Constitutional Disease Remedy Advertised in 19th Century Catalog
An1860s style market blur describes constitutional disease as arising from impure blood and needing systemic treatment. Hood's Sarsaparilla is pitched as the primary remedy, with Sareatals as a chocolated tablet form. The ad touts 100 doses for $1 and notes other products like Antiseplete and Catarelets. Also mentions a tall Arcadia Florida bamboo and various light editorial snippets from newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
All Who Would Enjoy Health and Living Right
The piece argues for right living to achieve health and pleasure, suggesting recreation, enjoyment, contemplation, and effort contribute to well being. It promotes medicines as optional under ordinary conditions, advocates timely use of a wholesome remedy, and advertises Syrup of Fig and Elicit of Seous from the Salifornis Fig Syrup Co as a general satisfaction.
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Ienportas
Salifornis Fig Syrup Co
Seward and the Alaska Purchase Folly Revisited
In a Collier's extract, Seward urges a night treaty on March 29 after a Russian dispatch. The piece recalls Alaska’s purchase as a political gamble once mocked as folly, yet yielding over 350 million dollars in wealth in fifty years and fueling Seattle’s 1850s boom.
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Seward
Ool
Senate
Alaska
California
Nevada
Seattle
End of the Feud Mercy Story and Odd Quiz Banter
A long-ago tale recounts peace between the Shuswap and Okanogan peoples when a captured daughter is honored rather than tortured. The White-Hatted chief shifts from hatred to mercy, restoring the girl and ending the feud. Also a humorous medical quiz ends with a fatal miscalculation, a student realizing too late that a dose was misjudged as a death sentence.
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Columbia River
W. D. Lyman
Bhuswaps
Columbia Medical College of New York
Sigal
Desperate Coughs Advertise Ayer Pectoral Remedy
An old advertisement extols dangerous persistent coughs and urges readers to consult a doctor about Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral as a regular medicine for severe coughs and chest discomfort. It emphasizes medical guidance and the product as a remedy.
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Ayer
Fragmented Era Ad Clippings and Miscellany Reprinted
A garbled OCR page compiles medical quackery with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, jokes from Harper’s Weekly and Washington Star, legalistic notes on circumstantial evidence, and light social banter. It mentions medicine by J.C. Ayers of Lowell, mass. a barber father. and various snippets from periodicals with brief dialogues and cartoons.
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Ayer
J.C. Ayers
Lowel
Masa
Pleasing Tales and Quips From Old New England Clergy
A woven collection recounts a New England cleric who used humor to keep his weary parish awake. It shares a tale of pausing mid sermon to remark sleepers remain sound, a funeral notice with a curious line about an orphan and an elderly mother, and brisk vignettes on daily life and wit from early American circles.
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Florida
America
Arcadia
Fla
South Morida
West Indies
Lucy Fitch Perkins
New England
Reporter Called Me A Big Drunken Loafer
A reader demands correction after being labeled by a reporter as a "big, greasy, drunken loafer" in this morning's paper. The editor promises a correction tomorrow.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Legislative Assembly
Macaulay
Ven Wifle
Umeda
Mel
Meggendorfer Rinetier
Charleston News and Courier
Nam
Nan
London
George
Achilles
New York
New York City
Chicago
Tr Cay
San Francisco
Philadelphia Ledger
Peoreeror
Bsuccess Magazine
Aloghe
Success Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Henry Hawkins
England
Hamlins
Ebels
Col
Oklahoma
Mr. Cronslate
Washington Star
Eskimos
Proteus and
Taxis
Proteus
New York Pont
Lil
Nan—O
Benton
Paris
Cumrox
Allen
Pittsburg
Allens Olimstel le Roy
France
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N. Y
Cas
Castor
FacSinile Signature of
Bears
Castoria
Taxidermist
Zanner Furs
F. B. Finley
Columbia Portland, Ore
Agron Irae
Katee
Paigless. Dentistry
Millicent
Mr. Wilder
Mildred
Summerville Journal
Cascarets
Senet
George Kryder
Napoleon
C. Gee Wo
Haw
Kierke and
Barks
China
Tampa
C. Gee Wo Medicine Co
First St
Cor
Morrison
Portland
Mf. Co, Ee
Putnam Faceless
Crescent Mfg. CO
Lewis & Staver CO
Ore
Spokane
Wash
Boise, Idaho
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