Monyen’s Remedies Marketed as Quick Cures
An advert promotes Monyen’s products claiming cures for colds flu grip and coughs in a day and prevention of pneumonia. It also touts Monyen’s Rheumatism Kidney and Vitalizer remedies promising relief from joint pain kidney issues and restoring strength and vigor.
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Women Leaders and War Efforts Highlighted in 19th Century Debates
The article blends a historical discussion on women’s wartime leadership with a parade of midwestern patent remedies and humorous vignettes. It asserts women’s capacity in command, cites Joan of Arc, and references Anatole France, while interlacing advertisements for kidney pills, catarrh cures, and various household tonics, all in a period-appropriate, opinionated tone.
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Anatole France
Joan of Arc
Eay
Captain Smith Seizes Privateer and Claims Miss Ellen Jones
Captain Smith frees Major Jones and takes the privateer. Ellen Jones defends her love, and Smith plans to sail with Miss Ellen as his fianced wife while confronting Jones and pursuing escape with Dillingham and the Wamego to rescue the Greyhound.
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Smith
Elien
End of the Ellen saga on the St Lawrence voyage
In the final pages the flotilla returns to sea with flags flying as Smith reunites with Ellen and promises to be everything to her. The Commodore welcomes the victory while the privateer is reserved for the narrator as the tale ends with a fond farewell and a vow of devotion.
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Miss Hilen
St. Lawrence
Ocracoke Inlet
Ellen
Dan Sully Now a Clerk in Cotton Firm at Broad Street
Former cotton king Daniel J. Sully, once a dominant Plunger on the New York cotton exchange, has taken a salaried post at Trayden, Stone & Co. at 25 Broad Street, Pelham Manor home, now pledging conservatism and retirement from speculation.
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New York World
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Misheard Exchange Over Captain’s Wife Mistake
A clipped dialogue presents Captain Salter apologizing for a wife’s abrupt departure. A man reflects on his error, admitting he took her as a mate, only to learn she was a makeeper, revealing a mistaken assumption and humorous misreading.
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Capt. Salter
Akeipper
The Experienced Swine and Odd Notices
A mixed fragment from various ads and stories notes Uncle Ezra speaking on Old Man Simkins and hog feeding, a Lane's Pleasant Tablets cold cure, a joke from the Chicago Tribune, and Allen's Foot-Ease shoe remedy with 25-cent price and free sample offer.
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Woodward
le Roy
Allen
Olmsted
Lestoy
Indignant Wife and Provoking Husband Dialogues
A humorous pair of exchanges plays out with a quarrelsome wife and patient husband debating what is worth listening to. The Pettits Eye Salve ad promotes the long standing remedy first sold in 1807 by Howard Bros. Buffalo NY and claims widespread success. A court scene snippet shows a defendant pleading not guilty after being convinced by his lawyer, from the Chicago Tribune.
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Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tabe Gull
Johnny
Dicky
John
Mavia
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Buffalo, N. Y
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One Day Cold Cure Ad and Railway Joke
An old ad touts HROMO QUININE LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE and BE W GROVE signature claim. Also promotes Ball Blue and 202 large package for 5 cents. Includes a railway anecdote by George Gould about timetable changes and a frustrated commuter.
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Ned Cros
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