The Snitzels Meet the Travelers at the Door
A rural narrator recalls meeting Mister and Missus Snitzel, a missionary couple, who boast of world travel and claim to teach “the grate truth” to heathens. The pair seek a hundred dollars, Pa declines as the room rushes for the door amid a comic, wandering conversation.
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Usband
Missus Bacon
Sum Peepul
Wen
Jellus Beekaus
Caim
Angels
Thay
Thare Naim
Missus Snitzel
Mister Snitzel
Snitzel
Zanzibar
Asia Minor
Hymalayas
Alretty
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Woman
Malone New York woman recounts relief from organic inflammation and painful attacks after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letter extols cure, health, and happiness from the medicine and urges others to trust the product for displacements, inflammation, ulcers, irregularities, and related female ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Malone
N. Y
Lydia EF. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Mrs. Free Stone
Malone, N. Y
See Yourself as Others See You in Nell Brinkley Verse
A nostalgic passage reflects on self image, comparing inner soul to outer appearance. It urges readers to glimpse themselves through others eyes, noting many people project different facades and fear judgments, while some would love to see a more radiant, idealized self.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell Brinkley
You
Milady
Household Cleaning And Maintenance Tips From The Past
Household guidance covers floor scrubbing with cold water, glass cleaning with hot soda solution, preserving eggs with lard or beeswax, cucumber prep to avoid bitterness, reviving gilt braid with alum, and safe oil lamp practice using a sand box. Practical, era specific home advice aimed at daily chores.
Advice to the Lovelorn Dear Miss Fairfax
A column of dated emotional guidance from a reader named ONE WHO NEEDS ADVICE and several letters. The missive asks about marriage age and waiting, a fiancé discussing earnings and bank funds, and a caller seeking to end an unwanted friendship with a girl who misreads friendly overtures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Fairfax
Tam
Advice on love and absence in a tense relationship
A reader requests guidance after a quarrel with a young lover about renewed feelings. A mentor counsels distancing for a month, staying yourself, and avoiding overexposure to rekindle or attract healthier affection. The exchange emphasizes absence can shift emotions and cautions against forcing love.
Piles Cured at Home by New Absorption Method
A self care advertisement promises at home cure for piles with new absorption treatment. It claims immediate relief and permanent care, offering free trial samples and locality references upon request. The offer asks readers to write to Mrs M Summers, Box I, Notre Dame.
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M. Summers
Box I
Notre Dame
Last Call Between Nervous Passenger and Speed Hog
A tense exchange unfolds as a nervous passenger begs to brake to avoid collision while Speed Hog flippantly refuses saying brakes come only when the lamps buckle, revealing a dangerous driving bravado.
Let Older Heads Decide Let Older Heads Decide
A reader asks for guidance on a delicate matter about a young man who erred and bears a bad name. The letter argues for charity and fair judgment, noting two sides to every story and the need to give the repentant a second chance rather than condemn harshly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tere
Read Your Life and Fortune from Roxroy the Clairvoyant
Atlanta readers are invited to test Roxroy a twenty year occult researcher who claims to reveal character life and disposition with accuracy. Free readings offered for a short time send birth details and a verse to Dept 1148-D Roxroy 177A Washington Street London with stamps.
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Roxrey
Lettts
Benery
Baroness Blanquet
Prof
Roxroy
Roneoy
Dept
Wensington H
Lion
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Little Bobbie
Maden
Miss. Patriax
Andy
Beatrice Fairfax
Asi
Caaurvel
Fou
Marvel
East 23d Street
New
Dr. Palmer
All
Jacobs
Chichester S
Beatrice Fairfak
Atlanta
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