March and April Excursions Sell Half-Rate Tickets
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers round trip tickets at about half rates on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April to major destinations in Tennessee Alabama and West Florida. Send for details to C P Atmore General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky or J K Ridgely NWPA Chicago Ill.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Tennessee
Alabama
West
Florida
C. P. Atmore
Louisville
J. K. Ridgely
Chicago
A Pretty Custom In Japan Caged Birds Freed By Prayer
Japanese children are rarely allowed to keep caged pets and a custom is taught by old women at temple entrances. For a small coin called sen a child may ransom a caged bird and watch it fly free, believed to earn the god's favor toward the child.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward
One hundred dollar reward offered for a catarrh cure that cannot be treated by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad cites F J Cheney Co Toledo as proprietors and lists endorsers West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin. Claims the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces and sells for 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F.J. Cheney
West & Truax
Q. Walding
Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
Hall
The World’s Largest Library Explained
The national library of France, founded by Louis XIV, is described as the world’s largest library with 1,490,000 books 300 000 pamphlets 175 000 manuscripts 300 000 maps and charts 150 000 coins and gold medals 1 200 000 engravings and 100 000 portraits in its collections.
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National Library of
France
Louis XIV
No-to-Bac and Cure Ads Highlighted In 50 Cent Offers
An old ad copy promotes No-to-Bac as a tobacco regulator with a 50 cent price and a 1 dollar option, claiming health and manhood benefits and cure guarantee. It also lists Cascaret candy tablets with 10 or 25 cent prices and cites a Canadian census stat about births in the United States.
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Evith Warran
Harop
Surrey Harnees
Ea Oh
Ee Elkhart Canetace
Marness Mfc. Co
W. B Pratt
Gee’'y
Elemart
Seed offers and old patch lore in a catalog ad and sermon note
An advertisement offers 14 day radish seeds and blooming plants from John A. Salter Seed Co. free with 14 cents postage, listing prices for vegetable seeds and plants. A baroque note explains historical facial patches and cites Massillon’s sermon prompting a surge in patch wear known as Mouches de Massillon.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Cc.n.y
Massillon
Coventry origin of the phrase sent to Royalists
The Civil Wars practice sent straggling Royalists found on Warwickshire battlefields to Coventry for incarceration. This custom gave rise to the modern phrase and its byword status.
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Coventry
Warwickshire
Hestetter’s Stomach Bitters Endorsed as Safe Remedy
A period-quoted medical critique warns invalids against drastic self medicating with opates and mineral poisons and promotes Hestetter’s Stomach Bitters as a safer alternative for malarial rheumatic and dyspeptic complaints. A humorous exchange with a waiter about serving cheaper roast chicken is included.
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Hestetter
Free Labor Bureau Opened by Workingmen’s Home
In Chicago the Workingmen’s Home at 42 Custom House Place established a Free Labor Bureau to supply men to farmers nationwide at no charge. Employers should specify work type wages and if rail fare is advanced. Also notes Japan relegates six captured Chinese gunboats to harbor defense after finding big guns unusable.
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Chicago
Workingmen’s Home
Custom House Place
Labor Bureau
Workingmen‘s Home
Custom Oe Place
Hl. Tel. Arrison
China
Japan
Lane’s Family Medicine and Health Claims
An OCR fragment shows various health ads and statements about Lane’s Family Medicine moving bones daily, liver and kidneys effects, cures for headaches, and a Machiasport man walking 36 miles for a tooth pull. It also mentions Hall's Hair Renewer for dandruff and baldness, a quippy line about a girl unafraid of mice, a Mrs. Wallace testimonial, Piso’s Cure, and South Dakota gold and silver totals.
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Hall
Gacy Wallace
Margquetie
Kan
South Dakotas
One of Mrs Pinkham's Talks On Woman's Health
The piece warns irregular menstruation endangers health and urges early regulation with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites a girl's letter from Miss Marie Johnson describing recovery after using the remedy and advice, stressing mothers notice signs of illness and seek treatment.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Marie Johnson
Lydia E. Piikham
Marm F. Johnson
Centralia
The Glass Dancer Mounts the Stage with Sharp Test
The performer soaks feet in alum solution with zinc then ice water before stepping onto the sword ladder. A box of broken glass is prepared with edges tied down and fresh shards scattered around safe areas. Feet are dried and rubbed with resin, shoes dusted with resin, then the dancer walks onto the stage avoiding the box corners.
Boston's Social Queen Mrs Sprague Wealth and Status
Mrs Charles F Sprague wife of Congressman Sprague of Boston emerges as Washington society leader and richest Boston matron with a fortune once left by her grandfather William F Weed of Philadelphia valued at 16 million dollars growing through marriage and social position.
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Charles F. Sprague
Congressman Sprague
Boston
Washington
William F. Weed
Philadelphia
Sprague
Mrs. Sprague
Antiquities and Alligator Terrapin Story Ties Pages
A column mixes vivid medieval and modern curiosities with notes on fashion and a zoo find. It cites the Spragues occupying Levi P. Morton’s Washington home and details an enormous Mississippi snapper said to be five centuries old. It also includes a humorous exchange on a tonic and a staged cartoon-like caption from Harper’s Bazar.
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Mississippi
de Soto
Miller’s long public service ends with retirement
The obituary style passage recalls Ohio County public official Mr. Miller who served auditors and clerks across five terms amid health declines. It notes malarial illness, weight loss, rheumatism, and eventual recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, with details on the medicine and maker. Also mentions Thanet chalk island geology and chalk stock estimates.
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Mr. Miller
Ohio County
Miller
Pr. B. Stalte
Jeffersonville
Mr. Stultz
Jeffersonville City
Dr. Williams
Schnectady
N. Y
Cough Remedies Promised In Early 1900s Adverts
An old advertisement promotes Kemp’s Balsam to stop coughing with sample bottles and mentions 25 and 50 cent sizes. It also touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children and Casarets candy cathartic as a liver and bowel regulator. The copy urges immediate purchase, warning delays are dangerous.
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Kemp
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. Lap & Co
Lowell
Mass
United States
Great Britain
Lane
Ai. Ie
Mano
Somerville Journal
Glass-Dancer
Spragues
Levi P. Morton
Mrs. Smith
Bobby
Mr. Smith
Harper’s Bazar
Thanet
Kent
W. L.douglas
Diane
We L, Douglas, Brockton, Maas
al Labasti
Montreal
Seal
Cat
New York
Sapolio
Raven & Co., Druggists
Michigan
Nebraska
Q. B
I Hetning Co. G Sea
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