That Turn of Life and Remedies in a Magazine Style
A jumble of 19th century advertisements and medical claims includes Mrs Pinkham offering free advice on life changes for women, Allen’s Foot Ease claiming foot relief and 30,000 testimonials, Boxers and Yee Ho f Chuan explained, Casarets for sleep, warning about mercury in catarrh remedies, Hall's Catarri Cure from Toledo, and Viennese Steak preparation with Philadelphia Press notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Aden
Olmstead, LeRoy, N.Y
KF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney Co
Hall
Chicago Fire Devastates Papers Buildings and Presses
The 1871 blaze destroyed 128 publications housed in many Chicago offices including the Tribune Times Journal Republican Staats Zeitung Mail and Union and Volks Zeitung. Evening Journal and Evening Post produced early extras as fires raged.Reporters and compositors remained at work amid flames, some fleeing with water shortages halting presses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Times, Journal
Republican
Staats Zeitung
Post
Mail and Union
Volks Zeitung
Chicago
Evening Journal
Board of Trade
Evening Post
Mail
Times
Chicago Evening Journal
Frank Gilbert
Gilbert
Journal
Dearborn Street
Tremont House
Milliner’s Paris Fortune From Surprise Lawsuit
A milliner arrived in Paris to pursue a lawsuit, won the case, and invested the proceeds in speculation, amassing a sizable fortune within months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Night Fire Looting and Newspaper Office Escape
A group salvages office books and files amid a blaze threatening a newspaper, ferrying them by buggies to the North Side and then to editor Mr. Wilson's residence. The chaos spreads through Quincompoix Street as printers and staff rush to recover material and secure safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rush Street Bridge
Frank Boutwell
Michigan Avenue
Charles L. Wilson
Journal
1Th Street
Michigan
Chicago Avenue
1Th Street Bridge
Michigan, and Finally To Mr. Wilson
Fence Post Impregnated With Avenarius Carbolineum
An 1899 notice extols Avenarius Carbolineum as a premier wood preservative. It cites long term tests showing decay resistance for posts, boards, and builds, with testimonials from SIEBENECK & COUMONT in Aix la Chapelle. Also mentions misrepresentations about emigration and various agricultural tips and ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avenarius Carbolineum
Aix la Chapelle
Siebeneck & Coumont
Merars Siebenec &Coumont
Strawberry Sponge Recipe and Notices from 1900
A collage of culinary instructions and brief notices. Includes a strawberry sponge recipe with gelatine, lemon, and meringue fold, then a local business blurb about a Cal coast school led by Dr Tra G Hoitt, with August 6 1900 as a date. Also a humorous furnace joke, a medicine testimonial, and a note of Louise Froebel’s death in Hamburg at 85.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Tribune
Menlo Park
San Mateo County
Cal
Tra G. Hoitt
Louise Froebel
Friedrich Froebel
Hamburg
Planting waste land for timber gains attention
Farmers who planted trees twenty years ago report solid returns as timber. Cherry and hickory may take about eighty years to mature while maple around twenty and black walnut fifteen. A walnut can reach 12 to 15 inches diameter in fifteen years. nuts offer profits too. Carter's Ink noted by major railways as the best. The article laments how American women often withdraw from their daughters as they grow into women, a loss hard to remedy later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California
New York Evening Post
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lydia E. Pinkham
Swensson
Bethany College
Kaneays
Topeka
Wu Tung Fang
Yee Ho F Chuan
Middle Kingdom
Lve
Chicago Democrat
Philadelphia Press
Carter
Caio Newsrarens
Raat
John Law
France
Quincompoix
Nicholson
Sewge
Tribune Building
Belhe
Japan
Wople
Mrs. Winslow
London
Congress
Candy Co
Wensen
Wertiog Remedy Company
Bieage
Mestreal
Hoitt'’S School
Hicks
Boston ‘Transcript
Expsiry
Vanburen
Ind
Hood
America
Uned
United States
Infans
Ftewpe
Samuel
New
Mas
Bears
Castoria
New York City
HCH
Perfection Pile Preserving Co
Seattle
Wash
Fisher, Thorsen & Co
Portland
Oregon
Whittier, Cobin & Co
San Francisco
Binder
Mitchell, Lewis & Stayer CO
First
Taylor Streets
Salem
McMinnville
la Grande
Medford
Spokane
Moore
Fosanko
Mall
Bobanko
Shlade
Ron
Gamat
Pension Bickford
Washington
20Th Corps
Prossousitin
Elatins
John Poole
Portiano
Orrcos
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