Women Avoid Surgery With Lydia Pinkham Remedy
A reader recalls suffering female troubles and two doctors urging operation. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advised by her mother, she regained strength to work and urges other women to try the remedy before surgery. The letter cites experiences and offers to write for advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Maas
Who Does? Merit Dispatch On English Spelling
A Meritt Dispatch quips that knowledge of Creek and Latin is claimed unnecessary to write English correctly yet questions who truly needs such linguistic craft in modern writing. The remark underscores debates over language mastery and practicality.
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Fast Relief
A vintage ad touts Pape's Cold Compound as a quick remedy for colds and grippe, claiming dramatic relief after two to three doses. It promises opening nasal passages, stopping a runny nose, easing headache and feverish symptoms, with low cost and no quinine. A stray race track joke concludes the piece.
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Pape
Grippe
Swamp-Root Promises Help for Kidney Trouble Women
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder issues that may signal underlying kidney disease. The ad pitches Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a physician’s remedy obtainable at drug stores, urging immediate purchase and offering a mail order option. It targets general health symptoms like back pain and fatigue as potential kidney-related signs.
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Kilmer
Atere
Kilmer & G Hagean
Cascarets Offer Gentle Flush for Digestive Health
An advertisement urges readers to choose Cascarets to cleanse the stomach and bowels during sleep. It contrasts Cascarets with harsh laxatives like calomel and salts, claiming they remove sour stomach and foul gases without gripe or inconvenience and at low cost.
Strike conference breaks up in row in Washington
Washington November 28 miners reject government offer of 14 percent wage increase as the coal operators accept it only if coal prices rise for the public. Conference adjourned sine die with no resumption planned, miners vowing to go home and sit tight. Garf ield and Wilson clash over figures and policy with miners accusing Garfield of moral crime and urging a living wage tied to cost of living.
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Washington
Ates
Dasparte Te Ag Board of Arbitration
Garfield
Wilson
Doctor Garfield
America
Joho To Lewis
Talted Vmilge Waerkers
Moe
United States
Secretary of Labor
Aod
Acale
Central Competitive Conch Field
William Green
United Mine Workers
Labor
Gaurfield
Dearfield
Tsrper
Bank vault break in Rockbridge and other Illinois items
Journal notes bank vault forced entry at Rockbridge with no entry into the safe. Other Illinois items include water-system talks in Harvey, liquor thefts in Chicago, retirements, resignations, counterfeit coins in Lanark, a prohibition enforcement host in Chicago, various crimes, legal actions, school changes, and state-wide labor ballots.
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B. E. Workman
Auburn
Rockbridge
Harvey
Louis Stern & Co
Chicago
R D Kean
Chienga Howyer
Ilinois
Washington RT
Orangesse
Petersburg
Illnois
Borest Ffty
Wiesen William
James H. Wilkerson
United States District Attormines
Tinners Public
Atli Hes Commission
Chovernor Lowden
Thomas F. Dempey
Burt St Laura
gaveTmner
William Shannon
Pastoryvitte Ts
Timatt
Ind
Cienega Fair Pree Committee
Stugmr Alwo
Twi Burrela
Barnes Carter
Roergy
Hutling
Carter
Arevenue
Antonio Cerbis Fann
Carlinville
Cerbl
Joe Pasa
Ter Newton F Wansen
Tlinnie Board of Health
Cuttes States
Presidio
Sam
Lows Volunteer Infantry
Des Moines
Farl Loveday
Hot Springs
Ark
American Brass Company Works
Tony Pingetore
Kenosha
City
Shelbyville
William A. Earp
California Fig Syrup as Child's Laxative Ad
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup of Figs for children, claiming it cleanses stomach, liver, and bowels. It highlights the product’s delicious taste, advises looking for the California label, and promises safe dosing directions on each bottle.
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California
Bayer Tablets of Aspirin Advertises Genuine Aspirin
An advertisement touts Bayer as the genuine Aspirin brand with Bayer tablets in a package and directions for colds, pain, headache, neuralgia, lumbago, and rheumatism. It notes the Bayer name means genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and that a tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents.
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Bayer
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Deafness Cure
Catarrhal Deafness cannot be cured by local apps. Only constitutional remedy helps. Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. It states inflammation of the Eustachian tube causes deafness and offers $100 for uncured cases. Circulars free from B J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
B. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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State Bank of
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I. M. Allen
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Rabbit Breeders’ Association
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Dekken
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State Health Department
Illinois Free Employment Bureau
George B Holmes
Chicago Municipal Court
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Darkdier
Powers’ Theater
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Thorne Bros. Inc
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Mincon County
Stillman Valley
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