Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
Milwaukee woman crediting Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing female trouble and backache after doctors advised surgery. Letter from Mrs Exarcse of Milwaukee says the remedy prevented an operation and she urges others to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Binkham
Lydia E. Pim
Mrs. Exarcsse
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Pinkham
M TS. Am
Ynn
Nomadic Mascot Wins Free Rent in New York’s Luxury Flats
A Wall Street real estate firm keeps a moving mascot who never pays rent. For ten years he occupies prime apartments in fashionable Manhattan buildings, always the first tenant as new houses are completed, his belongings transported by moving vans while the landlord benefits from the property’s quick, stylish occupancy.
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York
Wall Street
New York City
Manhattan
Ghosts and a Sexton Photograph a New York Church
Soren Lindgren, sexton at the Chapel of the Comforter on 10 Horatio Street near Jackson Square, reports nightly apparitions at the altar. He and his wife photographed two figures, the images showing white outlines of a bearded man, whom he describes as a past manor owner who killed a man in the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sexton
Lindgrens
Mr. Lindgren
Elephant Pennies Scandal Shocks Bronx Zoo Keeper
At the Bronx Zoo in New York City keeper Richards is credited with training Congo the elephant to beg pennies from visitors using a tin bank. After a luncheon, Congo was found with 60 cents stolen by four boys who fed the elephant apples in exchange for coins, exposing a scheme involving Sultana and Khar toum and a seedy man nearby.
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Éétf
Ice” Richards
Bronx Zoo
New York City
Richard
Elphants
Richards
Bronx
Congo
Sultana
Khartoum
Mock Court Ends in Real Court Trial on Ferry Outing
A West Side New York group led by Charles Ammon staged a mock court aboard a College Point ferry, punishing a Black man with water and orders. Police officers aboard joined antics, leading to arrests for disorderly conduct. The following day real courts fined the participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yemassie Haymakers
New York City
McManus
College Point
Ammon
Sergt. Irwin
Fritsch
Force of Habit Hodge Hefty Vacation Weight Drop
Hodge notes a vacation weight loss from 200 to 149 pounds. Dodge jokes about his loss and the best girl leaving him. Hodge clarifies she stayed, explaining she is a thrifty bargain hunter who loves reductions.
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Hodge
Dodge
Cured Itching Humor and Tuberculosis Treatment Claims
An apparent testimonial extols Cutiura Remedies as curing a three year skin disease with itching and swelling and touts human tubercular sanatoria statistics. It also promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a $1000 payoff for failures and urges readers to obtain circulars.
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O. L. Wilson
Puryear
Tenn
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Solo Props
Boston
Hall
F. J. Cheney& Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & CO
Crurgists
Bits and Bites and Bills in a Darned Era
A collage of jokes and ads from a vintage page notes social quips about loneliness and servitude, political indifference, and a U S government purchase of Rough on Rats for Panama Canal Zone use. Also includes moralizing quips and a Wizard Oil remedy claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Panama Canal Zone
Eye Ear Nose and Throat Specialist Dr Rindlaub
An advertisement for Dr J H Rindlaub of Fargo North Dakota promoting eye ear nose and throat services. It mentions products Allen's Lang Balsam Winslow's Soothing Syrup and boarding house coffee as related health and consumer items. The copy includes product pitches and general advertising language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Rindlaub
Fargo, N. D
Not Infrequent Humor From Amateurs
A reader shares a humorous clipping describing John and Grace at a meal. The couple sits in silence with evident marital tension as John eats a full course without uttering a word, illustrating the oddities editors encounter.
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John
Grace
Henson condemns archbishop's attire at Yale lecture
Canon Hensley Henson, in New Haven, attacked the ugliness of the English archbishop's clothes. He cited a Kansas church sermon where the archbishop preached in knee breeches gaiters and an apron, noting a leading town paper called it Highland dress. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Poot-Ease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hensley Henson
New Haven
Yale
Kansas
Allen
Allen S.olmsted
Leroy,n
They Were Shady Inheritance Tracing Query
Genealogist offers twenty guineas to reveal ancestor traces with hush money implied in a Casscell's Saturday Journal dialogue. A terse exchange hints at secrets preserved by wealth and secrecy across generations.
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Casscell
Saturday Journal
Pettit's Eye Salve and Everyday Ads Compiled
A historical clippings page features Pettit's Eye Salve claims with promise of restoration for diseased or injured eyes. It also includes assorted ads and quips about Wrigley's Spearmint toothpaste and gum benefits, gun and fur trading, and general lifestyle touts from Howard Bros. Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N
Judge Advises Choate to Fetch Tongs or Spectacles
A court scene shows Mr Choate nearing old age unable to read his notes. He holds the manuscript further away to decipher it, prompting the judge to quip that he should choose between tongs or spectacles to aid his sight.
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Choate
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Lydia
E. Pinkham
James C. Lee
9Th St
W.e
Washington, D.C
Broan
Sloan
Liniment
J. P. Evans
Mt. Airy
Tete
Steen
Earl S. Sloan
U.S.A
Western
UNION
W. Adams
Chicago
California
Great
Sacramento Valley
San Francisco
Woodland
COX & CO
Menschneck Bldg
News Newsonic
Apartment
Cutiura
United States
Germany
France
Agincourt
Becker
Puck
Baltimore American
Wrigley’s Spearmint
Winslow
Cabotee
N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Chew Wrigley
Wrigley
Senitas
Cascarets
Defiance
Japan
Continental Oil Company (Incorporated
Woodward & CO
Minneapolis
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