Munyon's Paw Paw Pills Promise Gentle Stimulation
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills claim to coax activity without scour or gripe, tonic for stomach liver and nerves, enrich blood, safe non calomel. Available in 10c and 25c sizes. Free medical advice from Munyon's Doctors. Also advertised are Munyon's Cold Remedy at 28c and Rheuma Remedy priced 25c with quick relief claims.
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Wanyon
Munyon
IMMPS
S3d
Jefferson Srs
Philadelphia
Editor Cligston Thanks Unknown Donor For Turkey Gift
The Spike Town Blizzard editor expresses gratitude for a six pound turkey left on Christmas Eve doorstep. The note says the giver meant well and hopes to remain anonymous. The paper promises to send the donor the gizzard if an address is provided.
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Cligston
Rest and Peach Skin Care Remedy Ad
An old advert promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for infant skin relief including itching burning and rashes. It claims immediate comfort for infants and rest for parents, and notes products are sold by druggists with a free Cuticura Book offered by Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston Mass.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
The British Laugh At Theories And Rousseau
An old dinner remark by a duke and Thomas Carlyle leads to a retort about Rousseau and The Social Contract. A dated note mentions sore eyes and Pettit's Eye Salve, then surveys the antiquity of the water pump from Greek origins to seventeenth century innovations and Morland's 1674 plunger pump.
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Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo N
Philadelphos
Energetes
Hero
Alexandria
Germany
Morland
de la Hire
Pench
Murine Eye Salve Trial Size Ad Placed
An old advertisement urges readers to ask their doctor or write Murine Eye Remedy Co in Chicago for aseptic trial size tubes of Murine Eye Salve. It promotes care for eye ailments with a focus on consumer accessibility. The copy mentions Druggist and Chicago address.
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Murine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Two Explorers Divide Pole Discovery Spoils
Two explorers who independently found the south pole meet and decide to publish a joint book and share lecturing dates. They plan one to handle speeches and the other to present pictures on the screen, dividing the spoils in what they call a satisfactory arrangement.
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South Pole
Unfledged Romance Sparks Half Page Banter and Italian Landslide
A comic clash over courting etiquette appears in a Times vignette as a sophisticated maiden rebukes a suitor. In another item a slowly moving landslide on an Italian mountain threatens a village of about 1,000 residents two miles long and half a mile wide.
Secret Ride Through a Ball Dress Pursuit
In a dusk of colonial intrigue Captain Ireton and Margery race through a masquerade scene to warn Dick Jennifer as Tarleton's men close in. A border partisan ambush and a chaotic pursuit at the gate force a desperate escape on the waiting horses.
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John
Richard
Démutréa
Tam
Impressive Appraisement of Time and Golf Funds
A witty exchange quotes Time is money and Every minute is precious as Dustin Stax boasts he spent nearly a million dollars on golf after lunch. The Washington Star captions the remark as a liberal gesture amid snappy banter about leisure and expense.
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Dustin Stax
Links
Washington Star
Real Question and Quick Quips from Old Papers
A Washington Star quote about a boy eager for school shows how learning lightens a parent’s load as a relative notes the child’s growing desire to dazzle with knowledge. The Harper’s Monthly exchange features a playful mother and child about conscience and naughtiness.
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Mr. Bliggins
Washington Star
Bessile
Bessie
Harper’s Monthly
Fragmented overheard dialogue reflects dramatic flirtation
A garbled dialogue excerpt shows a young woman and others debating improvements while a critic’s roast looms. A quip about hiring wives to play minor parts hints at backstage theatre politics and marital tensions.
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Iphem
Puck
Over the Bridge Beneath the Mocking River Sings
A poetic passage reflects on contrast between poverty and pomp as people cross a river bridge while the river mocks their vanity. Fragmented verses by Frederick E. Weatherby and Eugene Field explore longing, life’s transience, and faith as a child pleads to enter heaven.
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Frederick E. Weatherby
Ganjah Smoking a Curse Overtakes the West Indies
A British Honduras planter describes ganjah or Indian hemp use spreading from the tropics to California and Central America. He notes how inhalation causes euphoria followed by aggression and murder, with long term effects weakening the brain and body. He warns of profit motives behind the trade and related social harm.
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Mexico
India
West Indies
California
Canadian
Panama
Mae
Western Canada as a Grain Producer Shows Potential
Gust Anderson of Maidstone Saskatchewan, formerly from Minnesota, describes three years in Central Canada. He reports profitable farming with 25 acres broken in 1908, 2234 bushels per acre of wheat in a heavy August frost, 60 bushels of oats, and 1300 bushels of oats from 20 acres in 1909. He notes plentiful May to August rain, shallow water, and abundant grass for cattle. A press dispatch adds that wheat quality remains high, with 84.28 percent high grade staff in 3878 cars during February, indicating farmers in the Dominion continue to grow first class wheat.
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Gust. Anderson
Maidstone
Saskatchewan
Minnesota
Canada
Pebrudry
Dominion
Missing ships haunt Cape Horn era sea routes
The New York Press notes that many sailing ships vanished during the Cape Horn era. It cites ten large wind-jammers lost in 1908 and recalls the Fort George, a four masted American vessel of 1,770 net tons, along with other ships swallowed by the oceans during long voyages.
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Fort George
Cape Horn
New York Press
The Blot on His Fast
The weighty confession scene unfolds as a woman urges her partner to reveal secrets before marriage. He hesitates then admits a two month stamp flirtation with another girl, seeking mercy to begin their life together free of a shadow.
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Dan Morgan
Thornicroft
Father Matthieu
Richard
Monsieur John
Bessie
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