Banner Salve Heals Seven Year Leg Sore
Mrs Jas Forest of Falls Wis reports a seven year leg sore healed by two boxes of Banner Salve avoiding substitutes. Loughran Bauer promote DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as quick healer for cuts burns and sores. Mrs S H Airport Johnstown Pa notes One Minute Cough Cure saved her crying girl from deadly croup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas
Forest of Eee Falls
Wis
Loughran & Bauer
DeWitt
de Witt’s. Loughran & Bauer
S. H. Airport
Johnstown
Onur
Cuff Button Offer From New York Trading Company
Send name and address to New York Trading Company Dept B 128 Hamilton Place NY for a free handsome cuff buttons set for ladies or gentlemen. Receive a large household goods and novelties catalogue. Include four cents postage. Secure a Battleship Maine souvenir cuff button.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Trading Company
Dept. B
Hamilton Place
Maine
Dr W E Harriman Physician and Surgeon
Dr W E Harriman is described as a physician and surgeon with emphasis on surgical cases. Office located in Ames Iowa above Thurs ton’s hardware store and residence in the 8rd block west of Story County Bank. Telephone numbers given for office and residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurston’s Hardware
Ames
Iowa
Story County Bank
Livestock Auctioneer Seeks Clients in Ames Iowa
First class auctioneer E F Posegate offers day or small commission sales for livestock and also lists farms for sale. Box 532 Ames Iowa. Satisfaction guaranteed.
No Relief for 20 Years Ends With Cough Cure Claim
Mrs. Minerva Smith of Danville Illinois says twenty years of bronchitis ended after using Foley's Honey and Tar claiming it a sure cure for throat and lung diseases. The remark appears in a Louhgran and Bauer advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerva Smith
Danville
Ill
Foley
Louhgran & Bauer
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers Cures Cough and Constipation
An advertisement asserts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers offer safe effective relief for coughs in children and for easing irregular bowels. It claims the remedy is pleasant to take with near instantaneous results and mentions Loughran Bauer as the issuer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loughran & Bauer
DeWitt’s
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers Promote Regular Bowels
A vintage advertisement touts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as pills to cleanse the system remove impurities and restore regularity in bowel movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
Loughran & Bauer
Consumption Threatened Victim Credits Foley’s Honey and Tar
A Champaign Illinois man writes of a year long hacking cough he feared to be consumption. After trying many remedies and medical care he used Foley's Honey and Tar and reports cure with no further trouble. The letter is from C Unger and published by Loughran and Bauer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Unger
Maple St
Champaign
Ill
Foley
Loughran & Bauer
DRS
Fellows & Fel
Des Moines
Mai
You &T
Fellows & Fellows
Iowa
4Th and
Walnut Sts
Iowa National Bank
Kidney disease link noted in Kaowan fact
A Little Kaowan Fact asserts most serious diseases begin in kidney disorders and endorses Foley's Kidney Cure as guaranteed. Loughran & Bauer promote the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
S. Loughran & Bauer
Farmers Cooperative Expands Services Across Farm Trade
The Farmers' Cooperative Association runs a farmer's exchange and general real estate business, negotiates farm loans, writes insurance, handles grain and farm produce, coal and farm supplies, Chautauquan literature, chemical fire extinguishers, and installs electrical conductors on buildings.
General Grant and a Lowder Voice on a Chinese Boat Tale
A humorous tale recounts General Grant in China where a Chinese boy repeatedly tells him to speak lower. It ends with the captain being called lowder and the lesson that on Chinese boats the captain is referred to as lowder. The piece then describes sepia pigment from a ten armed octopus and its long use as durable paint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neen
Grant
China
Gays
Tien-tsin
Peking
Lowder
General Grant
Mediterranean
Adriatic Sea
Lincoln Mock Guest With Humorous Introduction
A Springfield judge visits Abraham Lincoln who lounges in chairs. Mrs Lincoln enters, tugs his hair in disapproval, and Lincoln introduces the judge to his wife as a friend. The anecdote notes Mary Todd Lincoln’s short stature and the casual, humorous scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linecola
Lincoln
Springfield
Mr. Lincoln
Mary
Mrs. Lincoln
Mary Todd
Leslie
Regulating a Clock With a Magnet
The London News explains a clock regulation method near the pendulum using a magnet. If the pendulum runs fast or slow, electricity activates the magnet to pull the metal, subtly slowing or speeding the swing. After thousands of swings, a tenth or twentieth second error is corrected to keep step with precise time at Greenwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich Observatory
London News
Thirteen Rules In Coins
A veteran numismatist questions why Americans associate ill luck with the number 13. He notes 13 letters in quarter dollar and E Pluribus Unum, 13 feathers on the eagle tail, 13 shield lines, 13 stars, 13 arrowheads, and 18 wing feathers under a microscope.
Distillation Methods in Petroleum Refining
The refining of petroleum uses distillation to separate products. Two methods are described: in vacuo distillation under partial vacuum and cracking using superheated steam. The term cracking derives from the cracking sound of steam entering the undistilled oil.
Love Declares in Fiery Verse Before Araminta
Hard Hit Lord Fitzfoodle, on bended knee before Araminta, declares he would snatch a pine from a primeval forest and write his love in molten fire on heaven’s azure wall with a penknife to seal devotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzfoodle
Araminta
Vesuvius
Heaven
Lewiston Boy Rejects Hair Shingling Demand
A Lewiston boy with long curly hair at Old Orchard refuses to have his hair shingled as a woman tells him to. He protests he will not have nails driven into his head, highlighting a child’s defiant response reported by the Lewiston Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Old Orchard
Lewiston Journal
Heavenless men? Rev Dr Leach idea stirs Chicago
Maud questions heaven concept as Mabel invokes Rev Dr Leach stating there will be few men in heaven. Chicago Tribune notes the exchange with humor over doctrinal speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel
The Power of Superstition and The Mole on the Nose
A humorous exchange highlights belief in bad luck from removing a mole. A well known young man fears surgery, citing old sayings from his mammy Aunt Sarah who warns the mole may never heal or two more may appear. The narrator notes the stubborn influence of marginalized folk wisdom from Memphis Scimitar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Sarah
Memphis
Scimitar
Schoolboy Definitions and Misguided Word Lore
A London school collection satirically redefines common terms with humorous errors. It assigns absurd meanings to words like gravity, sarcasm, antiquarian, Juggernaut, and milky way, showing students’ playful misunderstanding of vocabulary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Switzerland
Sapphira
Quack's Travelling Cureman Turned Spy Before War
A French traveling quack used a clown Tore to tout cures for indigestion by swallowing corks and pebbles. Tore later enlisted, opened a live cat, sucked its blood, and ate living snakes. He carried secret army information in a small box swallowed as the Franco German war loomed but was detected by Prussians and punished as a spy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Tore
Lorentz
Wood-based paper risks spontaneous combustion when damp
Much paper now comes from wood and vegetable fibers similar to hay. Damp stacks can heat and ignite like prematurely stacked hay, with flames possible at any time.
The Heartless Druggist and Prussic Acid Mentioned
An Indianapolis News excerpt notes a dialogue about meat preservation involving a druggist and flints of poison. Flossie Banastar-Fred discusses prussic acid as a danger while a brother cites formaldehyde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flossie Banastar
Fred
Fido
Flossie
Indianapolis News
Kindly Visitor and Mrs A Discuss Suffering in Post Mortem
A dialogue from Tit Bits presents Mrs A lamenting her weakness and suggesting only a post mortem could reveal the cause of her suffering. The Kindly Visitor expresses pity and belief in her fragility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. A
Casts No Blame on His Ancestors
A humorous line from the Philadelphia Press attributes an appetite for strong drink to thirst, with Wrayson Tatters denying hereditary influence and telling a lady it is personal thirst.
Irishman spared by dying a day early
An Irishman spoke of an acquaintance condemned to be hanged but who saved his life by dying the day before the scheduled execution.
Deserted by Self and Friends: A Grim Maxims Card
A reflective line notes that a man who deserts himself loses his own spirit and soon finds his friends deserting him, a terse moral about self-betrayal and social isolation.
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W E Harriman
E. F. Posegate
Ames, Iowa
Daniel McCarthy
Co. G. Lee
McCarthy & Lee
College Park
Lowa
Malerich
H Batrac
the Farmers’ Cooperative
Price Inc
E. C. Dewitt &Co
Chicago
L. M. Bosworth
T. George Beall
Capitol Pol
Ice
Capt
Beall
McLean
Captain Beall
Co. M. McLean
Courrh
Manood
Dors
George Beall Wrefer
H.C. Harris
Harris, Emery. Dry Goods Co
Wirt
St. John's Lutheran Church
Laws
Tom
Copeland Medical Institute
de. C. M. McLean
Walnut St
Cleaver Bros
C. W. Dudgeon
Refining Petroleum
Judisch Bros
J.B. Judge
Bell
Kellogg St
Parley Sheldon
Pres
B. J. Shelden
F. A. Schieiter
Asst. Cashier
The
Story County
Tornado Insurance
Johnson
Buffalo
Iowa Central Railway
N.Y
Iowa Centr Railway
Marshalltown
H. OC. Watkins
the Meth Church
Foleys
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