Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills Free Offer
A mailed free offer promotes Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills as a universal cure for stomach and liver complaints including constipation indigestion jaundice and headaches. The ad claims the pills contain Paw-Paw juice and invites readers to request a free package from Munyon's Homeopathic Co. at 53d and Jefferson Streets Philadelphia.
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Munron
Munyon
Munyon’s
Homoeopathic Home Remedy CO
53D
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
Sixteen Years of Skin Disease
A Brooklyn resident describes a long battle with a severe skin condition. After failing with many doctors, Cuticura Remedies provided a cure, with the writer declaring himself transformed and grateful.
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Leonard A. Hawter
Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn
Battering Ram Becomes Buttinski in Student Banter
A teacher asks Michard for his view on the ancient siege tool the battering ram. The pupil with a bad eye quips that the ram was the original Buttinski, turning a history question into a playful retort.
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Michard
Buttinski
Allen's Foot Ease praised as trusted foot powder remedy
An old advertisement extols Allen's Foot-Ease as a clean healing powder shaken into shoes. It claims 39 000 cures for smarting feet and reduced stocking wear, warns against imitations and urges buyers to ask for the advertised original.
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Allen
Aller
The Infidel Flung By A Shoe Maker
A Victorian anecdote relates Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a boy begging for an apprenticeship with a Bowyer shoe maker. The master flogged him for infidelity after Coleridge confessed a wish to be a shoemaker rather than a clergyman. The tale notes the flogging cleared his infidelity and left him humiliated yet wiser.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bowyer
Coleridge
Veedable Oysters Mentioned by Oyster and Lobster
The Chicago Tribune quotes a humorous exchange where a lobster remarks on being told there exist veedable oysters. The oyster replies that there are human lobsters too, but it does not worry him a cent's worth.
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Chicavo Tribune
Feeding Children With Grape Nuts and Postum Promotes Health
A mother reports her children improved after changing their diet to fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, soft boiled eggs, and Postum for meals, reducing meat and potatoes. She notes her baby’s teething stomach issues vanished when Grape-Nuts with milk was used. The letter underscores the claimed benefits and invites readers to read The Road to Weilville in plogs.
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Weilville
Indiana Scene Reports Fire Deaths and Daring Rescues
A fire on the John Vanderpohl farm near Greensburg destroys a barn with $1,500 loss and $200 insurance. Harold Moffett, three, Evansville, crushed by wagon wheel. Captain Frank Cecil's son, three, Evansville, gravely injured after a fall from a 20 foot pole. Niles Root of Muncie saves his horse from a blaze but is badly burned. A taxi collision injures a boy near Columbus. Nordman child injured by overturned mule cart. Multiple deaths and injuries across towns from railroad and street accidents. A 92 year old Civil War veteran John Vetor dies at Fairmount with eight children surviving. Rabies epidemic prompts Lafayette to muzzle all dogs. Hydrophobia cases reported in farming areas. Other items cover accidents, arrests, civic projects, and community events across Indiana towns.
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John Vanderpohl
Greensburg
Harold Moffett
Evansville
Frank Cecil
Niles Root
Muncie
W. FE. Axline
Noblesville
John Vetor
Texas
Barder
Fairmount
Mr. Veter
Germany
New Orleans
Marion
Sirl
RedhcHe
Alexander Fisher
Laura Belle Thompson
Catlin
Clarence Nordman
Herman Nordman
Columbus
Nordman
Louisville
Art Association
Tippecanoe
Lafayette
George R. Durgan
Durgan
Foster
Anderson
Mounds Park
Tipton
Idianapolis Trade Association
United States
Indiana Union Traction Company
Trade Association
Indiana Union Traction System
Fort Wayne
Board of Public Works
Wabash Railroad
J. C. Sullivan
W. S. Danes
Pennsylvania Company
Arthur 8. Bland
Robert W. Grafton
Mr. Grafton
Holland
Xene Y. Smith
Gt P
Relic of Famous Race Horse Transformed Into Couch Cover
A St Blaise hide valued at 100000 dollars became a couch cover at Nursery Stud near Lexington Kentucky. August Belmont and Eleanor Robson admired the item during a honeymoon visit. St Blaise, foaled 1880 in England by Lord Arlington, died at age 29 at the Nursery in 1909 after a storied racing career.
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August Belmont
Ed Kane
Nursery Stud
Lexington
Eleanor Robson
Jockey Club
St. Blaise
Kane
New York
Your Wife's Picture and Easy Task Soap
A masculine appeal urges husbands to choose Easy Task soap to improve house cleaning. It argues that cheap yellow soap slows work, while Easy Task saves time, health, and money, and would reduce dirt at cleaning time.
Why He Did It Revealed in Investigation Reports
In the dialogue the speaker admits reading all investigation reports and says the effort was worthwhile. He notes benefiting from the scrutiny and claims he earned a bet about his nerve and endurance.
Mother Gray's Powders for Children Claims Quick Cures
A collection of 19th century ads and notices including Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children promising relief from fevers headaches teething and worms with claims of 24 hour cold break and harmless use. Also snippets of drama lines from Society Drama and ads for Pine Cure Free and Doctor Pierce's Pellets touting constipation cures.
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Mother Gray
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Alarming Symptoms Rally Patient in Early Morning
A patient shown to improve briefly last night and this morning rallies with unexpected strength. He refuses more medicine as Dr Kaldowmell-Dear contemplates steps to remove him from his perilous condition.
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Kaldowmell
Marine Eye Salve Trial Size Adoffer
Red itching eyelids and falling eyelashes prompt use of Marine Eye Salve. Trial size aseptic tubes priced at 26 cents. Request from druggists or write Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago. F W N U No 24 1910. Please mention seeing the ad in this paper.
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Marine
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound advertised for women
An Elwood Indiana woman testifies that after six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her three month illness and leg pains eased, avoiding surgery. The ad promotes the remedy for displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache indigestion and nervous prostration. It invites readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential free advice.
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Sadie Mullen
N. B. St
Elewood
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Review OF Indiana
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