Epps Cocoa Promises Health Benefits for Breakfast and Supper
From the Civil Service Gazette an endorsement notes cocoa’s digestion aiding properties and nutrition building strength against disease. It urges careful use of well chosen cocoa to fortify blood and body, preventing doctor bills. Sold in half-pound tins by James Epps & Co London Homeopathic Chemists.
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Epps
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps & Co., Ltd
Opathic Chemists
London
Mugland
The Money Question
Nevada Director notes money's reach into daily life from hats and aprons to church Bibles and doctors shelves. It affects wages taxes weddings and funerals, weighing happiness and fate between Heaven and Hell.
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Hayseed
Heaven
Hell
Nevada
DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure Advertised Relief
The piece promotes DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure as a quick remedy for a child’s summer complaint and for dysentery and diarrhoea, claiming it is a reliable cure. It argues the product provides instantaneous relief and would not be recommended otherwise.
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DeWitt
Nervous strain blamed for national ills and wealth
The article argues disease and nervous prostration stem from the relentless hustle of Americans. Officials claim air and climate intoxicate people with wealth and position, causing constant work and worry. The piece notes the U S is the richest country yet a nervous race due to this lifestyle.
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United States
Household duties and recipes for family comfort
Practical advice urges men to seek self and family comfort through work and knowledge while women care for meals and home. Practical kitchen notes include picnic eggs, cheese sandwiches, fruit punch, bread making tips, and several tested recipes for pies, fish, stewed fruit, and Bromangelon sherbert with simple preparation steps.
Portrait painter’s blunt joke about a girl’s mouth
An English portrait painter, famed for likeness and humor, teases a friend by describing a beautiful girl’s mouth as elephant like. The artist quips the mouth is lined with superb ivory, highlighting his dry wit without malice.
Three Gunhouses Burned Near Selma Plantations
Three steam gins and a steam gun on nearby plantations burned in three days. The Tubbs plantation gin lost 3000 dollars after a lamp overturned. The Ethridge plantation gun burned due to spontaneous combustion for 2000 dollars. The Bob Smith plantation gunnery burned last night for 1500 dollars. All had no insurance.
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Selma
Ala
Tubbs
Ethridge
Bob Smith
The Mule and the Cat in a Western Ranch Story
A St Louis Republic tale describes a Sunday at a Texas ranch where Joe Brown’s mule terrorizes calves and grain. Foreman Tunday arranges a risky cropper with a blindfolded Tom cat, triggering a humorous chase that ends with the mule leaving the ranch after a ten minute display.
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Texas
Pete
Joe Brown
Joe
Tom
Barnum
Mr. Mule
St. Louis Republic
The Climax Approaching in the 1896 Campaign
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues both parties threaten the republic with monarchy or despotism. It claims the current campaign has reached a stage where no spellbinder would admit escape from tyranny under any party but his.
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Republic
Cincinnati Enquirer
THRIFTY WIT AND WORDPLAY IN HISTORIC HUMOR
A compact collection of quips on manners and society. The text mocks fashionable vices, courtly displays, and public life with sly emphasis on contrasts between tradition and modern folly. It nods to figures like the Emperor of China and Irish spirits while lampooning vanity and inheritance.
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Table d
China
Dublin
Politician seeks hand in marriage in playful campaign letter
John Crooks writes a flirtatious declaration proposing a caucus with the mother as temporary chair and a speedy convention date to win a marriage alliance. He jokes about a one hundred cent dollar love standard and promises fair means to secure the nomination of his affection.
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John Crooks
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