Foot-Ease advertised in old newspaper feature
An old style advertisement extols Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a universal remedy for sore tired feet. It claims 30 000 testimonials and warns against imitations while linking value to walking comfort and stockings savings. A dialogue snippet shows Emma Salter and Mrs Jennings discussing hearing and aging.
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Allen
Croft
Emma Salter
Mrs. Jennings
Mrs. Gorham
Bert Gorham
Bert
Emma
Sixteen Years of Skin Disease and Recovery Tale
A Brooklyn man recounts severe skin disease limited mobility and sleepless nights before trying Cuticura remedies. After using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, he improves markedly and calls it a true cure. Dated July 30 and August 1909. The piece also includes a joke about a parrot and a sailor.
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Leonard A. Hawter
Nostrand Avd
Brooklyn
Dr Martel's Female Pills and Aunt Margaret's Handkerchiefs
An old column-style scene features Dr Martel's Female Pills praised as a standard remedy for women's ailments. Aunt Margaret warns against personal belongings marked with initials, while a niece and Lois swap barbed quips about initials. A quip about a costly cracked jar and a newspaper exchange conclude the fragment.
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Margaret Sawyer
Lois
Adele
Aunt Margaret
Misa Sawyer
Loig
Miss Sawyer
Week in Congress Reports on Railroad Bill and Amendments
The Senate failed to reach a final vote on the railroad bill as amendments on telegraph lines and blocking railroad control of competing lines were debated. House actions included disallowing canteen authorizations at soldiers homes near towns with liquor sales and allocating funds for disabled veterans. Additional items cover Senate Electoral reform talk, Porto Rico governance debates, and a London heart-diagnosis experiment via telephone with medical interest.
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Senate
Dixon
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brown
Nebraska
House
Kelcher
Massachusetts
New York City
Washington
Board of Managers of the National Homes For
la Follette
Curtis
Owen
Bureau of Mines and Mining
Simmons
Burton
Batley
Bailey
Supreme Court
Porto Rico
Larrinage
Overman
North Carolina
Hughes
New Jersey
William Brown
Newfoundland
San Jose
Cal
London
Isle-of- Wight
Feeding to the Fintah and McCormick Hospitality
A humorous tale recalls Justice Monkey failing to split cheese evenly between two co owners. A guest at Cyrus Hall McCormick's table, inventor of the reaper, shares a supper with a dignified military officer, where a mixed course of corn mush and milk leads to a comical exchange and the colonel being exhausted for the remaining courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Monkey
C. H McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick
MccCormick
McCormick
Maize Not Cause Of Pellagra Says European Committee
London May 14 Dr Sambon a member of the Feld committees investigating pellagra telegraphs from Rome that maize Indian corn is not the cause of pellagra. The committee finds a parasitic conveyor the simulium repans causes the disease. The report mentions unrelated whims about the gypsy moth sparrow and a German carp expressing interest in the earth’s waters.
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Dinenne
Yurops
London
Sambon
Feld Committes
Rome
Fragments promise cures for health and beauty in ad notices
A jumble of old ad copy promises free trials for tonics and salves and warnings about trust. It touts eye cures, pile remedies, and dubious tonics from Chicago Buffalo and Minneapolis suppliers. It references personal anecdotes and moral cautions about confiding.
Odd Missouri plea to Milwaukee mayor for juniper berry remedy
A Missouri reader asks Mayor Emil Soldel of Milwaukee for the address of a drugstore selling juniper berries. The letter requests a half gallon of juniper berries to mix with whiskey to ease a stopped chest, hoping for relief and noting the writer’s health struggle. The mayor asked the press to publish the appeal to aid the search.
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Missourian
Missouri
Emil Soldel
Wisconnlt
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Michigan
Great North Country Temagami Canoe Offer
The article touts Indigenous canoe skills taught to children in Temagami Ontario. Visitors can have locals paddle their canoe in a “supers” way this summer. It touts easy Grand Trunk Railway access and claims campers gain five years of work in one with fishing and hunting opportunities. Free descriptive publication offered by W. & Cookson, Chicago.
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North Country
Indiana
Temagami
Ontario
Temagami Lakes
Grand Trunk Railway System
W. &. Cookson
Merchants Loan & Truat Building
Cilengo
A Stroke of Huntness in Bucks County Story
An intimate note on Frank R Stockton recounts a Bucks County wedding tale. His brothers trained a dog to hunt cats, were challenged by a farmer, paid a dollar, and later sold a pig for seven dollars profit. Stockton valued the episode as a nod to business acumen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank R. Stockton
Stockton
Bucks County
Frank
Rome
Acumep
Doans Kidney Pills Ad Featured in 1900s Print
An old warning about kidney distress urges using Doan's Kidney Pills, citing Mrs. H. R. Peebles of Akron Ohio who relayed rapid relief from severe back pain headaches and swelling after Bright's disease diagnosis. The ad promotes 60 cent boxes from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and touts Doan's as the remedy.
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Warnaga
Donn
H. R. Peebles
N. Walnut St
Akron
Bright
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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Nat
Paxtine Meee
USA
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Ei Met
Ak Ayfid
Raillion Bom
Daisy Fly Killer
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Wadaworth Land& Tre
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Duas
Horace Walpole
Chicago Tribune
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Congress
Lorimer of
Illnois
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Representative Griggs
Georgia
Libby
Young Grocer's
Dhink Haby
B. Fortin
Dickey
Chicago
Pettit
All Druggista
Howard Bros
Curt Fres
Rea Company
Dept
Minneapola
Minn
Balve. Ly Co
Pierce
Aca
Terry Davis
Arminn
Ajareien
Dysurtery
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Zia
Tie
Lewis
Winslow
Munyon
Homohos Pathic Home Remedy CO
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
Carter
Western Canada
Shaw
Agriculturiat
Leveney Ralao
Lon. eOp
Nob
Showan
Olou
Uby Raflerog
Agonta
C. J. Hroughton
Merchente
Lowry
Trait Ride
Chas
Nolmos
Inckson
Pat IV
Beinnes
Soifornon Ave
Dotrait
A. Hull
Miwaukee
Wie
Itogorgia
Traations
Dr. May
Vander
Plosac
W. H. Maw
Paarl Streat
New York
Rede
Roans
National Live Stock Com. CO
Kansas City
Joseph MO
Omaha
Neb
REA CO
N. A
United States
R. ¥. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
Uffalo
N.Y
Standard Oil Co
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