Busted Minds and Promises in Vintage Ad Tone
An old advertisement fragment touts CASCARETS as a cure for constipation and brain "action" with claims of a million boxes monthly. It pairs pseudo medical hype with rugged land offers for Linwood Land Company in Wyoming, promoting irrigated land and high yields.
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Notable quotes and anecdotes from historic figures
The fragment cites a Philadelphia Ledger remark on Corn growers and a court exchange about integrity and age. It also recalls Sunday Magazine noting Andrew Jackson’s precocious rise from 14 in the revolutionary period to attorney at 28, senator at 30, and president at 62.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Andrew ‘Jackson
Washington
Tennessee
United States
Sunday Magazine
Dressed as Scholars at Eastbourne College Wedding
A fragment from a Boston Herald column recalls a wedding tale about Skiggs and Skeggs, a moral about advertising, and a stray line from a Chicago Tribune humor piece. It also mentions a boy named Koward Pay son Weston needing shoes, dated over sixty years ago.
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Eastbourne ‘College
Skiggs
Skeggs
Skegge
Boston Herald
Koward Payson Weston
Chicago Tribune
Misery Ends as Baltimore Woman Seeks Relief from Illness
A Baltimore resident describes four years of extreme illness including irregularities and severe nervousness. She sought relief through Lydia E. Pinkham remedies, hoping for a life after persistent misery.
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Baltimore
Lydia E. Pink
Rita
Various Indiana News Briefs Chronicle Local Mishaps
A roundup of short Indiana notices reports Anthony Whisker injured by a hay fork near Shelbyville, Adam Silvers fined for forcibly tearing a shirtwaist, and Cedar Street couple limiting visitors to protect their triplets. Also covered are drownings, lightning damage, a potential skunk farm injunction, divorces, deaths, weather effects, and peculiar local anecdotes.
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Charles Spicher
Cedar Street
Anderson
Robert Baker
Idaville
Logansport
Baker
Samantha Bennett
Sullivan
Charles Bennett
Bennett
Cuticura Remedies Bring Relief in Highlandtown Letter
A reader reports severe itching eased after using Cuticura Ointment, two complete sets, with the cure described as complete. The message, dated Jan 9, 1908 from Miss Barbara Kral of Highlandtown Maryland, credits a friend for the remedy and notes Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. as sole proprietors.
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Barbara Kral
Highlandtown
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuticura Remedies
Boston
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Linwood Land Company
Bock Springs
Wyoming
Eddie
Holden
Omaha Neby
Coe Bea
Torny
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek, Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Val
Review OF Indiana
Anthony Whisker
Shelbyville
Adam Silvers
Brazil
Annie Carter
Miss Carter
Luath Weamer
Quincy Reynolds
Varl Hall
Clinton
Benjamin Howe
Ed Sealer
James H. Bacon
Central Union Telephone Company
West Twenty-seventh Street
Indianapolis
Central Avenue
Forty-sixth Street
Wabash County
Sampson Hoch
Wabash
Ethel Hudson
Shelby Street
Vincennes
Lock Suey
Lucy
William Doddridge
Mentone
Mary E. Ormsby
Bluffton
John T. Ormsby
Babcock
Root-Preble
Adams County
Lafayette Tryon
Bippus
Indiana
Joseph Robbins
Spiceland
Maxwell Briscoe Park
New Castle
Goshen
J. M. Noble
Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church of
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W. H. Whittaker
Indiana Reformatory
Whittaker
Wallace Boster
Kendallville
Julia Delawater
Qld
Charley
Antamal
City
A. B. Rhodes
A. P. Fenn
Tell City
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Taft
Roosevelt
Robert T. Lincoln
Henry Waterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Thomas R. Marshall
Charles K. McClelland
Danville
Alfred Allee
Moore
Myrtle Harsh
Rey
G. Emerson Harsh
Second English Lutheran Church of
Richmond
Eaksham College
Miss Harsh
Earlham
Greenville
Ohio
Chris Reigler
Greensburg
Reigler
Andrew Ritter
Huntington
W. H. Kingery
Terre Haute
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Bob
Evansville
Chas. H. Fletcher
Joe
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Richelle
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A. F. Peeler
St. Louis
E. Down
Philadelphia
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Omaha
Neb
J. A. Parker
Kansas City
H. F. Merrill
Augusta
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Cleveland
Yonkers
Puck
Dodds
P Guart
Mr. Steinfeldt
Jupiter
Aerate Les Paes Ss
Paxton
Mass
Eadle
Niagara Falls
Nickel Plate Road
FP. P. Parnin
Ft. Wayne
Ind
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Poe
Sisto
Aranthen
Daisy Fly Killep
Harold
Sonars
Brooklys
Mincespolis
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Gere
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