Spruce Gum Gatherers and Odd Maine Tales
The article describes Maine gum and gum eaters with collectors in the Umbago and Rangely lake regions, paying up to one dollar per pound. It recounts a ship of shelling and a Scotchman’s biscuit trick with Pawnee beggars, plus ads for Dr Dye’s belts and mining services, and a rammy tale in a church. It includes anecdotes from Biddeford, Lewiston, Lawrence and Lowell and ends with letters praising a patent medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Providence Journal
Umbago Lake
Rangely Lakes
Biddeford
Lewiston
Lawrence
Lowell
Minnesota
California
Nebraska
Pawnee
Treatment of the Hair and preservation tips
The article relays Prof. Wilson of England advising against washing and favoring brushing to promote scalp circulation. It explains cutting hair does not boost growth and lists treatments for baldness and grayness, including ammonia liniments, a rosemary scent, and a cooling borax solution to reduce dryness and dandruff. It stresses moderate stimulation and gentle friction on bare spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
England
Bitters and Gums for Weakness Offered by Dare and Collins
A vintage advertisement promotes Try A. and G. Bitters for weakness and debility. It also markets Addams and Glover’s stimulating rheumatic gaiment for sprains bruises and chronic pains, noting sale by Dare and Collins, successors to Addams and Glover. June 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dare & Collins
Addams & Glover
Portable pun on patent medicines in old ad copy
A fragmented line promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets known as Little Liver Pills, claimed to be the original purgative from all druggists. The casual reader notes the old fashioned tone and marketing flourish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Butts Dispensary
N. St. Street
ST. Lovig
DR. Butts
North St. St
St. Louis, Mo
Solemn stockholder questions North Carolina railroad president
A New England stockholder interviews the railroad president in North Carolina asking about future surplus, bridges to rebuild, locomotives, iron, and dividends. The exchange reveals bleak prospects with no market for the stock and a suggestion to seek a director position for an annual pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
North Carolina
Bull's Elbow
Wild Cat Junction
Wall Street News
Jakutsk Praised as Eastern Siberia Trade Spotlight
Description of Jakutsk a chief town on the Lena River in Eastern Siberia with frozen ground, extreme temperatures, and a population around 5,000. The town’s industry centers on candle-making and fur trade with Buriats, whose caravans carry butter and skins to the port of Okhotsk and to markets at a great June fair. Merchants’ fur and mammoth tusk trades at the fair total about 400,000 roubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jakutsk
Yakoutsk
Siberia
Lena
St. Petersburg
Okhotsk
Rules for Cooking Vegetables and Hair Care Tonic
A French cook offers general vegetable cooking rules including washing green vegetables and boiling in salted water with a tablespoon of salt per two quarts. A time table lists cooking durations for many vegetables, from potatoes to beets and turnips. Also noted is a home remedy using camphor alcohol to scent the scalp and promote hair growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Prurr
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup marketed for teething pain
An advertisement claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup will relieve a crying teething child instantly and regulate the bowels. It touts safety and pleasant taste as the prescription of a respected female physician, sold nationwide for 25 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
West's Vegetable Liver Pills Advertised Reward
An old newspaper advertisement offers a $500 reward for a case of liver complaint and related ailments. It promotes West's Vegetable Liver Pills as the cure and claims each large box contains 80 pills at 25 cents. The notice warns against counterfeits and lists JoHN C. Wear & Co. of Chicago as the manufacturer with mail order trial copies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
John C. Wear & Co
Madison St
Chicago
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Wmieekly Leuter
Gum and
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
Colorado
Territories
Addreas
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Spruce Street
New York
Ingraham & Co
Boston
Mass
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
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
Parsons
Joungon & CO
Bangor
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