Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Cure for Skin Ailments
Advert shows Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming to expel skin eruptions and cure debility with thousands of testimonials. It contrasts with other quack lines and references humorous exchanges and a Cleveland satire while urging use for rheumatism. It cites Hamlin's Wizard Oil as a remedy for rheumatism.
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Hood
Humorous Exchange and Teething Syrup Mention
A dialogue recalls an awkward moment as a man questions a woman's quick affection while the other imagines Hubbard escorting Miss Adipore through a crowded street car incident. The item ends noting Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething remedy for children.
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Pegasus Reverts To Equine Eide In Gasoline Vehicle Jest
A humorous exchange from Automobile Magazine mocks Pegasus by returning to horse imagery and a horse laugh. The horse jokes about a gasoline vehicle linked to a bucking incident, sparking public complaint over poetic sensibilities.
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Pegasus
Automobile Magazine
Quack Nerve Restorer Ad and Courtroom Snippet
An old advertisement touts a “FITS Permanently Cure” nerve restorer from Dr R H Kline Ltd Philadelphia with a free trial offer. The page also includes a courtroom humor exchange about an assault with a mallet behind the ear and a quip about loving two girls.
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Reggy Reported Working as Cholly Doubts It
Freddy notes Reggy is working while Cholly dismisses the claim. Freddy confirms Reggy rolls his own cigarettes, per Chicago New.
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Reggy
Chicago Newe
No Longer the Debtor Section
The Northwest shifted from debtor to creditor as the panic of 1893 and poor crops taught independence. Eastern lenders retreated, rates fell from 8-10 percent to about 3 1/4 percent, and South Dakota counties report funds returned unused. The change reflects a broader move away from eastern mortgages toward local capital.
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Mississippi Valley
Missouri
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Conde Hamlin
War Department to Destroy Useless Records and Papers
An inquiry identifies large stocks of obsolete material across multiple departments including paymaster general and adjutant general lists. Reports date back to 1847 and 1821 with calls for destruction or burning while another note discusses Mark Twain gossip and a Clemens anecdote from the New York Times.
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Vervous Prostration Cured by Peruna
Hal P. Denton chief publicity for the National Export Exposition writes from Philadelphia December 20 1899 describing recovery from nervous prostration and stomach catarrh after using Peruna He credits five bottles with full recovery and urges others to write for free medical advice from Dr Hartman president of The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio
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Peruna Medicine Co
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All Explained. Mrs Twickenham and the meal mystery
Willie Slimson asks his mother if Mrs Twickingham knows where the next meal comes from. The exchange reveals concern about dinner arrangements and reliance on caterers.
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Allen's Foot-Fase advertises swelling relief and nail cure
An old advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Fase can cure swollen feet blisters and callous spots. It also highlights relief for ingrowing nails sweating and hot aching feet. Offered by Druggists at 25 cents with a trial package free by mail from Allen Olmsted LeRoy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N
Comforts of Home in a Wireless Telegraphy Snippet
Mrs Bright questions wireless telegraphy and how to recognize and understand a message. Henry reacts with exasperation as the couple discuss the new technology in a Smart Set style vignette.
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Henry
Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates to appear in Century
The Century magazine will serialize The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates starting in the August issue. The author, raised in Dakota, presents a personal narrative set about 25 years ago detailing prairie life from a girl’s viewpoint with scenes of blizzards horse stealing school days and frontier hardship and prosperity.
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The
Century Magazine
Prairies
Eleanor Gates
Dakota
Miss Gates
Acquired Taste Question Stirs Chicago Record-Herald
A dialogue from the Chicago Record-Herald centers on a flirtatious exchange about love and whether affection can be learned. The man asks if he could be loved, and the woman replies she might, if she were a man, she would hate to think she was an acquired taste.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Value of Wolf Scalps in North Park Bounty
A hunter and trapper in North Park has brought in four gray wolf pelts this winter. Stockmen pay a $50 bounty per wolf scalp as their depredations on cattle increase. It is estimated a wolf may destroy about $500 worth of cattle in its lifetime.
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North Park
Dangerous Ice Warning from the Iceman
A morning interaction reports an ice dealer being refused service by a customer who claims cheaper ice elsewhere. The iceman responds that the other ice is unusable for ice water as it has been analyzed and is full of deadly microscopes.
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Ceater
New York Times
Babies Found Monthly in St Patrick's Cathedral
Ainslee's Magazine reports that pew cleaners at St Patrick's Cathedral find an average of 25 babies per year. The infants were surrendered by Catholic parents who plan to raise them in Catholic homes if they survive.
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Pew Cleaners
Ainslee’s Magazine
Your Share If the earth were equally divided among inhabitants
A calculation suggests if land were evenly distributed among all people each person would receive about 23 percent of an acre. The claim frames global land division as a theoretical share per person.
Colonel Gruber Takes A Joke On Slow Service
Col Abraham Gruber entered a restaurant and after half an hour of waiting asked how long he had been there. The waiter replied two weeks and Gruber quipped that they must be misassigned as they ordered three weeks ago.
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Jokes About Women and Worries Spark Light Banter
A humorous exchange suggests a woman sprang from a mouse and a man sprang from a monkey. The cadence turns on a joke about not finding anything to worry about, with playful banter between Nan and Fan.
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