Dean's Kidney Pills praised by grateful user in Colorado
A Colorado note extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for rheumatism dropsy and kidney trouble after two or three bottles. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo sells the remedy for 50 cents. The clippings also include jokes about octopuses Christmas gifts laundry notes starch ads and a pun about a comet engagement on a home team.
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Cahon City
Colo
Re Met
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Preachers Should Get A Good Salary
An ad urges church leaders to receive fair pay, then promotes Good Housekeepers cleaning product Red Gross Ball Blue sold at leading grocers for five cents.
Wave-Tossed and Castaway On the Mozambique Coast
Blake, Winthrope, and Miss Leslie endure a cyclone after a steamer wreck near Port Natal. Blake clings to whisky while the trio fights surf and wreckage, Winthrope schemes to gain favor, and Miss Leslie survives the chaos in a perilous shore shelter as the cyclone rages and then subsides.
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Cape Town
Blake
Winthrope
Lady Bayrose
India
Miss Leslie
Leslie
Port Natal
Mozambique Channel
M! Leslie
Worse Than Wilderness on a Desolate Coast
Miss Leslie and Winthrope awaken after a cyclone to a heat baked shore and a wrecked boat. Blake, the American, asserts his place, while the trio faces starvation, fever, and the vast marshy landscape with danger ahead. Blake recalls professional ties to Miss Leslie and asserts dominance as tensions rise aboard a fragile survival.
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England
Miss Genevieve
Miss Leslie
Blake
Winthrope
Tom Blake
Tom 1
Mr. Blake
Lady Bayrose
Solar Loan Confusion Over Five Dollar Bill
A brief exchange reveals a misfire over a five dollar bill. Podger says no money changed hands, claiming instead a loan of a solar device from a bill collector yesterday.
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Podger
SORE EYES CURED BY CUTICURA OINTMENT CLAIM
G B Halsey of Mouth of Wilson Virginia reports two years of inflamed eyes resisting home and medical remedies. After using Cutcura Ointment for one week his eyes improved markedly and were nearly well in two weeks. He notes no trouble since and praises the product. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston props. Apr 4 1908.
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Cutiura
G. B. Halsey
Mouth
Wilson
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Insect Screens and Household Hygiene Plea
A mid 19th or early 20th century style plea extols screen use to ward off disease carrying flies and mosquitos. It argues 25 cents prevents the need for a doctor and promotes Defiance Starch for better fabric finish. The ad section pitches Allen's Foot Ease for foot relief and ends with a sharp social quip about a panhandling bum.
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Allen
Gress
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Story
Chicago woman recounts avoiding a third operation after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She had inflammation and a tumor, with two doctors warning death without surgery, yet she recovered and endorses the remedy for female ills including displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pains, backache, and nervousprostration.
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Chicago
Lil
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alsf
Lydia Able
Alvena Sperling
Langdon Street
Pinkham
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Fomen Guffer
Jimmy Green
Success Magazine
Perry Davis
Illie
Libby
Vienna
Liviny, McRell
Prinmtinvie
Reser
Keby Walters
Mscian
Chapter
Mozambique
Miss Leste
Vail
Genevieve
London
Bayrose
Cape
Jenny Leslie
Papa
Q. T
Cuticura
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