Asheville A Nature Sanitarium and Mountain Resort Chief
Asheville North Carolina is described as a premier climate health resort famed for dry air and therapeutic mountain air. The city sits at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and hosts wealthy residents including Vanderbilts. The text promotes regional tourism and directs readers to Southern Railway agents for descriptive material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pew
North Carolina
Asheville
Denver
Swannanoa
George W. Vanderbilt
Ashville
Married Her For Money A Cold Remembrance
A first person narrative recalls a marriage built on money not love. The narrator describes emotional distance, shared trials unseen by others, and a split after the wedding day. He notes no thrill of fatherhood, years of quiet restraint, and the final shift as his wife marries anew. He remains a bachelor.
Dawson Exodus and Gold Camp Draw Influx
Reports of a wide scale move from Dawson to a new gold field, with claims near the camp yielding high gold output. An older testimonial notes One Minute Cough Cure as a trusted remedy sold by W. He Lone in Newark Ohio.
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Dawson
Wm. Orr
Newark
Evolution Joke Reflects Circular Tale Of a Man and His Jag
A Philadelphia Press quip notes how a man takes a jag leading to its development and ends up in the jug. The deep thinker and worldly foil discuss beginnings, courses, and endings mirroring natural cycles.
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Philadelphia Press
Mrs Gunter Praises Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A letter from Mrs Gunter to Mrs Pinkham recounts illness, bed rest, ulceration, and weight gain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with recovery and urges friends to try it. The second note from Mrs Barnes, New Castle PA, claims similar relief from womb issues back pain digestive and nervous symptoms after using the product.
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Lydia RK. Pinkham
Hrgermsville
Garndart
Dean
Pingmas l
Barnuaa
New Castle
Health problem solved with Toads Sarsaparille claim
An article cites Toads Sarsaparille as a simple cure for stomach and blood disorders including scrofula dyspepsia and rheumatism. Hood's Pills are extolled as a favorite family cathartic. A local case describes a negro preacher accused of hoodoo practices in Anniston. police investigated, he claimed no charges, posted a rabbit foot for 88 cents, and was released.
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Hood
Anniston
Fragmented health notice about improper dosing and side effects
Patient warnings describe a medicine with a “fee” and misread dosing causing Billousness Sick Headache Heartburn or Constipation. The text instructs taking two doses but is unclear and disordered.
Sober notes and old jokes drift through a clipped column
A jumble of phrases from a newspaper page blends adverts and quips. The Brooklyn Eagle recipe for lemon cake sits beside a sobriety joke in the Chicago Freelance News and a milk money gag from the Catholic Standard Times. The tone echoes a busy 19th or early 20th century page with stray lines about retirement and skill sales.
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Tom
Autumnal
Jack
Chicago
Whitendeaver
Mikt
Catholic Standard-Times
Summer Resorts via Southern Railway Reach Coastal and Mountain Retreats
Southern Railway offers access to numerous coastal and mountain resorts across the southeast. The brochure “Summer Townes and Reorts” lists about a thousand stops including Sueville North Carolina Hot Springs Noe Hale Springs Tennessee Roan Mountains East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Lookout Mountain and various Virginia springs. For a copy of the folder write to C A Benscoter A A P Chattanooga Tennessee.
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Sueville
N.C
Hot Springs
Noe
Hale Springs
Sie Southern Railway
C. A. Benscoter
P. A
Chattanooga
Tenn
Known By Their Tunes
A Paterson New Jersey resident recalled a boss carpenter Hobart who judged job applicants by their singing. If a candidate sang slow tunes like Old Hundred or Auld Lang Syne he rejected them, but if he heard lively tunes such as Yankee Doodle or The Fisherman’s Hopepipe he hired them on the spot.
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Patterson
N. J
Washington ‘Star
Hobart
Herbart
Lord Lang Syne
Health ads warn of indigestion and liver ills and praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla
The notice urges Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy for indigestion nervousness and impure blood claiming it can quickly set the stomach right quiet nerves purify and vitalize blood and end liver ills. It cites plant migration via railroad yards and includes a testimonial from M B Smith of Butternut Michigan praising DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for constipation liver and bowel troubles.
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Hood
M. B. Smith
Butternut, Mich
DeWitt
Will Not Suffer So Again For Fifty Times Its Price
A testimonial from H. Wilson of Laveryman Curgettstown Pennsylvania credits Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with quick relief after severe stomach pains. The speaker promises never to be without the product and notes it is available through O B Certwright Jr.
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Miller & Curdy’s
Chamberlain's
H. Wilson
Laveryman
Curgettstown
Washington County
Pennyslvania
O. B. Certwright
Land of the Sing Asheville Scenic Region and Rail Deals
The passage extols Western North Carolina around Asheville describing its scenery and climate. It notes Asheville as a premier pleasant resort point with hills valleys streams and mountain views. It mentions convenient schedules and low rates to Asheville via Southern Railway.
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North Carolina
Blue Ridge
Asheville
America
Strean
Valley
The
Sing
Southern Railway
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Sold By W He Joe
The notice advertises DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a cure for piles and skin diseases. It warns buyers to avoid counterfeit products and marks the seller as W. He Joe with a May date in the text.
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DeWitt
W. He
A Playroom in Winter for Busy Mothers
A guide from the New York Tribune offers ideas for a compact playroom on the living floor to curb clutter. It suggests warm, safe heating, low furniture, window seats, and playful papering with nursery pictures, plus toy workshops and miniature tracks for a calm, organized living area.
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WN. Y. Tribune
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United States
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A. A. Stowe
N. 4Th St
San Jose
Cal
Miles
Dr. Wiles Medical Company
Elkhart
Ind
McElree
Cardia
Ad Department
Chattanooga Medicine Co
J. W. Smith
Camden
Mrs. Gunter
Mrs. Pinkham
Houod
Brooklyn Eagle
Parker
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Seaboard
Gulf Region
Rocky Mountains
W. H. Long
Land of the Sty
Childres
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