Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound testimonial
A Chicago woman thanks Mrs. Pinkham for curing female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses the product and urges others to try it, asserting her eight year battle with illness ended in seven months of treatment. The missive cites the author’s address and a $6000 forfeit note.
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MRA
Jensle
Odonnell
Onitine
the Wonderful Ours
E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Fragmented verse note on a hero and mother’s view
A fragmentary text shows a boy blamed as a worthless looter by all except his mother. A sudden crisis tests courage as a hero signals with a note. The scene shifts to reactions of the crowd and a mention of Edwin L. Sabin in Good Housekeeping.
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Crisia
Edwin L. Sabin
Tramp, Boss Clash at Bristow Station on Prairie Route
At Bristow Station in the Pan Handle of Texas Bert Brown, K and M agent, clashes with a bully section boss who beats tramps. Bert intervenes, later ferries a tramp to safety, then races to a ruined bridge amid a gale to warn Clairsville and stop a freight. The storm wrecks the temporary track and tests Bert’s resolve.
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Bristow
Texas
Bert Brown
Brlatow
Bert
Anffiall Creek
Hart
Clairsville
Tramp Bellboy Solves Runaway Train Peril
Bert Brown uncovers a ghostly telegram from a sleeping tramp warning of runaway cattle cars. The message saves the railroad from a smashup, but the unnamed hero dies, leaving Bert to honor him at Bristow Station.
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Clathaville
Asd
Clairsville
Gond
Bert Brown
Bristow Station
New York Evening Sun
Mounds near Cahokia hailed as world wonder by Dr Baum
Dr Henry Mason Baum led a party to the Cahokia mound complex on the Illinois border between St Clair and Madison counties. He called the 63 mounds one of the world’s wonders and the largest antiquity in the United States, noting vast earth-moving, possible uncompleted construction, and the site as a major burial place akin to Egyptian pyramids.
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Egypt
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Madison
Ulincis
Henry Mason Baum
Washington
Warka
Tigra- Euphrates Valley
Pyramids of Tgynt
Cahokia
Mississippi Valley
United States
St. Louis
Europe
America
We All Know Them
A compact item from the Ohio State Journal notes that some individuals will seize even a small chance to fabricate or misrepresent material assets, highlighting caution about deceitful behavior.
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Ohio State Journal
Jumping from Moving Cars Warns of Nervous Disorders
A 19th century medical warning argues that jumping from moving cars at crossings or platforms causes spinal injuries and nervous disorders. It blames repeated jolts for vertebral misalignments and later systemic collapse, advocating cautious half stops to prevent long term damage.
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Cora
Moors Indifferent to Life and a Soldier’s Fate
A traveller’s tale from Morocco shows Moorish indifference to life. The sultan’s boat capsized in his gardens with him and two wives aboard. A guard saved the sultan’s favorite wife, but the soldier later faced execution after the monarch ordered punishment for looking at the royal captive.
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Morocco
Teaching a Parrot in Two Simple Ways
A Detroit Free Press note explains two methods to teach a parrot to talk. One method hides the trainer in a dark room and repeats the word 400 to 600 times, while another uses light but distracts the bird. It claims only male parrots learn human speech, with females unable to acquire it.
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Detroit Free Press
Waltzing Mice in China and Japan Linked to Reifluement
Dr K Kishi concludes that the dancing mice owe no inner ear disease. After examining their ears, he finds the organs perfectly healthy. The dancing is attributed to centuries of reifluement of the race in small-ager terms.
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China
Japan
K. Kishi
Congressman Aldrich Recommends Peruna Tonic
W F Aldrich congressman from Alabama writes from Washington praising Peruna manufactured by The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio as a safe tonic that builds up the system. H S Emory Omaha notes many lodge members credit Peruna for stomach catarrh kidney and nerve complaints and says it tones the system aids digestion and induces sleep amid hot summer months.
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Alabaum
Wallington
D. C
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
H. S. Dmory
Omaha
Neh
Sixteenth Street
Pereng
Gufferers
H. S. Emory
Peruna Promises Cure for Catarrh and Nerves
An advertisement touts Peruna as a universal remedy for blood, digestion, nerves, and brain. claims strong testimonials and offers a free book on catarrhal diseases of gummer. Columbus Ohio based Peruna Medicine Co. asserts Verona as a tonic with 0,000 letters supporting its merits.
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Perma Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Verona
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