Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promises Blood Purity
An 1890s style advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for impure blood and related skin and glandular ailments. It also promotes Dr. Pierce’s All Healing Salve for open sores and claims a complete ingredient list on the bottle. Postage-paid orders are directed to Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerce
Erce
R. V. Pierce
Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Uncle Bertram's Curate Review of Interviewing Five Candidates
A bachelor uncle seeks a curate for his small parish of 500 souls. The family tests five hopefuls through long journeys, chilly retellings, and comic misfits before advertising again and interviewing six more in a London railway waiting room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertram
Mother
Constance
George
Uncle Bertram
Mr. Lovelace
Nebuchadnezzar
Mr. Robin
Fitzgerald
Cambridge
Uncle
Mr. Fitzgerald
Mr. Merton
London
Ralilway
New Life Pills Ad Praises Health Benefits
Mrs. Mary Brown of 20 Lafayette Place Poughkeepsie New York endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills as reliable and pleasant laxative for stomach liver and bowels. Guaranteed by West End Drug Co and Elam Ordway Houser. Price 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Brown
Lafayette Place
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Rural Norway Honest People Peasants and Frugal Homes
Norway is praised for honesty as English traveler recovers lost sovereigns from peasants who returned them to magistrates. The country lacks nobility wealth lines, with no sharp class distinctions. Death rate is lowest, homes spread across multiple buildings and most goods made at home with bare floors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trondshem
Christiania
Norway
May Live 100 Years Mia proves long life odds good
Jennie Duncan of Haynesville Maine now 70 credits Electric Bitters for curing 20 years of Chronic Dyspepsia and restoring strength. The ad claims benefits for stomach and liver diseases, blood disorders and general debility, sold with guarantee at West End Drug Co. and Elam Ordway Houser for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Jennie Duncan
Haynesville
West End Drug Co
Elam, Ordway & Houser
Flea troupe misplaces act at afternoon party
An afternoon party entertains guests with fleas performing tricks. The show ends in uproar as the impresario mourns the loss of his fleas while a gray dressed lady brushes by, prompting a comic misunderstanding. The hostess hoped for a sensation and the scene becomes a memorable misplacement mishap.
Lax-ets Formula Promises Gentle Natural Laxative
The advertisement offers Lax-ets as a natural bowel aid using the body’s forces for gentle relief. Sold as candy tablet pleasant to take and effective, with one tablet before meals or before bed. Packaged in a metal case for 5 cents, marketed by J. L. Wikle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Wikle
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Ness
City National
Anniston
Iala
Jacksonville, Ala
Normal School
Alabama
W. Daugette
Watson
Joseph B. ‘Bowles
Robin
Music Cure
California Fig Syrup CO
W. H. McKleroy
Wm. A. Davis
Presi Kan
D. Woodruff
Randolph Smith
The
Anniston National Bank
United States
Leighton
E. L. Turner & CO. Agts
First National Bank
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