Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted in medical appeal
An old advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female troubles and claims thousands cured. Letters from women praise the product after avoiding surgery. The piece also includes a brief cartoonish exchange about a photographer and a facial expression.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Barbara Base
Kingman
Kansas
Pinkham
Moorestown
N. J
Lydian B. Pinkham
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Lydia HE
Lynn
Mass
Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement claims to cure foot ailments
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes. It promises relief from corns, bunions, swelling, soreness, callouses, aching, sweating, and ingrown nails. Druggists and shoe stores offer it for 23 cents with free samples via mail order to Allen M ouse Olmsted Roy, N. likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Olmsted
Roy
Professor McGoozle Confronts Classroom Disturbance
A student heckles during a Society of Spitters lecture on language. Professor McGoozle condemns the interruption in sharp, formal Latinized diction and questions how a normally constructed person can chase himself, then resumes the talk on language flexibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGoozle
Society of Social Pitters
Uncle Sam's Budget Goes Above Billion
Official figures show Congress appropriations at the last session reached 1,008,807,848.60 with Army 95,982,247 Navy 122,085,685 pensions 163,053,000 Post Office 222,670,802 and sundry civil expenses 111,053,088 plus continuing contracts 40,443,750. New offices 16,824 and abolished 6,142 shift net 10,882 positions and 9,080,287 in pay.
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Thoman
P. Cleaven
James C. Courts
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Navy
Post Office Department
Boys Run Relay From New York To Chicago
In a grand relay starting on New York City Hall steps, over 2,000 Y M C A. boys carried a message from Mayor George McClellan to Chicago Mayor Fred Busse across a thousand miles. Each runner bore the silver tube message through sections up to ninety miles, with Auburn N Y boys swimming Lake Cayuga as a highlight.
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New York City
McClellan
Busse
Chicago
Broadway
Herbert N. Rapp
Lake Cayuga
Auburn
New York
City of New York
City of
Young ‘Men's Christian Association
Atlantic
Lake Michigan
Ghorghe
McLellan
Fred A. Busse
Illinois
Merger Plans Rise From St Louis Lumber Owners
The St Louis group overseeing 6000 acres of yellow pine lands in Arkansas Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama appoints a permanent committee led by I E Weyerhauser to form a holding company capitalized at 3 million dollars to absorb lumber owners and major manufacturers.
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St. Louis
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
I. E. Weyerhauser
St. Paul
Fourth East River Bridge Connects Towers for Foot Bridge
The East River harbor channel between New York City and Long Island saw the new Manhattan Bridge towers linked by two cables to support a foot bridge, where cable weavers may work. The site lies near the old Brooklyn Bridge and between it and the Williamsburg Bridge, as the Blackwell's Island bridge is prepared for city turnover.
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East River
Harbor
New York City
Long Island
Manhattan Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
Williamsburg Bridge
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Employment Bureau Circular Signals Industrial Shifts
A recent circular from Hap goods, head of the employment bureau in Hiurgaine In Bratna, notes a curtailment of payrolls due to the panic. It says employers will supply better men at bargain prices who are willing to work for one third to one quarter less than during prosperity, reflecting a tightened labor market.
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Hiurgaine
Bratna
I. 3
Hapgood
Hapgoods
Divorce suit filed against Frank J Gould in New York
Notes of current events report that papers have been served on Frank J Gould in New York in the suit for absolute divorce brought by his wife, formerly Miss Helen M Kelly, and that John W Riddle, the American ambassador to Russia, remains ill with pneumonia. It also notes that at Lebsig Mieroslap Stonynski, a Ruthenian student, was condemned to death for shooting Count Andreas Potocki, governor of the Austrian Polish province of Galicia.
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Frank J. Gould
New York
Helen M. Kelly
John W. Riddle
Russia
Lebsig
Mieroslap Stonynski
Andreas Potocki
Galicis
Argentina Cultivation Rise and Global Production Highlights
The piece notes Argentina under cultivation reaching 86 million acres, up from 12 million in 1005, alongside Germany’s publishers exporting over 42 million books, valued at 165 million dollars. It also covers curious facts about starfish death, a Belgian bacteriologist’s pneumonia serum, and various notes on forestry, judges, and New York City islands.
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Argentina
Germany
Leon Bertrand
Asia
Italy
Sixth Avenue
Central Park
New York
Bryan
Charles Field
United States
Mia
Athol
Mass
National
Deutsche Bank
Munich
Frankfurter Zeitung
Ugg
Constantinople
L. E. Palmer
Commons
Board of Ordnance and Fortification
Iwmny
Che Duomy
Wilk
Chamber of Deputies
Lange
Prussia
Cheaa
Chamber
Tea Keepers Method From Woman's Home Companion
A fragment describes a tea keeping technique using cotta batting and brown paper to create a sealed container around a pitcher. The method aims to keep tea and water cold for an extended period by limiting air exposure and using ice water inside, though the text is garbled.
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Cott
Lee Tater
Kidney pills cure terrible condition in Lake City man
A Lake City Minnesota man recalls severe kidney troubles with back pain and fainting spells. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills for restoring health and notes the testimonial appears in an advertisement.
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Hiram Center
South
Oakatrect
Lake City
Minn
Fiat
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Navy plans giant Pearl Harbor dock as battle fleet hub
Navy officials back a granite concrete dock at Pearl Harbor to be the largest of its kind. The facility, costing about 10 million dollars, will accommodate battleships of potentially 30,000 tons and include coal storage, cold storage, landing facilities, and ship repair plants.
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Navy Department
Bent Harbor
Petr Harbor
Pearl Harbor
How He Got the Idea from a Grocer Wagon
Fragmentary dialogue shows a judge questioning a person about a mistaken idea linked to a baby sister and a grocer wagon. The garbled lines reveal confusion over a phrase and intent, indicating a humorous or puzzling courtroom exchange.
Health and Income From Grape-Nuts Diet
A Chicago woman writes that good health keeps her employed and earning. After a nerve strain from poor meals, she credits Grape-Nuts with restoring health, energy, and income, enabling her to stay in her clerk job. The letter is promoted by Postum Co and ran in the Round.
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Indy
Tam
Tony
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pkgr
Cuticura Cured Four Despite Severe Skin Ailments
Mrs Le Wilcher of Chattanooga Tennessee reports Cuticura products cleared a severe neck sore facial tetter and hand dermatitis after failed remedies. She cites two Cuticura Soap bars and Cuticura Ointment curing her, her baby and another infant, with prior relapse requiring Cathaura remedies. Web October 10 1907.
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Wonman
Harong
A Bit of Advice and Beauty Claim Adverts
A Gunnison Gazette snippet offers old time social advice about waiting at a door for a secret prize. It then promotes Dr T Felix Gouraud's Oriental Dream for clear skin, claiming medical approvals and broad celebrity use. Sold widely by merchants in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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Gunnison
Young Min
Tony
T. Felix Gouraud
Fenn
T. Markins
Great Jones Street
New York
Europe
Nothing Doing in Searches by Diogenes Lettered by Illusions
In a fragmentary quotation from the Portland era, Diogenes abandons a search, calling it a waste as honest men prove to be predatory hirelings while extinguishing his lantern. The piece blends satirical fragments with mock proclamations about humanity and a note of uncricked passage through years.
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Diogenes
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