Sunny San Bernardino and health cure claims in adverts
A collage of vintage ads claims cures for kidney trouble with Dean's Kidney Pills and promotes various products. It includes testimonials from Lionel M. Heath of San Bernardino, soapstone bargains, Plymouth Rock gelatin, Allen's Foot-Ease, Garfield Tea, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and other promotional lines reflecting early 20th century advertising in a groves context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Bernardino
Lionel M. Heath
Flighth Street
Dean
Corsican Vendetta Drama Seizes Marina and Edwin
In Corsica, trader Barnes battles vendetta schemes as Marina Anstruther faces a feared choice. Count Cipriano Danella pressures Marina to become his wife to save Edwin in a perilous tower plot. The spy Emory and others navigate peril as a deadly escape unfolds. TO BE CONTINUED.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton H. Barnes
Corsica
Edward Gerard Anstruther
Marina
Paolla
Ward Anstruther
Marseilles
Constantine
Ari
London
Marina Ia
Barnes
Sid
Anstruther
Barne i
Coraica
Enid
Thera
Tomasso
Roehini
Homano
Edwin
Emory
Count Danella
Cipriano Danella
Mrs. Anstruther
Martha
Count Enrico
Parbley
Mia Madre
Bulla Mila
Dasthu
Goupt
Falen
Madre di Dio
Cipriano
Danella
Monsieur
Hopar
Musso
Pish
Edwin Gerard Anstruther
Kalé
Old Tomasso
Tor Emory
Vomasgo
Lucchese
Ciprieno
Cipriane
Thaya
Corpo di Laccho
Lan
Hye
Creece
Enrica
Varands
How a Joke Is Made In Bohemian Tale
An anecdote from Bohemian about Labouchere in Truth uses a joke on Providence and a fashionably dressed man on a car to illustrate a method. A mother explains the man as a dude while a child asks who reads him, prompting the line Providence reads jokes. The two tales share a common point about humor and creation.
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Marshall P. Wilder
Labouchere
London
Truth
Northampton
Providence
Lydia HE. Pinkham
America
Tyais XE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia KE
A Matter of Taste, Cynic Philosopher Parry Words
A witty exchange in the Baltimore American notes a Cynic philosopher advising gentler speech to spare the speaker when words must be eaten. The quip frames language as appetite and consequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Trade With Colonies Exports Hit High in 1906
France's 1906 trade with its colonies totaled over 200 million dollars with 129,947,800 dollars from exports of manufactured goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Painting Season Promises Pure White Lead Testing
The piece urges buyers to test white lead pigments to ensure purity, warning against adulterated leads. It describes a flame test to prove purity, notes the cost savings of fresh mixtures, and promotes National Lead Company’s free blowpipe offer and a Dutch Boy Painter booklet. Also includes brief satirical items on a doglike dog and a grumbling husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York City
Important to Mothers and Clergymen in Humorous Sketches
A collection of humorous vignettes and quotes from Harper's Weekly notes. A baby mishears about unconsciousness at nap time, a schoolboy essay on clergy amuses bishops, and a colored minister explains needing thunder to compensate for lack of lightning in sermons. The pieces showcase light satire on infants, clergy, and religious life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castoria
Chauncey
Brewster
D. D
Connecticut
Harper's Weekly
Coffee Eyes and Postum Cure for Coffee Poisoning
A Oswego Mont woman reports gradual eye weariness and vision loss from coffee poisoning. After quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee for about nine months her eyes regained strength, her nursing baby stayed healthy, and her headaches and dyspepsia improved. The Postum changes were the sole alteration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswego
Mont
Pania
Ble
Postum
Mr. 7 & Friend
Battle Creek
Mich
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Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Neck Gelating Co
Boston
Marss
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Marden
Garfield
Garfield Men Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Socrates
Basla
Carlyle
California
Yrup UO
Paxton Toilet CO
Wier Fund
Herba Warne Potent Offics
Uy Com
Sampla and
Patent Office
P.E. Melrose
Gol
C. Tady
Etter
Chidy
Shiv Shyla
Souletown
Trea
Wyers-Boyd Commission CO
St. Louis, Mo
Pete
Ailington
Denton
Boule
Mr. Barnes
Archibald Clavering Gunter
New York
Potter
Texon
Gopyriutit
Doad Mead & On
Arthur
Western Canada
Baskitchewen Snd
Albexinay
E. T. Molmes
Jackean
St. Paul
W.V. Bennett
New York Life Bldg
Omaha
Nod
Carters
L Carters , Testa
Otte Vm
Parlin
Cantor
Illinois
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