Old Joe the Night Watchman and St Jacob's Oil Tale
An aging Lambeth Water Works nightwatchman suffers rheumatism and sciatica until a passerby gives him St Jacob's Oil. After using it his pain subsides and he praises the remedy, claiming it allows him to work and even run with his wife’s aid. The story extols the oil as a universal, time tested cure.
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Joe
Pall Mall
Gazette
London
St. Jacob’s Oil
Lambeth Water Works
Old Joe
Jacob
Jooe
Reminiscent Dialogue on Neighborly Borrowing
A Detroit Free Press passage reflects on neighborly borrowing and the reminder of past possessions when visiting or calling next door, highlighting social anxieties about material memory.
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Datroit Iree Press
Salzer's Lightning Cabbage Seeds Offer
The John A Salzer Seed Co of Lacrosse Wisconsin advertises the earliest cabbage as a gold mine for market gardeners. It promotes ear nest cabbage and other vegetables with seeds and a mammoth catalog offering 150 kinds of flowers and seeds, plus a market gardeners' catalog for 2 cents postage.
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Salzer
John A Salzer Seed Co
Lacrosse
Wis
Market Gardeners
W.N. U
Compromise on a loan and a homeward errand note
Public notices of small financial exchanges and social quips appear in a late 19th century page. A Burroughs-Say request for twenty dollars until month end prompts a compromise offering one dollar until the 29th. An Allen’s Foot-Ease advertisement promotes cheap cold damp feet relief. A humorous Chicago Post quip closes the item.
Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
A list of patentees includes Roy L Brancht Minneapolis Minn for a clamp for leather-stretching machines William Y Elliott Anaconda Mont for a bag-holder Elmer Lewis Saco Mont for a steel trap Charles Payne St Paul Minn for a Sharpener for knives and scissors Arthur Robinson Dickinson N D for phonograph apparatus George Waddell Anaconda Mont for a trommel Lathrop Johnson patent attorneys GIL 912 Pioneer Press Didg St Paul Minn. This item notes miscellaneous ad copy and quotes from Goethe and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as was common in the period.
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Northwestern
Roy L. Brancht
Minneapolis
Minn
William Y. Elliott
Anaconda
Mont
Elmer Lewis
Saco
Charles Payne
St. Paul
Arthur Robinson
Dickinson
N. D
George Waddell
Trommel
Lathrop & Johnson
Tricks of the Stage: Dummy Animals Amuse Theatre Goers
A curio feature outlines how stage tricks use trained dummy animals to entertain audiences. It explains methods of concealment and illusion behind animal props, noting performers rely on misdirection, timing, and stagecraft to create lifelike antics.
Stage Animals and Their Tricks on the Theater Front
The piece describes stage animals showing off moving organs, a tail on an elephant catching fire, swordfish swords in performances, and a thirteen foot dragon with real flames. It explains how stage rats are controlled by invisible wires and pulleys to glide or zigzag, with movement patterns shaped by rigging.
Fortune in a grain of rice from a wedding shoe tale
A rice enthusiast urges picking up every grain of rice tossed by guests at weddings. He cites a convention in Crowley and wild long-term yield calculations to argue a fortune lies in each grain, urging the newly married to settle where rice grows and grow rich.
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Crowley
Plaquemines
Terrible Threat Exposed in New York Weekly Text
A harsh scene in the New York Weekly shows a tense exchange where a tired girl orders a tramp to leave, a mother dismisses the intruder, and a threat is softened by offering a piece of homemade mince pie from the young missus.
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New York Weekly
Counterfeit Gold and Stomach Bitters Warned
The article warns that gold used in printing and decorative work is an imitation made from bronze and spelter not pure gold leaf. It also cautions against counterfeit Ilostetter’s Stomach Bitters, noting the genuine bottle bears a private stamp over the neck.
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Ilostetter
Bracelet Gift Sparks Christmas Guesswork
A girl recalls a bracelet George gave for Christmas and sighs she cannot determine its price since she does not know where it was bought, leaving the mystery to linger in the Brooklyn Eagle style.
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George
Mary Mannering
Brooklyn Eagle
Dream of Boyhood Days in a Morgan Dialogue
A fragment from the New York Times quotes J. Pierpont Morgan discussing childhood dreams of farming and stock, contrasting with the real costs of achieving such a life. The dialogue references ownership of a farm and wealth, noting the impracticality of buying the ideal farmer’s life.
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Pierpont Morgan
Dolea Farniente
Farmean
Niente
New York
T Imes
The Dog Governess and Her Canine Wardrobe
A New York Times passage notes a refined woman hired by the hour to care for noble dogs. She visits wealthy homes to perform duties from feeding to arranging winter coats and maintaining collars, describing a new work niche as “dog governesses.”
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Beth
Thesar
New York Times
Dr J Kh Rindlay Specialist in Paro Eye Ear Nose Throat
Dr J Kh Rindlay is noted as a specialist in eye ear nose and throat care based in Paro. The brief card references his medical focus and location, suggesting a professional listing or notice for his services.
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J. Kh. Rindlay
The Trouble With Us All Is Our Reluctance to Hoe
A concise reflection notes that the real challenge for many is not a strict vow to work hard but a general aversion to hoeing. The line frames effort as a common human friction with routine labor.
Putnam Faceless Dyes Offer Quick Colouring by Boil
An advertisement touts Putnam Faceless Dyes to color silk wool or cotton in one boil. 10 cents per package sold by druggists. The copy links heredity to mind and body and claims even top athletes use Wizard Oil for rub downs to soften muscles and prevent soreness.
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Putnam
Phrase spark for courtship likes curiosity and praise
A compact maxim advises stirring a woman with curiosity and a man with praise for his hobby. The saying frames social aiming and attention as tools to engage interest.
Smooth Political Prick Tip in Maryland Election Plot
A Maryland election ruse involved illiterate Black voters voting a Democratic straight ticket due to a misprinted ballot. Henry C. Edgerton calls it one of the smoothest tricks, noting a single man altered the woodcuts to shift Lincoln’s image and sway the Talbot county vote.
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Henry C. Edgerton
Baltimore
Washington
Massa Jincoln
Lincoln
Jackson
Liberty
Foreigners in Boston Reflect Shifting City Demographics
The New York Sun cites the Boston Board of Health weekly death tally: 237 deaths, up from 202 a year earlier. Of the deceased 233 were white and four colored, 146 were born in the United States, eighty five in foreign countries, six with unknown nationality, and forty seven had American parentage. foreign-born growth is mainly from Ireland, Canada and Russia while the German population remains small.
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Boston
United States
Boston Board of Health
Ireland
Canada
Russia
New York Sun
Headmaster in Wales backs metric system cure for lost school days
A North Wales headmaster argues the present weights and measures harm students, claiming an average of 273 lost school days per pupil. He urges adoption of the metric system to improve accuracy and efficiency in classrooms.
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North
Wales
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound credited for kidney relief
Mrs Louise Gibson of Chicago writes of relief from kidney troubles after six bottles of Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She reports headaches backache and burning sensations gone and says her health improved greatly. She offers to write for confidential advice and notes many others are helped.
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Louise M. Gibson
Lydia FE. Pinkham
DrAn
Mrs. Pinkham
Chicago
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Jaydin Fr. Pinkham
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Burroughs
Markley
Philadelphia Press
Allen S
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Vycor
Chicago Post
Piso
Vanouren, Ina
Goethe
Precisel 30. E Geo Seryes
Wea. Eee
Rocardiess Arley
Mir
Wells, Orlesne Co
Duca
Ora
Balzor
U. S. Ag. Dept
Salter's &Ecdo
Victoria Rano
Broraus
Ofer
Arcat
Manitoba
Assinibois
Saskatchewan
Alberts
Torty Page Atlas
Western Canada
F. Pedley
Iuperintendental Immigration
Ottawa
W. Ritchie
Gratvon
WU. B. Green
Cy Doncing Storea
WLLL
W.l.douging
Douginas
Brockton
Ataesdee
Western Wall Paper House
Eighth and Jackson Dts
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
State Street
New Yors Cery
Ban
Industrial Ola Ss Supply Co
Cleveluod
Moore
Phompson
Jon
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