One of the Essentials and a Telegraph Printing Machine
The piece notes the value of world approved products like Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna and urges buying genuine California Fig Syrup Co. The article also describes a revolution in telegraphy with printing machines that punch Morse code on tape and drive type bars to emit messages, enabling 200 to 400 messages in nine hours per operator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
Nly
United States
Telegraph Companies
Uncle Sam as Real Estate Agent in Alaska Purchase Tale
A Kansas City Journal note cites a government report claiming $7,000,000 in precious metals extracted annually from Seward Peninsula Alaska. It argues this represents Alaska Territory’s original cost, recalling Secretary Seward who bought Alaska for $7,200,000 decades ago and faced criticism.
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Alaska Purchase
Uncle Sam
Manhattan Island
Seward Peninsula
Alaska
Northern Territory
Alaskan Territory
Seward
Sila
Kansas City Journal
Personal Experience Promotes Grape-Nuts and Postum
A New York man recounts relief from indigestion after a trial of Grape-Nuts and cream with Postum. He reports acidity vanished in a week and overall health improved, restoring lunchtime appetite. The letter, attributed to the Postum Company of Battle Creek, invites readers to trust personal experience.
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N. Y
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Nothing's Like It Used To Be Poem Reflection
A selection of brief notes and quips includes a satirical verse on changing seasons and disappointment, contrasting past joys with present heat and fatigue. The item sits amid assorted anecdotes and advertisements from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page.
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Cleveland
Peruna Advised for Sudden Colds Message Repeated
An ad urges Peruna use at first sign of a cold and to follow bottle directions. The text repeats the instruction and adds a quip about aging and gray matter, noting some people deny aging has any effect.
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Peruna
Delirious Eczema Cured by Cuticura Soap Testimonial
A Brentwood Essex mother describes severe eczema on her daughter spreading from chest to head with hair loss and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills three quarters of the ointment, the disease vanished. The testimonial is dated March 8 1907 and credits the cure to the Cuticura regimen. A separate Ledger opinion accuses Wall Street bankers of backing a shell game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Hyde
Brentwood
Essex
England
Wall Street
Philadelphia Ledger
Lying Figures and Campaign Aphorisms Revealed
A political backer proclaims defiance of truth in politics while a campaigner notes rhetoric masks truth. An advertisement touts Terrains the great skin remedy sold by druggists or by mail for 60 cents, with testimonials from M B Jones of Pittsburgh and others.
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Boanys
M. FB. Jones
Pitsburg
Savannah
Tarreriye
T. Sruprning
Dept. A
Promoter’s Office Boy Interview Turns into a Threat
A promoter advertised for an office boy and received 100 replies choosing ten for interviews. One bright applicant returned with no character but claimed the promoter’s character instead saying he will not return without it. The tale includes a joke about delaying a client’s sentence and a New Jersey man finding $50,000 in bonds.
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Philadelphia Ledger
New Jersey
Mrs R Crouse Finds Relief With Dean’s Kidney Pills
Mrs R Crouse of Manchester Iowa reports two years of back and kidney pain eased after using Dean’s Kidney Pills. She says the kidney action improved the backache ended and her health improved significantly. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Capucline cures indigestion and heartburn with immediate liquid effects. Doctors prescribe it in 10 25 cents at drug stores. Wall Street water runs uphill.
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R. Crouse
Fayette St
Manchester
Iowa
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Wall Street
Birds Fill Windsor Heights Field as Streetcar Stops
A Windsor Connecticut streetcar neared the Burnham switch at Windsor Heights and stopped. Passengers watched a field nearby dense with blackbirds, an unprecedented sight for those aboard the nearly full car.
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Windsor
woman restored to health by Lydia E Pinkham remedy
In a letter from Sallie French of Pancannla Ind Ter she describes seven years of female troubles leaving her run down and nervous. After seeking medical help she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and reports she is now strong and well.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie French
Pancannla
Ind
Ter
Facts for Sick Women Promotes Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a 30 year standard cure for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and nervous prostration. It invites readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential free advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
IT Collector's Offer Fragments Spark Test Note
A fragmented OCR passage mentions a collector and a question about funds for ten days. References to a "Smart Set" appear as a namesake, with uncertain context and no clear event or outcome.
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Gillespie
Nope It Was A Kids Sunday School Exchange
A brief dialogue captures a child asked about Sunday School. The little boy replies Nope and explains saying Yep would be lying, reflecting a playful exchange in a historical transcript from Boston.
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Boston ‘Transcript
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Boston
USA
United
Toronto
Red Cross
Mini
Chicago Record-Herald
Papa
Ernest
Argonaut
America
Success Magazine
Youna
J. M. Youna, Jr
Waycross
Mitchell
Nini
George
Wisie
Amusant
F.J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
J. Cheney & Co
Hall
White House
Grant
Hayes
McKinley
Tilden
Blaine
Harrison
Bryan
Greeley
Garfield
Arthur
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Bulletin
Sauerbier Srissfieten
Helen Sauerbier
Main St
St Joseph, Mich
St. Joseph, Mier
Puck
National Telegraph
Insii
R.rk
Sincinnati
Phila
Dept. A. N
Inienio Tan
Columbia
R. Watkins Medical CO
Ee Ae
Minnesota
Luzianne
THE
Reily-Taylors
Ieee
Qatar Ng
Malsby, Shipp & CO
Dept. B
Forsyth Street
Atlanta, Georgia
Eethoven Conservator
St. Louis Louis
Missouri
Epstels
Drs
Peru
Euavesé Thompson Styelate
American Cotton and Business University and School of Telegraphy
Consolidated Milledgeville
Coe South
Alfalia
Kali Works
Candler Bldg
Atlanta
New York
Nassau St
Chicago
Nonalnus Sk
New York Evening Mail
Cardus
W. H. Ison
Baltimore
Putnam
Monroe
Dyru
Quincy
Ipaillogs
Piso
Fred. F. Field
Brockton
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