Dean's Kidney Pills Ad Promises Relief
An advertisement claims kidney secretions signal deranged kidneys and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for irregularities backache and swelling. A testimonial from Charles Cole of Iota Kana reports lasting health after two years. The ad notes 50 cents a box and Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. A humorous line follows about a woman who won’t tear up a love letter after forgetting its author.
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Dean
Charles Cole
N. Buckeye St
Iota
Kana
Dean’s
Ell
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
A City Clerk’s Garden and Miscellaneous Wit
A jumble of anecdotes and ad copy arrives with tales of a city clerk parading a tiny garden, a noble duke and weather chat, a painting of Bunker Hill, and varied quips about golf, mint candy, laundry soap, and soothing syrup. The snippets resemble a column of light humor and household products.
Narrow Escape on a Steam Pusher Run in 1896
An old brakeman recalls a near fatal crash on a pusher train near Diablo while a firebox door savagely trapped him. The tale includes a dramatic rescue, the death of engineer Morris, and a gift from the yard foreman to the surviving brakeman. Also notes Cape to Cairo railroad work restarting and a brief mention of railroad death records dropping after safety implementations.
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Neos
the Midland
Divide
Pinte Pass
Ed. Morris
el Paso
Diablo
Morris
Jack Hyde
Mortis
Jack
Vast US Industry and Rail Network Highlight Economic Strength
A Leslia's Weekly style feature extols the United States with figures on population wealth farms and industry. It notes 250000 miles of rail surpassing Europe and 100000 locomotives hauling billions in freight, supported by 5500000 workers and 150000000000 in bank clearances. It cites high savings and per capita money, then shifts to a railway incident at Soham where signalman Lines saves a girl Doris Pryke from an oncoming Ipswich express, the child only lightly injured.
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Gor
Great Britain
France
Germany
Leslia’s Weekly
Soham
Great Eastern Railroad
Ling Clear
Ipswich
Doris Pryke
Democratic Railroad Men and Truesdale Admiration
Democratic railroad workers admire President William H. Truesdale known as Jill among Lackawanna staff from top to bottom. A Morris and Essex division baggage car features his photo engraving, and locals in towns would seek his guidance for answers. Truesdale, six foot one, athletic build, and a steady presence, is respected across ranks.
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Wall Street
Lackawanna
William H. Truesdale
Jill
Avery
Morris and Essex
North Jersey
Truesdale
Uiil
Honors Were With Farmer and the Mail Carrier
A rural delivery carrier stops his horse at a farmer’s gate and asks if the resident named Holmes is related to Sherlock Holmes. The farmer, a sun-browned man in work clothes, retorts he can read people well and asks about mail, acknowledging his own detective instincts. The item reads as a humorous exchange from Youth's Companion.
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T Sue
Holmes
Beverly G
Sherlock Holmes
Itched for Twelve Years Eczema Cure Report
Charles T Bauer of Volant Pa describes twelve years of eczema on hands arms and feet with swelling itching and dryness. After trying many salves doctors he found relief using Cullcura Remedies, reporting full healing and no recurrence by March 11 1908 with Potter Drug and Chem Corp Boston as the publisher.
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Charles T. Bauer
Volant
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Physician's Mean Trick and Engaged Couple Tale
A light tale recounts a doctor known for intolerance deceiving a hypochondriac patient. He instructs her to shut her eyes and stick out her tongue, then vanishes in a busy street, leaving her tongue out and eyes closed. Also notes the engagement of a couple, with the bride accepting after a prior refusal.
The New Woman Made Over by Quitting Coffee
A Richmond Virginia woman credits Postum and Grape NUTS with reversing years of coffee damage. She details headaches nervousness and eye trouble then reports restored sight strength weight gain and improved reading memory after switching to Postum and Grape NUTS. She urges public awareness for suffering humanity.
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Richmond
Attie
Lave
Wellville
Funeral for Casey Moves Thirteenth District in Mourning
The Thirteenth District mourns Casey with a funeral attended by the Tammany organization. Members file by the coffin, shake hands with Mrs Casey, and offer condolences as Hogan speaks of the deceased. An ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease and Wrigley's Spearmint jokes follow the obituary.
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Chicago Daily Socialist
Bunker Hill
Jim
Wrigley’s
Lincoln
Brakeman
Cape To Cairo
Scientific American
Victoria Falls
Congo Copper District
Great Interior Lakes
Africa
McAdam
Fenter
St. Jos Sun
Railroad
Northern Pacific
Seattle
Ward
Road
Yakima Valley
Pittsburg Gazette
Farmer
Cudahy
Omaha
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
Mr. Hogan
Arlen
Allen
Allen , Olmsted
LeRoy
Meggendorfer Blaetter
Olid
the Centaur Company
New York
Bears
IGN
Paxton
MABR
Cape
Kath
Aents
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