Athens smallpox scare prompts Greek capital panic
The piece notes a citywide outbreak of smallpox in Athens causing fear among all classes including university students yet clarifies the reference is to Athens in Greece. A 25 year old Philadelphia wife reimagines old wallpaper while her daughter struggles to replace it with new decor. A dialect exchange in Austin records a widow’s sudden death after a single day of illness.
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Athens
Greece
Philadelphia
Dr Quinn’s Great Discovery Promises Safe Cough Cure
An Athens Ohio drugstore advertises Dr Quinn’s Great Discovery for coughs colds and consumption claiming no opium or morphia and immediate relief. The ad also pitches Dr Quinn’s Tri sh Liniment and notes the Pope’s late hours and a February Peter’s Pence yield of $19 000.
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E.R. Lash
Athens
Dr. Quinn
Peter
A Salve Promising Quick Cure for Various Ailments
An 19th century advertisement touts a salve claimed to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back, priced at 20 cents a box, sold by Hl. K. Dorr.
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Hl. K. Dorr
Criggs
Lesh
Young Man Seeks $1000 From Connecticut Parents to Wed Widow
A young Iowa man writes home to his Connecticut parents asking for $1000 to marry a wealthy widow. The note humorously underscores how small capital can alter a young man’s fortunes when aiming for a rich match in the West.
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Iowa
Connecticut
Advertisements and quotes from a bygone issue
A collage of testimonials and product pitches appears with claims for Hop Bitters Hood's Sarsaparilla and Diamond Dyes. The piece mocks retro fashion, quilters, and a dying poet Joaquin Miller, interspersed with dialect and odd urgings about health remedies and a will.
A Blessing in Disguise Plasters Endorsement
A Brooklyn advertisement touts Cook's Porous Plasters as a universal remedy for rheumatism kidney complaints bronchitic neuralgia lumbago lung and throat inflammation paralysis asthma spinal weakness coughs and colds. The testimonial claims instant relief and calls them essential for peace comfort and nervous energy alongside Brandreti's life giving pills.
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Adelphi ST
Brooklyn
N.Y
Iss
Aisi
Cook
Brandreti
Mankins
Allcock's Powers Plaster Endorsed Against Competitors
Advertisement extols Allcock's Powers porous plaster as superior and warns against rival brands. Claims other plasters are frauds riding on the genuine article’s reputation.
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Allcock
nolSwls
Miner Risks Death in Lake Superior Mine Dare
A Swepe wagered to descend a near vertical mine ladder in a Lake Superior iron mine face forward while carrying nitroglycerin. A crowd watched the perilous stunt, with danger of collapse and death for him and spectators. An auctioneer laments no bids as an older woman reflects on lost time and hope.
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Lake Superior
Pickles and Puns Highlight Drummer Comic
A seven year old asks to pickle the little one out while a jar on the table prompts a mother to faint. The page features patent medicine touts for Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic and a pun laden joke about pickles.
Hood's Sarsaparilla touted for daughter's relief
A mother credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with easing her daughter's distressing symptoms and fatigue as a bottle proves curative. The ad claims no other preparation matches its revitalizing properties. A separate anecdote recalls Rossini joking with an unknown visitor claiming authorship of Meyerbeer’s Funeral March.
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Hood
Rossini
Meyerbeer
Irreverent Classified Snippets and Patent Remedies
A jumble of advertisements and notes touts Rough on Rats roach killer and Electric Bitters claims. Bitters promise quick health boosts while Swayne's Ointment is pitched for piles and skin disorders. Criggs glycerine salve is billed as a universal cure with a money-back guarantee.
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Washington
Swayne
New Life from Brown's Iron Bitters Advertisement
The ad promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a year round health tonic strengthening the system in winter enriching the blood in spring toning nerves and digestion in summer and helping withstand seasonal changes in fall. It claims prevention of consumption kidney and liver disease and warns against imitations while asserting efficacy in malaria and nervous trouble. It lists the Brown Chemical Co Baltimore as the maker.
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Brown
Brown Chemical Co
Baltimore, Md
Rescued from the Jaws of Death Hunt's Remedy Ad Claims
A letter from Milton, Pennsylvania dated November 16 1982 sends a postal order for five dollars and twenty five cents for six bottles of Hunt's Remedy. It extols the kidney and liver medicine as life saving and urges its sale in drugstores promoting belief in its divine healing powers.
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Gabe Snodgrass
Austin
Jesse
Bucklen
Wan
South Carolina
Sterling Bros
Carrollton, C
Mr. Talmage
Joaquin Miller
The
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Ameerican
India
Norristown Herald
Ohio Depot
John D. Park & Sons
Cincinnati
Lincoln
Neb
H. K. Dorr
Feang
Josh Billings
Rio Janeiro
Bette
Western Union Telegraph
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Seabury & Johnson
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P.O
T. A. Slocum
Pearl St
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James River
Wantin
J. Kh
Mancha
Darement
Virgina
Parker's Vone
Hiscox & Co
Corning
HS. Bertin
Fsq
H. 3. Berlin & Co
le Droit
Washington, D.C
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Milton, Penn
Lars
Hunt
Drugstore
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Hie
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Pealer
Panhandle
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Main Street
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H. M. Roach
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Maine
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Address Tree & Co
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Pass
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Washington, D. C
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MIDE
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Belpre
Parke
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Noy Daily
Parkersburg
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Hamden
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Portsmouth
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Planchester
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Teenee
Oree
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A.J. Smith
Kio
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de Worter
Ag’t
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F Ornell
Washington & Congress
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Pia
Arives
Madisonville
Loveland
Greenfield
Hallimore
Barry
John BF
Rose
Ohio University
Gitte
John Cornell
William H. Scott
Dewees
NTS Vd
Wam
Vis
Etre
Leeneee
Jenn
Pamphet
Art
Magnetic Medicine Co
Detroit
Mich
H. K. Dotrane
Central Drug Store
Ross Ee Aa
Oruccists
Price &i. Kidne
ENGKK
Sehobas
Miss Racer
Messenger Office
Meq
John B. Dalton
Tam
Sira LL. Walker
Nli-Ly
Addleman
Court Street
West Site
Ohio
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