President objects to silver bill in backing of mischief
President argues against a bill to mint a silver dollar and make it legal tender for all debts He cites a breach of public faith and warns the measure could compel payment of bonds and debts in silver at market values lower than the gold standard He emphasizes fidelity to contracts and warns against unaffordable inflationary impact.
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Hong Rentatives
Fsaar
Congress
Rae Pues
Uilrat
United States
Anders
Ita
Bank agent schemes to profit from unused deposit books
A Chicago note describes a bank hiring agents to buy up unused deposit books from creditors. Checks carry lithographed stamps worth two cents, with a treasury swap allowing redemption at par or replacement stamps. Agents take fifty percent commission while payments to book owners are a quarter to a cent per book, risking widespread fraud.
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Niel Pi
Chicago
Treasury
Treasury Department
Junkyard of Remedies and Cosmic Crash Analogies
Readable text riffs on patent nostrums and cosmic destruction analogies. Promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething and Dr Pierce remedies as cures and liver balance solutions. Warns of Wall Street crashes and planetary disruption, concluding with claims of purifying blood and healing ulcers through patent medicines.
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Astronomera
Wall Street
Pierce
Dooly’s Powder and Johnson’s Avodyne Livi ment Benefit
An historical advertisement extols Dooles’s Powder for purity and weight, claiming wide uses from biscuits to cakes. It also promotes Johnson’s Avodyne Liniment as a preventive for diphtheria and a cure in nine of ten cases, urging daily use to protect families.
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Dooles
Bottis
Johnson
Costa
Hostetter's Bitters Promises Cure for Nervous Ailments
The item argues that sedatives and narcotics only mask nervous excitability and cannot fix underlying weakness. It promotes Hostetter's Bitters as a remedy for sick headache, nighttime restlessness, vertigo, mental heaviness, low spirits, and digestive issues, claiming it restores balance and addresses the root organ problems.
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Hostetter
Spirita
Practical Generosity and Sheridan powders advertised
Dr L. Johnson Co of Bangor Meine offers postage paid sample packs of Sheridan's horse and cattle powders for 20 cents. The powders are claimed to improve hen lay and prevent diseases in hens hogs and horses including hog cholera. Quirk's Irish Tea promises renewal of vigor, sold by druggists at 25 cents a package.
Tobias Venetian Horse Liniment Promises Quick Cures
The notice proclaims Tobias Venetian Horse Liniment as a universal remedy for diarrheas dysentery colic cramps croup rheumatism sore throats bruises old sores and pains in limbs back and chest. It claims never failing and offers a 400 cent price for internal use and one dollar for pint bottles with no pay if not superior to others. Sold by all druggists depot 10 Park Place New York.
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Tobias
Park Place
New York
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