Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promoted to Women
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as the leading cure for female ills. It claims it regulates, strengthens, and cures backache irregular menses and related symptoms. Mrs Pinkham offers free confidential advice from Lynn Mass with letters answered by women.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Srcoup
Lynn
Lydia
Ivery
United Stats
Wealthy Youth Devote Themselves to Useful Pursuits
A globe trotter praises Japan for a culture of work among its youth, contrasting it with Western leisure. He argues Japan may outpace others if its young people continue to labor in universities, machine shops, and labs, warning Western youth to embrace public-spirited labor.
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Japan
Monte Carlo
Paris
Algiers
Ostend
Cairo
Russia
England
Chemcal
Arsenic contamination in dress dyes and hosiery
The Lancet warns that arsenic can enter fabrics through finishing and dyeing, especially in cheap hosiery. Tests show about half of stockings contain arsenic up to half a grain per pair, with risks from perspiration and water extraction. Contamination arises from impure acids and stoving with sulphur, urging use of brimstone-free acids and better washing.
Soap Eaters and a Pseudo Scientific Tale
A dinner talk by Mr. CharlesS Howe of the American Association for the Advancement of Science mocked false science with a tale about sappesomania the desire to eat soap. A second note tells of a pastor replying to parishioners who urged caution in church funding there will be no pie.
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Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Weilville
Charless. Howe
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Buffalo Enquirer
Harper’s Weekly
Eskimos of Arctic Alaska Still in Stone Age Life
A fragment from The Metropolitan Magazine notes the Eskimos in Arctic Alaska maintain stone age tools for arrows spears lamps hammers and chisels while fish lines nets and snares use bone sinew and hide. It mentions breech loading arms entering use and soon to replace primitive weapons. The Lightning Cure tales irony is included with a local dialect aside.
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Arctic
Alaska
Metropolitan Magazine
What a Diplomat Is in Historical Uso
The article traces the word diplomat from Greek roots to modern sense, noting shifts from manuscript science to international documentary meaning. It cites Choate at Middle Temple, the London Pall Mall Gazette, and etymology of diploma and diplomatic, ending with a medical ad for Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer and a brief note that the Austrian-Hungarian flag was adopted March 6, 1860.
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Choate
Middle Temple
London Pallmen Gazette
Murray
Leibnits
Kline
B. H. Kim, Ltd
Phila
Austria-Hungary
Tulane University
St Louisians
Great Charity Hospital
Res
New Orleans
Swell Foot Ease and Other Patent Remedies Featured
A collage of early 1900s patent medicine pitches notes Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen feet, and includes claims about cures for corns, bunions, teething syrups, skin care, and other products. Mentions Dr. Biggers Huckle Berry Cordial and Cuticura soap testimonials, with assorted quotes and notices.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Doan's Kidney Pills Relieve Portland Man’s Back Ache
Constant aching and back pain traced to kidney trouble. H B McCarver of 201 Cherry Street Portland Oregon reports relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills for months with no recurrence. Pills sold by dealers for 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Doan
H. B. McCarver
Cherry &T
Portland
Ore
Trans-Continental Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Temperance visit reveals husband’s stubborn resolve
A temperance society member sought to help a man in the southern city area whose wife allegedly forced him to drink. The wife denied being driven to drink, saying her husband would walk anywhere to obtain it, highlighting the contrasting perceptions of the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Woman Pleads for Husband in Art Gallery Row
A Philadelphia Ledger tale says a pretty wife sought a gallery jury member to advocate her husband in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts spring exposition. The juror praised a small charming piece but recalled the larger, rejected canvas, telling her to send in a better if she wishes the husband admitted.
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R. Reichenberg
Fulton St
New York
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Ledger
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