Spruce Gum Trade and Odd Anecdotes From Maine
A Maine feature details the annual forty thousand dollar spruce gum trade, with collectors in snowshoe camps near Umbago and Rangely lakes selling gum for up to a dollar per pound and refining adulterated pieces. It also recounts a Scotchman’s must ard story with Pawnee beggars, and a string of comic vignettes from rural life, including a ram in church and a shopkeeper’s child.
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Maine
Providence Journal
Umbago Lake
Rangely Lakes
Biddeford
Lewiston
Lawrence
Lowell
Treatment of the Hair and Preservation Methods
The article cites Prof. Wilson of England advising brushing over washing to promote scalp circulation. It says cutting hair does not boost growth and many baldness remedies are ineffective. It offers ammonia as a safe stimulant, a hair loss lotion with water of ammonia, almond oil, chloroform, and alcohol, plus a rosemary infusion. A cooling solution of borax and glycerine in distilled water helps dryness and dandruff. For baldness and grayness, a gentle camphor ammonia chloroform aconite liniment is suggested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
England
Bitters advertised for weakness and rheumatic pains
Dare and Collins, successors to Addams and Glover, offer A and G Bitters for weakness debility and chronic pains. The stimulating rheumatic gaiment claims relief for sprains bruises and pains in any part of the body. June 26 tf notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dare & Collins
Addams & Glover
Pills Promoted as Pleasant Purgative Pellets
An advertisement urges readers to take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets also called Little Liver Pills. Marketed as a remedy, the pills are sold by druggists.
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Parsons
Joungon & CO
Boston
Mass
Bangor
Stockholder Probes North Carolina Railroad Prospects
A solemn New England stockholder travels south to question the railroad president about a possible year end surplus. He hears of seven bridges to rebuild twelve new locomotives needed and iron upgrades ahead. The exchange notes a lack of dividends and no stock market demand, with a quip about using stock to win a director seat and gain an annual pass.
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New England
North Carolina
Bull's Elbow
Wild Cat Junction
Wall Street News
Jakutsk: Eastern Siberia hub amid eternal frost and fairs
Jakutsk, chief town on the Lena, endures constant permafrost, with summer thaws. Its 5,000 residents rely on candle production and trading. The Buriats trade furs and mammoth tusks, selling fairs in June and May, with total fair value around 400,000 roubles.
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Jakutsk
Yakoutsk
Siberia
Lena
St. Petersburg
Okhotsk
Rules for Cooking Vegetables and Hair Care Remedy
A French cook outlines general vegetable cooking rules with salted boiling water and timing for a wide range of vegetables. The piece includes a time table from potatoes to beets and onions, plus a dubious hair growth remedy using camphorized alcohol and scents to stimulate the scalp.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Promoted for Teething Pain
Advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a safe pleasant remedy for teething pain and crying infants. Claims quick relief, bowel regulation, and health benefits, marketed by a long established physician and nurses. Sold widely at 25 cents per bottle.
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United States
West's Vegetable Liver Pills Advertisement
A 19th century classified style offer promises a 500 reward for curing liver complaints with West's Vegetable Liver Pills. The ad notes sugar coated boxes of 80 pills for 25 cents, urges buying only genuine John C Wear & Co products, warns against counterfeits, and offers a free trial package by mail with an 8 cent stamp.
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West
John C. Wear & Co
Madison St
Chicago
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Wmieekly Leuter
Gum and
Minnesota
California
Nebraska
Pawnee
Sozodon
Voltaic Belt Company
Marshal, Mich
J. A. Baird
Cheyenne
Wyatt
Rammy, Rammy, Ram
Mollie
Allen
Sheep
Sammy
tAha
Rammy
Ram
Syuba Dam
Burlington Hawkeye
Rapaire
London
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Dean Sir
Paul R. Baxter
Iowa City
Iowa
Dan Prurr
Colorado
Territories
Addreas
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Spruce Street
New York
Ingraham & Co
LAW Office
Warren's Building
D U
Baird
Wyoming
ATI
ORNE
Wyo
Ontve
ITU Ht
Louis Shaw’s
Little
U.S
Morris Little & Son
Austin
U. S
T. W. Lawford
Baltimore
America
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
D. Butts Dispensary
N. St. Street
ST. Lovig
DR. Butts
North St. St
St. Louis, Mo
U.P. R.R. House
G. M. Jones
Iriuine
Stephen Bon
Sixtenth ST
Cheyenne, Wyo
Burt’s
SHO S&s
Teller City
Myers’ & Moore’s
C. A. Roberts & CO
Larimer Street
F. Scitweickert
Cheyenne, Grace
Parsons & Smith
Seneca
Hans
Henry Schmidt
Wool Commission Merchant
North Front Street
Philadelphia
Louisiana State Lottery Comp
Grand Monthly
New Orleans
G. T. Beauregard
Louisiana
Desens
N. B
P. A. Westervelt
M. D
Nashville
Tayo
B. McCord
Ron
Teseerses
P. -. V.uess
Pond's Extract Co
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