Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Spring Blood Cleansing
An advertisement extolls Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring remedy to cleanse impurities from winter blood and cure boils pimples and eruptions. It claims widespread testimonials and urges ant substitutes, urging readers to buy Hood's locally from druggists in liquid or tablet form, 100 doses for one dollar.
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Hood
A Suitable Grace and Kitchen Gadgets Then and Now
A letter recalls a minister's banished son who must say grace at a separate table. The article describes egg serving sets with circular trays and a white tureen, a cock-head lid, and chicken head bas relief cups. It offers home tips to restore a rusty stove and jokes about future tech like the telephone and flying machine.
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Home Remedies From An Old Household Page
Practical tips include sprinkling powdered clover to deter red ants and bathing with rum to ease ivy poison. A touch of flour prevents cake icing from running and melting paraffin atop hot jelly forms a mold resistant seal without extra coverings.
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles and Other Items
Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. Also notes on Dr. Parkhurst and graft discussions. Includes a recipe for sour cream batter and a Paris church flood story with a Maryland smoking proposal.
Child gives answer on horse offer in classroom exchange
The teacher quotes a line from Shakespeare. A student replies William Vandercup to the question of who offered his kingdom for a horse. A Milwaukee Sentinel fragment notes a car breaking down near the house. The saying about old age and respect is mentioned as a moral aside.
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William Vandercup
Milwaukee Sentinel
I would rather be a common kid than a king
A family scene unfolds as Bessie hides a school rumor about Bobbie. His mother untangles a misunderstanding over the words nanser and answer, clarifying that Bobbie does know his lessons. The mother teaches him that context matters for learning and communication.
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Dental disaster and spelling reform notes in late 19th column
An account of a brutal failed tooth extraction by a tall Arab using a knife and gum cutting, followed by a discussion on dropping the "me" from programme and a fitness note on erect carriage and posture for health and youth. The piece blends medical anecdote with period language and social advice.
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Tie
Heart Wounds Healed by Pioneering Philadelphia Surgery
A Philadelphia surgeon Dr Gibbon reports a heart wound case in a 38 year old man caused by a pen knife deep stub. The team opened the chest drew the heart forward and stitched the wound with six sutures. The patient recovered, worked as a master plumber twenty days after discharge, and the doctor notes about 40 percent recovery in 100 reported cases since 1896, most abroad with few in the United States. A second brief tale follows of Miss Willing and a Sunday school pupil about valuing inner virtue over outward dress with a humorous exchange about a torn lining.
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Gibbon
Miss Willing
Mary Potter
Mary
Galway Election Echoes and Irish Civic Wit
The fragment recounts Galway political history with quips on Irish candidates, a nod to Galway’s lore, and a Victorian anecdote about a Chivas gentleman attending George IV’s era Dublin levee. It ends with a broader remark on civility and social attire in changing times.
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Galway
Blackwood
George IV
Dublin
Electric hair sparks astound child in wonder
A girl watching her hair being combed notices crackles and sparks and asks why. She tells her mother with awe that electricity is in her hair and wonders if she and her mother are wonderfully made with such power.
Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Medicine Ad
After first day’s use of Dr Kline’s Great Nerve, send for free trial bottle and treatise. Dr K H Kline Ltd, 031 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa promises fits are permanently cured to nervousness and unrest.
The Drug Drummer and Rural Drugeist Exposures Warned
Puck laments patent medicine exposures harming business as farmers copy leading brands ingredients. A cheeky ad copy touts a cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promising refund if it fails, signed BE GROVE on each box.
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Puck
BE. W. Grove
Escalloped Onions Guide
Slice and boil a dozen onions until tender. Layer in a baking pan with bread crumbs and bits of butter, seasoning with salt and pepper. Repeat with remaining onions. Pour milk over to almost cover. Bake for thirty minutes.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement
One hundred dollar reward offered for an uncured catarrh case. J Cheney & Co of Toledo advertise Hall's Catarrh Cure, with testimonials from druggists Wasi & Truax Walding Kisnan & Marvin. Cure taken internally, targets blood and mucous surfaces. $1 per bottle, sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills promoted.
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Cocoa Pudding Custards with Bread Cup Molds
A recipe for custard using three eggs, two cups of milk, three level tablespoons of cocoa, three level tablespoons of sugar, and half a teaspoon vanilla. Butter small molds, fill two thirds with fine bread crumbs, pour in custard, set in a pan of hot water, and bake in a moderate oven until firm.
Notable Home Remedies and Free Foot-Ease Sample Offer
The ad promotes Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for teething and a curry sauce recipe with butter flour curry powder carrot celery onion and brown sauce. It also offers Allen s Foot Ease free sample by mail and advertises its use for sweating feet corns ingrowing nails and bunions priced at 25 cents with a note to avoid substitutes.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmstead
LeRoy
N. Y
Corn Cake Recipe with Cornmeal and Eggs
A recipe describes mixing butter with sugar and eggs, then whisking in milk cornmeal baking powder and flour. The batter is poured into greased pans and baked into corn cake.
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