Peruna praised by South Carolina senator for dyspepsia relief
Ex Senator M. C. Butler writes from Washington praising Peruna Medicine Co. for treating dyspepsia and stomach catarrh. He reports relief after short use and calls Peruna a wonderful medicine. The note links stomach catarrh to dyspepsia and promotes Peruna as the internal remedy. A separate item notes a Prussian Saxony case where Johann Furtmann is prosecuted for sneezing in public. He is acquitted after a trial and a new hearing is ordered amid appeals to medical testimony.
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M. C. Butler
Perune
Sen‘ator
South Carolina
Washington, D. C
Perona Medicine Co
Perona
Johann Furtmann
Muhlhausen
Prussian
Saxony
Furtmann
Urtmann
Grosa
Ortmann
Leah
Inventor wife and stair water misadventure headline
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip about a wife who is an inventor in mechanics and an upstairs stair water device that records a husband’s arrival time. The piece transitions to an advertisement extolling Grape-Nuts as a digestion friendly food, featuring testimonials from a Maine reader and a call to read The Road to Wellville.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Between Two Fires and a Political Helix in Aureataland
In a tangled Aureataland episode, Jones recounts a daring burglary and switch of power. A wall safe yields $300,000 as McGregor and Whittingham scheme influence, while the Signorina contemplates loyalties amid martial law and a looming tension between factions. The narrator navigates money, love, and danger, revealing a shifting web of power, betrayal, and possible flight.
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Simovina
Burghit
A. Golconta
Carr
Signorina
Jones
Jack
Whittingham
Aureataland
Ana
Belleve
Cam
Chen
Jack Dent
Toyo
Tye
McGregor
Women Who Wear Well and the Secret of Health
An 19th century style advertisement extols “Favorite Prescription” as a remedy for changes from marriage and motherhood. It claims to restore freshness, vigor, and form, touting non alcoholic natural ingredients and a physician’s endorsement. It advertises Dr. Plarcea of Saint ValeValids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, New York, for consultations.
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Plarcea
Saint Valevalids
Hotel and Surgical Institut
Buffalo
N.Y. A
Wat a Margatn misadventure told in a noted press
The Philadelphia Press quotes a dialogue where Miss Bosley marries a man she underestimates. She expects a million but ends up paying two million, highlighting a costly miscalculation in a witty exchange.
Deafness cured by constitutional remedies, not local
A Chicago Inter Ocean clipping notes that deafness cannot be cured by local applications since the Eustachian tube inflames from catarrh. It states hearing loss results from chronic inflammation, with a promise of a hundred dollars for cures by Hall's Catarrh Cure and urges sending for free circulars. It also mentions Hall’s Family Pills for constipation and a Hyde Park newsboy who promotes a misleading fire bulletin game aboard trolley cars.
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Hall
Tree
F. J, Chenry & CO
Toledo
Ho Clin
Hyde Pari
Bunko
Lim
Jfen
Cottage Grove Nye
Hyde Parkers
Chicago
Why the moon faces us in the same way
In a comical exchange, a coachman asks about the moon’s fixed face and a professor explains it as the moon’s rotation coinciding with its orbit. The banter shifts to a pun about bananas at a wedding, joking that guests are always ready to throw the slipper when the pairing ends.
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McGregor
Jones
Joan
Signorina
Tie
Martin
Nugent
Whittingham
Eomarcus W. Whittingham
Republic of Auréata- Land
McGregor Ae
Signorina’s
Christina
John
Jack
Shelleyan
Amy Darling
Baltimore
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