Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promise Reward Cure
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages through constitutional treatment. The ad claims the remedy works via the bloodstream to mucous membranes and builds up the body, offering 100 dollars to any case it fails to cure. Testimonials available on request from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Sold by all druggists.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Tbc
Unequal Rewards Cited For Education And Industry
The note claims unskilled workers earn about 500 dollars yearly for forty years totaling 20000 dollars while implying higher earnings for educated individuals. It also contains an advertisement line urging buying Martin's Wonderful Blue Bug Killer for poultry and a money back guarantee from Reese Drug Co.
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Martin
Reese Drug Co
Value of Education Advocates More Schooling Time
The text argues that $1,000 yearly for forty years sums to $46,000 and that twelve years of 180 days each totaling 2,160 days in school adds $20,000 to lifelong income. It concludes that each day in school is worth about $9.02, claiming a child outside school earning under $9 daily loses potential earnings.
Doctor's Bill Saved by Mississippi Diarrhoea Cordial
Advertises a patent remedy named Mississippi Diarrhoea Cordial for stomach complaints with price points at 25e and 50e. The notice urges keeping the product on hand to treat ailments.
Gold Medal Haarlem Oli Capsules Ad
An old worldwide remedy promises to restore kidney and liver function and cleanse the system. The ad claims quick relief from nervousness sleeplessness and back pain and offers a money back guarantee with imported LD MEDAL Haarlem Oli in three package sizes.
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Haarlem
Im Folland
Mrs Burn Letter Warns Neighbors of Remedy Use
A Savannah Missouri letter from October 12 1916 describes a personal experience with Chamberlain s Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy curing flux and dysentery. The writer says the remedy helped nine years ago and again recently and recommends it to many people.
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Chamberlain
Those Doubtful Donts From a Cautious Girl
A cautious speaker recalls parental rules against smoking joking flirting dancing or drinking and notes a life of restraint. She admits a lack of romantic experience and questions how it is done, contrasting herself with wild girls who chase men and wine.
Weather shifts with showers disrupt farming in Vandyke area
After a spell of sun a recent light rain fell early last Sunday morning easing corn conditions but hindering threshing and hay cutting. The community reports active threshing and hay work all week with many visits between families and neighbors including Stewart, Martin, Bradshaw, Whitlock, and McDaniels. A missionary revival is planned for the first August Sunday, inviting all to attend.
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Laura Wilson
Dessie Bradshaw
Center Point
Nora
Lorene Starr
Samuels
de Leon
W. L. Tiner
John Bradshaw
Homer Starr
Frank Davis
Bert McGuire
Willie Loudermilk
Downing
Preacher
Hensler
Comanche
John Wilson
Freezone corn remover promises painless, instant relief
An advertisement touts Freezone as a Cincinnati invention that quickly relieves sore corns with a few drops and removes them without pain. It claims the tiny bottle costs only a few cents at drug stores and works on hard and soft corns and toe calluses.
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Cincinnati
Peat Moss Used For War Surgeries Origin Story
A peat moor worker suffered a deep forearm wound. Fellow laborers wrapped it with peat fragments. Ten days passed before medical care was obtained. The surgeon found the wound nearly healed, inspiring use of sphagnum peat moss as surgical dressings in the recent war.
Flies Gone With Farmis Healing Remedy
An old advertisement touts Farmis Healing Remedy as a fly repellent for wounds. It urges buyers to purchase at local Texas stores including Proctor, Comanche, and Hassee and Stone & Trutt, with prices implied for a pint.
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Comanche
Hasee
Stone & Trutt
Proctor Texas
Bromo Quinine and Prickly Ash Bitters Advertised
An old advertisement promotes Bromo Quinine tablets as a remedy for colds grip and influenza with E. W. Grove signature on the box. It also touts Prickly Ash Bitters for poor appetite and upset stomach, claiming to cleanse bilious impurities and improve feeling. Price listed as $1.25 per bottle, sold by all druggists.
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E. W. Grove
Hanan Masakichi Mirrors Himself in Master Wood Figure
The Masakichi wood sculpture in Tokyo is praised as the most perfect human image ever carved. Carved from 2000 interlocking pieces, the figure mirrors the artist’s scars veins and wrinkles. Masakichi posed beside the statue between two mirrors to blur lines between creator and artwork.
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Hananuma Masakichi
Tokio
Japan
Masakichi
Masked figure study with attentive gaze
A life like mask is held in one hand while an instrument for carving is in the other. The eyes seem to look directly at the mask, and the face shows intense absorption as it contemplates the sculpture.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia K. Pinkham
B. B. Zietinska
Weiss Street
Buffalo, N. Y
Portland
Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Josephine Rise
West Race Street
Lydia E.pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Bevo
Anheuser-Busch
St.louis
Erick Whitlock
Ollie
Wiley McDaniels
Ane
Ge Annames
Coca-Coa Co
Atlanta, GA
Scott & Bowne
Atexas Worder
Texas Wonder
Resaa
Kodak
Luther Dixon
The
Kodak Man
Square
Gille & Nabers
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