Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helps Providence Woman
Providence reader Mrs. Adeline B. Lynch reports relief from nervousness backache and headaches after trying Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She gained weight and regained energy and urges others to use the remedy with advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Providence, R. I
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Adeline B. Lynch
Plain St
Providence
R. I
Toma
Nature
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar Advertisement
A vintage advertisement extols Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar as a prompt cold remedy. The copy delivers brisk reassurance and mentions druggists selling bottles, with a comic aside about a painless dentist.
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Hale
Lift off Corns Freezone ad with quick pain relief
Ad promotes Freezone corn remover claiming instant relief and painless removal of corns and calluses with a few drops. Also mentions Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for acid stomach relief and a promotional line about inner happiness.
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Wright
Pearl St
New York
Perfumed Epistles From a Love-Hardened Frontiersman
Big Bruce Forrester, a rugged surveyor, spurns romance until a woodswoman nurses his gunshot wound. She paddles him through rough waters to her remote cottage where a doctor father heals him. Weeks later a pink perfumed letter hints at love, thrilling the hardened bachelor who longs for ink and paper.
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Big Bruce Forrester
Bruce
Big Bruce
Lake Crescent
Bruce Forrester
Early German Railways Provoked Health Protest
Archives of Nuremberg railway reveal a royal Bavarian doctors’ protest against locomotives. They argued travel by carriage should be banned for public health reasons and urged ten foot fences beside tracks to prevent delirium for passengers and drivers alike.
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Germany
Nuremberg
Royal College of Bavarian
Facing the Day with Kindness and Duty
The text argues anger poisons the blood while optimism and alertness improve the day. It urges facing obligations with kindness to receive a friendly greeting and help in return, attributed to the Three Durtners.
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Berne
Cassidy-Novah Maguire Case Sparks Royal Mercy Talk
The Edinburgh Scotsman notes a Mrs Cassidy-Novah Maguire facing sorrow while her husband receives a three year sentence with possible good behavior release. Mrs O Gricil urges rest, remarking he never behaves himself.
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Cassidy
Novah Maguire
O'Gricil
Edinburgh Scotsman
Danderine Promises Hair Beauty and Growth
An old advertisement for Danderine touts long thick shiny hair, claiming the tonic revives lifeless thinning hair, refreshes the scalp, stops dandruff and shedding, and restores color and vitality with a 30 cent bottle sold at drug or toilet counters.
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Genuine Tablets for Colds
Advertisement promotes Bayer as the genuine aspirin with Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer packaging. It lists uses for colds pain headaches neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism and notes 12 tablet tins cost a few cents. Also mentions aspirin as Bayer trade mark and manufacture of acetylsalicylic ester. An aside notes 27 600 spiders to make a pound of web and a home remedy pitch for Hoxsto’s Troup Remedy at 60 cents.
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Doan
New Jersey
E. Martin
Aucctioneer
Thirty-fifth
St. Bayonne
N. J
Daan
Bayer
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Trey Pike
Nice
McClure News-paper Syndicate
Hoxsto
Ackage
Chase
Charly Worgules
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Fletcher
Cyigsey
Nya
Fletcher's
Castoris
Castoria
Irs City
Centaur
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