Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotes Eradication of Scrofula
The advertisement claims scrofula affects few children completely, may delay symptoms, and can cause stomach irregularities, dyspepsia, catarrh, and glandular swelling before skin eruptions. It urges testing for freedom from it and states Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine for all humors.
Ottinger Unlucky at Cards Lucky in Love
A cheeky item notes Ottinger’s misfortune at cards but success in romance with a playful, witty twee caption from Puck. The gag contrasts gambling luck and romantic luck in a light hearted segment.
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Ottinger
Henriques
Puck
Peruna Almanacs Promise Astrology Themed Demand
Drug stores report Peruna almanacs stocked with astrology content. An expert astrologist provides character traits for each sign and a monthly lucky and unlucky day list. Demand is expected to be high as mothers seek teething remedies like Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children.
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Peruna
Mrs. Winslow
Floating cobbler’s shop sails Penobscot Bay life scene
Capt W O Cottle sails in the sloop Yankee Nation mending old shoes and boots for locals. He travels from place to place to save footwear for his coming, and has a new dog companion replacing Jip who had been with him for years. Piso’s Cure praised for throat and lung ailments by Ws O Enpsiey of Van Buren in February 1900.
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Penobscot Bay Island
W. O. Cottle
Don't Let Constipation Kill You
A fragmented ad style item features a dialogue between a mother and daughter Edith about age and playmates, followed by an advertisement claim for a laxative product astareta Candy Cathartic with pricing and supplier notes.
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Luc
Sue
Philadelphia composer writes quickstep for funeral march
The Yonkers Statesman notes a Philadelphia composer has created a quickstep and reports it being adopted in Chicago for a funeral march.
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Yeast
Philadelphia
Crimsonbeak
Chicago
Rheumatism Relief Through Swift's Specific
A Washington woman recounts severe sciatic rheumatism and a failed medical course before using S. S. to purify her blood. After taking several bottles she regained mobility, discarded crutches, and recovered appetite and health.
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James Kel
Ninth Street
N. T
Washington, D. C
Washington
Swift
Silly boast about four silk pillows from players in Pittsburgh tale
A humorous dialogue from the Philadelphia Record contrasts gossip with a claim about silk pillows stuffed with hair from four football players. It also references Andrew Carnegie fleeing a charity-seeking crowd in Pittsburgh, noting he reportedly receives over 300 begging letters daily.
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Tom
Jack
Philadelphia Record
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Woman's Recovery From Rheumatism After Pills Prompts Notice
Mrs. George M. Knowles of Portland Maine credits a year and a half of rheumatism to ending after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. One box eased pain, two months cured all symptoms, and a sworn statement disclosed the cure. The ad-promoted pills claim broad efficacy for rheumatic and nervous conditions and other listed ailments.
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Fortune
Dr. Williams
Williams
Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
Philadelphia marks 200th anniversary since 1701 incorporation
October 25 commemorates Philadelphia’s 200th year since its incorporation in 1701 when the town had about 1500 houses and over 5000 residents. The city was laid out as a parallelogram between two rivers.
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Philadelphia
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Ad and Bergen Battle Memorial
An old advertisement promises one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh cured by Hall s Catarrh Cure and notes Bergen Noord Holland as the site of a 1799 battle where a monument to Russian soldiers was unveiled. A cannibal pun about peppering food precedes the ending quip.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Bergen
Noord, Holland Province
Alkmaar
Archbishop of Canterbury Taught Gardening Ethos Years Ago
The present Archbishop of Canterbury, while head of a government training college for teachers about half a century ago, personally guided students into gardening, using spade and rake in his shirtsleeves as a model teacher and exemplar.
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Canterbury
Mississippi counties drive privilege tax income
Saloons are scarce in Mississippi yet contribute almost one third of the state's privilege tax receipts. The state is seen as among the strict prohibition states under local option. Fourteen counties supply most of the $150 000 collected annually.
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Mississippi
Not So Horry After All Few Really Old Men in the Senate
The piece notes few very old senators with Pettus of Alabama aged 80 the oldest, Morgan West Cockrell and Bate among the 70s and 75s, Bailey the youngest at 38, and discusses how the Senate remains changeable with only a few members who served under Grant Hayes Arthur Cleveland and the Reed era still present.
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United States Senate
Senate
E. W. Pettus
Alabama
BW. Pettus. Morgan
West
Missouri
Cockrell
Eloar
Massachusetts
Ulysses S. Grant
United States
Grant
White House
Allison
Jones
Rutherford B. Hayes
Alison
Hoar
Morgan
Phitt
Connecticut
Marmied
Arthur
Cleveland
Tom” Reed
House of Representatives
Plan for One Grate to Heat Many Rooms
Quincy Illinois inventor John H Heitland proposes a retrofit heating grate with water pockets around the firebox to heat multiple rooms. The device circulates hot water through pipes to supply warm radiators or compartments, converting a single fireplace into a practical heater.
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John H. Heitland
Quincy
Quip on Hon Yellow Shoute Ends With Dinner Joke
A Baltimore American remark notes the speaker asking why Hon Yellow Shoute ends speeches with praise for his wife. The gallery observer answers that he must go home to eat, implying domestic duties drive his cadence.
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Yellow Shoute
Baltimore
Skeleton marries to keep job in peculiar tale
A Philadelphia Bulletin note presents a comic remark: a living skeleton plans to marry to avoid losing his job as his rival in business falls in love, hoping to gain flesh and plausible fear of unemployment.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Peruna Endorsed by Doctors Across the United States
Courtly medical notes from Dr. C. B. Chamberlin to Dr. L Llewellyn Jordan and others praise Peruna as a cure for catarrh and a general tonic. Multiple physicians from Florida to Indiana attest its benefits in chronic ailments, advising patients to seek Hartman guidance if unsatisfied.
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U. S. Treasury
Llewellyn Jordan
U. S. Treasury Department
Columbia College
West Point
Peruna
Geo. C. Havener
Anacostia
D. C
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
George C. Havener
M. D
L. S. Smith
Williston
Fla
Mary Smith
Winfield
Ind
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Ohio
Disqualifying King Adoni-bezek Captured by Jews
Scriptural note tells how Adoni-bezek was captured by the Jews and maimed by cutting off thumbs and great toes to prevent throne recovery. The piece also cites American hopfields employing about 240000 workers to strip 72000000 vines, with a crop value near 16000000 dollars in a good season.
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Adoni-bezek
Dutlie & Co. Offer Free Patent Description Advice
Washington DC based Dutlie & Co. (Dept. A) invites inventors to send a description for patent consideration with no upfront payment. The firm promises guidance and free preliminary assessment to applicants seeking patent protection.
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Dutlie &Co
Dept. A
Washington, D. C
Baggygies Vilows Winemills and Machinery
Baggygies Vilows Winemills and Machinery appears in the notice context as a listing of firms or assets. The brief item references these entities together, suggesting an inventory or classification in a local record. No further details are provided within the readable text.
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