Local ad copy and medical boosters from early 1900s Erie
A collage of patent medicine endorsements and quack claims. Mentions Fotxy Henzy Tak cough medicine DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve Foley’s Kidney Cures and Little Early Risers with generic praise by a Chicago Daily News tone. Includes names L M Bosworth Tilden Loughran and locations Erie and Fordville.
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Fotxy
Chas. Bender
Erie
Tripen & Loughran
Fordville
Foley
Tilden & Loughran
Foney's Honey and Tar Promised to Stop Colds
The advertisement extols Foney's Honey and Tar as a foolproof remedy when exposure or early symptoms appear. It urges taking a dose promptly and includes a terse warning to “Take one else.”
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Foney
Tilden & Loughran
Banner SALVE Guarantee Advertisement
The manufacturers of Banner SALVE guarantee it for burns cuts sores ulcers tetter eczema and all skin diseases. Your money back if it doesn’t do all it claims Tilden and Loughran.
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Tilden & Loughran
Lat tle Early Risers Ad Claims Promptness and Efficiency
A Life magazine quote promotes De Witt’s Latt le Early Risers as unmatched for promptness reliability and efficiency credited to L. M. Bosworth, asserting their superior effect over other pills across generations.
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de Witt
L. M. Bosworth
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Promoted For Skin and Wound Care
An advertisement extols DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a remedy for burns eczema skin diseases and ugly wounds. It warns against counterfeits and urges buyers to ensure the original product is purchased, aligning success with hard work.
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DeWitt
Pilex
Deon
Witt
L. M. Bosworth
Fotex Honey and Tar Cure Claim
An old advertisement urges sufferers of a racking cough to take two doses of Fotex Honey and Tar claiming relief of soreness and a warm healing feeling in affected parts.
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Fotex
Tilden & Loughran
Digestive Aid Ad Claims Kodol Cures Indigestion
An advertising snippet touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as digests all foods, rests the stomach, and heals lingering indigestion after other remedies fail. It cites L M Worth and quotes from the Atchison Globe while dismissing女性s claim to insight.
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Campes
L. M Worth
E.C DeWitt &Co
Chicago
Awful Calamity As Mortgage Lands West Says Pioneer
A western traveler recalls a Dakota scene where a pioneer, faced with debt and failed pride, explains that a mortgage on his claim and his wife’s frugal choices created a calamity. She paid the mortgage bought horses and plowed, a farmer’s hardship amid frontier thrift.
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Wwashington Post
Tam Samson and Burns the poet in a Scottish tale
A tale recounts Burns composing an elegy about Tam Samson who fears death in old age. Samson challenges the line and Burns replies with a verse declaring Tom Samson’s living. The piece ends with Samson agreeing the poet’s verse will do. Also included is hunting baboons in South Africa and a London tale of Lord Russell’s dilemma in a theater.
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Barns
Tam Samson
Burns
Tom Samson
Samson
Robin
Tam
Killie
Champbers
South Africa
London Chronicle
Lord Russell
Duece
London
Russell
Advocate
Mr. Russell
Conjurer Shows Vanishing Trick In Stage Cabinet
A conjurer asks a lady in the audience to step into a large cabinet on stage and vanish. A spectator whispers to his wife to join her on stage as the gag unfolds in a London Fun feature.
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London
Time's Personified Debate Sparks Tea Spot Quip
An exchange from the Detroit Free Press features a debate on personifying time, with Tea spot arguing time should be a woman and Whiffett asking why. The dialogue references an old proverb as part of the banter.
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Teaspot
Whiffett
Detroit Free Press
Experiment with the Knelpp cure in hospital ward
A convalescent ward inmate asks about trying the Knelpp cure and a freckled farm woman replies that she used it only for poverty and recalls going barefoot on the farm.
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Chicago Tribune
You look just like your father says visitor
A passerby remarks to a four year old in New Orleans about his resemblance to his father. The boy replies with resigned politeness that many people say the same thing, but he cannot help his likeness.
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Johnny
New Orleans Picayune
The Panama hat boasts stubborn shape and value
A vendor extolls Panama hats from Mexico praising their enduring form and secret craft. He demonstrates by rolling a white straw hat that, once unfolded, returns to its creased shape. He notes the hats are homegrown by women, untouched by fashion trends, and commands high prices.
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Panama
Mexico
Philadelphia Record
Lawyer and Client Banter on Hens and Poison
A London dialogue shows a lawyer giving two opinions on damages after a neighbor’s hens trespass and poison, then the client reveals his own hens caused the issue. The lawyer charges thirteen shillings and fourpence, noting two opinions were given that day.
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Gull
Brown
London
Dowry Negotiation Between Merchant and Officer
An old merchant asks the suitor about yearly income before considering a dowry. The officer confirms a total income of £800 per year and reveals inclusion of £20,000 in dowry calculations at 4 percent interest. London Fun.
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London
Maud's Marriage Question and Electoral Travel Payouts
A Colorado Springs Gazette snippet quotes a dialogue about Maud's marriage and love versus wealth. It notes a New York presidential elector being paid 15 dollars daily in Albany plus 10 cents per mile traveled from residence. The piece closes with a proverb: prosperity and a camel may walk, but running hurts most.
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Maud
Colorado Springs Gazette
New York
Albany
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Air Castle
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Chicago Daily News
Atchison Globe
Puck
Bright's
Fairy
Bright
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Paxx
Lownst
Gwner
Story County
Abstract Booka
Kevada
Iowa
Dakota
Putti
Warren Jackson
Bradley & Whittle, the Grocers
Judisch Bros
C. W. Dudgeon
Ammes
E. D. Mineah &O
D. Embree
Duff Street
E. D. Mineah & CO
L. L. Zenor
Hamilton Block
Ames, Iowa
L. M. Hosworth
M. Hemstreet
J. &. Campre
Real Estate & Unouranc
South Side Main Street
A. Richmond
M. D
Drs
Richmond & Hutchison, Physicians and Surgeons
Keton
Hunt
J. ©, Brownlie, D. D
Fisat & Brox
Wolie
Rhads
Story County Abstract Books
Nevada
Owa
Frank Morris
Ames
Wight
Union National Bank
W. M. Geexiey
Henry Wilson
A. S. Nuxpham
Ase’t
Doe
Sankers’ Na Bank
National City
Valley National 1
Des Moines
L.i
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