Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy Promises Relief For Change of Life
Richmond Virginia reader Lena Wynn reports dramatic relief from headaches dizziness heat flashes and nervousness during menopause after seven bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad lists common menopausal symptoms and endorses the product as restoring health and providing warning signs to seek treatment.
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Mrs. Wynn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Richmond
Lena Wynn
E. O Street
Woman Pleads For River Drag After Husband’s Disappearance
A Massachusetts woman arrives at a police station in a distressed state asking authorities to search a nearby river. She says her husband, who is deaf, has threatened to drown himself and has been missing three days. He is described as deaf by the caller.
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Woiman
Massachusetts
Important to Mothers Examine Castoria Bottle Safety
Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle off Castoria a safe and sure remedy for infants and children and see that it complies with labeling instructions and manufacturer guidelines.
In Suspense Behind a Senator's Summer Plans
A fragment hints at Senator Sorgum keeping summer plans secret awaiting election returns, with a wry remark on self‑awareness. The text also offers a quip about a man never noticing his own faults due to blindness to his flaws.
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Senator Sorghum
Prominent Women in Training Camp for War Service
The National Service School for Women at Chevy Chase near Washington housed a thousand young ladies learning Red Cross first aid semaphore signaling wireless telegraphy dietetic cookery sewing and hospital procedures under army instructors. Notable attendees included Mrs. Robert Lansing and Mrs. George Dewey as well as Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thompson and Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimer. The week closed with disciplined routines lectures by Roosevelt Grouitch Barrett and others and plans for similar camps in Philadelphia Savannah San Diego and San Francisco.
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Chevy Chase
Washington
Kansas City Star
National Service
Navy League
George Dewey
Admiral Dewey
Robert Lansing
Reveille
Service
United States Army
United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Red Cross
Raphy
QO. K
F. D. Roosevelt
the Navy
Slavko Grouitch
Missouri
Genevieve Clark Thompson
Champ Clark
Frank G. Odenheimer
Maryland
United Daughters of the Confederacy
New York
Service School
America
Chevy Chase Camp
Elizabeth Elliott Poe
Vella Poe Wilson
Lst
Philadelphia
Savannah
San Diego
Cal
San Francisco
National Woman's Movement For
Good Times That Are Gone in Arcadia and Bloomfield Center
Eugene Wood reflects in Century on Uncle Zenas and Arcadia's decline from neighborly frolics and shared work to fractured clicks. He contrasts modern decay with former log cabin romance and the old latch string hospitality, lamenting lost civic warmth and shared hardship.
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Zenas
Arcadia
New York
Bloomfield Center
Happy United Village
Jane
Eugene Wood
Incomplete Population Estimates and Technological Snippets
Computing Russia and Europe population at 180 million, five bushels per head would require 900 million bushels of wheat annually. A new fire plug attachment yields sanitary drinking fountains. One quarter of Australia remains unexplored. Humans breathe about eighteen times per minute. First Japanese school books use Roman characters. Naval board received 5,000 invention submissions in seven months. Garbage fuel value equals one tenth of coal.
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Russia
Australia
Naval Board
Great Family of Smiths in England and Wales
The Smith surname is carried by about 400 000 in England and Wales. The article notes the Smiths outnumber other surnames and claim many men of distinction who helped shape the empire.
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England
Wales
The Good and the Bad in Unity Pledge
A Portuguese proverb contrasts the good and the bad in unity with no pledge or surety present. It highlights that virtue or risk hinge on collective commitment rather than formal guarantees.
Beauty Doctor Count degli Cagliostro of Palermo
The so called beauty doctor was Bualsumo from Palermo, famed as Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. He and his wife toured Europe in grand fashion selling a “wine of Egypt” said to restore youth and beauty. They amassed wealth from Egyptian drops and love philters, gaining high society access before imprisonment and death in confinement.
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One Bualsumo
Palermo
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro
Rome
Europe
Countess Cagliostro
Egypt
Seraphina
Cagliostro
Solomonlike Judgment in Farm Division Dispute
Two brothers inherit a farm and fight over its division. An old village arbitrator, famed for wise counsel, is chosen. After deliberation he orders the elder to divide the land as he sees fit and grants the younger the first choice of picks.
Neighborly Call in Two Minutes If Fifteen Is Allowed
A woman's social courtesy suggests a brief neighborly visit can be kept to two minutes, provided she is granted fifteen minutes to say goodbye. The note frames a compact social rule about time and etiquette in visiting neighbors.
Counsel For Wedded Folk On In Laws And Harmony
A column paraphrases Virginia Terhune van De Water on marriage counsel. It urges spouses to show pardoning love toward in laws and avoid criticizing each other’s families. The piece argues that understanding through a third person makes faults seem intolerable.
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Virginia Terhune van de Water
Mother's Magazine
Change of Scene Joke From the New York Globe
A doctor urges a full change of scene for a gravely ill patient who reveals he is a scene shifter. The exchange highlights the humor as the physician seeks the remedy and asks about the patient’s occupation.
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New York Globe
Home Practice Quotation Sparks House Argument
A wartime-era exchange shows a mother revealing how she taught her son to stand firm in household disputes. The dialogue hints at expectations of toughness and readiness.
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Mackieg
Story
Berkeley
Fit
Fletcher
Han
Temait
Rae Ae Ae Yeo
W. Ns
Des Moines
Secretary of State
National Service School
Dreamland
Ady Troukles
Libby, MS Dc
Neill & Libby
Ton Libby
Pour Grocer's
Colt Distemper
SPOHN
Spohin’s
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
U. S
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