Modern Cure Tells Tale of St Vitus Dance Healed by Pills
A Kansas boy named Karl Wagner recovered from a long St Vitus dance after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. His father states five boxes cured him and praises the medicine as the best, sold 50 cents a box or six for 22.50 by druggists or mail from Schenectady New York.
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Arkansas City
Kas
Karl
A. Wagner
George Wagner
Kan
St. Vitus
Karla
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
No-To-Bac Advertises Easy Tobacco Quit
An early 20th century ad promotes No-To-Bac as a cure for tobacco use. It claims the product makes weak men strong and offers a guarantee with a booklet and sample free. The Sterling Remedy Co. markets it from Chicago or New York.
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Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Halls Catarrh Cure Promoted as Constitutional Remedy
An old advertisement touts Halls Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with listed price. The notice also parodies current events with satirical headlines about Uncle Sam and a tin can likely causing fuss if curtailed.
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Price, Th
Sam
Butter fraud warned as cream refiner taints milk yield
The New York Produce Review reports illicit nostrums claim to boost butter yield by mixing cottonseed oil into unchurned cream. Pennsylvania inspectors traced Cream Refiner use to several creameries, leading to arrests for criminal adulteration.
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Gays New York Produce Review
American Creamery
Pennsylvania Pure Food Department
Binghamton
N. Y
Pennsylvania
C. B. Cochran
End the coloring of butter and cheese with artificial dyes
A letter by L. S. Hardin in Home and Farm lambastes butter color additives from annatto to analine. He argues cows fed green hay or ensilage produce natural color, cites Guernseys and Jerseys as richer producers, laments residues harming children, and urges a law to ban artificial coloring except for export goods.
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L. S. Hardin
South America
Oleomargarine Cases Drag Through Chicago Courts
The Illinois oleomargarine law prosecutions continue with strong evidence yet face delays due to money behind violators. Prison sentences have been given in some cases, but defendants remain free as cases protract.
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Chicago
Illinois
SEEKING FOR PEARLS Quest of the Elusive Gems
The piece explores the romance and risks of pearl hunting from ancient times through Roman and British history. It notes pearls as emblems of purity and value, coveted by poets, philosophers, and Roman women, and valued across cultures for beauty and status.
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Great Britain
Flower-Viewing in Japan During Blossom Time
The article describes Japan's national custom of group excursions to view flowering trees. It highlights seasons for plum cherry lotus azaleas chrysanthemums and camellias and notes dedicated pleasure grounds temples and the Sumida River bank in Tokyo as popular spots. It mentions harami as flower viewing expeditions and includes winter snow scenes and family participation.
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Japan
Sumida
Tokio
St. Nicholas
Dinner of Demanding Glare Ends in Sleepy Humiliation
A Cleveland man recalls a dinner with a local official who sat with a menacing stare yet delivered no denunciation. The guest finally faded to sleep at the table while others praised the host, who was merely intoxicated and trying to stay awake.
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Man valued by conduct, per Bruyere
A quotation highlights that every person earns value in this world through the conduct they show and the way they live. The message stresses virtue and character as the basis of true regard from others.
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Bruyere
Bills of Fare in Fashionable Restaurants
The article debates French and German dishes on bills of fare versus older cooking. It claims many think earlier cooking was coarse and notes that even the dyspeptic can be cured by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
A Friends Advice Leads to Long Health for Mary Lingard
Narrates Mary Lingard’s 36 year health recovery from liver tumors with Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla after a friend's urging. Describes lifelong vitality at 61, annual spring courses, and claims of broad cures. Advertisement touts Ayer's Carebook and the J C Ayer Co. Lowell Mass.
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Mary Tingard
Dr. Ayer
Mary Liingaard
Woodstock
Ont
Mary Lingard
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California
Thos. Gilland
Eigin
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H. H. Green
Atlanta
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New Haven
Conn
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Illegus
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