the New Jersey
branch, and the founder of the western
branch, William Roosevelt, came TO Iowa In
1870 and located in this county. The family
was and is possessed OF considerable
money. The senior Roosevelt died in 1893
and was survived by two sons, Theodore
and Van Worst. The latter was born in
1S47 and the former In 1855. Van is married
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
Poor Richard, Jr., Philosophy

A straight life is the shortest distance be-
tween honesty and honor.
OF the five senses, common-sense and q
serse OF humor are the rarest
Those who get into society can't rub the
price-mark of the admission ticket.
The marriage relation would take care OF
itself If it were not for the married ssla-
lions. sr
A man who settles into misery and calls
It philosophy is an optimist standing on his
head.
The letters marked personal and conf
dertial" are the ones the private secretary
opens first
II George Washington were TO come back
ana see congress he would lose no time de-
liy ering another farewell address.
When man tries to drown troubles on
HIS way home. he always finds them sitting
and grinning on his doorstep Like drsnched
oats.-saturday Evening Posi-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
Pointed Paragraphs

It's not good for lovers to be too good
to be true.
Many a man who knows his place has his
eye on better one.
Strange TO say. the speaking likeness Of
a woman goes without saying.
Be sure you are right-out don't be too
sure that everybody else is wrong.
Our idea of a fool man is one who waits
for the bartender to tell him when he's had
enough.
Many a man looks upon a marriage IL
cense as a blotter with which he expects
TO blot out the past
1t frequently happens that q woman who
was proud OF a man as a beau is ashamed
OF him as her husband.
Some states have a law requiring women
70 remove their hats in a theater-and
there should be one TO prevent men from
stumbling over a row OF women between
the acts.-Chicago News
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
old and New ways of Digging.

In the good old days the dirt was
ploughed up and dragged away by print
tive form of scraper, IL the haul was short,
or shoveled into wagons If the haul was
long. The first improvement on this method
came a little longer than twenty-five years
ago, when an Iowa genius invented a
scraper that could be suspended between
two wheels, and this simplified matters
wonderfully. The wheel scraper was a dis
tinct boon to the grading contractor in its
time and is still of much service, but 1t
couldn't do the work fast enough. Within
the last few years 1t has been forced into
second place in the calculations of the con-
tractor, and steam has been called upon to
take the place of horses and mules, and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

ruary 10. The sermon was delivered on
what is now the site of the Douglas. house
in Omaha and was listened to W crowd
of about 800 emigrants. who were on their
way to the Pacific coast In prairie
schooners. and handful OF Indians. This
was In 1850 and he, too, was on his way to
the coast with a large colony of eastern
people. The emigrants stopped over Sunday
on the present site of Omaha and as he was
a duly ordained minister a pulpit was made
from a cast-off government wagon box and
regular church services held.
The Indians who listened to the sermon
were greatly perplexed at the actions of the
white men and the chief and the interpre-
ter held council with those who heard the
sermon and returned with protestations of
friendship. Indians no hurt white man
who preach Great Spirit" they said, shak-
ing hands with the white men.
After this incident Rev. Mr.. Presson went
to Minnesota to live and took up claim in
the wilds OF that state. While there he be-
came friendly with the great Indian chief,
Otherday. At the time of an Indian uprts-
ing he recalls that IL was this chief who
saved the lives OF a large number OF white
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
Unique Achievement lin wyoming.

Unique Achievement I'm wyoming.
This method varies according as the con-
ditions of the job vary. For example, one
of the tremendous fills on the Union Pa
cities new line in Wyoming, the great Dale
creek embankment that now takes the place
of the Dale creek bridge, which was for
years one of the famous spots on the
Overland line. was constructed in way
that is unique. The fill is stupendous for
it's height, but Is rather short one. So
steep was the side of the gorge at either
end of the fill that 1t was out of the ques-
ton 20 lay tracks. The contractors simply
strung a wire cable across the chasm, and
by it established aerial railway, along
which hundreds of thousands Of cubic
yards Of sand and gravel. broken stone and
boulders were hauled and deposited where
they rest today, a monument to the energy
and ingenuity of the contractor. This same
contractor, in a desire to obtain material
for his work faster than by ordinary means,
pierced the side of the mountain known
as Sherman HILL excayated a great cavity
inside 1t, and with a huge charge Of high
explosives blew the whole top of the noun
tain, sending it tumbling into the gorge, and
thereby accomplishing that which would
have taken weary months of time. even
when pursued by the modern way OF doing
things with a steam shovel and dump cars.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

- an English bulldog as you would
care to see. but he took part In everything
that was going on in such an intelligent
way. and was so polite and well bred, and
knew so many interesting tricks to enter
tain you with, that you never stopped to
think of his personal appearance.
Besides standing on his hind legs and
catching a ball in his forepaws, giving a
jump or moving from side to side to not
miss it, and rapping at the door so that
even DIR. John would think It was a person
that wanted to come in. Master Wag
mir ded the doctors horse as we'll as a boy
could have done 1t.
When Dr. John drove round to see his
patients. Master Wag always sat upon the
seat beside him. looking very intelligent
and dignifed. bowling whenever DR.. John
bowed to a person and listening with a
great air of taking part in the converse
tion whenever the doctor spoke. When
thev came to house where he had to
make call DR.. John would get out throw
ing the lines to Master wag. and the horse
always seemed to understand perfectly that
he was in Master Ways charge.
But one morning when the horse vas
brought out of the stable and was lest TO
wait before the ONCE door for the doctor
and Master Wag TO come out he became
frightened at a string Of exploding fire.
crackers in the hands of some little boys
and started on a run down the street.
DR.. John rushed out bareheaded, but too
late TO stop the horse Master Was. how
ever was quicker. and had hoped into
the buggy and out on the shafts. and there
everybody saw him standing with his fore
paws on the back of the horse as he tore
along grasping one line in his mouth and
barking sharply as II calling Whoa.
Whoa!'
But Master Wag couldn't stop him-the
horse was too frightened-and they all tore
headlong down the street horse. dog and
carriage Dr. John, bareheaded. running
and painting behind, women and children
screaming as they sought to get out of the
way, men staring II they had lost their
senses. until a man with more presence OF
mind than the others sprang cut into the
middle OF the street farther along and
grabbed the bride. giving the horses head
such a firm shaking that he was brought
20 a standstill.
And then Master Wag jumped down and
ran back to meet the doctor barking and
whining and even growing. in the most
earnest way, as II assuring his master
shat he had done his very best. "And you
could see for yourself" he said. that I