Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Cures Woman’s Ailments
Mrs. Erva Donovan of Willimantic Connecticut credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after years of female troubles and failed doctors. The ad extols the product as a standard remedy for displacements irregularities backache and related symptoms and urges suffering women to try it. Also includes a light Bon Vivant joke about dividing apples by making a pie.
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Willimantic
Conn
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Erva Donovan
Lydia BE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Botanic Blood Balm promised cures and free samples
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a universal blood and skin disease remedy. It claims to heal sores, eczema, and rheumatism, offers one dollar bottles, free sample by writing to Atlanta, and notes advice for chronic cases.
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Balin Go
Atlanta
Well Painted Homes Value Up With Right Paint
Value painted means higher selling and occupying value whether the house costs a thousand or ten thousand. National Lead Company offers free Houseowners' Painting Outfit No 49 with color schemes, specs, and an adulteration detector, sent to requesters at 1902 Trinity Building New York City. Also a humorous quip about telling jokes for a laugh and a note on Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation.
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National Lead Company
Trinity
Opinion Salvo and Patent Remedies in an Aged Column
A Washington Star snippet notes a politician’s stance likened to an expert witness without accusing him of selling opinions. It mentions Fick's Carapine a cold remedy with quick relief, and several Rough on products with prices. It ends with a Baltimore American remark about Japs and Americans.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Weed problem on vacant lots sparks public outcry
The letter attacks officials for distraction while weeds overrun vacant lots and crops suffer. It claims the weed ripening is known to youths and condemns delays and political blame. The piece notes Chicago touted by the Washington Post and mentions Professor Ferrero on Rome and stock yards.
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Chicago
Washington Post
Ferrero
Rome
Munyon’s Eminent Doctors Free Medical Diagnosis offer
An old style Munyon’s advertisement invites readers to request a free medical examination form by mail. It guarantees a diagnosis and whether cure is possible with no obligation. The ad lists 53d and Jefferson Streets Philadelphia, Pa, and ends with a philosophical line about deeds and duty.
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Munyon's
53D and
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
Baby burned by boiling grease healed with Cuticura
A mother recalls boiling grease splashing on one side of her baby's face and head. After a week of doctor care and Cullowra Ointment, the scald healed with no scar, leaving the child’s skin as soft as velvet. The testimonial cites Potter Drug and Cuticura Remedies in Boston Massachusetts.
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Hate
Henry &J
South Shields
Durham
England
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Boston
Mass
New Strength for Women’s Bad Backs
Mrs. James T. Wright of Easton Maryland recommends Dean’s Kidney Pills for backache weakness and dizziness. She credits the pills with restoring her ability to work and feeling like a new woman. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Ants use combs and brushes describe ants as tidy and using real toilet articles including combs brushes sponges and soap. Their saliva acts as soap and their tongues as sponges. The ants’ combs are fastened to their legs and they clean themselves whenever soiled per St Nicholas.
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James T. Wright
Goldsborough St
Easton
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. McCook
St. Nicholas
Cubical Cantaloupes by C B Parrish in North Yakima
Cantalope grower C B Parrish markets cubical cantaloupes in small wooden troughs partitioned to form a four inch cube. Fruits are guided as they form, topped to keep square shape, then removed for ripening. He also grows square watermelons and cubical fruit boxes on trees.
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C. B. Parrish
Yakima
Wash
Parrish
Charleston News
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Atlanta, Ga
Blackman
Chattanooga
Boas
CNIS
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Wortpo
Dispansany Meptcat Association
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MU Yyon
Louisville Courier Journal
New York Times
Hicks
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Perry Davis
Senate
New York World
United States
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The
Chicago News
Colorado Mines
National Mining & Tunnel CO
Lynchburg, VA
Putnam
Pink Eye
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Indiana
Keeley Institute
Georgia
Woodward Avenue
Brute
Boston Transcript
Belts Lombard Iron Works
Augusta
Coney Island
Atlantic City
Royal Mty.& Dis. Co
Baltimore
H. H. Green
Metallic Heels
Kor
P. O
United Shoe Machinery Co
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