Bitters Promoted for Liver Ailments and Digestive Distress
The article promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a swift remedy for bilious discomfort in the liver region and associated symptoms such as sour stomach yellowing of skin and eyes morning nausea and foul breath. It claims superiority to other tonics and cites long standing physician approval and extensive public use for liver malaria rheumatic kidney trouble nervousness and debility.
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Iver
Anecdote of Rossetti and the garden hedgehogs
Rossetti visits Seven Dials and jokes with a friend about buying hedgehogs. He plans to place the creatures in his garden to amuse visitors who come to see his pictures. The tale imitates a Pall Mall Budget anecdote style.
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Rossetti
Jil
Curiosity and a Burly Tramp Motif in Rural Talk
A brief rural dialogue features a dog used to deter trespassers. Mrs Rural notes the dog keeps off tramps, while a speaker jokes that the small canine can bark to rouse larger dogs beneath the porch. The exchange highlights practical humor in country life.
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Mrs. Rural
Chinese grass cloth from nettle fiber praised for tents and belts
The article notes chi-wa-hi or grass cloth made from common nettle fiber. It is described as excellent for tents and awnings. When used as belt toy for machinery it is said to have twice the strength of leather.
North Platte Men Plan Attendance at Utah Reservation Opening
North Platte residents arrange to attend the eastern Utah Indian reservation opening next spring. A carful of local men discuss travel plans and expected events surrounding the ceremony.
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Utah
Syrup of Figs Promises Gentle Laxative Relief
Knowledge says Syrup of Figs brings comfort and health by using pure liquid laxative principles. The remedy cleanses the system and eases colds headaches and fevers while acting on kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. Sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co. name on package.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Dr Jim the Java Ape Talks and Teaches Humans a Lesson
An interview with John D Alma, a wild-beast trainer in Havana, centers on his Java ape Dr Jim. The four year old Javanese ape mimics speech using a phonograph, demonstrates fetches and dishwashing, and shows humanlike reactions. D Alma notes the ape’s intelligence and suggests a shared monkey tongue.
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Machine Made Shirts
A description of machine made men shirts detailing how wholesale cutting from material reduces waste. Large sewing machines operated by a single steam engine sew parts, finish buttonholes, and attach buttons with minimal human input. Women workers earn four to seven dollars weekly.
Extradition Delays Halt Homecoming Plans
A dialogue frame shows a stockbroker's wife explaining her husband is traveling in South America and that extradition arrangements delay his return, leaving the couple in uncertainty about when he will come home.
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Iead
South America
Christians Build Unions in Westphalia Meeting
A recent Westphalia gathering aimed to organize Christian workers from Protestant and Catholic backgrounds into trades unions to counterbalance socialist unions. The effort seeks to unite faith aligned labor action across religious lines in the region.
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Westphalia
Instrument Measures Tiny Longitudinal Strain in Structures
At a recent British association meeting an instrument was described that can measure longitudinal strain as small as 1 in 100000 of an inch on structures already in position, offering precise in situ stress assessment.
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British Association
Quack Cure Claim Hypodermic Alcohol Cure Aided By Strychnine
A French expert promotes nitrate of strychnine injections as a cure for alcoholism. Also featured are a Providence birthday celebration for a 200 year old chair, a needlework feat by William A. Stanley, a stout New York police bust with a 300 pound Irish woman, a memory challenged man advertising for himself, and details of Joseph Spencer Cone’s Red Bluff ranch yielding 125000 bushels of wheat, 36000 sheep, and 275000 pounds of wool annually.
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Providence
William A. Stanley
Attleboro
Mass
New York
Red Bluff
Cal
Sacramento River
Boy Seeks Work but Prefers Quiet Boss-Free Shop
A hopeful youth applies for work with a senior clerk. He boasts skill and fearlessness yet notes the harsh treatment under the boss, explaining he endures kicks from workers and would seek another job if the boss lashes out.
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Julecker
Cully
Reward for cure of catarrh and patent medicine ads
A collage of old advertisements promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and drugstore listings. Also includes quack remedies for teething and coughs, plus assorted quips and a misread dialogue about a future year and a somnambulist couple.
Peculiarity of Pencils Defies Acid Dissolution
A science note explains pencil traces resist acid attack. It states pine carbon and plumbago used in lead pencils cannot be dissolved by known solutions or agents.
Postal Card Costs A Cent for Trips
A short notice advises travelers that a postal card costs only one cent. It directs readers planning a trip to address A. S. Fielding, City Ticket Agent, North-Western Line, Lincoln, for details on fare, schedule, and trip duration.
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A. S. Fielding
North-Western Line
Lincoln
Witty Verses and Patent Remedies in a Local Note
An odd collage of humorous lines and patent remedy boasts lists relatives of sly quips about bald heads and dirty hair. It includes a praise for Wiso's Cure for Consumption and a remark from M F McDowes of Conowingo Ma. The piece closes with party etiquette advice about arriving first and leaving last to overhear and avoid being talked about.
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Wiso
M. F. McDowes
Conowingo, Ma
Mrs. Hoover of Bellville Credits Dr Pierce for Recovery
Mrs WILLIAM Hoover of Bellville Richland Co Ohio describes a dramatic cure from female weakness after using Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription He advised the dosage and after eight bottles she felt new and able to stand and do housework for her family of five.
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Pierce
William Hoover
Bellville, Richland Co
Ohio
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