Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted in testimonial
A Holly Springs Mississippi reader claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured an after surgery tumor. The ad promotes the product as a standard female remedy and invites readers to write for confidential advice to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Holly Springs
Miss
Willie Epwanps
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Mare Sold Blind Revealed After Exchange
A man sold a fine mare after a week of driving discovering the horse is stone blind. The buyer confronts the seller who admits no fault nor disclosed condition saying the prior seller did not tell him. Separate passage discusses ordinary air and microscopic germs in city air and the scientific effort to curb their ravages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tobermory
Joseph
Jacob
Popular Science Highlights and Electrical Advances
A montage of science notes on Maratn can alledge canal theory clashes with Arrhe flue and wind up examining the potential consequences if electric current fails in caisson work. Electric hoists pumps and air compressors in New York construction draw increased attention to safety and blackouts. Also described is a cold cure sleeping sickness treatment using a refrigerator ward kept near freezing with white room decor and limited furnishings. Finally a Glasgow Herald remark on weekends notes and a Westinghouse table shows extensive use of single phase electric railways with voltages and locomotives in America and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yor
Scientific American
Mechanica
Wurpepe
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
America
Europe
Baboons Threaten African Camps and Livestock
In Uganda a native chief pleaded for help after baboons attacked women and children, killed two women, and terrorized villages. A hunter named Cuninghame stayed a week, slaughtering many baboons to cow the herd. The piece notes baboons’ brutal teeth and compares them to boars and dogs, with dogs rarely matching an old male baboon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uganda
Cuninghame
Onle
Scribner's
School of Penalty and the fate of a drunken heir
A historical meditation rails against moral instruction on vice and disease, citing Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander to argue that warning lessons fail to deter drunkenness, while condemning the neglect of moral pedagogy in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip of Macedon
Alexander
Alex
New York Press
Tetterine and related skin cures advertised in Courier Journal
Items promote Tetterine for itching piles and other skin ailments sending $2.50 for half a dozen boxes. The Shuptrine Co. Savannah Ga. offers Tetterine Soap and liver pills with mail orders. Includes domestic humor note and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Scott
Kansas
N. J. Kipp
Shuptrine Co
Savannah
Tetterine
Shuptrine
Allen's Foot Ease Ad Sparks Quick Relief Claim
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot Ease antiseptic powder to ease tired swollen feet and help break in new shoes. It claims rapid relief and notes it is sold everywhere with a LeRoy New York address for samples. A quoted joke about restraint and boarding houses follows in a Louisville Courier Journal aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
A.s.olmsted
LeRoy, N.Y
Louisville Courier-Journal
For COLDS and GRIP Rick's Carupinm Best Remedy
An old remedy advertises Rick's Carupinm as the best cure for colds and grip providing relief from aching feverishness and restoring normal conditions. It claims immediate effects and lists prices 190 and 250 and other references to drug formulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rick
Agatha quits suffragette bid rumor spread by papers
A Cleveland Leader item notes a debate over why Agatha left her suffragette candidacy. Competing papers mock her past and appearance with jibes about a Paris gown likened to calico by a village dressmaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agatha
Paris
Cleveland
Marine Eye Remedy and Salve Prices Cited in Courier
A Louisville Courier snippet presents Marine Eye Remedy Liquid 250 and 50c, and Marine Eye Salve 25c and $1.00 as a buyer’s note. The piece contains a drug clerk quip about night work and a plugged quarter mishap as a cautionary anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier Journal
Domestic ads and tales mix in a colonial-era page
A collage of patent medicine claims and humorous anecdotes appears alongside biblical classroom dialogue. Listings include Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Dr Pierce's Pellets, while a Kirk of Tobermory lesson yields a child’s wry retort about Joseph's sale.
Why He Wouldn’t Shoot and the Drummer’s Reply
A three soldier deputation to Vienna’s Dr Lueger prompts questions about obedience and religion. A Protestant and a Catholic say they would shoot if commanded by the Kaiser, while a Jewish drummer explains he cannot shoot because he has no rifle. The exchange underscores antisemitism and individual conscience in a historical context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Lueger
Vienna
Dr. Laeger
Austria
Jewish Chronicle
Cuticura Remedies Shown To Cure Child Eczema In Ad
A Philadelphia mother reports her six year old son cured of widespread eczema after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, with two boxes of each and no recurrence. The testimonial appears amid miscellaneous health and remedy notices including Capudine headache relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munyon
Munyon's Homoeopathic Home Remedy Coo
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
A. J. Cochran
Columbia Ave
Screamed with Pain Kidney Trouble Relief
Rochester woman describes severe kidney and bladder pain swelling ankles and eyes. After failing treatment from a physician she used Dean's Kidney Pills and recovered within weeks. 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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F. M. Carnicke
Allen St
Rochester
N. Y
Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
The Malthusian Theory and Agricultural Yields
The article discusses the disproving of the Malthusian idea that population outstrips subsistence. It cites soil improvements and a Wake County farmer who raised 288 bushels of corn on one acre, up from under ten the previous year. It also includes a light quip about Germ laden banknotes from Puck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Wake County
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Daisy Fly
Anno
Lens
Esomme
DeKalbert
To — Tostum Cereal Co Limited
Battle Creek, Mich
Arrhe Flue
Glasgow Herald
Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
School of
The
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Dispensary Medical Association
Mitchells
Brookside
Birmingham
Aila
Johnson
Ala
Shiflett
Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic CO
Savannah, Ga
Capudine
Houston Post
IRA
Dr. May
May Medical Laboratory
Guaranty
W. H. May
Pearl Street
New York
Lombard Iron Works
Augusta
Thompson
Manine Co
St. St. Louis
Cascarets
A.B
A. R.R
W. H. Leahy
Atlanta, Ga
Louisville
M. Sabel & Sons
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
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