Widely Advertised Remedies and Domestic News
A collage of medicinal ads and brief notes: Lydia Pinkham’s women’s tonic praised for thirty years with letters from readers. Allen’s Foot Ease promises swift relief for tired feet and well over 80,000 testimonials. Tea consumption in England exceeds 600,000 pounds daily. A Vermont fox and two hounds meet a train. Mothers urged to use Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething. Average brain weight stated for men and women.
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Allen
Mase
Allen &, Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
England
Rise of Salary Was Fatal to a Contract
A Chicago Inter Ocean article tells of a merchant who offered a buyer a $1000 raise to placate him after a contract dispute. The buyer, grateful, accepted, but two weeks later was told the contract was abrogated. The anecdote ends with the claim that, without absolute honesty, a contract with an employer is worthless. The tale underscores the peril of hiring arrangements and the danger of relying on contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Inter Ocean
How He Lost His Job
An old colored man asks a white man for work and is told to fetch driftwood for half. He refuses to hand over what he considers his own, quits, and loses his job. The piece includes a tale of a lawyer’s advice and a humorous note about a man carrying cloves.
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Brosius
Lancaster County
Barappah News
Conscience and Incongruous Wit Across An Era
A collage of short items from a late 19th century publication covers political conscience and cost, wildlife notes on the white rhinoceros in Africa, Pasadena nut production, a comic exchange about a blindfolded necktie, and a Lahore ascetic. It also cites a Toledo oath on catarrh cure, insomnia remedies, satirical quips, and notes on sleep, arsenic eating, and disease germ burial timelines.
Food Handling Tips From Cincinnati Enquirer
Food that absorbs odors should not be stored with cooked foods. Flour nearby will pick up smells, hurting bread. Gelatine and milk products need covering as they absorb odors and germs. Do not refrigerate cheese cabbage fish or baked beans due to lingering odors and flavoring effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Maud Prepares for May Day in Wet Climate
In Harlem Life a child Maud plans May Day while Pauline asks about her column. Papa buys heavy gum boots waterproofs and warm gear including fur mittens woolen stockings ear muffs and a new umbrella for the occasion.
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Maud
Colume
Pauline
Papa
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Promises Purified Blood Cure
Advert says disease stems from impure blood and claims Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies and enriches blood to cure ailments from scrofula to nerves. Customer Agnes Gill Gan of Oakland reports improvement after using the second bottle.
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Hood
Agnees Gill Gan
Lydia Street
Oakland, Cal
A New Card Trick and Notes of Reading Life
A quip about Bachelor Subscriber and Lady Librarian hints at marriage to borrow more books. The Ohio State Journal fragment contrasts a playful card exchange with a domestic miscue. A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph joke notes perpetual motion as Earth’s rotation.
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Iere
Ohio State Journal
Mestioud
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Jake Titacaca
N. W. Samven
Ocean Grove
N. J
Vermont
Mrs. Winslow
Security
Carter
Carters
Cuba
Washington Post
Royal Baking Powder CO
William ST
New York
Sorghum
Washington Star
ATI
Sehungwe
Africa
Sanvati
Zambesi
Pasadena
Cal
Delhi
Lahore
India
United States
Smith
Brown
Chicago Evening News
State OF Ohio
Toledo
Lucas Cousty
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
Eeree A. W. Gleason
Austria
Hungary
France
John Sinbald
Scotland
E. Klein
Snaggs
Double Trouble
St. Jacobs Oil
California
Kern County
Treasury
Pee- Me
M. M. Ogden
Producers’ Oil Exchange
San Francisco
W. Fox
Standard Oil Company
Merchants’ National Bank
Portland, Or
Oriental Oil & Fuel Company
H.C. Eckenberger
Pres
Chamber of Commerce
Portland
Oregon
I. C
Stratton, Scey
R. L. Durham
Board OF
J. Frank Watson
R.L Durham
H.C. Breeden
H. C. Breeden & Co
H.C. Eckenberger, Co
Michigan Central Railway
Charles V. Cooper
Union Pacific Railway
McCormick
Stehl
A. H. Boylan
Hawthorne Avenue
P.O
Beck Avertery
Twenty-Fifth &T
Los Angeles
Ch Wigay CO
Mitchell Farm
First and
Taylor Streets
Minneapolis
Minn
Jules Laborde
Eve
Laborde
Europe
von Mohl Co
Ohio
Moore
Portland Directory
Moddernenry
Sargepedion
Cawston & Col
First St
Joan Poole
Portiann
Orecon
Busanko
Philada
NK Holcomb 6 CO
Washington &T
Wess
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