Donn's Kidney Pills Endorsement and Curious Anecdotes
A pasted ad promotes Donn's Kidney Pills as cures for kidney trouble with a testimonial from Captain D. Hunter of Pittsburgh Fire Department. The page continues with satirical and humorous clippings about marriage, miscommunication, and clever banter, including a bride confessing hidden education and various anecdotes from newspapers.
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Donn
D. Hunter
Pittsburg
Wyite Ave
Nye
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Grape-Nuts Rated Best Nourishment For Convalescence
An endorsement from a recovering patient praises Grape-Nuts as the ideal predigested food for typhoid illness recovery. She recalls severe weakness and bowel troubles, saying regular tonics failed until Grape-Nuts provided nourishing, digestible sustenance that restored health, energy, and appetite.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Newport Woman Spurs Old Time Flower Table Décor Trends
A Newport woman is credited with starting a vogue for using old time garden flowers as table decor, favoring dahlias and other grandmotherly blossoms. The article also notes clever home hemming tips, cautions on aging health, roasting beef guidance, and a look at rug rug crafting and color combinations in carpets.
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Newport
Sine
Candace Wheeler
Foods For Babies And Children From A Past Era
Advice on infant feeding favors dilution of milk with barley water and a sugar pinch, fed every two hours in clean bottles. It urges simple meals for children, minimal sweets, boiled porridge in winter, and a balanced menu including bread, milk, fruit, vegetables, and modest treats.
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Tey
Cleaning Furs At Home With Bran And Warm Air
Instructions on home fur cleaning using bran, heat, and brushing. Includes steps to rub fur with cold bran, brush, repeat, then rinse with warm water and dry in a warm place away from cold drafts. Mentions various era newspaper sources and recipe details for apple related dishes.
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Alr i
Wallington Star
Mississippi Cotton Crop Progress and Delta Station Talks
Mississippi reports favorable cotton picking conditions with labor shortages, half to three quarters picked in eastern and southern counties, and rapid progress on low lands. Delta station site bids loom as Yazoo Sunflower Bolivar and Washington counties vie. $3,000 1905 state aid deemed insufficient. Also notes pleion of agrarian meetings, convicts at work, rail damage, and civic projects across the state.
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Bless Vert
Mississippi
Weed Inet
Delta
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College
Bolivar
Washington
Jackson
Rowland Merrill
Texas
Mrs De Long Finds Cure Claim for Pink Pills
A Iowa woman cites Dr Williams pink pills as curing rheumatism and blood disorders after two weeks of use. She says she suffered joint pain across ankles knees hips wrists and elbows and regained full health, endorsing the remedy for weakness and nervous conditions.
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de Long
BE. M. de Long
West Broadway
Connell Bluffs
Iowa
M Eee
Willama
Williams
Blanchard
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Prexnan
Pinkham
Mars
Buanorann
Broad St
Lydia E. Pinkham
Philadelphia
Mrs. Pinkham
May Goon
Web Birch St
Fragmented Clutter in a Sizable Pipline of Oddities
A jumble of notes recalls a Chicago millinery firm seeking injunctions over staff moves, a US payroll of about 10 000 youths, a Wyoming volcanic ash erosion image, cautions on cheap eyewear, and insurance figures. It references a San Francisco paper, a Siberian fleas tale, a Lord Rothschild link, a Philadelphia teacher's dismissal for loud voice, and stray misprints from the era.
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Chicago
Wyoming
California
Irmandade de Diviso Espirito Santo
Statuary Hall
Washington
United States
Peekets
Perkins
A. M. Barker
Seattle
Siberia
Charles Rothschild
Lord Rothschild
London Express
Jordan
Eye gadget shocks Georgia elder in Atlanta shop
A Georgia statesman recalls hearing a patent dispute between an optician owner and an elderly black man as he left with spectacles. The man eyes a large device on the counter, which the optician identifies as an ophthalmometer, prompting the elder to mutter fearfully that that is what he’d dreaded.
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Georgia
Saye
Atlanta
Darky
Mrs Jenny Hostess in Paper Dolls Night Tale
A neighborhood scene centers on "Mrs Jenny" Alicia a child nicknamed by local kids. Her aunt scenes discipline during a late evening of paper dolls and a brief visit to the side porch where a cedar switch is heard though the girl claims no real punishment. A playful aside follows about summer plans and childcare.
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Mrs
Jenny
Alicia
Dorothy Adams
Billy Sanders
Naive Compliment and Organist Prank in Dayton
A New York musician Reginald De Koven toured with an opera and visited a Dayton church. He swapped places with the organist, played well, and the organist tried to dismiss him with a heavy hand. The tale ends with a jab about political bosses and court etiquette.
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Reginald de Koven
New York
Dayton
de Koven
Epicopal
de ‘Roven
Going to Stay Young and Other Quirks
A fragmented excerpt from the Boston Transcript discusses aging ideas and curious anecdotes. It notes a wife’s disturbed remark on her appearance and a husband’s reaction. The passage then shifts to comments on vulgar piracy and a medic ad, ending with a reflection on enlarging a water drop to Earth scales to spark scientific wonder.
Fragmentary 19th century dialog in Chicago Journal
A garbled OCR fragment features quips like Bah Jove and a Newport setting voiced by a boarder and a buffoon Werder. The text appears as stray lines from a satirical or literary column in the Chicago Journal, with many unreadable words and names.
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Newport
Werder
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Wimbledon
Backust
Mrs. Wimbledon
Herbert Spencer
Ales
Manessas
Cleveland Plain
Busines
New York Press
Hull
Washington Ster
Mississippi State News
Delta Experiment Station
Jones County
Board of Trade of
Laurel
Percy Clifton
Leake County
Board of Supervisors
Blackley
Rankin
J. B. Ee
Sligo
Jackson Ast Creek
Messrs. Willcox Bros
Tupelo
Newton
Aberdeen
Lamberton
Collins R
Oxford
Biloxi
King’s Daughters
Falkner
Will Rutherford
Allen Luke
Rutherford
J.T. Conner
J. D. Mathis
Aberdeen Fire Department
Ripley
Pythian Temple
Friar’s Point
Knights of Pythias of
Friars Point
Centerville
Clarksdale
Greenville
Bank of
Isola
Washington County
Manion County
Leflore County
Perry County
Amite County
Commonwealth
Sla
Shoe
Mi Gris
San Francisco
Ken
Elgas
Sven
H. H. Ais
Aolette
Stat Watts
Nature
Boston Transcript
Apea
A. Samuel
Bes En
Chicago Journal
St. Jacobs
Sabee
Katy
Ion Rod Intel
Bataan City
Setzerraa
GOLD
Suver, Corene
Ederese
Whiting TS
Soanaaes
Ian Dodles
Eerie Crest Trading
Seee Wens
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