Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy Praised by Cincinnati Woman
A Cincinnati woman declares Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her womb trouble and eased headaches after nine months of suffering. She says it regulated her periods and eased nervousness and pain, urging other women to try the remedy for female weakness and uterine disorders.
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Cincinnati
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia
Sara Wilson
East 3d Street
Ohio
In the Lord's Navy Come Up En Jine de Army of the Lohd
A witty exchange in a Baptist church as a congregant declares he has joined the lordly service. An exhorter corrects him stating he has joined the army of the Lord rather than the church.
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Lord’s Navy
Chile
Tracy’s Vegetable River Pills Liver Remedy Ad
The advertisement promotes Tracy’s Vegetable River Pills as a favorite family remedy for liver ills. Priced at 10 cents a box, available by mail from Dr. Tracy at 20 West Ninth Street Cincinnati Ohio.
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Tracy
Dr. Tracy
W. 9Th St
Cincinnati
Sweet voice overheard in phone chat exchange
In a brief dialogue, Harry comments on his wife’s sweet voice heard over a phone line, while Dick notes she always talks that way on the phone. The exchange hints at a familiar domestic habit without additional context.
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Harry
Fitting for nervousness and cures offered by H. Kime Ltd
An old advertisement from H. Kime Ltd of Philadelphia promotes FITS permanent cure and nervousness treatment with trial offers at 931 Arch Street. The ad warns that booze and brains are not constant companions and urges inquiries.
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BR. H. Kime, Ltd
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Guaranteed Piles Cure with PAZO OINTMENT
A drug advertisement offers PAZO OINTMENT as a guaranteed cure for piles including itching bleeding and protruding piles with a refund if not cured in 6 to 14 days. The product is priced at 50 cents.
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Ruggist
Effects of the Typewriter on Dictation Habits
The Atlantic Monthly notes the typewriter spurring dictation among businessmen and influencing written language. Dictation brings verbosity and a speaker’s viewpoint into print, as lawmakers at Washington’s capitol type letters with vigorous gestures.
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Atlantic Monthly
Capitol
Washington
DANGER IN GLASS ETCHING AND HYDROFLUORIC ACID
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt warns that hydrofluoric acid used in glass etching is extraordinarily dangerous. The chemical is colorless and highly corrosive, requiring gold bottles and strict safety measures to prevent fatal injury or death.
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India
Philadelphia Bulletin
Day or Night A Dinnerset Reflection On Modern Habits
A reader muses on shifting daily routines from daytime to evening meals. The essay argues for simpler pleasures, healthier foods, and refined surroundings, noting fashion’s power to redefine dinner times and predicting substitutions if cereals and vegetables dominate year round.
Take It In Instalments by William H Crane
William H Crane recalls a backstage mishap during a performance. He, then understudy to the leading man, must carry a nearly 200 pound heroine offstage at a tense moment. After several tries the audience erupts in laughter as a gallery voice calls for him to take what he can and return for the rest.
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William H. Crane
Crane
the Sunday Magazine
Fable Of The Wise Hen Explains Arbitration And Deceit
A humorous tale portrays a hen strike driving egg prices up and an arbitration committee failing to resolve the standoff. A wise hen mocks the demand with porcelain doorknobs as a moral lesson about deceit and consequences.
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Byven
Arbitration
Floral Clock Charms Grounds At Rockefeller Estate
An Ohio landscape gardener created a circular twelve segment flower bed at the Rockefeller country place in Tarrytown that functions as a clock. The stationary hands are made of dandelions pointing to flowers that open and close at specific hours with species including hawk weed snow thistle chicory poppy water lily morning glory and others.
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Ohio
Rockefeller Country Place
Tarrytown
Nice Doggie Metaphor in Married Life Relationship
A humorous editorial quips that many wives treat husbands as trained pets. It contrasts the ideal of a compliant, well behaved spouse with a husband who seeks personal freedom, prompting the refrain of “Charge, Carlo” when boundaries are crossed. The piece uses a cartoonish kennel analogy to critique gender roles.
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Carlo
Gorgon
Graham
Cleveland's Witty Reply After Weathered Speech
In Grover Cleveland's second term a town visit met gale winds sleet and hail as a brass band struck up. He quipped that the music was the most realistic he had heard and asked what they were playing. The president answered hail to the chief with a smile.
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Olney
A Doubting Heart by Adelaide A Procter
Poem fragment depicting a doubting heart haunted by absence of swallows and flowers dying. It contrasts bleak shore imagery with hopeful lines about spring and stars rising, ending with a note of Adelaide A Procter.
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Adelaide A. Procter
Veterans praise Peruna cure for kidney and bladder trouble
An Army chaplain writes that after exhaustive trials with various doctors and medicines he found Peruna to cure his severe bladder and kidney issues. He claims hundreds of veterans suffer similar ailments from exposure and impure water, and credits Peruna with complete relief.
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David L. Jaycox
Clarinda
Broadway
Oakland
Cal
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America
Mrs
St.louis
Sv A. J. Tower CO. Co
Tower Canadian CC CO
LiaRed
Toronto
Cam
Pernna
S. B. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Grocers Everywhere Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Alabastine Company
Grant Ave
Grand Rapids, Mich, New York
Water St
Bankers’ Accident Co
Des Moines
Halzer
Johw A
Salzer Seed CO
la Crosse
Wis
Western Canada
Raway
Ottawa
Canada
J. M. MacLaughlan
Watertown
South Dakota
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