Peruna Endorsed by Sunbury Mayor in Vintage Ad Copy
Sunbury Ohio mayor C C Brooks who also serves as attorney for Farmers Bank and Sunbury Building and Loan Co praises Peruna as a great medicine with utmost confidence and personal use, claiming beneficiaries among friends. The fragment includes jokes and ads typical of late 19th or early 20th century newspapers.
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C. C. Brooks
Sunbury
Ohio
Farmers’ Bank and
Sunbury Building and Loan Co
Teething Relief Promoted by Mrs Wingon’s AFTO
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet notes Mothers will use Mrs Wingon’s soothing AFTO as a teething remedy for children. A brief exchange adds a humorous Reform-era quip about Christmas gifts, cigars, and a husband’s smoking abstention.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Peruna Almanac Promoted For 1907 Healings
An ad touts Peruna as a standby remedy for various ailments tied to weather effects on mucous membranes. It claims summer heat and winter cold trigger coughs head colds and digestive issues. The notice urges readers to ask their druggist for the Free Peruna Almanac for 1907.
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Peruana
Peruna Almamac
Awful Attacks of Pain Cured by Dean's Kidney Pills
Thomas N. McCullough of South Weber Colorado claims a twelve to fifteen year history of back and kidney pain with weeks of suffering. After using Deans Kidney Pills he reports permanent relief and renewed health. Sold by dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Thomas N. McCullough
South Weber Bt
Colorado Springs
Colo
Saya
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Throughly Reliable Trever Remedy Porous Plaster Ad
An old and famous porous plaster called Alleck is praised as a safe, sixty year old pain reliever. The text claims high standards of purity, mentions ingredients and manufacturing quality, and notes widespread sale by druggists worldwide. It references American potatoes and preserved meat in Germany.
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Uwe
The Treasure of Captain Kidd Fictional Side Lights
A fragmentary tale mentions Captain Kidd burying treasure and a rakish craft at sea. The passage hints at a thief evading taxes and reporters, with a sly remark about money always being there and retreat from shore.
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Kidd
Chaplain McCabe Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church Dead
Charles Cardwell McCabe a distinguished bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church died in New York after a stroke following a lecture in the metropolis. Born October 11 1836 in Athens Ohio he served as a Civil War army chaplain and was captured at Winchester spending four months in Libby Prison. His career included missionary work lecturing and writing and he was noted for promoting Christian ethics across classes and churches.
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Charles Cardwell McCape
Bisbop
New York
McCabe
Ife
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mnuch
Athens
Ohio
One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Infantry
McGabe
Ohio Wesleyan University
Board of Church Extension
Col. Ingersoll
Bob
McCabe and Mark Twain in 19th Century Letters and Lectures
A historical note recalls Chaplain McCabe’s church-building efforts aided by lecture proceeds, including a million-dollar mission appropriation and a later million raised, while Col Ingersoll publicly derided the church. It also recounts a Twain anecdote about Mr Clemens critiquing a tale and a lighthearted exchange about a motor car nicknamed Balzae.
Blood remedies and eerie street crowd moment in Chicago
A collage of ad copy and quips shows claims about Safety as a blood remedy, a street crowd panic near downtown Chicago, a window washer on a fifteenth story ledge exclaims his fear, and assorted misdated humor. Also notes Hall's Catarrh Cure and a New Year joke about the old year dying.
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Chicago Tribune
Salvation Army draws aristocratic ranks in its ranks
Mine Blooded Salvationists details how Major Mary Murray daughter of Sir John Murray and Lady Sarah Sladen align with leadership. Col Minnie Reid, married to Commissioner Booth Ducker, hails from Bombay governor lineage. The commissioner quit a judgeship for Salvation Army work and counts wealth and status.
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Salvation Army
Mary Murray
John Murray
K. B
Minnie Reid
Booth Ducker
Bombay
India
Sarah Sladen
Teafield
Onslow
Guildford
Australasia
Bird
Tasmania
Lady Galt
Leutenant
Ontario
Canada
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Tg Hicks -Chatten Engraving CO
Germany
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Chaplain M'Cabe
Mark ‘Twain
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Mabel
Boston Globe
Mr. Cumrox
Ted
Gret Place
Washington Star
Balzae
M’cabil
Hood
Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
ST. Jacobs Oil
Italy
Country
Romotmbio
Catterlin & CO
Abington
Portland, Oregon
Portland Stock Exchange
Brake Valley
Idaho
Mian
Yellowstone Park
Ashton
LNG
Moormreal Estate Company
Anthony and Ashton
Hubber
Irwin-Hodson Co
Ayer
Otter
A Z Ayers
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Lal Gai Falc
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Tangent
Oregon
Errys
FERNY
Detroit
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Pacific Coast Boras Co
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American National Bank Bldg
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