Feminine Diplomacy Over Rent For Doctor’s Room
A young physician questions a 70 dollar weekly rent for a mall room. The landlady explains the house is unhealthy and that half a dozen roomers typically fall ill each week, implying the rent reflects medical concerns.
What Shall We Have for Dessert Try Jell O
This short ad suggests a daily family question answered by Jell O a quick healthy dessert. It claims two minutes to prepare add hot water and chill offering flavors lemon orange raspberry and strawberry with a 10 cent price at grocers.
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Fiavara
Mechanical Reserve Sparks Autocar Banter Between Jack and Boss
The dialogue captures a casual exchange on car familiarity, with Jack admitting partial knowledge of his automobile while noting a lack of intimate acquaintance. The lighter moment reflects workplace amusement over technical familiarity and ownership.
Air Cushion Rubber Stampa travel offer ad
Advertisement for a July 8 excursion via the Nickel Plate Road from Fort Wayne Indiana. Round trip within 200 miles, single fare. Submissions to Lock Box 219 and contact C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Indiana.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Tape-Worms Wreck Lives Boosted by Cascarets Candy Cathartic
Advertorial warning that tape-worm infections cause weakness and debility. Promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a safe eliminator, citing a Lima Ohio testimonial and claims of rapid worm expulsion. Ends with product instructions and cautions about counterfeit tablets.
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Cascareta
Cascarets
Rich Oil Discovery in Puloaki County Flora
The Jasper County Oil and Gay Company struck a flowing six inch well near Medaryville with a capacity of 75 barrels daily of high grade lubricating oil valued at 7.50 a barrel. It is the first flowing oil well in the territory and the company owns ten wells, including one producing 100 barrels in sixteen hours.
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Medaryville
Remain Your Humble Servant William Payne Letter
A Manitoba Canadian Northwest prospecting letter recounts William Payne’s 1890 journey from Sault Ste Marie to Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Prince Albert and beyond. He praises mixed farming land, abundance of crops stock and water, thriving towns, mills and brickyards, and reports wages of 1.75 to 2 dollars daily. He calls the district ideal for a future home and invites correspondence.
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Medical Book Free Offer From Peabody Institute Ad
An old advertisement promotes free medical book Know Thyself for men, with postpaid mailing and a library edition option. The offer cites The Science of Life and Self-Preservation, detailing 370 pages with engravings, prescriptions, and pricing. Contact The Peabody Medical Institute at No 4 Halfinch Street, Boston, Mass.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Halfinch Street
Boston
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Thirteen at Table Figures in Naval Story Incomplete
A fragment notes Lord Roberts and Sir Donald Stewart liking thirteen at meals. It mentions New Year’s day thirteen sat at dinner, eleven years later all were alive, several had mutinies and eight were seriously wounded.
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Boba
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Donald Stewart
Grain-O Beverage Promises Coffee Alternative
Try Grain O. Ask your grocer to show the Grain O package the new food drink replacing coffee. Children and adults may drink it without injury. Grain O resembles dark mocha and java but is made from pure grains and gentle on the stomach. Price about 45c per package. Sold by all grocers.
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Parson Advises Believers On Modesty In Prayer
A Surrey parson urged worshipers to avoid fear about kneeling in prayer suggesting men should not fear bagging their trousers and women should not worry over bursting silk stockings during devotional kneeling practices.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt Shake into Your Shoes
Allen's Foot-Ease powder promises quick relief for tight new shoes and sore feet. It claims to cure corns bunions swollen and sweating feet with a free sample offer and is sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Address Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy New York.
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Well Qualified and Opera Past Highlighted by Press
The New York Press cites a performer noted for past opera singing and current strong form. The exchange suggests surprise at her versatility and continued confidence in her abilities.
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New York Press
Lane's Family Medicine Moves the Bowels Daily
A vintage health notice promotes Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement aids health. It states gentle action on liver and kidneys and relief of a sick headache with prices listed as 25 and 50 cents.
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Lane
The Gift of Reticence and Personal Crisis Reports
A note from Mrs. Thos Robbins of Maple Street Norwich dated February 17 1900 praises Piso's Cure for Consumption as lifesaving three years earlier. The item notes that among 100000 Germans there are about twenty one personal crisis reports annually, mostly aged 20 to 30.
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Josepha
Columbus
Piso
Thos. Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich
Nickel Plate Road July Excursion Offer Across 200 Miles
The Nickel Plate Road advertises round trip excursion tickets for July 4th featuring one fare within a 200 mile radius. Tickets, valid July 8 and 4, return by the 5th, are sold via agents including A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Fort Wayne Indiana. Also promotes Lincoln writing tablets and various retail items with fixed prices.
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C. A. Asterlin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Nickel Pirate Road
CQ. A. Asterlin
Lydia E Pinkham Advice From A Trusted Expert
The ad extols Mrs. Pinkham as the most experienced adviser on female illness with over a hundred thousand annual cases. It claims twenty years of constant success and urges women to obtain Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Mall
Lydia E. Pinkham
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