Salter Seed Co offers cabbage and garden catalogs
The notice touts Salter's Lightning Cabbage as the earliest variety and a gold mine for market gardeners, promising 150 seed kinds and a mammoth catalog with 2-cent postage. It also warns about mercury in catarrh remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo. A German-dialect tale closes the item with a humorous domestic scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salter
John A. Salter Seed Co
LaCrosse
Wis
N. Y
The Fruit of Faith Sunday School Bananas Lesson
A Sunday school scene presents faith as belief in the unseen with a banana as a tangible metaphor. Children respond affirmatively to the teacher’s question about faith using the fruit example.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children Ad
A vintage ad claims Mother Gray, a nurse at a New York Children’s Home, offers powder that supposedly breaks colds in 24 hours cures feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and destroys worms. It cites ten thousand testimonials and asks readers to mail to Allen 5 Olmivep LeRoy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
New York
Allen 5
Olmsivep
le Roy
Fragmented dialogue about an ancient vase and remorse
A brief quoted exchange shows Lizzie reacting to a vase described as two thousand years old. One character worries they nearly cried after breaking it, imagining it was new. The line captures a moment of regret and the value placed on antiquity.
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Lizzie
Earliest Russian Millet Prodigally Prolific Hay Crop
Seed ad notes plantable millet promising 5 to 8 tons of hay per acre at prices 60 cents per bushel, with Lewes Freight 1.90 per 100 pounds. John A. Salter Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin advertises the product. C Col. 8S. A. Houston of Lawrence Kansas reports half a bushel of acorns from the McKinley farm in Ohio to be planted as living monuments to the late president.
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Lewes
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis. C
A. Houston
Lawrence
Kan
McKinley Farm
Ohio
Speitz
Victoria
Butlea Ld
Salter
Lane's Family Medicine Moves the Bowels Daily
Summary distorted ad-like text mentions Lane's Family Medicine and health claims for daily bowel movement, liver and kidney effects, cures headache, with scattered phrases about a press agent, Vince 25 and 50e, and Mrs. Austins vow dress silk.
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Lane
Vince
A Ranchman's Experience Lea 8 D March 3
Wm H Neelen ranchman says kidney trouble caused severe back pain and frequent urination while riding. He tried many medicines until using Dodd's Kidney Pills, and after six boxes reports more relief and comfort than in years.
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Lea
Wm. H. Neelen
Dodd
Fiddle Player Returns for Dance After Bereavement
A fragment shows a character asking Tom why he is there with his fiddle. Tom explains he came to play for the dance as agreed. Another man was hired after hearing Sally, presumed dead, had died. Tom adds Sally was not a blood relative, so he decides to join anyway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Tom
Sally
Coughing Leads to Consumption Promoted by Kemp's Balsam
An old advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a quick cough remedy promising immediate relief. It urges readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle and notes selling prices of 25 and 50 cents. Delays are described as dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
Peddlers Poke Fun At Mottoes In Home Humor
A quip-filled exchange shows a peddler touting house mottoes and a wife praising a motto like Better late than never as a cheerful touch. Included is a testimonial praising Piso's Cure for Consumption from Mrs. E. M. Swayze of Wakita Oklahoma dated April 17, 1901.
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E. M. Swayze
Wakita, Okla
Alma-Tadema Receives English Knighthood Birthday Honor
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, after celebrating his sixty sixth birthday, becomes the third Dutch artist to be knighted in England following Rubens and Van Dyck. The text also mentions Putnam Pedeless dyes, Roosevelt's habit of shaking hands with an engineer aboard his train, and Mrs. Austin's new dress described as fine as silk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Holland
Rubens and
van Dyck
Mrs L A Harris Advocates Plant Remedy Over Surgery
A Chicago woman leader asserts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures ovarian troubles without surgery. She cites doctors favoring operations and recounts her eight year struggle, recommending the remedy to all women to avoid surgical procedures.
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L. A. Harris
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
East 31St St
Ill
Weather wrapping New York iron and steel prices set
Intermittent trade effects from weather ripple through iron and steel markets. German mills push billet and bar prices higher while U S buyers and a Montreal seller fret over imports. Rail mill orders for Florida delivery and steel pig iron purchases hint at broader demand. Labor, coal, wool, and cotton markets show varied strength as stock and real estate activity rise.
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New York
Germany
Glasgow
Montreal
United States
England
Southern
Florida
United States Steel Corporation
Fall River
Rhode Island
Northern Securities Company
Commodity Price Sketch Across U S Cities and Markets
The report lists cattle hogs sheep and grain prices across cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. Values show ranges for cattle hogs and sheep plus grain prices like wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and clover seed with regional variations.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Usc
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Ste
Milwaukee
New York
Boundary Clash and Civic Resolve in Brief News
Gov Van Sant asserts Washington’s vigor while Boers spoof the Scots Greys. Chile and Argentina finalize a boundary dispute. Congress proves its bravery by not adjournment during a suffrage convention.
Peruna touted by mothers for child health
Letters from Mrs Schafer of Saint Louis and Mrs Long of Atwood praise Peruna as a remedy for ill children. They describe infant convulsions, fevers, and persistent coughs improving after starting the tonic. Both mothers claim their daughters grew strong and stayed well, with reduced croup episodes after treatment.
Doctor's Little Daughter Cured of Grip by Peruna
Dr R Robbins of Muskogee Oklahoma says he was sick with grip and used Peruna. After two bottles his cough and lung condition improved and his daughter recovered after more medicine. Mrs G W Heard of Howth Texas reports a baby girl recovered from bowel issues after less than one bottle. Her son regained hearing after two bottles. Hartman offers free medical advice through The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus.
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Peruna
R. Robbins
Muskogee
Dr. R. Robbins
G. W. Heard
Howth
Texas
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