Munyons Paw-Paw Pills Promoted As Cure-All
An advertisement touts Munyons Paw-Paw Pills as the best stomach and liver remedy for constipation indigestion jaundice biliousness sour stomach and headaches. It claims rapid relief from digestive ills and offers a money-back guarantee with a Philadelphia address for orders. The page also includes humorous clippings about stage fright and quick thinking from newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T-Munyon
Jefferson Sis
Phiadelphia
Allen's Foot-Ease and related mentions in ad text
Ad copy promotes Allen's Foot-Ease free sample to ease tired swollen feet and shoes plus mentions corns bunions and 25 cent price. Also references to shoe stores selling it and a brief quote from the Houston Post about a sister's fiancé and a locomotive note about tunnels.
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Ti Allen
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Water and crops for farms and apiaries advice
Practical notes on bee water needs wind protection and weekly hive care. Also tips on feeding chickens, alfalfa prep, cow peas for vineyards, and soil benefits from proper cover crops to reduce mud and improve vine and orchard growth.
Doubletrebe Draft Horses and Lever Arm Perceptions
A Victorian explanation on double trebe pulling teams notes debates over lever arm effects. Diagrams show clevis pin positions behind or ahead of the draw pin altering each horse’s lever arm A C and B. When a horse leads with a long lever arm it tends to pull less. when ahead with a shortened arm the leading horse pulls more.
Feeding Pigs with Dry Rations and Sow-Centered Gains
The article outlines two feeding methods for pigs: a dry mix of corn meal, ground wheat bran, and beef scraps cooked into a dough, and a dry two parts corn meal to one part bran method. It emphasizes feeding dough warm or cold, not hot, and notes the sow’s crucial role in pig gains through high milk yield and keeping pigs with her until they digest grain and pasture.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Denver Field
Alfalfa Goes Big in Kansas Says State Ag Chief
Secretary F D Coburn of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture notes Kansas alfalfa covers about 900000 acres. He cites three crops wheat corn and oats as larger areas, but says alfalfa provides the most complete and cheapest livestock ration, a perennial boon to Kansans with alfalfa lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D. Coburn
Kansas
Handling Geese for Safe Restraint and Lineage of Morgans
The guide explains securing geese by the neck with the body turned away to prevent striking. It also notes a method to support the bird by the wing joint. It mentions Morgans as road horses, tracing to Justin Morgan born in Vermont in 1793 and listing descended lines such as Blackhawk Bashaw Golddust Ethan Allen Ben Franklin Gen. Knox and Daniel.
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Morgans
Justin Morgan
Vermont
Blackhawk
Bashaw
Golddust
Ethan Allen
Ben Franklin
Gen. Knox
Daniel
Small Stream Power Helped by Dam In Sacramento
An example shows a trout stream dammed to create a 100000 cubic foot reservoir powering light and home work. The plant cost 1500 dollars and yields about 700 dollars of work per year. A dairy note stresses selecting bulls to influence milk quality and yield, warning that offspring inherit traits from sires.
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Sacramento
Cal
Kansas
Portable Canning Machine on Wheel Barrow
An article describes a field portable canning machine mounted on a wheel barrow for farmers to prepare and can produce in orchards or fields. It uses a kerosene burner to heat water and moves between patches as needed.
Size and uniformity in vegetables win consumer favor
The text argues extra large vegetables may win prizes and exhibition, but consumers prefer quality and uniform size. They value smoothness and consistency over sheer size and are not willing to pay extra freight for oversized produce.
Backache cure touted by Lydia E Pinkham in Rockland ad
A Rockland Maine reader shares relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for backache, claiming three bottles cured her and recommending it to friends. The ad links backache to female weakness and touts the product as safest path to root cause relief. Also notes Lydia Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice and cites widespread testimonials.
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Rockland
Maine
Lydia E. Pinkham
Will Youne
Columbia Avenue
Postum Gains Testimony From Public Officials About Health
A southern state public schools superintendent shares a long standing coffee problem in his mother. After trying Postum, the family notes heart relief and fewer headaches with improved overall health. He declares his mother a long standing victim who benefited most.
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Postum
Wellville
Trials and Tales From A Curiosity Filled Night
A humorous strip of brief exchanges and quips spans a hotel clerk’s curiosity about a guest’s name, a legal-tinged marital dispute with a $50,000 verdict, a streetwise warning about theft, and light dialogue on marriage, conceit, and lemon shortages with a playful Punch-like flavor.
Irreverent Quotes Spark Yiddish-Inflected Debate
An energetic citizen mocks a figure named Van Dok as wealthy beyond measure and derides ignorance as bliss. The remarks mix personal taunts with gendered pronouns and social satire.
Troubling Lines and Jokes in Household Sketches
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips about troupe life and social misfires. Characters trade barbed remarks on manager conflicts, travel with a circus, and witty exchanges about imagined outcomes and appetites. The piece ends with a playful look at marriage and loss.
Absent Minded Professor Returns Home
A jovial dialogue highlights a missing professor who, after ringing the doorbell, learns from a maid that he is not in. He calmly vows to call again as he steps down the stairs.
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Lippincott’s
Moralizers and thinkers clash over influence
A collection of brief exchanges from period publications shows characters debating gentility and persuasion. A poverty theme appears with an uncle and inheritance posing as potential help. In another vignette a man resents being called old while a punning reply frames age and identity.
A miscellany of jokes ads and notes
A collage of quips from rival papers and a long medical testimonial for Cuticura remedies. It includes light dialogue about marriage money refined tastes and a farmer’s brief scene plus ads for feet powder Mother Gray’s Australian Leaf and a London Bridge anecdote.
An Attentive Daughter
A husband questions his wife's change in consideration after marriage. She explains she acted to comfort her father when courting, but now prioritizes ease for herself. The exchange highlights household role expectations and affection for aging parents.
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New York Weekly
Moneymaking Frenchman on Montreal Island
A Toronto Canadian Courier note observes that a wealthy Montreal financier family is French and hints at the French aptitude for generating wealth through business ventures. The remark suggests a stereotype based on social status and locale.
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Montreal
Toronto Canadian Courier
Keep Baby Healthy Free Dr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin Ad
A promotional notice touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle laxative for children and a household health aid. It cites free samples, testimonials from Mrs M F Cash and Mrs K Stout, and urges readers to request a no cost test bottle and medical guidance from Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello Illinois.
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Dr. Caldwell
United States
M. F. Cash
Webb
Okla
Caldwell
K. Stout
Louisville
W. B. Caldwell
Monticello, Ill
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Guar
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Haut
Fanny
Calere
Europe
T.sopkins
Prom
Great Donee Street
New York
Chicago
F. and
D. Journal
Lambert
Isritisa Mallway Clearing House
United Kingdom
Penikese Island
James Archibald Thomas
Upton
Lever
Board of Health
Little Island
Massachusetts Board of Charities
New Bedford
Penikese
Thomas
West Indies
Hodge
Puck
Lapleigh
Willie
Son
van Dok
Laphead
Hina
Max
Dax
Weather Bureau
Miss Cayenne
Jill
Bill
Jin
Josh
Mr. Newwed
Dearest
Mrs. Newwed
Gunner
Mars
Guyer
Venus
Uyer
Meeker
Bleeker
Old Man
Cheeriman
Groucher
Catholic Standard and Times
Mr. Meekton
Mabel
Columbia
Fakem
Baltimore American
Percy
Kitty
Johnson
Woodson
Cuthura
Henry Searle
Little Rock
Ark
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
George Smart
H. Bertram Cox
L. Cox
George
Chapel Royal
New London Bridge
God Save the King
Sir George
King
Mother Gray
Mother Gray Co
LeRoy, N
Norway
Marine
Britain
America
Tommy
House of Commons
Thught
First Presbyterian Church
Seattle
Haarlem
W.H. Warren
Bleecker St
Holland Medicine Co
Scranton
Castoria
Infanta
THE
Paxton Toilet CO
Mass
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