Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Sold To Help Women
A Norristown woman Lena V Henry writes of relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter claims rapid improvement before finishing the first bottle and full recovery. The ad promotes the remedy for displacements inflammation irregularities and related symptoms and invites women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lena V. Henry
Norristown
Lydia Pinkham
The Guest of Quesnay and Other Notes in Brief
Booth Tarkington announces a fall publication The Guest of Quesnay set in Norman Quesnay with Americans in France. Wilde dies 1900 leaves debts two penniless children Kipling sales Jungle Book 125000 Second Tangle 80000 copies. Tolstoy 80th birthday planned with world invite and cheap edition proposed. Society editors discuss marriage plots and social plans amid a long staged dialogue from Youth's Companion.
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Booth Tarkington
Quesnay
McClure Company
France
Oscar Wilde
London
Dorian Gray
Paris
Robert Rosa
Wilde
Tangle Bank
Leo Tolstal
Fife
Russia
Lterature
Social Progress
Sevasion
St. Detersburg
Moscow
Europe
Anatole France
M. Leroy Beaulieu
Meredith, Hardy
Henry James
Barrie
Bernard Shaw
Edmund Gosse
The Boarding House Novel Read At Breakfast Table
A group of remunerative guests gathers in Mrs Seaveys basement dining room to discuss a novel They argue over scenes and characters while a medical student arrives with Muriels carrying off a boy and the ending awaits reveal The conversation hints at love, engagements, and a dramatic conclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Map
Henry
Alfred
Mrs. Seavey
Muriel
Mann
Edward
Roping a Bear in a Texas Cowboy Tale
In a Cattle Brands episode a rider and companions chase a bear that has spooked horses. A cream colored horse bucked and a thrown rider became tangled in a rope loop around the bear. The crowd freed the knot after the bear and rider were tangled, leaving the narrator unimpressed by the bear chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Eamp
Tie
Mr. Bent
Not Paying for Holes in Porous Plasters Joke
A Philadelphia Press quip has a druggist offering porous plasters and a customer asking which has the fewest holes. The exchange ends with the buyer seeking value for his money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stinjay
Philadelphia Press
When a mother says boy is becoming like his father
A mother notes to her son that he is growing to resemble his father, a statement not meant as praise but as a candid observation about unintended likeness.
Hat that improves with age claims lasting shine
A clubman proclaims a hat improves with age, costing little over time. He argues a sit hat can be disassembled and reassembled after rain or crushing, and that in England hats worn ten to twelve years gain brighter luster with use. He likens its aging to fine antique furniture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Los Angeles Times
Saved at the Crisis in Athens Woman Credits Doan's Pills
A letter from Mrs. Herman Smith of 901 Broad Street Athens Ga credits Doan's Kidney Pills with saving her life after kidney disease led to dropsy and weakness. The ad includes testimonials about coffee and Postum as health aids and cites broad claims from Catholic Standard and Times and Woman's Home Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Smith
Broad Street
Athens
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. X
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mass
Carters
Oliver Pills
Re Jrefuse SA
TES
EAGLE
Pereione
Woman's Home Companion
Catholic Standard and Times
Charterhouse
Parla
Rup de la Paix
Towne Co
Sydney
India
B. K. Paul
Calcutta
China
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Drug Co.; Japan, Mariya, Ltd, Tokio, Russia, Ferrem, Scows
Africa
Lennon, Ltd
Cape Town
Ayter Drug & Chem, Corp
Afl
Libby
Spain
Texas Pan-Handle
Chicago
Locators Land Company
First National Bank
Oniiadlom Company
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