Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
A Minneapolis reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving female troubles. The letter urges others to write for confidential advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, noting twenty years of free help to sick women.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan G. McLean
Second St
North
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Well Qualified
A party scene features a hostess urging a quiet guest to speak up. The Youthful Guest explains his father’s rule of only speaking when he has something to say, and the hostess argues society would be dull if everyone followed that rule.
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Miss de Muir
Ready Theorist On Germs In House Files
The scientist warns house files carry germs on their feet and suggests overshoes left on the porch as the remedy. A humorous aside notes after a dog wears shorts he tends to swim.
Central Park Zoo Couple Sparks Scandal and Romance
New York reports an odd tale at the Central Park Zoo where Clara the gray goose and Brigham Young the Black Spanish rooster disappear together. They are spotted near the alligator pool with feathers found near the eagle cages. Clara enjoys a freedom flight while Brigham Young plays courtly suitor but is rebuffed. The keepers consider the affair a simple incompatibility and note plans for a Reno divorce as the rooster eyes new freedom.
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York
Central Park Zoo
Clara
Brigham Young
Snyder
B. Young
Reno
Nev
Chicago Woman Maid for Her Hostess at Swiss Chalet Party
Mrs James Howe's luncheon guests arrive for a five hundred club event in Webster Groves. The hostess's maid resigns and Mrs C Gregory Fleckenstein offers to step in creating an amusing scene when the disguise as a French maid is revealed later.
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Mrs. Fleckenstein
Treasure Find by Stevenson’s Grandson at San Francisco
Eight year old Louis Osborne son of Lloyd Osborne discovers a metal box on a sand hill contains 2600 shares of stock deeds to property and other papers. Police recover box contents for Augustus Imbrie as robbers suspected. Imbrie home closed and city absent.
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Louis Osborne
Lloyd Osborne
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dog Rover Praised In Rhyme As Court Case Opens
Isadore Herman writes verses praising his dog Rover amid a $1000 damages suit filed by Eli Stern for puncture wounds on his son Israel Stern. Herman asks the municipal court to spare dog and owner from any decree that would ruin their long relationship.
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Isadore Herman
Rover
Little Israel Stern
Eli Stern
Stern
Little Israel
Herman
Roger
Murder Without Malice Reference Shocks Law Freshmen
A line from a freshman exam at Suffolk School of Law Boston notes that murder lacking malice aforethought is manslaughter. The dean shares the quip from The Green Bag illustrating legal distinctions.
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Suffolk School of Law
Boston
Nation estimates annual TB costs and municipal savings
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis projects 300,000 indigent consumptives in the United States would cost 30,900,000 yearly at 1.669 dollars per day. Even at the low end the country loses 200 million annually due to incapacity, a net gain of 150 million if poor patients are cared for by local or state facilities. Isolation in institutions would further reduce infections.
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United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Cuticura Remedies Noted For Eczema Cure
A Brooklyn woman recalls using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent to treat her niece’s severe eczema. After years of sleepless nights and failed treatments, the child improved, and she has remained symptom free since age eleven. The letter dates to September 27 1909 and includes a photo from about 18 months old.
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H. Kiernan
Quincy St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Clever Joke of King at Press Club in New York
A London correspondent recounts King Edwards visiting Rufford Abbey with Lord Arthur Saville. They observe a poacher caught with a dead pheasant. The king smiles and tells Lord Arthur to let him go, quipping that a truly bad egg would not poach.
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King Edwards
London
Press Club
New York
Rufford Abbey
Arthur Saville
Arthur
Lord Arthur
A Protection Against the Heat Coca Cola Ad
An ad touts Coca Cola as cooling fatigue reliever and thirst quencher. It promotes 5c beverages at fountains and bottled, claims wholesome value, and offers a 1910 booklet with Casey at the Bat poem and baseball records for two leagues for 2c postage to The Coca Cola Co. Atlanta Ga.
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Coca-Cola
Casey
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
Merely a Prevaricator Joke About Hypnotism Death
A doctor tells of using a sun on the ceiling to suggest warmth to a gravely ill patient. The patient improved until the sun caused sunstroke, killing him on the day of the doctor's arrival. The tale highlights a grim twist in a physician's anecdote.
I Never Deny My Wife a Wish Quote
A brief Life magazine quotation notes a husband’s stance on granting his wife requests. The line emphasizes generosity and unchanged support within marriage.
At Rehearsal Fan-What happens when the bases are full
Fragmentary note from Stanford University Chaparral includes a line on endurance and discipline from E. M. Goulburn and a scene of discord amid Base full crowd in rehearsal context. The text mixes stage rehearsal with editorials and quotations.
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Man—ao
Stanford Univerity Chaparral
E. M. Goulburn
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Advertises Teething Aid
Ad claims Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup eases teething pain and soothes infants, while Pierce’s Pills are promoted as gentle stomach regulators. Text mocks a nagging wife as a joke.
Doan's Kidney Pills Trusted by Stateside Resident
Restored to health after years of disordered kidneys Mrs John S Way of Independence Kansas reports backache swelling and vision spots subsiding after using Doans Kidney Pills 50 cents a box. The note also includes a humorous exchange about a landlady and a dog grafted nose and a dog waking at night.
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John S. Way
St. Independence, Kans
Ty Doan
Doan's
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
The Dentist Joke Told At London Authors Club
At a London Authors Club dinner editor Owen Seaman recalls Punch staffer Walter Emanuel recounting a dentist with the largest sense of humor he had met an Englishman and dentist who pulled a tooth after a long toothache refusing gas and laughed to the window then asked what the joke and the dentist replied wrong tooth.
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Authors’ Club
London
Owen Seaman
Punch
Walter Emanuel
Iman
Jong
Boy Seeks Work at Lawyer's Office in Tale of Education
A western attorney recalls hiring a bright boy who applied for work. The lawyer describes the interview in which he emphasizes telegrams and telephone messages, noting the need for a fairly high level of schooling. The boy answers confidently with independence.
A Simple Matter
Mrs Yorkins and Charley note a Prohibitionist clash with bootleggers in the paper. She quips about a solution by forcing everyone to wear low shoes.
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Charley
Eye ear nose and throat specialist featured in Fargo ad
An advertisement promotes Dr. J. H. Rindlaub, specialist in eye ear nose and throat at Fargo North Dakota. A fragment notes a girl pretending to whisper to attract a young man with a puckered smile.
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J. H. Rindlaub
Fargo, N. D
Dakota
Monson Trunk Factory
Fargo
N. Dakota
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