Three Girls in Canada Mystery on a Dark Shore
Elizabeth Gabrielle and Elise sail for Canada and encounter a menacing stranger aboard, then a searchlight at the boathouse exposes fears of smugglers and unseen threats. Lord Wilfrid and Lady Edith offer caution while romance and danger mingle in a remote seaside village.
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Elizabeth
Gabrielle
Elise
Canada
Hilse
Graham
Lord Wilfrid
Toady Edith
Ietrio
John Clake
Gordon Bennett
Mary Anne
Waller
Edith
Wilfrid
Elzabeth
Andlizabeth
Need for Immediate Action in Gwendoline Alonzo Tale
Excerpted dialogue shows Gwendoline and Alonzo planning marriage before their fathers meet amid family heredity satire. The piece invokes New Yorker critique of New York City life, touching on deafness, furniture of old vices, and a sharp city letter praising or lamenting urban drift and advertising's grip on nerves.
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New York
New Yorker
New York Bun
Poetic Lines Open With Grief Over Music and Lost Hopes
A fragmentary verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon laments buried hopes and the power of music to summon memories and tenderness. A harsh note mentions a ship delivering hair from Chinese corpses to Boston for use in making rats for American weaponry, reflecting sensational wartime fears.
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Letitia Elizabeth Lando
Boaton
China
America
Cough remedy and fox related jokes
An old home remedy prescribes glycerine, pine oil compound, and whisky mixed for a cough or cold, with dosing every four hours. A note claims Virgin Pine oil compound is made only by The Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati. A humorous exchange asks if your hounds would follow a dressed and cooked fox, with a quip about Newrich and Why-er.
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Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mrs. Newrich
Newrich
One Kidney Gone But Cured After Doctors Said There Was No Hope
Sylvanus O Verrill of Milford Maine recounts a disabling injury that left his kidney nearly dead and caused severe pain and urinary disorder. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he regained strength, walked with crutches then walked unaided, and his kidneys began functioning better. Sold by Voster Millburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Sylvanus O. Verrill
Milford
Dean
Voster-Millburn Co
Buffalo
A Matter of Heredity and Not Always What They Seem
Readable scraps from a 19th century column recount a wedding vignette where a bride Agnes admits the rumor that she married due to family tradition, provoking amused astonishment from a passerby. A second anecdote features Prof Hadley on a train to New York where a bystander jokes about having a husband like his.
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Agnes
Hadley
New York
Yale
Yale Sees Record Brightens Harvard Gaffe Lines
A Yale student verse captures humor about Harvard men noting streets are crooked so pedestrians appear misdirected. The quip reflects campus rivalry and lighthearted banter, underscoring competitive humor between Yale and Harvard.
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Yale
T. Tanke
Harvard
Styne
Yale Record
NEW LIFE Found In Change to Right Food
A reader shares a health note about recovery from sour stomach by switching to Grape Nuts. After fifteen months of poor digestion, a specialist advised the cereal, improving appetite and energy. The letter claims regained weight, better sleep, and a happier life, urging others to try the remedy.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Humar
Antereat
First Love Nostalgia in a Fudge Kitchen
A humorous exchange centers on Winnie Jones as the young man recalls his first love while making fudge. The pair joke about memory, proximity, poetry, and ongoing affection, revealing a playful, affectionate dynamic and a playful tease about lingering feelings even as work continues.
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Winnie Jones
Winnie
Cicego Matly
Old Gent Finds No Shame Listening to Awful Language
A terse exchange depicts a golf caddie defending his tolerance for coarse talk while an older man reproaches the behavior. The dialogue centers on acceptance of vulgar language in a public setting and the blunt stance of the young worker.
No skin left on body cured by Cuticura after 6 months
James J. Smith of Durmid Virginia recounts a six month battle with severe eczema in his baby daughter. Two doctors failed, blood and skin injuries worsened until Cuticura remedies were used. Now nearly three, the child has no signs of eczema after using eight cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment.
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James J. Smith
Durmid
How Rows Begin In A Dream Duel
A fragment shows a quarrel sparked by a dream between spouses. A husband declares the dream proof of love failure, the other retorts with irony, and the couple erupts into a domestic dispute. The skirmish ends not with resolution but with continued tension.
Woman Credits Lydia Pinkham Plant for Recovery
Lena V. Henry of Norristown writes Mrs. Pinkham that she suffered female trouble and feared surgery. After reading about others helped by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she took the remedy, improved after the first bottle, and is now cured. She urges every woman with such troubles to try it.
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Lydia J. Pinkham
Lena V. Henry
Norristown
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia BE
Pinkham
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