Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery promotes health claims
A promotional description of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery stresses glycerine as a nutritive and solvent medium, highlighting its supposed medicinal properties with Golden Seal root, Queen's root and Black Cherry bark. It claims benefits for coughing, digestion, and general nutrition while noting it is not a miracle cure and offering free literature and private consultations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Goldet
Dr. Pierce
BR. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N.Y
Dirt on Family Potatoes Forgotten Wash
In a Kansas City Times note from a family camping south of town, Georgie forgot to wash hands before peeling potatoes. He reported washing off dirt, cutting them, and discarding the small remaining spuds, prompting a humorous account of the mishap.
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Georgie
Georgia
Kansas City
Cuticura Hair Cure Ad Promises Full scalp Health
Luxuriant bald heads covered with hair claim cleansing by Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as the great skin cure. It stops falling hair removes crusts scales and dandruff kills hair parasites soothes itching stimulates follicles and nourishes roots. Complete external and internal treatment offered for pimples to scrofula priced at one dollar. A single set often suffices.
Plausible Theory In A Plumber's Office
A great detective is summoned to a plumber's office where the plumber questions a trusted employee who vanished after three days while sent to collect a bill in the suburbs. The detective jokes the young man may still be counting small bills to verify the amount.
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G. d
Wall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Endorsements
An advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Wall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. Endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin and J Cheney & Co of Toledo claim long-standing integrity and financial reliability. The text states cure claims, price 75 cents per bottle, and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Inet
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Hall
Desert trek revives a weary Iowa professor
In southern Arizona a Farley Iowa professor W J McGee with an Indian companion two centipedes and a Gila monster endured four months on hot desert sands without bed or cover. He slept unprotected and lost health but later regained his former vigor.
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Arizona
W. J. McGee
Farley
Iowa
Guaranteed Cure for Piles Poses Refund Promise
An advertisement promises a guaranteed cure for piles with itching burning and bleeding with protruding piles. Druggists will refund money if Vazoo ointment fails to cure within six to fourteen days, price five cents.
In Their Proper Order Bonnet and Coat Reported
In the Philadelphia Post a brief item notes Mrs Muchwelde meeting Mrs Friv, who wore a new bonnet and a new fall coat. The exchange includes reference to a “mew husband” described as lovely.
Hitchcock Reports On Land Fraud Prosecutions
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock presents an eight hundred page annual report detailing prosecutions of land fraud on the Pacific coast. It notes indictments and trials, enforcement of public land laws, and calls for repeal or modification of timber and desert land acts to curb crime. It lists fiscal year land disposals, cash receipts, and timber violations, with dozens of cases pending and criminal prosecutions ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock
Department
Thend Service
Pacific Coast
Public Lands Commission
United States
What Our Navy Costs and Why It Is High
The Navy Department seeks Congress to build three battleships next year as costs mount. Last year the government spent 19.95 million to maintain ships afloat plus 3.5 million for nine receiving ships and 5.01 million for repairs. Individual ships show bills from 25,000 to 591,000 for annual expenses, with battleships costing the most to operate.
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Navy Department
Congress
Navy
Mearsarge
Maine
Missouri
Wisconsin
Baltimore
Brooklyn
Oregon
Dolphin
Roosevelt
New York Leads in Charity Spending and Hospital Care
The year saw over 28 million dollars spent on hospitals and 10 million on orphan asylums in the United States. New York City alone treated about 10,848.5 cases per 100,000 residents, vastly higher than the national rate. The U.S. produced about 1,500 fiction books that year.
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United States
New York
New York City
Infrequent Occasions and Quis Itor Quips
A fragmentary page includes a playful exchange about love between Pana Tom and Rapa, with a dry quip from the quis itor. It then shifts to ad copy for Laxative Brom Quinine Tablets promising refunds and signatures. A brief literary aside notes Venus Adonis and a consumer testimonial praising Piso's Cure for Consumption for asthma from W. I. Wood of Farmersburg.
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W. I. Wood
Farmersburg, Nd
Eels Scarce at Scottish Tables Despite Abundance
In Scotland eels are plentiful in waters and caught in large quantities yet they are not eaten by natives. The eel's serpentlike look and indiscriminate feeding habits are cited as reasons for the aversion, despite size and abundance across districts.
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Hels
Scotland
Laundering the Baby's Clothes Guidance
An advisory note from Eleanor R. Parker urges mothers to wash baby garments at home under mother's direction and to use Ivory Soap only to avoid skin irritation from harsh alkalies in other soaps.
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Eleanor R. Parker
The Wasteful Captain and a Daring Tale
A tale from Tit-Bits features a witty exchange aboard a ship when a captain reveals the propeller’s speed and jokes about throwing twenty knots overboard. The item sits beside an ad for Dean's Kidney Pills and a note on a massive log raft towed into San Francisco Bay, 10,000,000 feet of lumber from the Columbia River.
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San Francisco Bay
Columbia River
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
A historical medicine advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an unsurpassed remedy for a wide range of female ailments and uterine disorders. It claims cures for backache, leucorrhoea, menstrual issues, and nervous debility, promoting universal acceptance and urging use over substitutes.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Tur KR
Paxtom Company
Boston
Matt
Muli
Mull
Jobber
Mull’s Grape Tonic Co., Makers
Third Ave
Rock Island, Il
Price
W. Diemer
M.D
Springfield
Ife
Sama Up
Pana
Quisitor
Tom
Rapa
Philadelphia Press
B. W. Grove
Venus
Melane
Milwaukee Sentinel
W. G. Davis
Groesbeck
Texas
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
N. Y
George S. Nixon
Nevada
Cc. N. U
Thompson
Stmoia Als
The
California Fig Syrup Co
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
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