Woman's Cure Promised by Lydia Pinkham’s Remedy
Milwaukee woman testifies Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her female troubles and back pain after doctors warned of a tumor and surgery. The company reports thousands of grateful letters and offers free advice to sick women.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Milwaukee
Wis
Pinkham Medicine Company of
van Mass
Lydia J. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Little Johnnie Quits Praying Then Meets Twin Brothers
A boy who prayed for a baby brother ends his prayers after losing faith. Shortly after, his mother shows him newborn twin boys. He observes them and comments it was good he stopped praying in time. The piece ends with an advertising line for Hamlin's Wizard Oil promising quick relief for sore joints.
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Glau
Johnnie
Campaign oratory on principles and expediency ends with a cigar
A campaign speaker argues that vital principles stay constant while expediency varies. He says parties share aims but differ on methods, asking what unites civilization, prompting a heckler to shout a 5 cent cigar as the key essential.
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Chicago Tribune
Senate Debates Tariff Bill and Steel Profits Dominate Session
Senate proceedings focus on tariff revisions and steel industry profits as Beveridge and Aldrich push changes. House gains no session while debates on income tax and cutlery schedules shape the tariff bill. Hollingsworth clash sparks Congressional Record overflow.
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Committee On Finance
Senate
Cummins
House
United States Steel Corporation
Beveridge
Tobacco Trust
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Sutherland
Utah
Depew
Cannon
Hollingsworth
Ohio
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Burleson
Texas
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Sugar Trust
Clay
Georgia
Paynter
Linotype
Dont Poison Baby Castoria Warning
A forty year old public health notice warns mothers about narcotic opium products like paregoric laudanum and morphine used to help babies sleep. It explains traders mislabel such drugs as Drops Cordials Soothing Syrups and urges guardians to verify ingredients before giving any medicine to children Castoria is stated to contain no narcotics if bearing the Fletcher signature.
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Chas
H. Fletcher
Chas. H. Fletcher
J. W. Dinsdale
Chicago
Alexander E. Mintic
Cleveland
Ohio
Alexander
Omaha
Neb
J. A. McClellan
Buffalo, N. Y
J. W. Allen
St. Louis
C. H. Glidden
St. Paul
Minn
H. D. Benner
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Still Held the Grudge at Seance Rumor
A séance scene sparks a testy exchange as a woman named Mrs. Kersmith refuses to converse with her late husband. She recalls discovering her husband had let his life insurance lapse while she sought a payout.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Census Joke Fragment
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for catarrh cures via Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo. It features endorsements from Watovic Kinxon Marvin and notes the remedy is taken internally and circulates blood and mucous surfaces. A partial joke about census figures follows.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
I. J. Cheney
Watovic, Kinxon & Marvin
Frice
Ail Drugeiste
Lane's Family Medicine Tea Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine as a pleasant herb tea that ends indigestion sour stomach and related discomfort almost immediately. It urges readers to buy two packages for 25 cents at druggists or dealers and promises satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Size Dollhoover Operation Success Treated
Glidden reported the operation was tremendously successful and the doctor said it was the biggest appendix he ever removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glidden
Mother Gray's Australian Liver Regulator Offered
In Mellor for Women a remedy called Mother Gray's Australian Liver Regulator is advertised as a safe regulator for back pains urinary bladder and kidney trouble. The firm offers 60 cents with a free sample by mail from The Mother Gray Co LeRoy NY. A separate note discusses solving the milk problem with a neighbor offering a vacant lot for pasteurizing a cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
Mall
Mother Gray Co
Leroy,n. Y
Murine Eye Remedy Promoted by Experienced Physicians
A domestic eye remedy marketed as compounded by experienced physicians claims conformity to pure food and drugs laws. The ad asserts the product wins friends wherever used and encourages trying Murine for eye comfort, promising satisfaction.
Good Housekeepers Use the Heat Red Crose Bal
A grocer advertisement touts Red Crose Bal for households claiming faster cleaning and cooking results. It includes a testimonial from Mrs Winston about soothing teething pain and easing wind colic in children with a 25 cent bottle offer.
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RLD
Douglas
Asafa Tonge
Cnver
W.L
Oes
Dodds
Work of Congress
Stone
Gore
FacSimle Signature of
New York
Paxton
Boston
Madden
Madden Sites Company
Fort Worth
Flw
Nyees
Asa
Draschen
Pillaburg
Eels
Man
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