Sarsaparilla Promises Cure For Ailments And Fatigue
Sarsaparilla purportedly cures all humors catarrh and rheumatism relieves tiredness restores appetite cures paleness and nervousness and strengthens the system. Available in liquid form or Garaataba chocolated tablets.
Thompson's Eye Water promotion in Brooklyn ad
An old newspaper fragment advertises Thompson's Eye Water by Harold Bombes of 160 Death Avenue Brooklyn. The copy claims clear, ornamental conven and neat season benefits, priced at 20 cents prepaid, with warnings about spills and injury and guaranteed effects.
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Harold Bombes
Brooklyn
N.T
Silence That Was Wasted by Aunt Melissa and Family Huffs
Aunt Melissa's loquacious nature clashes with Uncle Silas who falls into a days long silence over a coffee sugar dispute. A daughter notes the silent rift and the mother expresses disbelief at the length of the huff, revealing family dynamics and humor from Youth's Companion.
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Melissa Spigott
Bilas
Melissa
Silas
Janie Maud
Australia’s Libraries Reach Five Hundredth Milestone
Victoria’s free libraries celebrate their 500th opening amid strong patronage. The network collects about 340000 in revenue from halls, subscriptions and grants, holds around a million books, and records roughly 3.5 million visits yearly. Fiction tops reading, with history and general literature also favored.
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Australia
Victoria
Lunch Fit for a King by Grape Nuts User Story
An active young woman describes relief from nervous prostration and dyspepsia after using Grape Nuts. She reports improved health, fewer sick days, and credits a noon lunch with Grape Nuts plus fruit. She notes the product’s book Road to Wellville as valuable and endorses the brand’s claims.
Skyscraper Ambition: Woolworth Tower Tops City Skyline
The article proclaims a 55 story Woolworth Building rising one seventh mile above ground, soon to be the world’s tallest business structure beside Paris’s Eiffel Tower. It pictures builders as modern titans, explores height limits, and contrasts past and future skylines with vivid, if speculative, tone.
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Eiffel Tower
New York
Woolworth
Salvator
Hiffel
Paria
Chicago
Singer
Gotham
Metropolitan
Burn Mansion for a Show in New Rochelle
The 250 year old Sicard mansion once a hub of colonial aristocracy was burned by a moving picture company to film rescue scenes and a village bucket brigade. The site will host a new Episcopal church after the auction of the old house.
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New Rochelle
Sicard
Moving Picture
Immigrant Girls Vanish From Midwest Train Runs
Grace Abbott of Hull House warned at the YWCA convention that about 1,800 foreign girls have gone missing after being placed on trains to Chicago and the West in the past year and a half. She urged a federal immigration bureau in Chicago as a check on white slave work.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hillis
Chicago
Grace Abbott
Hull House
Young Women’s Christian Association of America
Miss Abbott
Miss Abbott Sai
Virginia Colonial Gardens amid old Virginia estates charm
The article extols colonial gardens as timeless adornment seen at White House and Mount Vernon. It notes Virginia led in stately, informal layouts with box hedges, terraces, fountains, and rustic summer houses. It emphasizes enduring trees, Vine-clad structures, and the influence of visitors planting commemorative trees and roses.
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Virginia
Old Dominion
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Old
England
New York
New England
Nelly Custis
Mount Vernon
White House
Washington
Paris Siege Bread Traces From French Blockade Smuggled Tale
A Boston collector showcases a Paris siege bread now as hard as a brick and unpalatable. Memoirist Elimile Bergerat recalls months of meager rations, bone and nail rumors, and a bakery forged from a blacksmiths craft as chemists doubted any bread could endure the armistice.
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Boston
Paris
Elimile Bergerat
Gautier
Bergerot
Berthelot
Jules Favre
Ferrieres
Bismarck
Animal Kingdom
Bergerat
A Simple System Weather Prophet Brown
A humorous remark questions Brown's high regard as a weather prophet. It suggests his optimism drives predictions, as he proclaims rain during droughts and a change to clear weather when rain falls.
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Brown
Western Canada Beyond the Pioneer Stage
A New York Commercial article from April 9 outlines Western Canada as a thriving frontier with land priced at 8 to 18 dollars per acre, rising to 30 or more in two years. It highlights abundant water, wood, fertile soil, educational systems, and strong opportunities for grain, mixed farming, and livestock along railway corridors.
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New York
Canada
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
United States
New York Commercial
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Northern
Empire
Imperial Dominions
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Western
Hypnotic Claims and Oddities in Conversation
Dialogue fragments reveal beliefs about hypnotism by Margaret and Katherine. Mentions of hand hypnosis, a cryptic line about speaking, and a Garfield Tea claim to aid digestion by stimulating organs. The text mixes casual chatter with attributed products and social quirks.
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