Souri the Mulatto Helps Man Escape Jail
In a racially charged 19th century scene, Souri a mulatto girl, hides among jail routines to aid Mark awaiting execution. She cooks, cleans, and schemes to smuggle him out by swapping clothes in a daring late night escape attempt using her dress and sunbonnet for the ruse.
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Ce Ae
Salta
Waal
Hyar
Lauri
Souri
Louri
Mark
Jakey
Sentinel
Mrs. Triggs
Triggs
Various Patent Remedies and Household Tips Hitched From Ads
A mixture of old advertisements offers Hall's Catarrh Cure with a reward offer and testimonials, along with endorsements for Castoria for children, Dullam's German Medicine for skin and health, roofing felts for poultry houses, and a note on breeding ducks. The items blend medical claims, consumer remedies, and agricultural tips from period ads.
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Dullam's
German Medicine Co
Dullam
Wm. Copeland
Flint, Mich
L. M. Bosworth
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria in Historic Adage
Vintage advice fragment notes Castoria for children while remarking on hen health and appetite. It presents a thrifty condition as ideal, linking household care to poultry well being in a compact, period voice.
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Children's Department
Castoria
Farmers and Sarsaparilla Boost in Harsh Wind
A vintage advertisement urges caution about nails and cold winds while praising Hood's Sarsaparilla for strengthening fatigue and appetite. It extols One Minute Cough Cure as safe and effective and notes a shift in farmers caring for their families and stock.
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Hood
Cough Cures and Poultry Tips From L M Bosworth
Broad ad text detailing Dullam’s German cough cures, liver pills, and general tonics sold by L M Bosworth. Includes poultry care notes, liver pills, and green food, plus sales pitches for Cubeb Cough Cure and DeWitt’s products. Mentions Amoy China and various testimonials and prices.
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Dullam
L. M. Bosworth’s
L M. Bosworth
DeWitt
L. M. Bosworth
Dr King's New Discovery Trial Offer at Bosworth’s Drug Store
Advertises Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back refund if no benefit after fair trial. Trial bottles free at L. M. Bosworth's drug store. Large sizes 50c and 1.00. Also promotes farmer machinery care as a matter of practicality.
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Dr. King
L. M. Bosworth’s
Old School Doctors and Dr Pierce’s Cure for Consumption
Thousands of lives and homes suffer from faulty beliefs about Consumption, which is a scrofulous lung disease. Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is promoted as a certain cure with a money back guarantee if no benefit. The ad stresses trial, promise of cure, and claims the remedy acts where others fail.
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Seles Eee
Portlamn
Gregon
Dr. Pierce
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Aids Girls Through Womanhood
The piece portrays the transition from girlhood to womanhood as frail and fraught with peril and urges use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription to support female health during this critical period. It asserts the medicine cures diseases peculiar to women and helps many girls through one of life's trying times.
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Pierce
Poem Exalts Jay Who Wrote Ta ra ra Boom de ay
The verse praises the jay who owns the claim to writing Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay. It contrasts famed record breakers with the bold self confidence of the jay, citing Himalayan scale audacity as a measure of daring.
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Jay
Boston Courier
With or Without Stamps Sparks Whisker Debate
A Philadelphia Call item recalls a humorous exchange at a drugstore where a clerk asks whiskers on stamps. The young lady asks a curt request for stamps, the clerk replies with a pun about cents and whiskers, sparking indignant curiosity.
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Columbus
Philadelphia
Art Connoisseur Attempts Higher Bid Than Baron
A dialog from Fliegende Blatter shows an impresive bid for a piece of art. A buyer boasts to outshine the baron by paying $4000 after the item sold for $3000.
Reunion of Tramps on the Dumping Ground
Two ghastly relics meet far from habitable places and face each other in a toward time scene revealing harsh tones and stark imagery.
Proper lamp care for safe oil use and clean burning
Do not turn down after establishing flame. Start with low wick until chimney heats, then raise to full flame and avoid choking the wick. Unburned oil creates unhealthy gas. Keep lamp parts clean, especially chimney and burner, and boil wick tubes in soda and water occasionally to prevent clogging.
How to Make an Ironing Mat
Cut old cotton cloth into strips and sew them together as if for carpet rags. When a quantity is prepared braid the strips lightly and sew the braid into an oval mat about ten inches long and six wide.
How to Manage a Wet Silk Tat
Guidance for treating wet silk tat by wrapping with a dry towel as it partly dries and gently rubbing with a hot cloth to smooth the fibers.
How to Sweeten a Sour Bath Sponge
Rub a fresh lemon over the sponge to saturate it with juice and rinse several times in lukewarm water.
How to Enamel Copper and Remove Oil Stains
Instructions describe cleaning copper with sand and acids and applying a mixture of arsenic and hydrochloric and sulfuric acids with water. Guidance for removing oil stains from carpet suggests using cornmeal, sweeping, and repeating until stains disappear.
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Carpeta
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Phila
Dearborn St
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Peoria
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Iowa
Sun
St Loui
Kansas
Given
C. H. Ackert
A. F. Banks
T.P. Barry
G. P
the Intelligencer
S. K. Wilson, Publishers
Chattanooga
F. A. Mitchel
American Press
Associa
SAS
U.S. Patent Office
Washington
C.a.snow &Co
D. C
Wiscae
Aphroditine
Simoney
Ames
VIOLA
G. C. Bittner & CO
Totebo
M. Ricord
M. C
Masonic Temple
H. Hallett & Co
Portland
Krause
Norman Lichty
Pamicy Ouemisr
Des Moines
Continent
Castorta
Pitcher’s Castoria
Elkhart,nd
Great German Medicine Co
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Hood’s
Herman Hicks
Rochester
N. Y
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Rochester, N. Y
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A. B. Snell
Hamilton, Mich
Amoy
China
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Pew
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J. F. Merry
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Limax
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New York World
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Erie
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Hackettstown
Samuel Pitcher
G. C. Osaoon
Lowell, Mass
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Conway, Ark
H. A. Ancurr
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn, N. Y
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Axp
Boston
Alleen C. Surra, Pres
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
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L.M. Bosworth
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Henete
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The
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Washington, D. C
Sean Deine
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