Widow of the era speaks on ailments and pills
A jumbled excerpt urges women to avoid hospital operations by building up the female system with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites a letter from Mrs EB M Kyrappp Milwaukee praising the remedy after severe womb inflammation and ovarian pain. The piece ends with a humorous poverty scene about a rich landlord turned pauper tenant.
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Eyange
Cae
Inine Tie Po
Gos
Jydia E. Pinkham
Mas
Prixwam
Lydia E. Pinkha
M. Kyarpp
Kinnie Avenue
Milwaukee
Kinnie
Unborn Babies Mortgaged for Debt In Madras custom
A strange practice in Madras mortgages an unborn grandchild to fund a daughter’s wedding. The would-be grandfather expects the grandchild to serve the creditor for years, with Salvation Army Hindus among those pledged. Other items include a free sample offer for Allen's Foot-Ease, a joke about artistic gifts, Piso's Cure for Consumption praise, and Siam rice production figures for 1899 valued at 22,834,160 Mexican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
Salvation Army
Putnam Faceless Dyes Sell Without Experience
No experience needed to dye with Putnam Faceless Dyes. Simply boil your golfJs in the ridge is all that’s unnecessary. Sold by druggists. Sugar cane grows from six to twenty feet high.
Elephant worship in India noted by natives
Fragmentary text cites Indian beliefs that elephants have religion and worship. Airmarked line mentions Winslow’s Spormre for Children claimed to ease pain and cure colic and benrigs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Widow's Narrow Escape Prompts Kidney Health Claim
In Owosso Michigan Mrs Julia A Mallahan secretary of Clair-Elite Rebekah Lodge No 2 suffered kidney trouble and backache after a winter cold. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a dramatic recovery and urges others to buy from local druggists or via the Dodds Medicine Company Buffalo NY.
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Julie 4
Malleahan
Owosso
Wfich
Ittie
Mich
Rebekah Lodge
No. 2
Julia A. Mallahan
Mallahan
Dodd
Michigan
Dodds Medicine Company
Buffalo, N
Greenland journalism in primitive state says Captain Smith
Captain Smith of the British bark Calcium notes Greenland has one editor named Moeller, a Dane who runs the sole newspaper and even teaches natives to read it. Moeller is editor proprietor reporter printer distributor and business manager and skates biweekly to sell his paper. He began with crude drawings but adds daily affairs and educates subscribers from words to sentences. In England Germany and Russia locals see a weasel as unlucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Smith
Calcium
Greenland
Philadelphia Press
Coughing Leads to Consumption and Kemp's Balsam
Advertisement copy touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughing and consumption urging readers to obtain a free sample from their druggist. It promotes 25 and 30 cent bottles and warns against delay, citing a Chesterfield quote about credulity and prudence.
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Kemp
Where the World Stands Still in Persia Tale
Harper's Weekly quotes a legend in which Allah and an angel visit France England and Persia. They find railways ships mills and galleries in Europe yet Persia shows no change as people do nothing, revealing a world still. The tale frames inertia in Persian life as the true creation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Tate
Harper's Weekly
Allah
Angel
France
England
Harbora
Aliah
Early and Late at the Desk Practice Quoted
A humorous exchange between a successful manufacturer and a slow bookkeeper notes the speaker’s rule to be at the desk early and late. The bookkeeper retorts that he sometimes arrives early and sometimes late, reflecting a light business tale from the Catholic Standard and Times.
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Catholic Standard and Times
Spring fever warning touts Dr. Greenes Nervara remedy
A cautionary piece warns of spring illnesses as winter germs awaken with sun and thawing ground. It touts Dr. Greenes Nervara blood and nerve remedy as fortifying, with a testimonial from Hyde Park Vermont Sheriff Jonas T. Stevens claiming relief from a severe arm rash and sleepless nights after use and an offer for free advice from the doctor at 85 West 14th Street New York City.
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Dr. Greene
Sontenie
Jonas T. Stevens
Hyde Park
W. 14Th St
New York City
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Ottawa
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America
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