Dr Hodson Eczema Ointment Claims Cure For Fifty Year Tetters
Suffered Eczema fitty yeaca now wall seems a long time to endure the awful burning itching smarting skin disease known as tetter another name for Eczema. Dr Hodson s Eczema Ointment proven a perfect cure. Mrs D L Kenney writes I cannot express my thanks it has cured my tetter which troubled me for over fifty years. All drugs or by mail 50c Pfeiffer Chemical Co St Louis Mo Philadelphia Pa
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Pfeiffer Chemical Co
St Louis
Philadelphia
Amnica Salve Claim for Instant Pain Relief
A Clinton area claimant touts Bucklen's Amnica Salve as instantly removing pain from bruises sprains burns and scalds. The ad claims the remedy robs injuries of their terrors and is a healthful aqua substitute, priced at 35 cents for a small container.
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Chamber
Iain of
Clinton
Hopkins the Witch Finder and 17th Century Tests
The fragment describes Hopkins, a 17th century witch finder, offering wages for finding witches and cleansing towns, including a method involving pinpricks and pricking suspects. It notes the era’s harsh tests and cites Aleptine as a notorious example, highlighting trials and painful procedures used to convict alleged witches.
Elizabeth I Quenched By Excellent Waah Beer
A London Chronicle letter to Lord Burleigh recounts Queen Elizabeth I demanding strong ale wherever she traveled. The Earl of Leicester faced trials as she required drink from London and Kenilworth, praising a potent morning wash that supposedly put her in good spirits for the day ahead.
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Elizabeth
Ress
Earl of Leicester
Hatfield
Lord Burleigh
London
Kenilworth
London Chronicle
Buying Baby Sandpile
A dapper man visits a building supplies office asking for sand for his baby. The manager explains sand is sold in five car lots, but the man insists he only needs about a peck for a child’s sandpile carried in a thin basket. Local note from Youngstown Telegram.
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Lambe
Youngstown
Career talk sparks young plans on tough work
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt a child named Tommy dodges common future paths. The dialogue weighs lawyer or policeman or engineer against bricklayer, highlighting hard work and weather as daily barriers. The piece casts light on youth attitudes toward labor and career prospects.
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Tommy
Cleveland
Sorry He Learned and a Parlor Muddle Tale
The piece recounts a farmer's son who goes to Springfield to study law, works briefly for an attorney, then returns home moaning that the law is not as advertised. Satire compares the aspiring lawyer to a blurred misidentification in a parlor scene with joking banter about hair and names.
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Springfield
George Bruce
Bill
New
Orleane Picayune
Muggle
Mrs. Rockaway
Heelman
Magelo
Newark News
Bho Came Back With Debts Theme In Candid Chat
A light chat captures a scene in a diner where a customer reveals his wife ran away last night and has returned by morning. A waitress offers wary sympathy as the father explains debts as the agents of experience, reflecting urban humor and daily life.
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London
Ancient secrets of art and craft kept for ages
The article reflects on priceless trade secrets lost to time including pigment formulas used by Renaissance masters, violin varnishes that preserved wood, and a Welsh blacksmith's hardened steel technique. It ponders ancient Greek fire and Roman mortar and notes how some secrets endure while many vanish, valued by modern scientists and craftsmen.
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Raphael
Rubens
Correggio
van Dyck
Mmaic
Vilage
Wales
Jearn
Landon
That Held Him
A Breezy Brookly n Times item notes a boarder at a boarding house failing to pay promptly and fussing over table service. He asks why his napkin is dumpy and the landlady replies that his debt is the cause. The quip captures a humorous domestic moment.
Stingy remark sparks wedding tour anecdote
A Cheage Tribune excerpt recalls a wedding journey where a notorious tightwad, said to be stingy, gave just 10 cents and asked for a receipt, illustrating his frugality in a humorous manner.
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Walter
Cheage Tribune
Inquisitive Exchange on Authority and Control
A fragment from a 19th century snippet presents a dialogue about leaving one’s place and who determines that decision. It highlights the central trait of an impressive being: the power to exercise self command and control.
Famous phrases traced to Cicero and other old sources
The article surveys well known sayings and their origins from Cicero's life to Tudor times. It notes "While there's life there's hope" from Cicero, "We are in the same boat" from a Rome bishop, and "Never put off till tomorrow" linked to Chesterfield, among many others. It highlights the long history and cross era use of common phrases.
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Cicero
Atticus
Clement T
Rome
Corinth
Lord Chester- Huld
Order of the Garter
Edward II
England
Arthur
Windsor Eostly
Arma
Philip
France
Edward
Lord Wen
Chantelior
Henry Brougham
Brougham
Brostan
Bidon
Midon
Mme. du Cormel
Duke of Wellington
Dickens
Micawher
David Copperfield
Tacitus Uo
Julia
Cato
Brutus
Cassius
Asgius
Benjanidi Pranktin
James I
Roylind
Duke of Lucktghian
Louis XIV
Wallace Irwin
Auin Bird Stewart
Minneapolis Journal
Mystery of the Foundling Heir Ends in Court Victory
A Longman couple raised a found baby boy as their own after a basket delivery and a $100 concealment. Years later the heir’s true identity emerged through a hidden bundle of clothing and documents, resolving a murder charge and granting him the Bly estate after a lasting legal fight.
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Daniel
Mary Longman
Mary
Brancis
Teft
Longmans
Mietcher
Phoebe
Reynolds
Phoebe Warried
Rey
Europe
Finmother
Frank Tongman
Frank Words
Longmoins
Thomas Vletcher
Frank
Longman
Thomas Fletcher
Franks
Frank Reynolds
Phoebe Fletcher
Boone
Foundling
Daniel Longman
Hia
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