From sermons to cures and town news in one page
A collage of items including a boys address urging moral living and industry, advertising for Dr King’s New Dose, remedies like Chamberlains Pain Balm and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, plus notes on New Jersey road costs, Teething powders, and various local anecdotes and ads, all in a late 19th or early 20th century tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
K. Zickefoose
Adolph
W. Va
H. C
Miller
Douay
Grayee
Buenas
Ma Suamaberian
Deafness Cure Promised and Odd Dutch Birth Custom
A historic ad copy claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by constitutional remedies and Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for non responding cases. It also oddly notes Dutch birth customs using red or white silk pincushions on doors to signal a boy or girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Holland
DeWitts Little Early Risers Review
The pills act as a sonic cure all for ailments like headache constipation and biliousness. Early Risers are small easy to take and quick to act. A Mack Hamilton hotel in City, N. C., offers two bottles said to cure constipation. Gold by HO Miller, druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
Mack Hamilton
Ooney Bey City
N. C
HO Miller
Violinist Dub at Art Show Draws Detroit Free Press Mockery
In a Detroit Free Press critique, a reader recalls a performer whose violin performance provoked sharp reactions about voice and agony, highlighting the era's taste for dramatic presentation and critique.
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Detroit Free Press
Pure Food Bill Debate and Whiskey Controversy
A Midwestern newspaper excerpt questions a Pure Food bill and the role of whiskey. It argues consumers bear responsibility for buying “poisonous” imitation spirits, noting taste vs price, a $1 duty on 100 percent alcohol, and the ease of diluting with water. The piece cites public figures and local ads for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsed By Johnson City Man
B W Watson, master machinist, testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills strengthened his ill son and improved his condition. He purchased from Patton Drug Co. and notes ongoing treatment. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, sells and promotes the remedy with the warning to remember the name Dean's and avoid substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson City
B. W. Watson
EB. T
Dean
Patton Drag Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Dean’s
Secretaries Hint Distant Return and Lodge May Seek State Post
It is intimated that Secretary Hay may never return to the state department and that Senator Lodge, at the proper time, will appear as the candidate for appointment as secretary of state.
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Hay
State Department
Lodge
Cotton Belt Route Homeseekers Tickets To Texas
MEMPHIS first and third Tuesdays monthly offer round trip Homeseekers tickets to West and Southwest at one fare plus 2.00 with 21 day return limit. Two trains daily from Mempha with day and night service via Texarkana Shreveport Greenville Dallas Fort Worth Corsicana and land Wave. Parlor cars on day trains sleepers on night trains and chair cars on all trains through to Texas. Write for literature map and timetable. H H Sutton D P A Cotton Belt Chattanooga Tenn.
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Cotton Belt
Mempha
Texarkana
Shreveport
Greenville
Dallas
Fort Worth
Corsicana
Land Wave
Texas
Northbound Pullman Sleepers Across Legacy Route
A fragmented travelogue of old railroad schedules mentions Pullman sleepers linking New York, Nashville, Washington, and Cincinnati through Asheville, Knoxville, Salisbury, Morristown, and Harriman. It lists times, stops, and connections such as Washington to Knoxville via Salisbury and Memphis, with references to hotels, dining, and multiple hubs in a period railway network.
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Asheville
Ghettancogs
New York
Incinnath
Louis ‘Arriman
Mt St C
Louis
Sallaivary
Llepia
cAswovi
Nha
Morristown
Knoxville
Livan
New
A.pd
Chaniantoneh
Macbic
T. P.A. Knoxvills
Toon
Shipley
TF A
Chansncoge
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Taiku
Tadge Wofford
Kansas City
Benjamin Franklin
Chamberlain
H. G., Miller
New Jersey
Union
Chicago
George
Chicago Record-Herald
Hilda
Kate
Boston Transcript
Hetty Green
San Antonio Express
Bellows Falls
Eben
Washington Star
Walle
Boa
Medici
Wallie
Grove
Bisa
Tod
H. C. Miller
Bucklin
Theo
eBchvete
Millur’s
Bertha
Misa’ Flaunter
Eihel
Torma
A. G. Grayson
Lyle
Miss
Dr.e
Guara
Thomas
Cutting
Pittsburg
Dr. Wood
Japan
Russia
Tokio
St. Petersburg
Pekiv
K. L. Mann
Pierce & Mann
Jno. H. Pierce
Main Street
P. R. Lancaster & CO
Owensboro, Ky
Premier Pure
Phila
la Grippe
Tay Moore Bros
Eldon
Iowa
Ht. O. Miller
Aeres
Memphis
H. H. Sutton
Chattanooga, Tenn
Remi
Sean
Tonner Medicine CO
Union Pacific
Missouri River
Connell Blage, Inc
Laramie
Rawlins
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Simon
Fort Morgan
Sterling
Colorado
Colby
Oakiey
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Fonta Agnes
Utah
Pointe
Lozanor
Bt. Louis
Olive
Nassau Street
Atlants
Gat
South Broad St
Pri
Geor
Verant
Lippincott’s Monthly
Curent Literatura
Cory NO
Southern Railway
Beneneie'h
Ftag
Osem
Adarn Ittaun
Lota
Siam
Shiasalet
Athens
Charleston
Cleveland
Couan
Zadar
Bara Tasuma
Tae Ik Hoam Sramite
nSsaan
Reape
Brunswick
Jacksonville
Vicksburg
Pullman
Bristol
Chattenooga
New Orleans
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Mobile
Chattenooge
Pullman Sleeping Gar
Knozville
Roona
Macon
Tiunooge
W. A. Whitewell
Emory
Tex
Ballard Show Liniment CO
ST. Louis
U. 5S. A
Northwest
Queen & Crescent
Dallas, Ft Worth
Cincinnati
St Cepar
Mortuwest Points
Chandler
Mike
Tean
Kywxvitte
Tenn
Great
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Rencariek
Yast Tyaeth
Agen
Kyra
Aquepo Miles
Waleabie
Bitter
Geo. H. Lee
G.P.A
F.d.blackman
D P.A Liao Koell
Ark Uhattaboors
Cedar Full Nursery and Orchard Co
Winchester, Tenn
J. W. Shadow
Staris Bro's
Lous
Analeva Apthkook
Dewitt & Company
Chicago, Ill
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