Do Your Clothes Look Yellow Use Red Cross Ball Blue
An ad style paragraph endorses Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women and claims strong professional support for its ingredients. It promotes free mail order booklet and prints a humorous aside about summer clothes, ending with a colorfast note for laundry use Red Cross Ball Blue.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Weather eccentricities and past frost records
A Baltimore Sun style note describes a weather investigator in Cincinnati who found 1859 frost events from May 17 to June 5 spanning from the Mississippi to the Atlantic coast. It notes farmers bought flour amid frost fears, crops later recovered, and that weather has long shown out of season extremes, with no new pattern under the sun.
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Paint
Biles
Baltimore Sun
Cincinnati
Mississippi River
Atlantic
Tea replaces coffee in healthful postum tale
A Salisbury Maryland woman recalls switching from coffee to tea then to Postum after severe dyspepsia and weight loss. She credits Postum with weight regain and steady health benefits, praising its purity and nourishing qualities. She endorses The Road to Wellville and the slogan Theres a Reason.
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Salisbury
Postum
Gil
Wellville
Tinbrelin Attachment for Umbrella Cover Fastening
An early 20th century design describes a removable metal ring sliding along ribs to hold umbrella cover closed. A ribbon end guides movement, keeping the ring near the top when open and hidden from view. A novel rubber clasp with a stud and cooperating element aims to replace traditional buttons or hooks for garment fastening.
Eyelet and rubber fasteners offer superior ease and hold
An article describes eyelets of rubber that stretch to slip over a hollow rubber stud, providing a firm grip and easy removal. It notes the linked eyelet and stud require considerable force to unfasten, comparing favorably with buttons or hook and eyes on shirts. It also covers a new vellage bottle with a cork seal and a brush retaining ring, patented by a Wyoming man, adding a simple method to keep the brush moist.
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Wyoming
Keevys Arusie Moist
Humble Hero Captain Scott Saves Ferry Passengers
A New York Tribune narrative honors Captain Thomas A. Scott, praised for selfless courage during January ferry disaster. Facing a gushing hull and freezing ice, he braved the gap, wedged debris and oil rags, then forced his own body into the breach to save every soul aboard the Hoboken ferry. He sustained grave injuries but returned to work, later receiving his due pay after quitting the wrecking company.
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Iain D
Llopkinsen
Thomas A. Scott
Bart Ona
Fredom
The
New York Tribune
Sith
Captain
Mike
Scott
Rellancee
Starbard
Jevel
Hoboken
Reliance
Wrecklig Company
What He Wanted An Old Negro In A New York Drug Store
A New York drug clerk assists a puzzled elderly Black man who struggles to recall a purchase. After a brief exchange the man correctly identifies camphor as his required item and the clerk sells him a three cent amount.
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New York
Salad dressing button fuels witty dining exchange
A humorous exchange at a dining table features a customer discovering a button in the salad and a waiter confirming it as part of the dressing. The brief quip reflects a playful, offbeat tone characteristic of a Princeton Tiger-item style.
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Princeton
Tiger
Declining Deacon Honor Reflected in Old New England
A late 19th century column surveys the waning reverence for deacons in Protestant churches, tracing origins to widowly provision for sustenance and the first diaconate chosen from respected men. It notes shifts across denominations and regions, with lingering roles and the historical spread of deaconesses, ending with a curious aside on modern church practices and a magazine reference.
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New England
North American Review
Mme
Italy
Stephen
Hilip
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philip
Germany
After Dinner Speaker Tops Evening With Told Tale
The popular after dinner speaker rose to respond to a toast and joked about the repeated wolf and farmer story. The audience laughed as he teased not to repeat it, then sat down to applause, having delivered the hit of the evening.
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Pennsylvania
Bio
Kidney Pain Relief Claim From 19th Century Ad
Walter of Chatsworth describes chronic kidney disease with side and back pain and dark urine. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills with quick relief and eventual cure, noting weight loss and later weight gain to 200 pounds. Sold by medical dealers for 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
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Walter
Chatsworth
Dean
Voster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Magazine sale price and odd stamps noted
Fragment from a vintage advertisement page references a magazine payment of 74 92 and a 75 check with four 2 cent stamps kept. It mentions Dr Z Felis Gouraud Oriental Dream beauty product and its wide sale through Druggists abroad. Includes Allen’s foot product ads and a humorous insurance query about umpire accident policies.
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Deanley
Meanley
Philadelphia
Presa
Z. Felis Gouraud
T. Hopkins
Great Jones Street
New York
United States
Canadas
Europe
Greed and marriage banter in two era clippings
The fragment includes a Chicago Tribune dialogue about Harold and Dora with a marriage proposal. It also notes a white clothes tip from Red Cross Ball Blue and a syrup for teething from Mrs Winslow and a Philadelphia mayor condemning corporate greed, plus a barber shop joke from the Indianapolis Star.
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Dora
Flo
Scott
Chicago Tribune
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