Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
A reader from Adrian Georgia credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a long standing female weakness and urges others to avoid surgery. The advertisement touts decades of use and offers confidential free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Adrian
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lenavy
Jenny
Lydia Lt. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Cuticura cures intense itching and skin eruption claim
The advertisement cites a user who suffered severe itching and skin tearing before reporting relief after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. It notes the eruption faded in about three weeks with no recurrence, and provides a customer address for verification. The piece ends with a separate promotional line for Allen’s Foot-Ease and related products.
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A. Krutskoff
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Vetter Drug & Chem. Corp
Cuticura Remedies
Boston
Hippo hunting methods along the Sudan and a neighbor's Postum tale
The article describes Hawaczi water hunters harpooning hippos at noon to drag them ashore, and land hunts using concealed pits to trap mothers and their young. It also tells of a Texas neighbor sharing advice that coffee harms health and Postum heals digestive issues, with a family anecdote praising Postum as a coffee substitute.
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Carl Hagenbeck
Sudan
Wide World
Europe
Sks
Baird
Texas
Sie
Postum
Numerous Indiana incidents from Petersbur g to Fort Wayne
A jumbled Indiana roundup reports a Mississippi theft case death of a mate, a locked cat amid egg theft, a train engineer injured by a bird, debt issues and a Bruceville move, a Lafayette shooting accident, rabies warnings, mastodon bones found near Roar swamp, a Fort Wayne runaway fatality, and various local oddities including elopement, pescine disease alerts, and a sprawl of county conditions.
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Charles Alexander
Petersburg
W. OD. Rinehart
Midland
Ladoga
Luther Mehring
Indianapolis
Bruceville
Feete Bruceville
Frank Gibson
Blanche
Ty Williard Gilson
Gafayette
Frank
William
Prank
George Chammness
Theresan
Chammers
United States
John Blaize
Williams
Grand Rapids
Mich
Roe. Durkan
Prank Stevens
South Bend
Benjamin Miller
Alfred Purdy
Homer Purdy
David Miles
Fort Wayne
Alice Wilson
Joe Moss
Linton
Moss
Barber Quips About Hair Growth In Witty Exchange
In a cheeky chat, Percy tells a barber that hair grows at a precise rate, prompting the barber to jest about a spot on the back of his head where hair never grows. The banter blends humor and a hint of mystery in a casual salon scene.
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Percy
Instant Melief for All Eyes and Food Tales
A Baltimore era column discusses eye remedies and a Buffalo druggist, followed by a physician’s tale on taste and smell loss. The piece cites a Mrs Smith misidentifying foods after taste loss, notes altered reactions to onions, limburger, and a vodka of odorless confusion.
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Brownlow
Limburger
Senator Speech on Income Tax Draws Strong Reactions
A Chicago Tribune report notes that a fellow Statesmera senator praised a speech endorsing the income tax as one of the strongest arguments heard. The senator hedges on whether the speech swayed votes, suggesting lingering uncertainty.
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Chicago Tribune
How to Manage a Talking Machine Book
A bookstore clerk helps a rushed customer pick a suitable birthday gift for her mild husband. The humor hinges on the woman's reluctance toward sports, history, or biography, and the clerk's unexpected suggestion titled How to Manage a Talking Machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poe
Racial tallies and a family voice fragment
A chaotic excerpt lists human racial counts with white and yellow totals and a family vignette about a mother and children waiting as a papa mends stairs. The text intersperses a mother’s call to play with a harsh note about the papa’s language and a census-like breakdown of global races.
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L.A. Sayre
Gooraid
FEO
Hopkins
Cascarets
Chicago Scale Co
Illinois
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Allen
Suimple
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Hippo
Wellville
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Mississippi
Harry Britton
Brazil
Wayne County
Ross Trane
Diita
South Gendie
Dageroof
James Ale- Weeuw Tras
John Warble
Caohunbus
Melchor Maurer
Wells County
Lake County
Gir
Indiana Harbor
Columbus
Dan Traax
Otwell
Edgar Traylor
Joe Taylor
Frannie Craig
Lawrence Craig
Livergsmen
Grace Jenckes
Ray G. Jenckes
Terre Haute
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Abrams
Pennsylvania
Knightstown
Alrams
Eighteenth
Missouri Infantry
Satvive
Yony Vwelgner
Mmehith Street
Peru
Pletsner
Mount Hope Cemetery
State Fish and Game Commissioneru
Sweeney
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Recife
New York
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Meier
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