Cuticura Remedies Help Child With Eczema Facial Cure
A Nebraska family recounts a severe infant eczema case in Gilbert who suffered raw, disfiguring sores on his face. After two Chicago doctors failed, they used Cuticura Soap and Ointment per directions, saw improvement in four weeks, and praised the remedy. The note ends with a promotional line for a free dermatology booklet.
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Gilbert
Chicago
Mra. H. Albrecht
West Point
Neb
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props
Boston
Mass
Vacant Top Room Tied to No Elevator Service
A vacant room at the top stems from the absence of elevator service, leaving residents like a lazy nan without vertical access.
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Ito
Lydia Pinkham Advice Offer to Women in Massachusetts
A Victorian era advertisement invites women suffering any form of illness to contact Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It emphasizes privacy and that letters are read and answered by women. The offer promotes a free 80 page text book and a confidential advice service, urging women to write for today.
Late Styles in Sandwiches Describe English Tea Trends
An English hostess notes new sandwich ideas for afternoon tea. Recipes include honey on buttered bread, golden shup, a gin gerbread wafer, currant bread with butter, and shrimp or salmon paste with cucumber. Plates feature fringed dollies. plain bread and butter is served without. Tea-time extras like hot cakes, toast, brown bread, toasted scones, rock cakes remain popular.
Household tips from a bygone era
A collection of practical advice on day to day tasks. It covers removing scorch from woolen goods and bread, boiling vegetables uncovered for color, using kerosene water to clean painted woodwork, quick wick adjustment, turning hems, securing garments with safety pins and hooks, roasting chicken breast side down for juiciness, turning halfway for browning, and cleaning lace yokes with powdered starch to absorb grease and dust.
Surat Sugar Gake
A recipe directions list sugar and butter beaten together then stirred with water yolks eggs flour vanilla baking powder and caramel folded with stiffly beaten whites, yielding a light batter and sugared cake batter steps.
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Surat
Resinol Ointment Promoted for Home Use
An advertisement extols Resinol ointment as a top emergency remedy for burns cuts and skin eruptions. It claims instant itch relief and warns of no harmful ingredients, noting Resinol soap as a cleansing aid and jars priced at fifty cents and one dollar from Resinol Chemical Co Baltimore Md.
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Resinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
Reliable Doughnuta From an Old Family Recipe
A vintage batter for doughnuts uses eggs sugar sour milk or buttermilk, saleratus and nutmeg. Dough is rolled cut and fried in hot fat with a splash of vinegar. A stone jar holds white corn meal heated on the stove to scorching hot before coating pieces.
Toasted Cheese Sandwiches for Afternoon Tea
Make round sandwiches with thin rich cheese slices, brown butter in a chafing dish, and fry until evenly brown. Serve immediately on individual plates for a fine afternoon tea.
Sour Milk Pie Recipe Summary
A vintage recipe lists sour milk pie ingredients: thick sour milk one cup raisins one cup sugar one cup butter half cup and egg plus crumbled cracker one teaspoon cinnamon and half a claye. Cook on stove to thicken yields two pies.
Ironing Hint Fragments From A Jumbled Note
A fragmentary note hints at ironing clothes by dampening them and folding neatly. It mentions rolling and refers to heat and ironing in unclear phrasing with stray words and odd capitalization. The readable pieces point to basic ironing steps without a clear context or complete sentence structure.
It Depends on the Liver and What You Eat
A quip based on Henry Ward Beecher’s line about liver and character, noting that a bad liver affects virtue and echoing the editor’s “As a man eateth so is he” sentiment from the Los Angeles Times.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Henry
Los Angeles Times
Fragmented anecdote meets patent medicine list satire
A quirky passage shows Maria, Hiram, and a talking trap scene with a folk humor tone. It segues into an advertisement collage for Dr Fierce Pleasant Pellets Garfield Tea and Raoul C W Wendte products, mixing moral quips with tonics and cosmology.
A Fair Return. Minister and Barber Sketch
A London Tit-Bits excerpt presents a satire with a minister boasting of a nap during a sermon and a barber remarking it is only a fair return. The dialogue features the minister, who wakes and thanks the barber for a refreshing sleep, while the barber quips about the fair return.
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Barber
London
Spohn's Distemper Cure boasts wide sales and guarantees
Distemper among horses and dogs is addressed by Spohn's Distemper Cure. The maker claims cure possibilities and guarantees every bottle. Over 600,000 bottles sold last year. Available at druggists or by sending to Spohn Medical Co in Goshen Indiana.
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Spohn
Spahn Medical Co
Goshen
Ind
Dark Days Coming to Men in New York Preacher's Call
A preacher in New York urges men to sew, cook, wash dishes and make their own breakfasts, noting tough times ahead as conversation turns to social roles and self-reliance. The tale captures a satirical exchange about gender expectations amid impending hardship.
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Jim
Tere
New York
Cure Your Sick Hens With Aneptazine Remedy
An advertisement-like note promotes Aneptazine as a preventive cure for cholera bowel trouble roup colds and canker in hens. Directions say dissolve one ounce in a gallon of warm water and give a tablespoonful of the solution.
Doubts About a Marriage Scene Sketch Exchange
The Stranger questions the accuracy of a previously shared marriage scene sketch. The Official confirms it, while the Stranger laments years of loyalty and life with a dog as a punchline to the dialogue.
French Bean Coffee Healthful Drink for Gardens
An advertisement promotes French Bean Coffee as a healthful beverage suitable for small garden patches. It claims 50 pounds per 10 by 10 patch, 90 days to ripen in Wisconsin, with use in Europe. Offers 15 or 31 cent mail orders for seeds and culture directions from John A Salter Beed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin, including a seed catalog.
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Wisconsin
France
Germany
Europe
John A. Salter
Dramatic critic father inspires young quip
A dramatic critic asks a child about his father’s work. The infant answers with a playful boast that his father writes dramatic criticism for a newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, during a morning visit to the infant class.
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Rey
Harper's Weekly
Defiance Starch Delivers Thinner, Stronger Laundry Result
A domestic guide praises Defiance Starch for easier ironing and better fabric appearance. It notes common starches require heavy application to obtain stiffness, marring fabric, but Defiance can be used in thinner layers due to its greater strength, improving wear and look.
Unclear excerpt hints at Grove signature and curative claims
Fragmentary text references E. W. Grove and a world cure claim for a cold. Mentions laxative bromide mind and vague dates. No concrete events, places, or persons other than Grove.
Free sample of Dr Caldwell’s syrup pepsin cures constipation
When discouraged after years of failure to find a cure, try Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin a laxative tonic used for a generation. Free sample bottles offered by mail to prove merits. Many customers across the country now keep it in the house and rely on it for permanent relief rather than salts waters or cathartics.
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Drugeast
J. J. Patty
Unionville
George W. Zimmerman
Harrisburg
W. B. Caldwell
Caldwell Building
Monti
Dean
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C. W. Wendte
Garfield
AIT Druggists
Howell
Powell
E.W. Grove
New
Parker
Frank M. Weis
Bax
Dallas
Alberta
Lethbridge
Charles Boyer
Rochester
Minnesota
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Kansas
Santa Beelgar
Fornaio Buchurst Valley
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Buffalo
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