Four Girls Share Health Testimonials for Lydia E Pinkham
Letters from women across the United States laud Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from nervous prostration, backache, and menstrual irregularities, claiming cures and renewed health after medical help failed. The ad cites Katharine Craig, Miss Stoltzman, Miss Ellen Olson, and Miss Liliantos, urging others to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Liliantos
East 84Th Street
New York
Yydis E. Platedown
Frans — Headachan
Othera
Katharine Craig
Lafayette St
Denver
Col
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Marie Stoltzman
Laurel
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ellen M. Olson
N. Mastet
Keewenee
Til
Dia E. Pinkham
The Man of Moderate Means Reflects on Wealth
A New York Sun writer praises the moderate life, noting the comfort of not losing one’s footing in financial storms. He contrasts wealth with serenity, recalling households shrinking from seventeen servants to five and a rich man canceling an $11,000 auto order to stay cheerful with a modest car. Washington State ad offers four free water color pictures with Boraxo promotion from Pacific Coast Borax Co.
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Mapoter
de Ta
Walt
New York Sun
Hingelf
Terrapla
Turkey
Awatow
Pacific Coast Borax Co
Pacffc Coast Borax Co
New York City
Evolution of a Best Seller in a Fragmented Sketch
A fragmented dialogue traces how a writer conceived a best seller through thoughts, epigrams, sketches, and a staged play. The exchange explores creative process, monologue, and the ad brief transforming into a novel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lin Evolution
Bent Part Apple Planting Joke
A short exchange features a child named Tomy who is asked to share the best part of an apple with his brother. Tomy replies that he gave the seeds so the brother can plant them and grow a whole orchard.
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Tomy
Yessum
Evolution of Household Remedies and Peruna Origin
The piece traces the rise of patent medicines from home made remedies to a formal industry led by Dr Hartman for Peruna. It notes Mennonite origins, the shift from local tonics to manufactured products, and lists Peruna uses from coughs to bronchitis. It also includes a humorous excerpt from Chicago Tribune about family life and a geography joke from a teacher in Darktown.
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Pennsylvania
Hartman
FAM
Mia Iden
Darktown
Little
Rastus
Ivovice
Chicago Tribune
Cocoanut Custard Pie and Our Pie at the Grocers
A humorous note to readers about Cocoanut Custard Pie and a 10 cent Our-Pie mix from D Zerta Co Rochester N Y. The cartoonish fragments include a complaint about missed editorials and a quip about a hog theft arrest, ending with jokes about the Sphinx and a Grecian nose.
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D-Zerta Co
Rochester
Western Canada Wheat Profits Highlight Surprising Yields
Farmer Charles McCormick of Kenville Manitoba reports 100 acres in 1907 yielding 80 acres at 22 bushels per acre and 20 acres at 60 bushels per acre, selling at 90 and 85 cents per bushel respectively for a total crop value of 2004 dollars and a net profit over 1600 after expenses. Farmer Thomas Bawatzky of Herbert Saskatchewan cites 70 acres yielding 1750 bushels totaling 22.60 dollars per acre, with 15 acres at 500 bushels and 5 acres at 80 bushels, asserting Western Canada would decline if other farmers were not doing as well.
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Western
Canada
Charles McCormick
Kenville
Manitoba
Thomas Bawatzky
Herbert
Saskatchewan
Furious Hunyor On Child Full of Itching Sores
A grandmother from Bakersfield California reports her seven year old granddaughter suffered a severe itchy painful eruption with watery sores under arms after messees. She tried many remedies until Cutter Remedies produced dramatic improvement within twenty four hours and complete cure in five days. The letter is dated June 26 and July 20, 1900.
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Rudfericht
Bakersfield
Cal
Feeding a Suburban Doge: Meats and Mealtime Rules
A Suburban Life column advises proper feeding for a small indoor dog named Doge. It warns against table scraps, suggests a daily plan with midday meals and greens, oats or dry biscuits, and careful portion control to prevent nuisance during visitors.
Aiming and Hitting in a Woman's Club Debate
A dialogue from the Philadelphia Press features Mr Kider arguing a club should aim beyond suffrage, Miss Strong insisting suffrage as its sole object, while Mr Cidder suggests aiming elsewhere to better achieve that goal.
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Kider
Miss Strong
Cidder
Philadelpha Press
Kidney Pills Restore Strength for Helena Woman
Mrs Mutle Stile of 416 Miller St Helena Montana reports three years of kidney trouble and backache. After using Dunns Kidney Pills she improved quickly and was completely cured after four boxes. Sold by druggists for 60 cents a box.
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Mutle Stile
Miller St. Helena
Mont
Donn
Adl Deniers
Voster-Milburn Co
Bullnfo
N.Y
GurGeld
Family Looks Like Father In Face and Mood
Humorous dialogue contrasts a boy’s resemblance to his father with a mother noting the child’s demanding temper. The quip highlights how a child mirrors parental traits, especially in appetite and expressions, in a light domestic vignette.
Folkloric Dialect Tale From Everybody's Magazine
A dialogue in rural slang recounts a girl taunting a boy with tricks that turn progressively cruel until the boy harms himself trying to “make good.” The brief anecdote highlights moral consequences of childish pranks and social teasing.
A Slayer Mildred Reprimands Suitor Over Pace
A prudish mother guides Mildred to treat Mr. Ketchley with respect. He may not be handsome but is sensible, well connected, and successful in business, seen as a rising figure. Mildred jokes she would accept him if he could hurry.
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James
Mildred
Ketchley
Deafness cured only by constitutional remedies
Old advert claims deafness results from inflamed mu cus linkng Wyatsebland Tube and Catarrh. It promises one hundred dollars for a cure from Natl's Catarrh Cure and urges readers to send for free testimonials. Mentions Chamber of Commerce, Toledo druggists, and Nathan Co. products. Also notes body right hand sensitivity to touch versus heat.
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Gantet
Chmney & CO
Century-Span Medical Claim Sparks City Debate
A garbled era note references Dr Kiine s Great Freon Belat beta and claimed cures for thousands as a citywide question arises over medical treatment. The fragment mentions Ol Aral Street Philadelphia and a headline tone hints at public health concern amid uncertain details.
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Kiine
OL Aral Street
Itladelphia
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