Pink Pills touted as remedy for female suffering
A testimonial declares Dr Williams Pink Pills cure weakness, headaches, and uterine troubles. Mrs Arthur Conklin of Battle Creek credits the medicine with restoring health after years of ailment, claiming relief from leucorrhea, back pain, and fatigue. Sold by druggists and Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
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Coldwater Street
Battle Creek
Mich
Williams
Dr. Williams
All Druggista
Inbound Rival Journeys to Heaven’s Gate
A quip filled exchange from the Houston Post about an entrant seeking admission to a force watching for Rockefeller. The new rival asks can he enter and is told the business is to show how he obtained his money. An accountant explains the need for an itemized statement detailing the origin of Rockefeller’s wealth as the main gatekeeping concern.
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St. Peter
Rockefeller
Houston Post
Mull's Grape Tonic Claims to Cure Constipation
An sensational self help Q and A extols Mull's Grape Tonic as a cure for constipation and stomach trouble. It denounces pills and laxatives as injurious and asserts the tonic uses Concord grape juice to strengthen the intestines and restore normal waste elimination. A free bottle is offered to first time buyers.
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Mull
Gove
Permaa
Goncord
Ean Mull
Indulgent mothers urge boys to stay in bed
A fragment notes how mothers tell a boy to get up in a tone that encourages him to stay in bed, while a label bears a date and number stamped on the container.
Practical Poultry Houses and Window Garden Tips
A periodical note covers building a four box poultry house with removable backs and tops, sloping roof, waterproofing, south facing windows and nesting boxes. It advises arranging window plants by grouping ferns primroses cyclamen and violets. It also describes a simple gate for farm fences, packing pork in salt for preservation, and signs of chronic indigestion in cows suggesting veterinary diagnosis.
Reducing Farm Expenses and Manure Management
Readable excerpt outlines best practices for handling stable manure including pits and storage, and emphasizes winter upkeep. It urges veterinarians for chronic indigestion in cows and advises spreading manure on fields or storing in cement-backed pits. It also stresses reducing costs by maintaining wagons and tools and culling unprofitable stock to keep only the most productive animals.
Driving bit aims to curb runaway horses in Seattle invention
A Seattle inventor describes a driving bit that gives a driver full control by linking a jointed mouthpiece and rein rings to a curved snaffle bar. The design centers the bars with a hinge under the lower jaw and uses an overdraw guard to connect a curved chin bar. The inventor claims humane action that avoids excessive jaw opening, mouth irritation, and chafing while preventing runaways.
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Seattle
Salt for Farm Animals From An Old Almanac
Farmers often overlook timely salt for livestock. Sheep need careful handling with small daily amounts, while other animals can have limited access to a salt lump. Pigs benefit from a salt lump in the trough corner and mashed feed lightly salted. fowls should have small daily salt in mash. Salt increases thirst, so provide clean water.
Managing Stock and the Value of Proper Care
Managing stock rests on careful management and strong genetics. Food quality matters for meat and milk, but animal efficiency varies. The farmer’s vigilance is essential, as profits depend on attentive care for all livestock. Valley frosts arise from cold clear-night air settling in valleys, lack of wind, and rich soils fostering later plant growth that increases evaporation.
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promoted As Cure All
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for women's ailments including female complaints inflammation and ulceration and spinal weakness. It claims suitability for the change of life and promises a sure cure.
Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promises Female Health
A door to long period relief and overall female weakness cures. It asserts high success against bearing down pain headaches irregularities and digestive complaints. It claims to harmonize the female system and invites readers to write for confidential advice from Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham Medical Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Spormme Sraxur Ad Reappears In Turbulent Era
An old line for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children is quoted in a Washington Star fragment. The ad promises relief for wind colic and pain and mentions a price of percent cents a bottle. A humorous exchange about hard luck and work accompanies the snippet.
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Pete
Washington Star
San Francisco
Cal
New York
Louisville
California Fig Syrup Co
An Injun Came Down From New Haven Joke
A church anecdote reports a Sunday sermon in which a child quotes a misheard text. The minister plans to speak on an angel taking a coal from the altar, while the child’s mother asks for the evening message. The boy retorts with a humorous reinterpretation involving an Injun and a live colt.
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Little Willie
Willie
New Haven
Magazine of Fun
Inbreeding Fowl Is Discussed By Globe-Democrat
The St Louis Globe-Democrat argues that inbreeding among mongrels should be minimized but not avoided entirely. Over three years, with careful selection of the best fowls on each side, a self bred line can be developed for utility flocks while avoiding excessive culling of future breeders.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Contagious cough remedy ad proclaims cure for 26 cents
An advertisement rails against continuous coughing in the congregation as an outrage while promoting Anti-Gripine a guaranteed cure sold for 26 cents. Manufacturer F W Dimer M D lists Springfield Missouri as the origin claiming widespread availability.
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F. W. Diemer
M. D
Springfield
W. Diemer
J.D
Tia
Canadian Gretna Green now Windsor Ontario near border
London Tit Bits reports Windsor Ontario, formerly Gretna Green, has absorbed the nickname as a Canadian marriage hub. The Ontario legislature notes at least 800 marriages occurred there last year, with many couples crossing from the United States to wed.
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Windsor
Ontario
United States
London
England
Cure a Cold in One Day Ad with Bromo Quinine Tablets
An old advertisement claims a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. Each box bears E W Grove’s signature and is priced at 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
A Polite Freshman Telegram Confusion
A father asks his son Meagles to report Harvard entrance results. The son replies Yes J. Meagles Jr. When queried further he sends back Yes sir. The brief telegram exchange appears in Judge as a humorous anecdote about a polite freshman and miscommunication.
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Meagles
Harvard
J. Meagles, Jr
A. R. Holcombe
The Counterfeiter’s Son Reflects On Fakes and Past Coins
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer-note voice, a son of an old counterfeiter surveys the bogus coins before him. He concedes they are not as good as the dollars his father once produced, shaking his head with wary ethics.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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