Pastor honors and Peruna praise from German Bible owner
Rev H Stubenvoll of Eickhorn Wisconsin, pastor of St Johns Lutheran, recounts a letter to Peruna Medicine Co. praising the remedy for lung hemorrhages and catarrh. He notes Peruna strengthened him, improved blood and weight, and claims it could save many from death. He invites others to seek Dr Hartman for free advice if results are not prompt.
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H. Stubenvoll
Eickhorn
Wis
St.John’s Church
Stubenvoll
William
Germany
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus, O
S.S.S
Atlanta
Humorous Exchange and Cartoon Snippets
A collection of witty quips and cartoons from newspaper pages. Highlights include Franklin’s quip about avoiding the tax collector and a playful exchange over a miscaptioned recital item. The Judge cartoon features a laughing hyena and a stork reacting to twins in a crocodile family.
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Richard
Franklin
Detroit Journal
Judge
But He Weakened Poet Bargains Over Food With Sold Song
A terse dialogue unfolds with a poet declaring he sold a love song and hesitating to spend the money on bacon greens or self raising flour. The exchange hints at restraint and mutual understanding amid a playful back and forth.
Origins of newspapers through early milestones
The text highlights the emergence of modern newspapers with Venice issuing a monthly paper in 1536 the first English paper appearing in 1622 and the first American paper in 1704, marking the evolution of periodic news formats.
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Venice
Boggs Heads South for Winter Coal Deal
Boggs plans a Florida trip this winter after selling coal to a local diamond dealer, explaining the move by the price boost from last May. He travels to enjoy the season and capitalize on the coal sale as the reason for leaving home.
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Boggs—Jones
Florida
Boggs
Quotable Lines and Quick Jokes From Pettier Press
A collection of humorous exchanges and social quips from various newspapers. Jokes cover courtship, dentistry, farming, travel, and family matters, featuring characters like Bramble, Sarah, and a judge. The items skew toward light satire and playful wordplay with familiar 19th and early 20th century delivery.
Ayer’s Pills Offered in Three Sizes For Ills
Ayer Co offers medicine in 25c 50c and 1 dollar sizes. The 25c is for ordinary colds the 50c for bronchitis hoarseness and hard colds and the 1 dollar size is most economical for chronic cases and to keep on hand.
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J. C. Ayer CO
Lowell
Mass
Miscellaneous 1900s Advertisements and Humorous Snippets
A collage of brief ads and quips including Dr. Klime's Great Nerve remedy promising permanent cure for fits and nervousness with a free trial bottle offer. Contains jokes about Colombia revolutions and a cigar exchange, plus a teething syrup ad for mothers and a bronchial cure recommendation.
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Klime
B.H. Kone Raes
Philadelphia
Uneasy Lies the Head in Europe’s Crowned Realms
A Berlin chiropodist claims to have removed coins from all the crowned heads of Europe, a boast reflecting tense political satire amid uneasy monarchic authority.
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Berlin
Europe
The Bright Little Boy Dialogues on Adulthood
A Yonkers Statesman fragment recalls a visitor asking a bright boy what he expects to be at age twenty one. The reply is concise and confident, reflecting a child’s sudden, humorous view of adult life.
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Yonkers
One Thing Sure and a Perplexing Music Question
A dialogue between Mrs Starteuppe Ah and a professor questions her daughter's potential as a singer. The professor hedges on predicting greatness while noting she has a mouth. The exchange appears in a humor column style reflecting light social satire.
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Starteuppe
Interpreter Required As French Nurse Absent
Fond Mother explains the baby’s ailment and asks for an interpreter when the French nurse leaves suddenly and no one can understand the child. The caller offers to fetch a doctor but the mother declines, seeking language help instead.
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Saya
Mirrors Made From Quartz Startling Fact
The article explains that high quality mirrors use silica from ordinary white quartz while most window panes are largely made from sea sand. It notes the difference in sources and implies implications for production.
Remarkable animal aid during wedding escape
Watts boasts of an amazing display of animal intelligence as a horse pulling a carriage at a wedding scene throws a shoe, providing an unforeseen turn to a bride and groom’s departure. Potts questions the feat and the event’s impressiveness.
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Watts
Man
Potts
Glazing Pens By Dissolved Law In Naptha
The glazing of pens in certain varieties is described as an important operation, performed with a solution of law dissolved in naphtha.
Stilton Cheese Colors and Slate Formation Notes
Stilton cheese gains its green hue from a vegetable growth while other varieties use powdered sage. Slate forms in natural layers and a large chisel splits blocks into strips aligned with the grain for rooting. An old woman thanks a boy who fetched water, recalling a circus job carrying water to elephants.
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Pe-Ru-Na
Manchester
Judson A. Bellam
Main and Vine Sts
Richmond, Va
Thorne
Puck
Sarah
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tommy
Philadelphia Record
Willie
Detroit Free Press
Ladysmith
Tom
Edyth
Mayme
Chicago News
Philadelphia Press
Modern Science
Chu’ch
Deacon Jackson
Bob
Robert
Boston Transcript
Carnegie
Baltimore American
Newport
Bar Harbor
Chicago Record-Herald
Kamra Feend
Farmer Brown
Leutenant
West Point
Baltimore Herald
New York Weekly
Ayer
J. H. Burge
Macon, Col
Hoyle
Hewitt
Jewett
Winston
Castoria
Teh
Brother Dickey
Hell
Atlanta Constitution
Baltimore News
Days of
Slate
Carter
Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
Montreal
New York
Ss. N. U
J Tower CO
Boston
Pisase I Mcitios
Pauper
Turkey
California Fig Syrup CO
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