Ayer’s Hair Vigor Ad Promises Darker Hair
An old testimonial from Mrs E Z Benomme of Cohoes New York touts Ayer's Hair Vigor for stopping gray hair and restoring natural color. The ad claims noticeable results in less than a month, offers a $1 bottle, and instructs buyers to send payment if their druggist cannot ship it, with address details for Ayer Co. Inc of Lowell Massachusetts.
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E. Z. Benomme
Cohoes, N. Y
Ayer
Sepph
D, C, Ayer CO
Lowell
Masa
Freshly Wed Bride Reacts To Publicity On Broadway
A bride and groom staged a publicity oriented scene on Broadway. The bride grew angry over attention drawn to them while bystanders watched. The groom suggested she carry a suitcase to avert suspicion as they debated their public profile.
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Broadway
Doans Kidney Pills Help Lebanon Mayor With Kidney Disorder
4 HARD TO TO BEAR J. W. Walls Lebanon Kentucky street superintendent tells how kidney pains and irregularities vanished after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He praises the remedy as powerful proven by his own experience and urges others with kidney disorders to try it. Free trials and purchase details are given. Women doctors and medical degrees in Britain noted as rising in popularity.
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J. W. Walls
Lebanon
Maineet
Doan
Hugh Murrey Drug Co
Dean
Walls
Fosterbhurn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
No Tea or Coffee Till Eighteen Says Eminent Physician
A noted doctor urges that no youth should drink tea or coffee until age eighteen due to nervous and digestive harm. The text also discusses poison ivy versus Virginia creeper, Mont Pelee eruption geology, stars as volcanic analogies, and opium addiction types with NY estimates of 30,000 addicts and Vermont's annual opium sale equivalent to a grain per adult.
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Virginia
St. Nicholas
S. E. Jeliffe
City Hospital
New York
Jelliffe
Vermont
Forgotten American Republics and Vermonts Quietly Fade
Mayo W. Hazeltine notes in Harper's Magazine that several brief republics once existed in America. He cites the Commonwealths of Watauga Transylvania and Franklin, the autonomous Mexican republic era, and Vermont as a fourteen year independent entity. The piece also mentions four London churches torn down since 1894.
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United States
Commonwealth of Watauga
Alleghenies
Tennessee
Watauga River
Commonwealth of
Transylvania
Kentucky
Continental Congress
Franklin
Frankland
North Carolina
Mexico
Vermont
Mayo W. Hazeltine
Harper's Magazine
City of London
Deaf and dumb barber shop prank told in old New York tale
A Nassau Street lawyer recounts entering a strange barber shop to stage deaf and mute behavior while getting shaved. Two barbers interpret his signals, mock him, and the shave ends with no tip and silent chatter. A second column recalls a doctor curing a hallucinatory snake by trick, using a colored helper and a tin bucket, provoking public scorn but eventual praise for results.
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Nassau Street
Washington
Rock Creek Park
Washington Post
The Blessings of Humor Moral Drawn From Max O'Rell
The London Graphic praises Max O'Rell for humor that promotes international friendship. It notes his satirical yet kindly jests toward Britain and France improved mutual regard and suggests a future German equivalent could similarly ease relations with the Teutons.
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Max O’rell
Max O'Rell
M. Paul Blouet
John Bull
Jacques Bonhomme
Deathbed Warden Celebrates Birthday With Champagne
A New College warden in England, aged 80 and near death two years ago, recalls his birthday on Christmas Eve. Canon Spooner, staying nearby, slept to be ready for last injunctions and was summoned as the warden, faintly, requested champagne for his birthday. He drank wine and briefly revived in spirit and vigor.
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New College
England
Sewell
Caron Spooner
Came
Spooner
Way to Their Hearts Boisterous Bath Beach Car
Rowdy homeward ride from Bath Beach ends with order after a shout at conductor. An elderly woman in a black bonnet sits among the noise as passengers plead for decorum before the Bowery-like scene subsides near the Brooklyn entrance to the bridge.
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Bath Beach
Rosser
Brooklyn
New York Times
Toledo Cataract Cure Ad Claims Perpetual Guarantee
Frank J. Curary, senior partner of I. J. Chenry & Co. of Toledo, swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each cataract case not cured by Hall's Cataract Cure. Notary A. W. GuEason witnesses this December 6, 1885. Hall's Cataract Cure is taken internally and affects the blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by FP. J. Carney & Co., Toledo, 0, 75 cents. Trall's Emily Pills advertised.
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Beal
A. D
A. W. GuEason
Hall
Catarre
J. Carney & Co
Toledo
Trall
Emily
A Coveted Post For 1170 Applicants At Wandsworth
At a Wandsworth Guardians meeting 1170 people applied for the messenger post with a salary of thirty shillings weekly plus three shillings for Sunday work.
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Wandsworth
London
Deer Driven Into Vienna Suburb Dies of Fear
A wild deer searching for food on snow covered hills entered a Vienna suburb and was pursued. The animal collapsed and perished from fright after the chase.
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Vienna
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Gray
Wom
Great Britain
Num
Hnochs- Havis Cmber Company
Viclsbury, Miss
Fwce
Nantaville
Ala
Aise Anal
Uckingham
P. Hall & CO
Sasta
Thompson
Droge LZ
Mont Pelee
Louis Rabourdin
New York Herald
George Lawder
Benjamin Hamrick
Webster Springs
W. Va
Broop Bata Co
Atlanta
Russia
J. W. O’brien
Third Avenue
Minneapolis
Minn
KX Peer
Lord Grimthorpe
Beckingham
Gainsborough
Thacher Medicine CO
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cascare
CANDY
Jre
Tomach
Ioeted
Bowen
Trouble
Gonstip
Eta
Malsby & Co
South Forsyth Street
Atlanta, Ga
Emerson
BMG Setzer
H. H. Green
Box Yes
Carpenter & CO
Louisville, Ky
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Corona Colt
Corona
Brockton
Mass
FLE Wissa&a Co
New Orleans
Encana Eee
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