Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
A Willimantic woman testifies after years of female health problems that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her. The ad extols the product's safety and decades of use for displacements, inflammation, irregularities, backache, and related symptoms. It also includes a separate anecdote about Ambassador Lloyd Griscom praising American antiquarian reverence during a Rome dinner.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Wilttmantic
Conn
Mia
Evra Donovan
Box 209
Willimantic
Lloyd Grigcom
Philadelphia
Rome
Mr. Gristom
Ara Coelf
Capitoline
Calioun
Pains in my back drove him to bed in Chatsworth
William H Walter of Chatsworth Illinois describes back pains like a knife thrust and cloudy urine with sediment. He credits Donn's Kidney Fills with stopping the attack and curing his headaches while improving urine. The ad promotes the product at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Buffalo New York.
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Thraata
William H. Walter
Chatsworth
Donn
Urie Ueld
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Competing Patent Ads and Health Remedies Notice
A collage of early 20th century ads touts Mall s Catarrh Cure and F J Cheney Co Toledo testimonials. Other lines promote Wall s Family Pills Bromo Quinine Garfield Tea Hamlin s Wizard Oil Murine Eye Remedy and a Manhattan Bridge project.
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Mall
F. J. Cheney& CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Blafirm
Wacpina, Kinnan & Marvin
Wholeante Deaggista
Turbulent Iowa debate shapes liquor, mortgages and schools
The Thirty third General Assembly faces heavy bills on anti liquor measures, tax on mortgages and saloon regulation while House and Senate pass several laws. Mortgage tax debates reveal proposed 50 cent per hundred, with amendments lowering to 2 cents. Senate advances anti saloon packages including restrictions on locations, licensing and prohibitions tied to enforcement. Session eyes early adjournment around April 9 after a flurry of activity and pending measures. Ex Governor Ansel Bridges to be buried in Andrew, Jackson County. Senate approves $1,500 for moving remains and monument. A controversial cigarette control push surfaces amid student use reports. A Long letter from Oregon farmer extols Western Canada prairie prospects in Saskatchewan showing vast arable land and high yields.
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Towa
Thirty-third General’ Assembly
Yenrs
Bembly Whiteh
Fronde of Representatives
Cosson
Tignar Agitay
Eolteldener
House of Representatives
Shire Supreme Court
T. M. Kihlemoier
Bartington
Lowi Chovsienes
Hette Althentty
Wea
Aveell Otiewa
Ansel Briges
Andrew
Jackson County
Senate
Omaha
Oregon
Western
Canada
Albert Nelson
Benton County
North Ameriea
Goose
Saskatchewan
Witter
Bradley
Burned and Itched Remedies Touted in 1908 Claims
In a fragmented vintage ad style narrative a man recounts a brutal eczema outbreak on his hand that spread to his arm and leg, resisted doctors until Cutleura remedies offered relief. The piece also weaves in sensational medical claims about cancer cures and a wary salesman scene about product recommendations.
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C. Burkhart
W. Market St
Chambersburg
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Untitled Norbitz Notes and Public Health Quips
Fragmentary clipping recounts a Augusta matron recalling a nurse warning a boy about nail biting and a taft luncheon reaction. The piece threads assorted ads and notes on nostrums, coal imports, pensions costs, and small medical cures, reflecting scattered late 19th or early 20th century newspaper miscellany.
Simple paint test guards against adulterated white lead
A plain chemical test detects impure white lead in paint materials, promoted by National Lead Company. The ad urges readers to request Houseowner's Painting Outfit No 49 from 40 Trinity Building New York, including color scheme book and specs. It promises a guarantee of purity with the Dutch Boy Pointer trademark.
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Aso2
Srinity
New York
Aso & Book
Key Beara National
Famond Dutch
Boy Pointer
Notions
No Wonder She's Cross
The ad promotes Lane's Family Medicine as a simple natural remedy for women with headaches or backaches. It urges family thoughtfulness and presents the medicine as a tonic to make weak women strong and well, sold by druggists and dealers.
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Lane
Sammy Clarence and guest argue over a written permit
In a parlor scene Jin Wriking Papers records a conversation where a young man jokes about not waiting for permission to leave. The Clarence character teases about a sister granting writ ten permission to roam at night as tension builds toward an exit.
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Clarence
Mame Tonic for Old People Promises Vigor Restore
A fragment describes a tonic recipe claimed to renew vigor using whiskey ayrup sar saparilla and Torlg compound sold by druggists with teaspoonful doses before meals and at night. The text then shifts to remarks about suffragettes and a sudden outbreak of universal war.
Stop a Cold in an Hour Lane's Pleasant Pablets Ad
An old advertisement claims Lane's Pleasant Pablets will stop a cold in an hour. The copy touts quick relief and urges readers to purchase two boxes, with sample availability and a local dealer in Le Roy New York.
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Lane
F. Woodward
le Roy
Seven Deadly Sins Questioned by Ferguson-George
Mrs Ferguson George asks what are the seven deadly sins. Mr Ferguson replies that he is a candidate for any office.
Brown's Bronchial Traches Relieve Throat Irritation
Brown's Bronchial Traches relieve throat irritation caused by cold or voice use. In boxes 26 cents, samples mailed free. John I. Brown & Son, Boston.
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Brown
John I. Brown & Son
Boston
Biase
Hans
Bos
Paxton Toilet CO
Maes. Cay
REX CO
Mina
Sircnam Cleaning the Stage
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt shows a committee spokesman urging public support for a clean stage while a theater manager quips that most plays open with a heroine dusting the set, reflecting backstage humor about stage cleanliness.
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Sircnam
Philadelphia Ledger
Peruna Cure Claims From Nervous Dyspepsia Case
Mrs J C Jamison of 61 Marchant Street Watsonville Cal reports six years of stomach trouble, three doctors, nervous dyspepsia diagnosis, two years of medicine with no cure. After reading a testimonial of a similar case, she started Peruna and has taken nineteen bottles with complete cure.
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Orampa
Peruna
J. C. Jamison
Marchant 81
Wataonsville
Cal
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