Woman credits Lydia Pinkham remedy for avoiding operation
Mrs A W Brazer of Black River Falls Wisconsin says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her from an operation after organ troubles and side pain. Doctors urged surgery but the remedy cured her and she urges others to try it for inflammation ulcers displacements backache nervousness irregularities and the blues.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Lydia B. Pinkham
Eau Claire
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. W. Brazer
Black River Falle
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Miriam Field Explains Awful Language With Clever Substitution
In Indianapolis News a girl named Miriam Field recalls an incident at the grocery where the grocer Mr. Smith cursed about food laws. She refuses to report the exact term, noting the substitute in Long Boy is as effective as the usual dash in polite print. She jokes her father Mr. Herschell will soon discover the hidden words.
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Miriam Field
Miriam
Get Othine double strength to erase freckles today
An old ad promises a New York fashion of clear skin using Othine double strength. It claims one ounce or less can remove freckles night and morning, with money back guarantee if it fails. A separate anecdote from Harper's Magazine warns a son about honesty in business and suggests reading corporation law.
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Ady
New York
West
Graybeard
Harper's Magnelie
Swift & Company
Leet In the Dessert At A Sister’s Luncheon
A fragment shows Little Pearl undecided between returning home or staying for luncheon at a sister’s house. She chats with the maid and calls the mother’s cook about dessert, then jokes about Stewed prunes versus cream and a proverb about an empty pocket making a full meal.
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Pearl
Birdie
Fort Monroe trains heavy artillery officers in modern gunnery
At Fort Monroe Virginia the Coast Artillery school graduates and briefs National Guard and regular officers into heavy ordnance. The course blends ballistics with geometry, wind, air density, canopying, and camouflage, stressing practical firing tables, dispersion, and tracking drift and curvature for accurate long range firing.
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Coast Artillery School
Fort Monroe
Uncle Sam
National Guard
Coast Artillery
Coast Artillery Corps
Army
New York Herald
War Department
World War Strains Shrink Britain and Germany Armies
Exhaustive wartime notes outline Britain’s 8,000,000 soldiers and mobilization limits due to cottonseed shortages, while Germany cites 5,000,000 in service. Casualty disablements reach 8,500,000, with a whimsical note on the King’s cat at the Record Office and a French telephoner uniform for women operators earned 90 to 125 dollars.
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England
Germany
London
Treasury
Record Office
France
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