Do You Think For Yourself Or Open Your Mouth Like a Bird
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s relief from weakness nervousness and pain. It claims the formula is printed on each bottle wrapper and endorsed by leading medical authorities with no narcotics or harmful agents. A free booklet of ingredients and endorsements is offered by mail from Dr. R V Pierce Buffalo NY.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Seading
RB V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
City Hardware to Exhibit Wagons in Birmingham Wagon Show
City Hardware Company ships 1100 dollars worth of buggies and surries to Birmingham Alabama this week. They offer a bold guarantee paying one dollar cash for each spoke that breaks on any purchased vehicle during the guarantee period. A wagon show is set for Saturday the 30th with all local dealers invited to display wagons between 10th and 11th streets on Noble to let the public judge quality.
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City Hardware Company
Birmingham
Ala
Oxford
Noble
Naval customs drive fines in British shipmen messes
A Grand Magazine article details petty naval rules in the British service. It explains the seran bag system for lost clothing and a Thursday cut for redemption, with officers and sailors alike subject to fines and oddities like the fork in the beam and feet on the table only after circumnavigating both capes.
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Grand Magazine
Denke
Noah
The
Ark
Admiralty
Capes
Cape of Good Hope
Horn
Spitting in Public Spreads Consumption Warns of TB Risks
Scientists warn that coughing and spitting in public can spread tuberculosis Bacillus. The piece cites Dr. Knopf on airborne germs, urges prompt treatment, and promoting a home remedy with Virgin Oil of Pine Pure glycerine and whisky. It warns against imitations and advises buying from reliable druggists.
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Knopf
Leach Chemical C Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tomb of Peleg the Builder Unearthed in Prussian Salt Mines
In 553 A D workers in Prussia uncovered a triangular building with a white marble column and freestone tomb beside it. A fretted agate slab bore the inscription that Peleg, grand architect of the tower of Babel, rests there, and that the Almighty pitied him for his humility.
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Babel
Prussia
Agate
Nere
Peleg
Tower of Babel
Striking Her Eye anecdote from London papers
A brief quip about a wife struck in the eye by a hat or bonnet blown by the wind. One tale says a man’s hat caused the injury and a doctor’s fee of a guinea was paid, another claims a bonnet in a window caused a similar misfortune costing two pounds ten.
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Riggs
Briggs
London Mail
Cheerful Nonsense Exchange With Latfess Card Mention
An odd dialogue features Ali and repetition about a card and a promise to be summoned. The piece recalls a whimsical exchange with phrases about a band’s war and a humorous note on a spring hat resembling a dessert.
Ordeal by Fire at Benares Prompts Mixed Belief
Eyewitness account of a dramatic fire ordeal at a villa near Benares in British India. A trench of red hot coals was walked by priests and participants including officers and social elites, followed by the public, with spectators divided between credulity and skepticism as the scene tested faith in Hindu ritual mastery.
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Benares
India
British India
Army
Brahmapoots
Siva
Brahma
Vishnu
Coronado Beach
Trckery
Los Angeles
Shack Dye Returns to Anniston for New Shoe Shop
Shack Dye, renowned South horse shoer with years at an Anniston shop, returns from Talladega to run an up-to-date shop on Fourteenth Street between Noble and Wilmer and invites old friends and customers.
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Shoers
Talladega
Anniston
Fourteenth Street
Noble
Wilmer
Cus
Undertaking Parlor Opens New Branch Led by Milton P Crowe
TRIGG STEELE CO announces a new undertaker branch with Milton P Crowe in charge, claiming over twenty years as Alabama's leading embalmer. A lady attendant is available, day or night, with phone numbers for contact.
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Milton P. Crowe
Crowe
Alabama
Trigg-Steele CO
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City Hardware
A. S. Pendle’s
A. S. Pendle Am Market
Wenth and
Market Streets
Opera House
T. M. Henderson
Noble Street
Mealer
Incram & CO
JOD Naval Customs
Ali
Walter Wellman
Rénu
Jis Will
Wasce
Hce
Jonathan. Swift
Mitel Wan
Mosibe
Bucky& i N
Atlanta
Alabam
Shack Dye
Tomers
J. W. Monk
Telephone
C. W. Cohen
Noble St
Anniston Oak Tannery
W. M. Schroeder
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