Home and Garden Tips From Old Newspapers
Coarse salt best for pickling and honey should stay dry for prime quality. How to brew coffee simply in a sauce-pan. Protect trees from cattle by soil barriers rather than fences. Quick fattening of cattle yields tender beef. warmth helps winter fattening. Carpet cleaning method using wet papers and a damp cloth. Apples kept best in tight barrels to limit air and temperature changes. Blanc Mange Cake recipe with eggs milk sugar butter and lemon.
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Chicago News
St. Louis Globe
Denver Tribune
St Louis
Old Time Brain Teasers and Nonsensical Puzzles
A collection of arithmetic and word problems with quirky scenarios. Questions cover bean blower length, fall times, cooperative shares, circus spending, cockroach counts, campaign costs, watermelon riddles, fishing splits, and umbrella losses.
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Canada
America
Louisville
James
Henry
United States
Detroitania
Origin of the term honeymoon explored in playful chat
The dialogue jokes about the origin of the word honeymoon and the idea of newlyweds learning each other. It references late night awakenings and humorous images, noting no clear etymology is given and suggesting informal inquiry at a pub.
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Lily
Adolphus
Alphus
St Jacobs Oil Said To Cure Rheumatism
A Cincinnati Times Star report quotes Thomas Morgan, superintendent of Streets, praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism relief after years of back and hip pain. The note cites other anecdotes from Rochester and Detroit newspapers about the remedy and a doctor’s tavern tale.
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Thomas Morgan
St. Jacobs Oil
T. Jacobs Oil
Cincinnati Times- Star
Health Tonic Ads and Anecdotes in 19th Century News
A collage of testimonials praises Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla for weakness and female vitality, touting kidney and bowel benefits. Quips about middling measures and a whisky anecdote accompany notices of medical tonics and patent medicines.
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Dr. Guysett
No Good Preaching and Patent Medicine Snippets
A collage of old ad lines extols Hop Bitters as a cure for dull minds and nerves while praising Mrs Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women’s illnesses. Testimonials claim popularity in a city of 140 000 and list pills curing headaches nervous ailments and dyspepsia with prices and mail deals. The piece ends with a quip about the new comet being female and near the sun.
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Abany Times
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EF. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Philadelphia
Odd Ad Fragments Offer Health Tips and Households Goods
A collage of product pitches and short anecdotes promotes health remedies and household items. Burdock tea claims purification and vigor, Diamond Dyes offer color for ribbons and hats, and Tuomas Oil soothes burns. Also mentions Frazer Axle Grease and Wise's Axle Grease for machinery and rust prevention.
Velvet textiles and assorted ads in early 1900s papers
Nonpareil Velveteen promises velvet look at one third Lyon price. Various ads push Colden's Beef Tonic Wis e's Axle Grease and other products. Includes notices for Dr. Voltaic Belts, Chicago Business College and Spring Tobacco in a collage of commerce notes.
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Lyon
Harper's Bazar
On the Complexion and Burdock Blood Bitters
The article argues a pure, clear complexion signifies health and blood purity. It warns cosmetics cannot fix skin without purifying the blood and promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a safe, natural remedy to achieve a white, soft, peachy bloom.
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N. O. Picayune
MicuArt Roppert
Sargent Street
Cohoes
N. Y
Rochester
Sunday Herald
Dr. C
Ashtabula
Ohio
Detroit
Free Press
Boston Transcript
Mr. Worper Mellins
Circleville, O
Joe Abe
de Cay
Amazona
Vermont
Gromier
Boston Post
Newsletter
Tur Manp
Orpha M. Hodge
Battle Creek, Mich
Igmore
Chicago
Wise
Dayville Sunbeam
Colden
Gert Lyon
Tug Voltaic Bet Co
Marshall, Mich
Dr.e
N. B
H. B. Bryant
Chicago Business College
Elastic Truss Co
Broadway
New York
Mars
Gounod
Novello
Mendelssohn
W. O. Perkins
L. O. Emerson
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Ditson & CO
Boston
Coburn
Newman’s
Ranklin
Kane
Mawes
Hale
Belong
Coburn & Cook Publishing CO
Metropolitan Block
Ill
Maso and Piano Co
Lath St
N & Hamlin
Cremont
Wabash Ave
Boston Glee
Rae Meare
Crete
Beame
Dairymen of America
WELLS
Richardson &C
Burlington, Vt
Dr. Sanford
Duane Street
N.Y
Cruccists
Lehmann
Hotel Hill
Frex
Cor. State & Adaments
Hubbard Bros
Leagey, Tl
G.C. Merrill
U U.S
Themone Buggies Enterprise Peace Co
Cin'ti
Territory
Cai Atalogue Free
Lockport
Gareling Oil Company
Eee
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Illinois
Railroad Gazette
A Journal OF Transportation, Engineering and Railroad News
Owens
P Pular
Owen
Walees Binese
H. E. Taylor
R’y Telegraph College
Topeka
Kan
Lan
Angers
Tiffin
Loomis & Nyman
J. 8
Jounson &Co
Bangor
F. L. Pond
Achernd Kane Co
Maher & Grosh
Monroe St
Toledo
Pirure
D. Sanders
Jacksonyville
Roth & Bro
New Oxford, Pa
Birch & Co
J. A. Bronson
Detroit, Mich
Wabashaw
National Pussisting Co
Pleasant Dusiness
PW. Ziegler & i
Calla Fy Thompson & Odell
Tremont St
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