Alabastine Ad Promises Durable Wall Color Plan
The Alabastine Company promises a complete home color plan for walls including a free color book and stencil set. It touts the product as washable, long lasting, insect and germ resistant, with easy shade or tint options and no peeling like calcimine.
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Alabastine Company
Grandville Avenue
Grand Rapids
Mich
Guy Clifford Bowell
Guy Clifford Powell
Bank Building
Peoria
Hill
Ardent Youth Urges Esperanto Amid Frantic Teasing Dialogue
In a lively page vignette a youth pleads for words to express feeling while an enthusiastic woman hands him a tiny book and urges Mr Grunewald to learn Esperanto. The scene includes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and its claimed soothing effects priced at 25 cents a bottle.
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Dora
Grunewald
Teapot novelty and canal bridge project noted
A quaint teapot family heirloom sparks humorous talk about aging as a man recalls a teapot from 1810 and jokes about cooks. A plan for an eight track swing bridge across the Chicago drain canal near 31st Street is to be operated by electricity, signaling local infrastructure updates.
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31St Street
Captain Jack Aids Cherokee Father In Corralling Ferguson
In a tense chase through pine forests, Captain Jack encounters a young girl Polly and her grandfather, a Cherokee hunter. The old man helps forge Cornwallis despatches to Ferguson and plots to foil pursuers while warning of danger from Tarleton and the mountain men.
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Polly
Jack
Captain Jack
Gilbert Town
Camden
Banastre Tarleton
Fishing Creek
King George
Northby
Cappy Jack
Ferguson
Charlotte
Lord Cornwallis
Perguson
Vlade
Tim
Tarleton
Cornwallis
Leutenant
Margery
A Sparrow Aviator Wins Morning Flight Test
A Washington Herald gag line notes a sparrow among aviators as one adept piloted a birdlike ascent, rotation, and safe landing. A Missouri nine hour workday law for women is cited by Gov Hadley, provoking banter about women’s endless labor. A joke about New Year resolutions follows. A Washington Star quips on the polar controversy and a shared neighborly dispute over snow removal.
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Hadley
Missouri
Crosslets
North Pole
Washington Star
Practical farming tips from a bygone era
A compact collection of rural lore covering horse care, feeding, wool quality, poultry, manure use, dairy practices, and farm building safety. It includes guidance on hay feeding, silage advantages, lamb and calf care, chimney construction, pest control, and the value of predators in rat control.
Wonders for Rheuma Prescription Distributed Widely
A claim touts a syrup of Sarsaparilia and Toris compound with whiskey as a base. It instructs readers to mix a tablespoonful before meals and at bedtime, promising relief to many severe cases and urging druggists to stock the ingredients locally.
Fragmentary health note on breathing and chest pain
A fragment discusses shortness of breath and chest pain with a misused diagram reference. It shows a speaker named Mrs Lapslin explaining symptoms and Pp functions in unclear terms. The text reads as a garbled health advisory with uncertain context.
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Lapslin
Cuticura Soap Ointment Ad Promotes Clean Skin Hair
An old advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for cleansing skin scalp and hands reducing itching inflammation and facial eruptions. It claims purity of ingredients and world wide availability from Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston Mass. Also mentions a Cuticura Book and free mailing.
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al -Who- Do
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Fashion Hints on a Smoke-Blue Suit and Canaries
A fashion note describes a smoke-blue broadcloth suit with a clever modified coat, one-piece skirt and waist, soutache trim and self-covered buttons, and a dotted net wake. It adds that a male canary wholesale costs about 70 cents in Germany, while a female canary costs 17 cents.
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Germany
Postum Helps Wisconsin Mother End Headaches and Stress
A Wisconsin mother reports headaches eased and mood improved after switching from coffee to Postum. She notes her husband and daughter also avoided bilious attacks, crediting Postum with health and happiness. The letter promotes Postum as a healthier coffee alternative with a lasting positive family impact.
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Wellville
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