Ye Old Time Christmas at Mount Vernon
A nostalgic portrait of Mount Vernon during Washingtons era Yuletide festivities. Martha Washingtons kitchen bustle and generous hospitality, grand dinners, hunting outings, festive drinks for guests and enslaved people, and Washingtons restrained toasts reflect Virginia colonial Christmas customs and the Cavaliers spirit.
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New York Herald
America
Mount Vernon
Georg Washington
Martha
Virginia
Potomac
Washington
Yuletide
Bagatelle
Paras
Christmas at Mount Vernon and the long-ago minuet
The article recalls a Mount Vernon Christmas during Washington’s era with dances at the city tavern in Alexandria and a note on Nellie Custis. It describes harpsichord music and the absence of a German Christmas tree, plus a later ad for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a nostalgic Minna Irving poem recalling old-fashioned minuet imagery.
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Christman
Virginia
Washington
Tex
Mrs. Washington
Mount Vernon
Billy
Sweetlins
George
Alexandria
Fairfaxes
Fair Nellie Custis
Lewis
Germany
City Tavern
Republic
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets Offer a Clear Cure Claim
An adorial piece extols Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a transparent catarrh remedy that treats head and chest congestion with knowable ingredients. It contrasts tablets with sprays and tonics, warns against secret formulas, notes physician approval, and cites a price of 4 cents per tablet.
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Stuart
Free Cure Receipt Promised by Noted Philanthropist
The world's greatest living philanthropist offers a free home cure for nervous debility and related male health issues. Readers are urged to send name and address to L. W. Knapp, M. D., 2834 Hull Bldg., Detroit, Michigan, to receive the full receipt and begin restoring strength and vigor.
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L. W. Knapp
M. D
Hull Bidg
Detroit
Mich
Washington Post reveals obscure federal poisoner keeps museums vermin free
A quixotic piece notes Joseph Farmer heads a federal poisoning office that protects the Smithsonian and National Museum by treating objects with arsenic and preservatives to deter rust and vermin, a peculiarly bureaucratic remedy for cultural treasures. A brief joke follows about a brother about to marry, hinting he is not a novice to marriage.
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Washington Post
Little House
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum
Department of the
Joseph Farmer
Farmer
Miller Treatment Promises Permanent Rupture Cure
Des Moines ad by Prof F L Miller claims rupture cured without operation or injections. Patients must visit the office for fitting and then use external treatment nightly and morning while continuing work. Offers circulars and information from rooms 66 607 Iowa Swan and Trust Building.
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Des Moines
F. L. Miller
Iowa Swan and Trust Building
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Moines
Candy Kitchen
Seventh and Locust Streets
New England
George Washington
Lady Washington
Hall
FJ. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Minna Irving
Euing
J. & A. Friedlich Ge
Seneget
Eba
Santa Claus
Utica
Alica
Christmas
W. Burzacott
East Fifth St
Jhlee
G. L. Dobson
West Ninth Street
Shannon & Mott CO
Millers
Des Moines, Iowa
McElderry Coal CO
Seventh Street
REX Coal
Seventh St. Mutual
Iowa
Tare
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