Kidney Trouble Cure Warns of Sediment Test and Swamp Root
An old warning promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney and urinary complaints. It describes a simple home test using standing water to indicate kidney trouble, then touts Swamp Root as a remedy for back pain, liver, bladder, and urinary issues. Sample bottle and book offered free by mail from Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, NY.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Bing
Haniton
N.Y
Swamp
Binghamton
N. Y
Binghamton, N. Y
The Louisiana Purchase Essay Celebrates Centennial Year
Miss Josephine R Kerr of this town wrote a prize essay for the Bristol Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution on the Louisiana Purchase centennial. The piece traces the purchase's vast impact, noting states formed from its territory and the shaping of American history under Thomas Jefferson. It recounts early explorations by de Soto Marquette Joliet La Salle Iberville Bienville and French settlements at Mobile Biloxi and nearby points.
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Josephine R. Kerr
Bristol
Daughters of American Revolution
St. Louis
Purchase of
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Colorado
Indiana
United States
Fernando de Soto
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Mississippi River
Soto
Great River
Marquette
Jolit
Gulf of Mexico
Robert Cavalier de la Salle
St. Lawrence
France
Louis the Fourteenth
la Salle
Iberville
Bienville
Maurepas
Mobile Bay
Biloxi
Louisiana Purchase and the Jefferson Years
The piece traces Louisiana’s colonial shifts from Spanish and French control to its transfer to France and then sale to the United States under Jefferson. It covers key figures Napoleon Bonaparte, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Count Talleyrand, noting the 1803 sale terms and strategic aims for free Mississippi navigation.
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England
France
Napoleon
Jefferson
Livingston
Louisiana Purchase
James Munroe
New Orleans
Floridas
Congress
Munroe
Louisiana
Munro
America
Louisana
Florida
Mississippi River
United States
Spain
Mississippi
Marbois
Napoleon Bonaparte
Barrie Marbois
Count Talleyrand
Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Livingston
Mr. Munroe
Stomach and Liver Tab Jets Sold By W El Boflagion
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tabs are gaining popularity for stomach troubles and constipation. For sale by W. El Boflagion.
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Chamberlain
W. EL Boflagion
Keiths New Theatre to Feature Miss Chrystal Herne
British actress Miss Chrystal Herne will headline Keiths next week in a vaudeville bill including Barrows Lancaster Company, Al Fields, Nichols Sisters and others. Acts span comedy, Irish classics, dancing, minstrelsy, jugglers, trapezists, and new Biograph motion pictures.
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Chrystal Herne
Nate. Goodwin
Keith’s
Miss Herne
Nance O’neill
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Herne
Ethel Howard
Nichols Sisters
Helles
Calanan & Mack
Norcross
Wait
Murphy & Francois
Mile
Olive
Laura Comstock
Comedienne
Nohrens
Biograph
Mrs Garlton's Wonderful Story Promises Cure
Mrs A L Carlton of Rockland Maine says she recovered from eight years of stomach trouble diagnosed as cancer after using Mi o na. She gained weight, her pain and vomiting ended, and she credits Mi o na with saving her life. Local agent A J Jasmin sells it for 50 cents a box with a money back guarantee if it does not cure the worst stomach disorder.
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Bristol
A. L. Carlton
Rockland
C. H. Pendleton
A. J. Jasmin
Glass eye riddle from a family talk
A playful exchange where Little Jimmy asks if anyone can see through glass. Pa replies yes, while Jimmy follows with a joke about Uncle John’s glass eye that cannot see through it.
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Jimmy
John
Rose I Paints Picture to Ward Off Famine Wolf
Fleming argues the wolf could critique art as a defense, a witty remark from Smart Set.
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Rose
Fleming
Seven Barks German stomach and liver regulator offer
A sales pitch urges all with stomach bowel or liver issues to visit R. L. Drug Co at 297 Hope Street for a full size bottle of Seven Barks. A 50 cent deposit is requested and a full refund guarantees if directions fail. The product boasts 85 years on the market with wide family use and strong testimonials.
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P. Storrs
Main Street
New Britain
Conn
W. Buffington
R. 1, Drug CO
Hope Street
Fashion’s muff wars under Louis XV reign
The era saw fur favored over cloth muffs after fashion briefly shifted. Furriers complained loudly, petitioning the pope to excommunicate cloth muff wearers. A clever merchant bribed the head man to display a cloth muff on execution day, yet women rejected the association and fur prevailed.
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Louis XV
Refreshments In Church Pews Sparked Early Abuses
A note from Reliquary recalls seventeenth century church practice with family pews featuring tables and fireplaces, curtains and blinds for privacy. Abuses followed including card playing during long services and brief refreshments to pass the time.
All For the Beaty Roses Fade Slowly
A poetic exchange features a questioning woman and a baldheaded young man debating why roses fade slowly. He responds that thinking it over shows it is for the best and easier to accept gradual fading than a harsher abrupt end.
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Sten
Menendez
St. Augustine
Carolina
Buienville
Paris
Great Britain
Nova Scotia
Acadia
Cape Breton
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Crozat
Indian Company
Antonie de Ulloa
O'Reilley
Lousiana
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississipi River
Charles Pinckney
San Idelfonso
French Republic
Terriory
Industrial Trust Company
U.S. Dental Association
Providence, R. I
Keith's New Theatre
Maine
Alwatsys
Hood
Mark
G. M. Wilbur
Eugene LE Clan
P. O
EB. I
Cottage Street
H. M. Goodhue
Westminster Street
Providence
Weybassett Street
Narragansett Hotel
Peter Mitchell
Bristol Candy Kitchen
William Hazard
Bristol Proenix
Town OF
J. McDonough
Thamestown Council
Ps m
Herbert F. Bennett
Joseph L. Buffum
HOPE
Franklin Lykew’'S Valley
N. N. Cole
Obate Court
Seconsed
Jesse Boynton
Nathaniel Gladding
Nathanel Glading
Connie
Bristol P. Wix
DeWitt
C. H. Lacroix
Zavalla
Tex
WW. H. Buffington
Vaccaro Bros. Studio
Franklin Street
Centerbranks
Paull
C. F. Sanford
William Street
A. W. Orgelman
Iso Pag
Ess
Ade
Teder
John Shepard
Thames Street
Smith
William ST
Barton
Buffinton
E. C. Dewitt & Company
Chicago
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