Hood's Sarsaparilla and its healing balance
Advertising explains Hood's Sarsaparilla works by a balanced mix of blood, liver, kidney, stomach, and bowel specifics. It lists Sarsaparilla Stillingia Yellow Dock for blood and Mandrake Dandelion for liver and other ingredients for kidneys stomach and bowels. Sold by druggists with 100 doses for one dollar in liquid or tablet form.
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Hood
Gov Johnson’s 10000 a Year Standard of Happiness
The piece explores wealth and happiness through Gov. Johnson’s claim that ten thousand dollars annually is the happy middle. It contrasts the simple life with modern affluence, notes how poverty and riches definitions shift with progress, and argues the core issue is equal opportunity and curbing monopoly power.
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Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Johnson
There is a Reason Cascarets Sell Fast Across America
An advertising pitch claims millions of Americans rely on Cascarets daily. It boasts vast sales, extensive spend on endorsements, and asserts Cascarets fight disease germs and cleanse the digestive canal while remaining safe for children. The piece warns against imitators and presents Cascarets as a time tested, reliable remedy.
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America
Cascarets
Dishonest Sales Promises and Genuine Cascarets Promotion
An advertiser warns against dishonest sales tactics and emphasizes that Cascarets are produced only by the Sterling Remedy Company. The ad promotes a ten cent West Pocket box and a gold plated bonbon box offered in exchange for ten cents in stamps, urging readers to send to Sterling Remedy Company in Chicago or New York.
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Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
New York
Billy's Luck and Tom's Vise Tale From Brooklyn Eagle
A collage of short items includes a nipping rhyme Billy's Luck about a hunter and a hare, a moral tale Tom makes for a broken vase. a joke on Roman numeration, a wolf hunting anecdote, a hello history snippet, a darin task with a coin puzzle, and a shopper note urging boys to keep neat ties.
Tall Kaiser's guard recruit tops seven feet
Josef Handel, said to be the world’s tallest youth, has been made lieutenant in the Kaiser’s bodyguard in Potsdam. At 7 feet 5 inches he rose from a show career in Berlin as der lange Jose. Handel, 22, comes from Leipzig with average-sized parents and siblings, yet he is in perfect health with a sturdy frame.
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der Lange Jose
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Germany
Cincinnati Mcquirer
Ifandel
Potsdam
Handel
Leipzig
Aandel
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Dream job scam ends in dog fight lesson
A Kansas man imagines a San Francisco posting with double salary then wakes to a disappointed wife. The tale, recounted by a Kansas City Times writer, ends with a moral about staying focused. Also notes Dr Kline's Great Nerve Pane free trial offer and its claimed cure.
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Mary
San Francisco
Kansas City Times
Kansmas
Henry
Dr. Kline
Kine, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Humor Column On Quotations And Jests From Waud
In a light feature the Waud quotation quipster notes that death can turn aversion to affection. He recalls the ordinary man who jokes about preferring sausages to hogs. The piece previews a weekly humor collection of old, curious, and laughable sayings and doings.
Halls Catarrh Cure Claims Seen By Advertisers
An old advertisement extols Halls Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh and related ailments. It asserts the product strengthens vital fluids and cures a chronic disease by directing readers to buy from F. J. Cheney & Co. and a local druggist.
Geographers work on global map scale 1 to 1 000 000
Geographers from major nations labor on a world map at 1 to 1 000 000 scale. Prof Penck reports 69 of 437 sheets completed by March. A wire distance equals about one sixteenth inch. many regional maps exist in larger scales. Tit Tit s
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Penck
Tit-Tits
To Break in New Shoes and Hidden Vanity Cures
An Allen's foot Ease powder ad promises relief from chilblains sweating and swelling while curing corns and bunions for 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores. It urges no substitutes and offers a sample by mail from Allen S Olmstead Lielioy NY. Bernard Shaw says he is cured of vanity curiosity and ambition and notes how long the cure will last.
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Mobile
Ala
Jefferson
Francis Wilson
Scribner’s
Allen
Allen S. Olmstead
lLelioy, N.Y
Bernard Shaw
Teething remedy touted for children by mothers
A local adv says mothers favor Mrs Winslow's Seething Syrup as the best teething remedy for children during the teething period.
Sorry He Spoke He Don’t You Think It’s Dangerous to Kiss
A quirky fragment contrasts caution with affection as a speaker warns about kissing a dog while another character questions the risk, with a cryptic line about kissing an iris.
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Iris
Pein
Proof Positive and the Oldest In Shahitone Yarns
Folkloric snippets ponder why the good die young in a collection from Knoitt The tales of the oldest in Shahitone.
Cure a Cold In One Day Proprietary Medicine Ad
LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tab lets promise a one day cure for a cold with a money back guarantee if it fails. The box bears KE W GROVE'S signature on each package and is priced at 75e.
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KE. W. Grove
Domestic Discord and Missing Goods Reported After Dinner
A man, invited to a girl’s home for dinner, discovers the household ransacked after she leaves for the day. A note on the back door warns “All out, Don’t leave anything,” later followed by a taunting reply. The incident prompts questions about the writer in the New York World and the careful locking of the house.
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New York
Guaranteed Cure for Piles Mentioned in Ad Copy
An old advertisement claims a guaranteed cure for piles with PAZO OINTMENT and a 14 day payment offer. It includes dubious medical claims and a boast about wealth and friends, plus a dubious tip about salt on substances causing burning and smell.
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