Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promoted By Letters
Letters praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ills and relief during childbirth and the Change of Life. Testimonies from Mrs Morchext of Sabattus and Mrs Bancuay of Graniteville claim health improvements, urging others to use and publish their names. The serial ad mentions the product’s 30 year standard status and notes other items like Bromo Quinine and teething syrup amid assorted clipped text.
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Sabattus
Maine
Pinkham
Graniteville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pa E. Pinkham
Mynyon’s Palindromic Paw Paw Pills Promised Health
A vintage ad touts Mynyon’s Paw Paw Pills as a gentle tonic for stomach, liver, and nerves. It claims they invigorate without weakening, enrich blood, aid nutrient absorption, and avoid castor oils. Sold nationwide in 10c and 25c sizes. free medical advice offered by Mynyon’s Doctors at 584 and Jefferson Sts, Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muoyon
Mynyon
Mynyon’s
Jeferson
Palindelphis, Fa
Two Humorous Bits From Tit-Bits Are Placed Here
A Chicago News quip laments poetry on fishing as a naet cannot rhyme with angleworm ending a line. In a second vignette Hoe seeks a birthday gift for his wife choosing oils for dining rooms at a co operative store with a vague answer about a third floor painting or sardine oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Hoe
Co-Operative
the Inquirer
Sardine Inc
Mardh Roads and Horses Discuss Street Strains
Tip notes that many horses suffer on hard streets despite pasture ease, as vets fail to help. He describes a stove-up horse that becomes unsteady on harness or saddle and paces on toes, while iron shoes and hard pavement frustrate the animal. Rubber shoes help some horses cope with rough roads.
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Tip
Dutch treat club member forgets payment at dining scene
A woman, used to paying, pulls out her pocketbook as a waiter passes. The man with her questions the arrangement while she explains she belongs to many Dutch treat clubs, insisting the routine should be second nature. The exchange appears in the New York Press.
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Ithmet
New York Press
Virfluid Mountains
New York
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Tip
The City Across The Stretches Of The Myt
A dramatic meditation on cities and humanity. The speaker laments modern corruption turning heaven into hell, spilling ambition and undermining virtue. The verse contrasts youth and nature with urban power, urging memory of childhood and the forest. William Wallace Whiterock, In the New York.
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Ivo
Willam Wallace Whiterock
New York
The Successful Philanthropist
Pendexter recounts finding his ideal woman Mary Slate in a church and funding her three years of study in Europe. She returns as a celebrated singer with flawless talent but retains a provincial accent and mispronunciations, challenging his idealistic plan and questions of influence.
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Brent
Pendexter
Mary Slate
Dexter
Europe
Sho
Hrent
Ptter
Pondexter
Womat
Wood River Junction
R. L
Mary E. W. Root
C. H. Root
Pendexter Finds Out Bride to Be in Spring
In an informal moment Pendexter learns that a friend plans to marry Alverto the tenor in the spring and join the same opera company. She clears debts by writing a large check, while Pendexter contemplates philanthropy and ruefully admits no gift is ever simple.
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Pendexter
Alverto
Pandexter
Pye
Pondexter
Slghingottle
Boston Fost
Schoolboy Howlers From a Price-Competition Selections
A New York Sun item features a playful roundup of schoolboy misreadings and malapropisms from a price competition. The list lampoons famous names, historical events, and phrases with humorous twists, including references to Raleigh, Tennyson, Becket, and Pythagoras, among others, set in a witty student context.
Pearls Of Thought Reflects On Love And Vanity
A collection of wry maxims on marriage money flattery and folly from the New York Times piece Musings of the Beatle Cynic. It wittily contrasts self knowledge practical judgment and the perils of vanity in daily life. The quotes touch on misery companionship aging wisdom and the clash of heart versus head.
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Mfe
New York Times
Nine Year Sentence For Negro In Kansas City
William Jackson a Negro school janitor was convicted of attacking six young white girls and sentenced to ninety nine years in prison. The report notes racial hostility and harsh punishment under the era’s criminal justice framing.
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Kansas City
William Jackson
Staunton
Basic City
Naa
Waynesboro
Roosevelts Excerpt and Global Updates Highlighted
Brief dispatches note Premier Stolyom allowing the Jewish Religious Congress in St Petersburg. A French aviator is injured in a fall near M leorinette. Riots in Bogota subside with U S mediation. Lieutenant Davis faces a court matter over legal misrepresentations. Chilean ship Baquedano welcomed in Guayaquil. Roosevelt expresses readiness for anything in Europe. A London forger gets six weeks. Berlin’s Paszkowski to lecture in U S on German institutions. England’s civil service bill tops $300 million. Duma backs Siberian exile cutbacks. Rome nixes certain art expos. Miss Carew plans Roosevelt visit before Paris trip. An egg in cold storage reveals a 1902 label in Fort Worth.
Levee checks and wolves echo through junkyard tale
A Kansas City Star note describes Albion guarding a timber wolf named Jack at his Armourdale junkyard while referencing Shakespeare lines. The piece weaves a nocturnal vigil with a watchdog’s loyalty, then shifts to a stagecoach vignette in the Vir fluid mountains and a Chicago freight tunnel plan to launch a telephone firm.
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Albion
Armourdale
Albian
Jack
Kansas City
Fruit and vegetable prices from Far West market list
A dense OCR list of market prices for fruits vegetables and staples. Items include apples Baldwin per Ub Russet per bhi and various poultry and livestock prices with numerous per unit rates and quantities across multiple categories such as hay, grains, and produce. The page reflects a wholesale style pricing sheet with item names and unit costs.
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Pacific Coast
OO Caulktower
Perth
Wester Co
Jersey peach trees promise bumper crop in New Jersey
Trenton reports a bright outlook for Jersey peaches despite pests as farmers plan replanting and new trees. Other notes cover market shifts in rice cordage and leather, a New Jersey man finds an albino muskrat, and local incidents from Falls to Rutherford with deaths, strikes, and civic notes.
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Trenton
N. J
San Jose
Br'er Sabbit
Fish and Game Department
State
Jersey
Will of Miss Elizabeth Hays Bequeaths Estate Richly
In Burlington, Miss Elizabeth A. Hays left nearly 190000 dollars to her grandniece Miss Ella Horner with five farms, the Dutch Neck shad fishery, town properties, and mortgages. Other relatives receive modest sums. charities gain several grants. Jacob Evermont dies after a mine shaft ascent race at Mount Howe.
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Elizabeth Hays
Burlington
Reginald Branch
Misa Hays
Schuyler
Rainier
Ella Horner
Dutch Neck
Edward Richardson
Hays
Stacy Street
Florence Methodist Church
Hays Burying Ground
Early Hymn Singers and a Windy Train Narrows Tale
In old days before church organs a deacon struggled to finish a hymn due to a high pitch. A spectator urged him to begin with five thousand. A Canton Plaindealer note recalls a newsboy blown from a platform by a seventy mile per hour wind yet returning unharmed hours later. The piece also lists 1801 European city populations and early city sizes, noting London and Paris lead, with Naples and Vienna following.
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Dorsey
Brother Dorsey
Edward Edleson
Utlea
Utter
Canton
CN. OY
Food Boycott Under Edward II Era Parliament
In 1226, during the reign of Edward II, Parliament enacted a food boycott restricting meals to at most two courses. No person could have more than two sorts of victuals per mess, with pottage as a staple and no sauces unless replacing a whole mess.
Tiny Baby Healed By Cuticura After Eczema Nightmare
A Ridgewood Heights, Long Island reader describes a two month old infant covered in severe eczema from head to foot. Pimples burst, skin rawed, with a thick scab on the scalp. After trying doctors’ remedies, Cuticura Ointment Soap and Resolvent were used along with oral doses. Within days new skin appeared and improved rapidly.
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Joseph Kossmann
St John‘s Place
Ridgewood Heights
James in Trouble over Tropant Note at Boston School
A thirteen year old boy named James handed a note to his teacher explaining a recent incident of playing tropant and a subsequent scuffle. The note details multiple assaults linked to a sled driver and a parent, hinting at punishment and future restraint in school.
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James
Boston
Lippincott’s
Coffee Craving Recalled In Medical Letter Advantage of Postumia
A reader shares a testimonial about quitting coffee after severe stomach pain and other illnesses. She credits Postumia with restoring health and says she can now drink coffee without desire or medicine. The letter promotes a booklet and asks readers to share their experiences.
Perfunctory praise and peculiar inquiries on Wall Street
A Wall Street clerk is questioned by his manager for carelessness, replying that after three months on the job he has only just received any praise. A librarian notes the variety of people encountered, including a dry reader who progresses through encyclopedias one volume at a time. A grocer’s errand boy clears rats for a bounty, then is told the reward should belong to the shop. The inheritance tax is defined, explaining collaterals and progressive rates based on estate size.
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Yale
Nixon
Pinkey
Harvard
Chicago Record-Herald
Pendexter
Brent
Fiskis
New York City
Montclair
Gallagher
Reese
Lunt
Wolliiliest
Iu Pk
Wall Street
Jones
Smith
New York Sun
M. Paul
Washington Star
Keep Red Cross Stamp Alive
The Red Cross Christmas stamp has funded tuberculosis relief but faces two threats. Interest may wane as familiarity grows, reducing donations. A second risk comes from misused commemorative stamps like a blue stamp bearing William J. Bryan and a gray stamp from a law-book publisher.
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Red Cross
William J. Bryan
Ap Corporation
Law
New York Sun
Tangling the Pigeons and Oddities in a 19th Century Column
A collage of anecdotes and comic asides from a late 19th century page. It discusses pigeon cruelty laws, a Marine Eye Remedy advertisement, a motorman tale about a dog and a possum on a streetcar, and a quirky cranberry sauce recipe, preserving period tone and assorted local curios.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Difficulties in job ads reflect kitchen size bias
A New York Press note discusses discrimination against fat women in employment agencies noting that smaller kitchenettes favor slimmer workers. It also surveys diverse topics from Japanese bank deposits to marriage age in China, U.S. trust capitalization, Oklahoma child labor welfare, and Abyssinian agriculture, highlighting social and economic contrasts.
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Desi
White House
New York Press
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I. W. Grove
Wurtemberg
Mardh
By Elizabeth Mason
Hia
Pewdexter
Pendester
Gramitar
Scholylboye
Lord Raleigh
India
Tennyson
George Eliot
Thomas Becket
Henry
Lois XVI
Romulus
Rome
Rhine
Pythagorag
London
Stone
Washington, D. C
William F. Stone
Baltimore
Fasquent Taft
Aviation
Sondress
Barry
Commodore Barry
Congress
John J. Boyle
Addicks
Newport
J. Howard Addicks
Mr. Addicks
Edna
Kan
Bank of
Navy
San Diego
Cal
Fort Rosecrans
Point Loma
Quakercess
Brunswick
Mary Goddard
New England
Roxboro
N. C
John Wagstall
CABLE
Jewish Religious Congress
St. Petersburg
Stolyom
Baron Ginzburg
Paurence
Anti-American Riots Center
Bogota
Colombia
Elliott Northco
United States
Colombu
F. B. Davis
Mantla
Frank B. Davis
Twelfth Infantry
Hinardlar
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Baquedano
Renk
Souflan
Roosevelt
Frederick Warner
Old Bailey
Daily Mall
Berlin
Serlin
William Paszkowski
Berlin University
England
Civil Service
Duma
Budget Committee
Paris
Societe Nationale Des Beaux Arts
Societe Des Artistes Francais
Miss Carew
Porto Maurizio
Italy
Min
Theodore Roosevelt
Solmg
Here
Princeton
Ind
Bessie McGraw
Fort Worth
Texas
Fes
Cleop
Caos
Timon
Ge Field
Pregent Companien
Whatart
LMI
New Jersey
National Bank of Mexico
United Dry Goals
Liverpool
Laat
Philadelphia
Kkk
Ozen
St. Barnabas
Protestant Episcopal Church
Philip Smith
Ethe
Florence Stewart
St. Mary's Street
Caldwell
Biy Pone
Passaic
Pompton
Rockaway
Esker C. Johnson
Wentagh
Sussex
Fist
Tohinsons
Fiavel H. Wickeware, Jr
Feronia Way
Riutherford
Jersey Avenue
Erie—Railroad
Edison Cement Company
New Vil
Bethleven Steel Company
James Bart
Laine Willams
Bart
Horace Codington
Warren Township
Somerset County
Frank V. Cantwell
Fle
Ocean City
R. B. Stites
Acauker
Daniel Risley
Jerry Pareh
Ciandary
Birendranatha Gupta
Shamsul Alam
Calcutta
Alipore
Birendranath’ Gupta
Tokio
Aesthecon—Con
State News
Ladder Race
Mount Howe
Jacob Evermont
Evermont
Empire Steel and Iron Company
Dublin
Marseilles
Lyons
Amsterdam
Hamburg
Vienna
Naples
Milan
Venice
Palermo
Madrid
Barcelona
Lisbon
St Petersburg
Moscow
Warsaw
Copenhagen
Constantinople
New York Tribune
China
Woolford
Swope Park
Swopa Park
Kansas City Times
Sweden
England and
Wales
Mitsui Bank
Pekin Daily News
United States Leather Company
Oklahoma
Abyssinia
THE
Halle
Pike
N.Y
Air
Dr. May
May
W. H. May
Pearl Street
Fred C. Witten
Elm St
Newark
N.J
Watson
Oleman
Werick
Spounn
Acta
Druggista and Baroces
Ealers
Sept Express I
Chomlnte
Goshen
Indy Ys
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