Letters and politics mix in a clipped era readers’ page
A Minneapolis reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles and urges public release. The piece links a suffrage stance in Mexico to gender norms and notes Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez’s monument in Mexico City as a rare honoring of a woman. A German tourist muses that doing nothing is Korea's national pastime.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan G. McLean
Second St
North
Mexico
Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
Queretaro
Spain
Eruption Cure Ad and Miscellany Snippets
A medical testimonial praises Cuticura remedies for a two year old with a severe itchy eruption, claiming complete recovery after two weeks. The page also shares Moroccan treasure legends, Mother Gray's herbal cures, jokes, and short notes on products like Grape-Nuts, Ball Blue, and Allen’s Foot-Ease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Whitaker
Winchester
Tenn
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuthura Remedies
Boston
Kansas
Tam
Wellville
Wayside Communings on a Backers Trust
In a breezy exchange, Wareham jokes with Long-D about the existence of a tobacker trust while Storey-Sure sounds skeptical, framing a playful local conversation on quirky community finance.
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Wareham
Tobacker Trust
Cement tombs emerge from enterprising American maker
A new American enterprise starts producing cement tombs. The note suggests using Red Cross Ball Blue for ball blue and mentions a large 202 pack priced at 35 cents.
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Red Cross
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Haarlem
Haariem
Claes Tilly
Holland Medicine CO
Scranton
Felix Gouraud
L. A. Boyre
Gouraud
Gale
United States
Canada
Europa
T. Hopkins
Great Jones Street
New York
Linwood Land Company
Rock Prings
Wyoming
Sein
Morocco
Mother Gray
Mother Gray Co
LeRoy
Horace Bushnell
Whittier
Shakespeare
Vernon Murray
Young Lapleigh
Fliegende Blaetter
Budworthy
Dudelong
Puck
Rome
Towne—lIt
Brownie
Philadelphia
Killy
Merchant
Philadelphia Record
Epicure
Aftright
Kohinoor
Lawrence Brothers
Henry
John
India
Ranjit Singh
Queen Victoria
Henry Lawrence
Lord Dalhousie
Allen
Allisn
W. J. Walker
Camden
N. J
Madge
Kate
Boston Transcript
Wayside Communings
Svvann
Infante and Children
Bears
THE
Centaur Company
New York City
Paxton Toilet CO
Mass
Cascarets Roc
F. W.N. UL
W. K. Kellogg
Omaha
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Mich
Lumbay
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