Pleurisy Cure Praised By Greensburg Woman
Miss Bertha Evans of Greensburg credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for cure after years of pleurisy. She endured illness since age 12 with severe weight loss and weakness, tried doctors and patent medicines, and confirms lasting health after eleven boxes. Her mother endorses the medicine and notes its blood restoring properties. Also mentions Venetian glass mirrors history.
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Greensburg
Ind
Bertha Evans
Miss Evans
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Well Trained Greenhorn Chiefly Aboard In Woodbridge
Carl Dunder feigns Germanish disguise while confessing to a sergeant at Woodbridge Street Station about a runaway self education and a series of comic misadventures. A New York trainer sold him lessons for fifteen dollars a week and he recalls how he learned to spot pickpockets and bunkos, ending with a coat and cash theft.
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Sergeant Bendall
Carl Dunder
Woodbridge Street
Germany
Mr. Dunder
Deir Street
Eaferypody
New York
Chicago
Bunko
Dot
Scalephole
Dot Feller
Old Remedies and Facts From an Era of Curiosities
The passage surveys quack cures and trivia such as St Jacobs Oil for lumbago and stiffness, Hall’s Hair Renewer to prevent baldness, Glenn’s Sane for dandruff, Winslow’s Socrate Stroup for teething, and notes the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington housing about 6,500 anthropology volumes.
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Hall
Bureau of Ethnology
Washington
No-to-Bac Cure Sold For Half Dollar Promise
Ad touts a fifty cent remedy claiming over 400 000 cured with no to bac regulation. Promises savings via regulation removal and urges use of the product sold by all druggists. Mentions glass windows in England and recommends cascarats candy cathartic for bilious or costive conditions.
Statistics of Old Ace Analysis of English centenarians
Prof Murray Humphry compiles a British Medical Association inquiry on 52 centenarians from 16 men and 36 women. The report details marital status, living conditions, physique, eyeglass use, digestion and appetite, and alcohol intake across the sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Humphry
Pall Mall Gazette
British Medical Association
Sven
Fragmented old survey results on habits and aging
A historical survey reports on quantities of habits and life traits among respondents. It details counts for notice given, memory quality, smoking, snuff use, sleep quality, bedtimes and risings, dental status, marriage age, and children, with uneven respondent bases and missing final figures.
Substantial handshaking saves minister in Ozark tale
A Globe-Democrat writer recalls a minister famed for hearty handshakes in the Ozarks. Instead of coins, every visitor pressed cash into his palm, from $1 to $10, foreclosing his debt and saving his home. He kept faith in handshakes to resolve things, though the town found it strange and shattering.
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Ozark
Globe-Democrat
Pareras
Epitaph on a Dog Nestled in Howe Plot at Greenwood Cemetery
The Howe plot at Greenwood Cemetery houses the grave of the dog buried there near the Elias Howe monument. A granite headstone for Fannie died 1881 bears ivy carvings and a plaque hinting the beloved animal beneath. The site also notes buried are Elias Howe Salmon and Harriet Haliday Salmon.
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Greenwood Cemetery
Hemlock
Battle Avenues
Battle Hill
Elias Howe
Sreat I-place
Quincy
Sumner
Ain
My Darling
Elias Howe Salmon
Harriet Haliday Salmon
Uy Pichowna
Y. Y
Albert Edward's Rudeness Provokes mock royal tale
A Edinburgh dispatch reports a tongue in cheek incident at a Langtry booth where the Prince of Wales asked for mocha in Worcester ware, then kissed the cup and left without tasting it. The shopkeeper quotes a price shift from twenty to a clean cup, suggesting a decline in royal decorum.
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England
Edinburgh
Prince of Wales
St. Louis
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Cited In Women’s Recovery
A reader reports relief from painful menstruation and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Testimony from Mrs. Goraix Wass of Cincinnati and Mrs. Carrig V. Williams of South Mills cites cure and relief from ovarian trouble and menstrual pain. The ad touts widespread testimony as proof of the remedy’s safety and effectiveness.
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Lydia E. Pinkh
Mrs. Pinkham
Mrs. Goraix Wass
Bank St
Cincinnati
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margaret Anderson
Lisbon St
Lewiston
Long-Lived Family Bursts with Generations in Maine
Margaret Katherine Hinds, one week old on April 6 in Portland Maine, has a great great grandmother, two great grandfathers and two grandmothers. Her paternal line shows four living generations and her maternal line five.
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Margaret Katherine Hinds
Portland
Maine
Moneybags Scheme In Courtroom Exchange Revealed
A courtroom exchange centers on a blackmail plan where Moneybags promises a half million in return for consent to marry his daughter. Cholly Cheekly counters that the daughter must wed Moneybags to trigger a one million payment to her father, with the bargain intended as a payoff to the judge.
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Cholly Cheekly
France Honors 300 Monuments for Notable Citizens Over 25 Years
During the last quarter century France has set about 300 monuments to distinguished French men and now 127 committees are raising funds for additional ones.
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France
Eli Perkins Tale Suppressed by Depew and Evarts Heads West
Eli Perkins broadcast a tale claiming he traveled from Washington with William Evarts and Chauncey Depew. Depew says part of the yarn was suppressed and recalls answering that head or feet to the engine makes no difference. The note adds that the first iron ore in the U.S. was found in Virginia in 1715.
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Eli Perkins
United States
Chauncey M. Depew
Mr. Evarts
Depew
Eli
Virginia
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RE. P. Hall & Co
Nashua
N. H
Rohn Brother's
Hires Rootbeer
B. Hires Co
Phila
Bray
Aetna Sennen
A. J. Tower
Boston
Mass
Jones
Binghamton
Binghamton, N. Y
R. E. Hart
Lincoln
Battle Creek
Mich
U. Indpl
Noah
Washington Irving
Austria-Hungary
Glenn
Winslow
Castoria
Pitcher
Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Mothers of
Pal
Cpl Llth
Albert Edward
Ata
Lawrence Ci
Ned
Meite Watson
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
Dorchester, Mass
Walt Fee
Sapolio
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