Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Renewal of Vitality
Advert says spring debility and dull appetite afflict many. Hood's Sarsaparilla is touted as reliable to purify blood and restore energy. Patient anecdotes from Kent Ohio Boston Mass Cohoes Me Arnold Me Rochester N Y praise better sleep appetite and sores healing after two bottles. Sold by druggists. 100 doses one dollar, six for five.
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Hood
R. A. Sanford
Kent
H. F. Millet
Boston
Mass
Mars
G. E. Simmons
Cohoes, N. Y
C. A. Arnold
Arnold
E.S. Phelps
Rochester
N.Y
Crooked fingers as emblem of habit and temper
A reader recalls an elderly man with bent fingers and uses the image to illustrate how repeated actions become habits. The same issue notes a novelty surgical operation in New Bedford where doctors transplanted tendons from a dog into Edward K Russell’s leg, the first such procedure in the city, with prior Paris and New York experiences.
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New Bedford
Edward K. Russell
Russell
New York
Conkling and Ingersoll Eating With a Tramp
A city stroll by Roscoe Conkling and Colonel Ingersoll ends at a cheap restaurant. A wretched tramp joins them for a meal and offers them a share, prompting Ingersoll to joke about meeting in heaven. The scene appears in the Syracuse Standard. A second item promotes Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for bilious symptoms and related ailments.
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Conkling
Ingersoll
Roscoe Conkling
Colonel Ingersoll
Boon
Louis Wincholz
White
Mr. Conkling
Senator Conkling
Mr. Ingersoll
Syracuse Standard
Oral Hygiene Guide and Advertisements Collage
A fragmented page offers brushing advice urging gumline placement and inside outside efforts to remove debris. It mixes dental tips with ads for Salvation Oil Dr Bull products and Burdock Blood Bitters and includes social commentary on politics and art claims.
Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills and Baby Syrup Remedy Ad
For all bilious disorders use Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills the best. Sold by all druggists. Dr Bull's Baby Syrup contains nothing injurious and may be given to the most delicate baby. It relieves colic and other bowel disorders. If your horse has jaundice or yellow water give him Day's Horse Powder. It will cure him.
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Dr. Bull
Baltimore
Bangs and Bitters and Timely Clocks Across The Nation
A scatter of items references fashion in New York, hair bangs rising in popularity amid satire. Henderson & Minear promote Acker’s English Remedy and Acker’s Blood Elixir as cures for rheumatism blood disorders and lung complaints. The Enquirer and Philadelphia Press dispute policies of Cleveland and Vilas. A Dutch clock anecdote and Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil are noted along with an Indiana man predicting 1888 end times.
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Henderson & Minear
Acker
Henderson ¢& Minear
Salve ad touts and local notices and dental pitch
A mixed reading shows old advertisements and anecdotes. Included are a patent salve claim promising cures for skin ailments, a suicide note about a Buffalo girl barred from skating, a Philadelphia cemetery inscription, a quip about a future name Celluloid, a smiling woman praised for teeth, and a toothpaste with exaggerated claims for whitening teeth.
Violence on Chicago rooftop derrick ends with hospital
Two workers on a six by ten foot platform near a hundred feet high at Marshall Field Co. building engage in a hammer assault and a grappling fall. The men tumble over the edge as a crowd of eight thousand gathers and both are taken to the hospital.
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Chicago
Clevelamns
Marshall Field & Co
Dr King's New Discovery Promises Cure for Consumption
The ad touts Dr King s New Discovery for consumption and lung ailments as a proven remedy with thousands of permanent cures. It claims many former hopeless patients owe their lives to the treatment and offers free trial bottles at Henderson & Minear s Drug Store with large bottles priced at 1.00.
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Henderson & Minear
Acker
Dr. King
Henderson & Minear’s
Brashears Lectures to Benefit Western Pennsylvania Library
Prof Langley praises John A Brashears work as preferred by European and American astronomers. The lecture invitation for the library of the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania reflects on local appreciation and the prophet phrase.
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Langley
John A. Brashears
Brashears
Europe
America
Engineer’s Society of Western
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg Telegraph
Beggar Presses Door Asks for Help
In a tense street encounter a woman denies giving alms at the door while a beggar declares no scruples about entering the parlor to seek aid. The exchange highlights hardships and neighboring attitudes toward poverty.
Mrs Sronseer elopes with cousin to New Mexico
Mrs. Philip Sronseer, married to a prosperous farmer near Warren Ohio, elopes with her cousin James Mayne of Santa Fe New Mexico. After years of happiness her note to husband explains loneliness and love for Mayne, and claims she loves him more. The piece also mentions quack remedies and proclaims Walker’s Vinegar Bitters as a trusted tonic.
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Philip Sronseer
Warren
Ohio
James Mayne
Santa Fe
N.M
New Mexico
Joe
Chinese pupils shout through lessons in crowded classrooms
A New York Sun note describes Chinese students reciting with loud voices, backing to the teacher and facing the crowd, while all recite in unison. Separate quips mention Hood's Sarsaparilla ads from Buffalo and a playful Allegheny youth remarking on sweeping the parlor as a school day joke.
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China
New York Sun
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I’arents
Arxa
J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Dr. Pierce
Chicago Journal
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Norr. Herald
Bull
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Tate
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Holland, Mich
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S&s
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Beast
Hannah Mickle
Woodbury
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Anderson Co
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Lovelaceville
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Deep River
Poweshick, Co
Iowa
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Wabash Ave
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Simpsons’ Store
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Craddock & CO
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Smith
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Posenye
Messenuek
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Pullman Palace Cars
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