Dean's Kidney Pills Promoted By Veteran Stories
An ad recounts Henry Palmer of Barnesville Ohio crediting Pim Dean's Kidney Pills with relief from kidney trouble tied to army hardship. Foster Milburn Co. sells 50 cent boxes. The page also notes a Methodist anecdote about prayer from Bishop Foss and a Norristown teacher imagining wealth as a burden.
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Henry Palmer
Cole and Walnut Srs
Barnesville
Pim Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Foss
Philadelhia
Norristown
Mme
Skin Beauty Promoted For Skin and Hair Care
Promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for treating skin and scalp afflictions. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. offers a free 32 page Cuticura Book by mail. Also includes a humorous line about a married couple and a traveling salesman.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Oston
Mass
Coca Cola: A Cooling Drink That Rescues Fatigue
An advertisement promotes Coca Cola as a refreshing cooling beverage superior to plain water. It urges readers to obtain the booklet The Truth About Coca Cola and the Coca Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910, noting it includes Casey At The Bat and baseball schedules.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Baseball
Casey
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
Similarity in Flowers and Memory Between Eva and Jack
Eva asks about pressed flowers and Jack replies he dislikes them. He says they remind him of a fass through a telephone and notes they have lost their sweetness.
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Jack
Father of Triplets Revealed in Medical Quip
A humorous medical exchange ends with a doctor telling a hurried father that he has fathered triplets, highlighting a lighthearted surprise about the number of children. The dialogue plays on anxious counting and parental anticipation.
Ideal Man as Barnard Girls See Him
A 1910 Barnard College class day sketch describes the ideal husband from the girls’ poll. It calls for a six foot man with brown eyes and hair, possibly a lav ender or turquoise tie, who may smoke or not and owns a car, earning $2,000 yearly with a sense of humor. The piece notes varied reactions from professors and suffrage supporters while two thirds of the coeds claim they want such a mate, seeing marriage as their highest vocation.
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York
Charles Dana Gibson
Robert W. Chambers
Barnard
Grace Reeder
Columbia Gymnasium
Epicurus
Walter Pater
John Ruskin
Temple of Knowledge
Cop’s Feather Near Miss in Streetcar Tale
AFFALO New York Policeman Edward O Grady recalls reading a sports article on a Niagara streetcar. A woman wearing a large hat sat beside him and his ear was tickled by a feather on the hat. He jokingly blamed the schoolgirls for laughing, then admitted he grabbed the feather thinking it was a straw. He alighted at Jersey street and waited for the next car.
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Affalo
N. Y
Edward O’grady
Third Precinct
Richard Tobin
Niagara
Gotch
Zbyszko
O'Grady
Jersey Street
Magicians Honor Annual Dinner With Tricks and Laughter
At the Hotel Marlborough the American Society of Magicians held its sixth annual banquet attended by about 150 members including many amateurs. Performers displayed feats such as torn and restored bills and pink ink cards, while magicians fired at bottles to vanish handkerchiefs and water.
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Bellevue
American Society of Magicians
Man coughs up five dollar bill after cheese sandwich misadventure
In Upper Alton John Henry chewed and swallowed a five dollar bill while changing money for W. W. Lowe. The bill vanished into the sandwich as Henry ate and forgot it, prompting disbelief from onlookers who doubt he can ever recover the money.
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Henry
Mr. Lowe
Lowe
Home style and landscape harmony by William A. Radford
Editorial by William A. Radford advises readers on building and amateur landscaping. He argues a well designed house harmonizes with surroundings, favors cement plaster for unity with the yard, and warns against overplanting that blocks light. The cement plaster, layout, and a $3,000, story and a half house with green trim illustrate practical suburban design and cost.
Amethyst Glass Heirloom Glazes Health Belief
Old window panes with amethyst tint are valued for perceived health benefits. Opticians seek aged colored glass from Philadelphia homes to meet New York demand, tracing a history from blue to yellow red and now amethyst. The belief in healing rays has persisted across generations.
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Opticians
Philadelphia
New York
What’s Become of Jakes In the Gas Leak Scare
A brief theater gag has characters joking about Jakes’s fate after he looks for a gas leak with a lighted candle. The line conveys comic panic and a cautionary image of reckless suspicion.
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Jakes
Why He Quit Smoking Rumor Circulates Around Bondsonby
A light exchange hints Bondsonby quit smoking after years of habit. A stenographer’s offhand remark during a moment with Bondsonby is cited as the motive, suggesting social pressure rather than medical advice.
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Bondsonby
Why He Whitewashed and Right Name at Last
A country doctor recalls a man who whitewashes a dilapidated cottage, claiming ten children and twins past. In a haberdashery, a clerk presents a collar button named the north pole after Cook and Peary, prompting a witty exchange about its elusive placement.
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Skin Beauty
Philip
Lall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Tolefo
O. We
PY Jo Cheney
Winnan & Malin
Toledo
Tlal
Llail
Brixton
Carter
Carters
Fitsgerald&Co
Bex U
Washington
Marlborough
Max Heir
Merry Mo
Wiliam A. Radforn
William A. Radford
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Ill
Yoxiz
FOXWO
D'Ning RM
Ars
Livine Re
Vienna
Libby
Parker
Sacramento Valley
Cal
Shollister & CO
LaSalle St
Popular Physic
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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