Sleep Like a Child Gained Twenty Seven Pounds in Four Weeks
A veteran of the Civil War recounts a remarkable recovery after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He describes years of debility and insomnia followed by rapid weight gain from 119 to 146 pounds and a lasting cure of smoking, after starting the pills in 1896. The sworn statement from Chester S Harrington accompanies testimonials endorsing the remedy.
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Ilinois
Peoria
Chester
Harrington
Princeville
Transcript
124Th
Illinois
Kewanée
Libby
G.A.R
Dr. Williams
Hamington
Chester S. Warrington
Chester S. Harrington
Lincoun M. Coy
Miles
L. C. Bramley
Henry St
St. Catherines
Ontario
Dr. Miles
Elkhart
Ind
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Cures Kumtnersville Man
After years of suffering from piles B W Pursell of Kumtnersville Pa was cured by one box of DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve. The ad claims skin diseases eczema rash pimples and obstinate sores are readily cured by this remedy. Dr W A Wricut endorses it.
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B. W. Pursell
Kumtnersville
DeWitt
W. A. Wricut
Wise Words From Ram's Horn Reflections on Virtue and Sin
A compact sermonizing passage from Ram's Horn contrasts wisdom and vice. It argues education reveals ability while hypocrisy harms, warns against mercenary preachers, and upholds humility, mercy, and timely kindness as signs of true character.
Edible Oil Trade in Egypt and Global Use
The article notes a vast international trade in vegetable oils, especially ground nut oil or arachide oil. It highlights Egypt Soudan and India as markets, cites over 1 000 000 hundredweight imported annually, and mentions Belgium and France as major consumers and producers with soap and edible oil uses.
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Egypt
Soudan
India
East
France
Belgium
Metaphysical Discovery Promises Cure for Disease
An advertisement by Mrs. M. G. Brown touts a metaphysical discovery that purportedly cures disease by a three fold moisture absorption through head organs. It lists No 1 eye water No 2 ear preparation and No 3 scalp renovator and offers a 100 page pamphlet from METAPHYsICAL UNIVERSITY in New York to educate the public.
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M. G. Brown
Richard
Metaphysical University
Bond Street
New York
Yellow Fever and Cuban risk to the United States
Dr Walter Wyman argues in Forum that yellow fever belongs to the western hemisphere and must be extirpated through international opinion. He notes Havana as a major local source, Cuba as the primary importation route, and calls for sanitary reform or stricter measures to prevent annual invasions via Cuban ports and summer sailings.
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Western Hemisphere
United Sites
Havana
Cuba
Europe
Key West
Walter Wyman
Forum
Nothing Homelike About Bachelor Quarters Says Married Man
A Chicago Post tale contrasts a bachelor’s hopes with a benedict’s home life ten years after college. The married man extols domestic ease and children, while the bachelor bluntly declares bachelor quarters lack homeliness, prompting a shift in conversation.
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Benedict
Willie
Mr. Brown
Maggie
Tommie
Mabel
Chicago Post
Sudden Death Tale From Market Talk
In a Spare Moments vignette a pair of farmers discuss the death of Sandy’s wife. Sandy explains she fell ill suddenly and, unable to summon a doctor, they gave her an old pouther from a drawer. She died soon after, and Sandy laments the loss while noting he did not take the pouther himself.
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Sandy
Two Prayers Compared in Irish and Hungarian Battles
A 19th century note contrasts Bishop Leslis the fighting bishop with a Hungarian officer before 1849 combat. Both prayers seek divine aid to balance fate, one pleading for restraint and mercy while the other asks for neutral divine presence to bless their side.
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Leslis
Ireland
United Service Magazine
Health of Planta and Rooted Growth
The article emphasizes plant health requires abundant soil and space for roots to expand. It argues plants cannot thrive without ample earth in the pot or tub to support nourishment and growth.
Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Vent Constipation Relief
The advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a natural quick cure for constipation. It claims large men irritate dyspeptic friends, nature expels impurities, and pellets assist without violence. It urges buying with 21 cents for a roo8 page medical adviser from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, NY.
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Nature
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Erlangen Professor Operates on Nuremberg Merchant
An Erlangen professor performed a dangerous operation on an 86 year old Nuremberg merchant. The surgery succeeded and the professor sent his bill to the merchant’s heirs. The recovered old man traveled to Erlangen to pay the professor himself.
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Erlangen
Nuremberg
Weary Eyes Charity Nail Driving Contest
For the relief of weary eyes and rheumatic ailments Pond's Extract is endorsed by Walter A A Gardener rector. Seven Matteawan NY women held a public nail driving contest to raise funds with Miss Belle Mosher driving twenty nails in five minutes as winner.
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Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society For Seamen
West Street
New York
Walter A. A. Gardener
Matteawan
F. Y
Belle Mosher
America Needs a New Intellectual Cycle
J S Tunison argues in Atlantic that America must start a broader literary movement beyond the short story and enroll a rival to Homer and Dante. He critiques American schools philosophy and warns that the old world tires, urging a one sided thinker to disrupt the prevailing equilibrium and awaken a future literature.
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America
Horace Greeley
United States
von Hartmann
Berlin
Goethe
J. S. Tunison
Atlantic
Miles Nerve Piasters Drugstore Ad
An old advertisement notes Miles Nerve Piasters available at all druggists, signaling a commonly advertised tonic or remedy by Dr. Miles.
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Miles
Old Bailey Witness Refuses Humbug Question
A woman being examined at the Old Bailey as a witness resists a barrister’s query. The recorder warns her to answer directly. She replies that naming the recorder as a gentleman would be humbugging the court.
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Old Bailey
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Health of Planta
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Samuel Pitcher
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