Dean's Kidney Pills Ad Remedy Claim
A vintage testimonial promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for backache signaling kidney trouble. J A Haywood of Lufkin Texas describes long back pain and gravel, crediting the pills with relief and lasting health. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
J. A. Haywood
Lufkin
Tex
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo,n. Y
the & Paxton CO
Boston
Wisgte
Mean man taunts as he seeks payoff from quarrel
A reported local figure is described as a harsh husband aiming to settle a bad quarter by pressuring his wife. The account emphasizes domestic tension and a threat of ongoing conflict within the household.
Child Healed by Cuticura After Severe Sores
Mrs. Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut recounts a year and a half battle with widespread sores on her young son. Despite two doctors the condition worsened until his hands were tied to prevent scratching. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two months the sores disappeared and never returned.
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Cutiura
Egbert Sheldon
Woodville
Conn
Attempts to Make Artificial Wood From Peat Fibers
The article explains two methods to produce artificial wood from peat. One uses fully reduced fibrous peat mixed with plaster emulsion and water, pressed in molds, dried, polished, and finished. The other washes peat to retain fibrous state then blends with hydrated lime and an aluminium compound and presses briefly to form hard plates that dry in air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Grape Nuts Promises Sleep Better Night Foods
An advertisement-like testimonial extols Grape-Nuts as a cure for indigestion and insomnia. A woman credits the cereal with stopping vomiting and bloating, improving her mother’s weak stomach, and delivering deep sleep and mental steadiness after meals from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan. It ends with the slogan There’s a reason.
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Postum,Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Sisterly Love Misread Signals in a Small Town Tale
Maude Brierley loves Jim Broughton in a sisterly way while he believes she will marry him. He bears a bored devotion, building toward a proposal, only to be gently refused. After a fall he contemplates death, but recovers as Maude worries and grieves, then prays for his healing.
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Jim Broughton
Maude
Brovchtan
Maudeaa
Miss Brierleys
Broughton
Mr. Broughton
Brierleys
Mart
Jim
Lucy
Joseph B. Bowles
Errors About The White House Corrected By Reader
A reader disputes a recent spur column claiming the White House was first occupied in 1809 with President Madison as first occupant. The letter states John Adams first resided there in 1800, notes the mansion began in 1792, was burned in 1814 and rebuilt in 1818, and argues against canned paint claiming white lead and linseed oil were used. The writer urges accuracy in historical subjects.
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White House
Madison
Adams
Prevailing Idea Mrs Bacon a Hundred Pounds Debate
A Yonkers Statesman item captures a light exchange on value and cost between Mr and Mrs Bacon focusing on whether the figure refers to getting or paying. The exchange hints at a broader discussion of price and benefit in everyday transactions.
Snake Appears in Train Carriage Between Birmingham and Leicester
Passengers report a two foot snake emerging from under a seat shortly after the Birmingham to Leicester train departed on Saturday morning. Two men and two women attacked the reptile with sticks, the women standing on seats, and after about ten minutes they stunned it and threw it from the carriage onto the railway line.
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Birmingham
Leicester
DREADED HIS GOOD TIME AT A PUB DINNER TALE
A congressman recalls a winter evening when he feared he would have too good a time at a Vic dinner. He narrates a Kansas City constituent who crossed seven miles by trolley to drink, fearing the consequences and exclaiming how he dreads it in a humorous old anecdote.
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Congress
Kansas City
K. C
Scott
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad Teething Relief
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething infants claiming gum softening and pain relief. It mentions a 25 cent bottle and adds a moral line about not judging a woman's actions by her husband’s words.
Smallest horn breaks the loudest silence
A reflective line about how quiet can be shattered not by the loudest instrument but by a subtle sound. The idea contrasts intensity with impact, suggesting restraint and perception shape noise more than sheer volume.
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Cacy
Herman Reinbold
State of
Missouri
Putnam
Dodds
Kidney
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
Ogers & Brees Union Stock Yards
So. St. Rants
Castoria
Bateman
Godfrey
Hail
Journal of Health
Espe of
Olid
Samuel Pitcher
Fac Simile Signature of
New York
Chas. H. Fletcher
B. Halstead Scott
Chicago
Ills
William Belmont
Cleveland
Ohio
J. H. Taft
Brooklyn
N. Y
R. J. Hamlen
Detroit
Fletcher
Wm. J McCrain
Omaha
Neb
J. R. Clausen
Philadelphia
R. M. Ward
THE
Centaun Company
Murray Street
New York City
Woodward
Minneapolis
Grain Commission
Du'ath
Free Salter Seed Co
Box W.K. LaCrosse
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