Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted
An advertising piece extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments. It cites testimonials from women suffering displacements, inflammation, ulcers, and other conditions, claiming long use and urging sick women to write for advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkhares
I. Ellsworth
Mayville
W. P. Boyd
Beaver Ialls
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EF. Pinkham
Side Lights on History of Rome’s Saving Credit
The encircling of the geese saved Rome and prompted mortified Romans to fear posterity misreading the deferring of public danger to street corner orators. Historians insist the credit lies elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Fragmentary Geology Note Reveals Money Claims
A fragmentary OCR passage mentions “Geological,” “Dora-Papa,” and a claim about money to support someone, followed by a testing remark about “testimony of the rooks.” The lines are incomplete and cryptic, with names and terms likely garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dack
Cascadeats: A Natural Bowel Exercise For Constipation
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as the Sawbuck method for regular bowels. It claims two hours of daily wood sawing or ten mile walks, but promotes Cascarets as easier artificial exercise that “tones and stimulates” without purging. The ad warns to buy genuine Sterling Remedy Company tablets stamped CCC, 10 cents a box.
Copper Poisoning Among Copper Industry Workers
Copper poisoning cases are rare but present among copper miners, smelters, and coppersmiths, with symptoms including metallic taste, abdominal distress, vomiting, and convulsions. Prevention hinges on ventilation and cleanliness. treatment emphasizes supportive care for convulsions and digestive upset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brave-founders
Stage mischief and quips echo in a Puck dialogue
The excerpt depicts lively stage banter with garbled dialogue and mock epigrams. Characters tease a writer and a medical chemist while a shy man blushes as he speaks. The scene plays on stage directions and audience-like commentary within a society drama tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tye
Dean
Puck
Not harmonious encounter on a New York subway
A chaotic subway scene in New York features a woman in a coral pink gown arguing with another passenger over a vacant seat. The dynamics show strained politeness as the wearer insists the other should not sit due to her dress, while a third party nearby notes the odd behavior and costume contrast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Odd Name Confusion and Curious Advertisements
Fragmentary newspaper items show a child mispronouncing a name aloud amid a quizzical exchange. The page also lists assorted ads and brief notes: imports to Canada from the United States reach 165 million dollars, a guillotine question, an ointment claim for piles, a teething syrup, a ghost story, and a Minneapolis fur company ad offering guns, traps, hides, and tanning services.
Disputed Proposition Sparks Front-Seat Exchange
A lecturer challenges an elderly man in the front row, claiming all that you are comes from heredity and environment. The man blushes with indignation and insists he never had dealings with hatrym and owes nobody a cent.
Career of Rev Dr Bishop Cabrera in Europe
A brief recount of the Rev Dr Bishop Cabrera, once educated as a Catholic priest, who embraced Protestantism, became a voluntary exile to Gibraltar, and returned to lead the evangelical party after a reformation in TSS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Bishop Cabrera
Spanish Reformed Church
Iit
Gibraltar
Categelical
TSS
Two Sisters Seek Cure With Cuticura Remedies
The letter claims Cuticura products cured eczema for a woman and her sister, and says another sister used Cuticura Resolvent and Pills with praise. It notes a fashion of travel proceeds to all Calcurn remedies and mentions Edith Hammer of Morrison Mississippi October 3, 1906, and a Norway law about replanting trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hine
Misa Edith Hammer
I. YD
Morrison
Unclear historical note on vacanols and shipping loss
Fragmentary entry reports an average annual loss to world shipping of 2 172 vacanols and mentions phrases about being completely mfusing and never heard of again. The text is incomplete and lacks identifiable persons, places, organizations, dates, or events to establish a coherent news item.
Commissioner Smith Faces Oil Company in Taxed Debate
The piece probes Commissioner Smith's rebuttal to President Moffett of Standard Oil Indiana. It argues Smith misreads tariff facts about six and eighteen cent rates, Dal ton origin notes, and Chicago territory practices. The author contends Standard Oil was unjustly fined and labels the government's stance as overreaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Knox Smith
Moffett
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
East St. Louis
Alton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Illinois
Atttack
Smith
Dalton
Dolton
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Astern Illinois
Commissioner of Corporations
Chappell
Harvey
Illinois Central
Blue Island
Rock Island
President Moffett
Grand Jury
Standard Oil
Ter
Itory
Landis
Trafic Department
Tril
Judge Landis
St. Louis
Rice
Marietta
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Commonwealth
Tardell
Standard
United States
Bar of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt
Kenesaw Landis
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Wwe
Sterling Remedy Company
Treati
Pennsylvanna
Canada
Great Britain
Siberia
New Jersey
Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
Dodds
By Guai
Eclahia
Lawad
Norway
Thompson
Northwestern Harness Co
Sioux City
Iowa
Orner
Eutalog No
W.l.douglas
Sam
Ien
Famil' We
Bisses
Las
Aeganes
Aslua
Douglas
Nate
Commissioner Smith
The
Standard Oil Co
Railway World
Havens
Sloan's
Earl $.Sloan
Boston
Mass
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