Woman Finds Relief via Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Winona Minnesota woman Mrs Albert Sultze recounts years of nervous trouble and sleepless nights. After trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports better nerves and mornings with energy to work. The ad touts the remedy as a standard treatment for displaced organs inflammation irregularities backache dizziness and nervous prostration.
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Winona
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Albert Sultze
Olmstead St
Three Kinds of Gentlemen in Ireland Revisited
Ireland once classified men into three types. The half mounted or Buckskin Breeches traced to Cromwell’s soldiers. the gentleman every one of him descended from forfeited old families who toiled in trades or professions. and the backbone gentlemen who owned estates and relied on peasant labor.
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Ireland
Emerald Isle
Liege
Bookshop search for a synonym book turns up none
A superior customer asks for a book of synonyms and the clerk checks with the boss but finds no such work in stock. The Birmingham Age-Herald notes the exchange as a humorous vignette on bibliographic search.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Never Can Tell in Military Service Reflections
A pithy remark on judging men by claimed salaries before service and the caution against judging too early, noting that it is never too late to learn humility and restraint in assessment.
Belgium and Luxembourg: German Invasion Through Battles and Atrocities
An eyewitness recounts German troops sweeping Belgium and Luxembourg with bayonet searches, mass arrests, and overwhelming artillery. Civilians flee as cities Burn and forts fall under 42 centimeter mortars and Zeppelins. A Luxembourger is jailed for implicit antiwar sentiment.
After Neuve Chateau Fall German Forces Loot City
Civilians and soldiers lie dead and wounded in Neuve Chateau after a hand to hand fight. The next installment details German troops following officers orders to show no mercy.
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Neuve Chateau
Bright Eton Boys Howlers Show Schoolboy Wit
A collection of schoolboy misprints from Eton shared by the vice provost includes a joke claiming Homer was written by another named man and beads defined as an old man called Adam Bede. The peak is a definition of a vacuum as the place where the pope lives, followed by gravity as a limit of ten miles an hour.
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Eton
Bede
Adam Bede
Quick Wit and Tardiness Ironies in Wartime Jests
A collection of light jokes on wives, gusty talk, and a slow rookie at Great Lakes. The company commander challenges a tardy recruit while a mother-in-law quip is cited as a remedy for a sick man, illustrating wartime humor and family barbs.
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Great Lakes
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C. Rettinger
W. Seymour &J
Kentland
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R. P. Feaster
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Dean
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