Peruna Advertisements Feature Health Claims and Odd Findings
A Saint Louis Republic clipping includes testimonials praising Peruna for restoring health in run down patients such as Miss Della Stroebe of Appleton Wisconsin and Mrs Judge J F Boyer of Evanston Illinois. It also describes a marble and pencil illusion spelled by finger placement for reader interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Boyer
Sherman Ave
Evanston
Ill
Taruna
Peruna
St. Louis Republic
Cure for Eczema Claimed by Cutburn Remedies
A family reports their son Owen aged three months to fifteen years suffered severe eczema until six months ago when Cutburn Remedies were purchased. They credit a dramatic improvement and eventual cure, despite multiple hospital dismissals as incurable. The letter dated Jan 12 1907 appears in a period piece context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecum Remedier
Owen
Lily Hedge
Cumblewell Green
England
Kilne treatment claims for nervous diseases and free trial bottle
An advertisement props up Dr Kilne claims for treating St. Vitus dance and nervous diseases with a free 2.06 trial bottle and pamphlet. Mentions address 93 Arch Street Philadelphia and promotional text before shifting to a comic quip about gendered insults from a Boston Transcript piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vitus
Kilne
Kooh. Kline
Arch Street
Philadelphia
In Every Home Ned Cross Ball Flue Ad Prompts Purchase
A fragmented ad urges readers to buy Ned Cross Ball Flue in every home with a large tax package cost five cents. The excerpt includes stage humor about a minstrel and a singer, plus a teething syrup claim and a report of four English girls arrested near Manchester for mocking an elderly spinster's curls.
Retrospection and the Sweet Bird of Days Gone By
A lyrical meditation on memories of carefree days and fields of flowers past. The speaker yearns for vanished joys while lamenting urban dullness and the solitary, tired labor of modern life.
The Phantom Raft and the Lost Yellow Stone Gold
In early northwest gold rush days two young prospects join a trapper to explore the Yellow Stone headwaters. A phantom raft circles a whirlpool with two murdered prospectors Pierre and Mart. The raft carries stolen gold for eleven years until a shoot toll reveals the treasure. The trio returns to the trapper and debts are settled as Trefry and the narrator depart richer by twenty thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre
Mart
Trefry
Agalus
Yellowstone
Canon Wall
Chicago Daily News
Ghostly raft haunts canyon as three explorers glimpse grisly relics
While seeking gold at the Yellowstone headwaters, a trapper guides the companions who spy a raft adrift in the canyon. The raft holds two skeletons, a wrapped bundle, rifles, and an axe. The scene unsettles them as the eerie craft drifts against the current.
Fashionable Dinner Ends With Hungry Guests
Report notes a dinner fails to satisfy attendees as guests depart still hungry. The article cites the event as an example of misplaced hospitality and crowd disappointment at a social gathering.
A Bare Possibility
In a Cambridge dinner scene Sir Richard Jebb then Mr Jebb entertains as a young woman asks if women ever die of a broken heart She ponders the question and he replies that other organs may have a part in it highlighting his wit from life and letters of Sir Richard Jebb
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Cambridge
Richard
Jebb
Professor Jebb
Poultry Man Praises 20 Mule Team Horax Soap
A poultry dealer from Dinwiddie New Market Tennessee reports washing ten white chicks for a show using 20 Mule Team soap. He says years of experience show no soap or Borax cleans white birds as well, with his birds appearing notably white.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dl A
Dinwiddie
New Market
Tenn
Pacido Coast Borax Co
Chicago
Aberdeen Infirmary Receives Major Gift From Lord Mountstephen
The Aberdeen Infirmary in Scotland has received 175000 from Lord Mountstephen the former boy patient who became a railway banker and Canadian baron. He memorialized his time at the hospital with a 50000 gift, part of a total 175000 in donations. His philanthropy includes 2500000 to King Edward’s Hospital Fund and 1800000 for a Montreal hospital, with about 3000000 distributed to relatives.
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Robert
Yellowstone
Cavon
Alfilionaire
Aberdeen
Scotland
Lord Mountstephen
Canada
King Edward’s Hospital
Montreal
All Up-to-Date Housekeepers Use Cross Ball Blue
All grocers advertise Cross Ball Blue as the trusted laundry aid that keeps clothes clean and pleasantly fresh. The copy urges households to use the product for brightening whites and restoring freshness, claiming it feels like new again.
Old age insurance rules for German domestic workers
Domestic workers in Germany fall under a low income old age provision. Post office stamps must be dated each Monday and presented at the post office monthly. Employers may cover costs or ask servants to pay half. Married women lose pension rights unless they continue insurance, yielding 15 to 20 marks monthly after age 70.
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Della Stroebe
Pletely
Della Stroede
Richmond St
Appleton, Wis
Periuna
H. Albrecht
Wilhelm Hospital
Vienna Medical Society
Albrecht
Calllin
Boston Transcript
Scott
Herr Spuytentuyfel
Great Northwest
Pacific Coast
College Chim
Robert Tretry
Yellowstone River
California
Great Yellowstone Park
Onstipe
Fic Syrup Co
Dodds
Ter Eye Walmalt Thompson
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