Keeley Remedies Fraud Warning From Minnesota Institute
A notice proclaims the genuine Keeley remedies are only available at the Keeley Institute in Minneapolis Minnesota. It warns against fake cures sold by physicians and posters and cites hundreds of frauds targeting the public while urging readers to seek the official location. The text also includes unrelated literary dialogue fragments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keeley
Minneapolis
Keeley Institute
Union
Dr. Keeley
Minnesota
Corner Park Avenue
Tenth Street South
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills Ad Notice
Gow offers one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cure failures. J J Cheney's associates West & Trax Walding Kinnan Marvin endorse Cheney for honesty and financial reliability. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials are free. Price fifty cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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Gow
Hall
F. di
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Jt J. Cheney
West & Trax
Votodo
Wal
Scalen butchery quips and odd medical claims of the era
A scattering of humorous lines and vintage ads emerge from a Chicago Post excerpt. The garbled item references a butcher warning about a rival grocer, a misprint filled note about gifts from a man, a Canada based medical testimonial for Pino's Cure, and a political quip about self sacrifice. It closes with a claim of a man walking miles to a circus and another boasting long wars.
Liquid air for sale could cool homes in future city markets
A New York based plant on West Thirty-third Street produces liquid air at about 20 cents per gallon, with costs hoped to drop to 6 to 10 cents. Promoters demonstrate cheaper production using the Ostergren Burger process, outline a safe double-wall vessel for transport, and envision public sale by pushcart vendors and large cooling devices in homes.
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West Thirty-third Street
Ostergren-Burger
Tripler
Ostergren
Burger
Burger Appear To Betit
Pittsburg
Curious plant from the Washington Star
An eminent botanist describes the wild tamarind Junbdal plant of tropical America. It harms non-ruminant animals feeding on its shoots leaves pods and seeds by causing hair loss in horses mules and donkeys and driving pigs to madness. Ruminants are less affected enabling the plant to be grown as fodder for cattle sheep and goats in the Bahamas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Tropical
America
Bahamas
Wedding Guests Disappointed As Bride Declines
Miss Annie Gott of Woodside Delaware seven miles from Dover and Harry Anderson of Denver planned marriage but she interrupted the ceremony claiming she is too young and pretty to wed. The groom’s pleas failed as witnesses dispersed and Anderson returned to Denver broken hearted.
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Annie Gott
Woodside
Del
Dover
Harry Anderson
Denver
Mr. Anderson
Mr. .Anderson
Horse an Im in a joke about ear length and work ethic
A man boasting of his steady labor asks his wife the difference between him and a horse. She replies with a witty line about ear length, prompting the other man to laugh at the quip from the Indianapolis Journal.
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Indianapoli Journal
Red Cross Starch Promotion Offers Free Pictures and Calendars
The advertisement touts Red Cross laundry starch from J. C. Hubinger with a coupon offer. First buyers of Endless Chain Starch Book receive ten large Red Cross packages plus Shakespeare pictures and Twentieth Century Girl Calendars. Detroit Free Press quote notes changing news habits to save money.
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RED Cross
J. C
Hubinger
Jones
Detroit Free Press
John M Smyth Co Emporium Portrait at West Madison
This 19th century Chicago notice extols the John M Smyth Co retailing from 150 to 166 West Madison. For thirty years the firm has served over half a million Chicago homes with a lavish illustrated catalogue of household goods and remarkable values including a featured ladies Ulster.
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John M. Smyth Co
West
Madison Street
Chicago
Lady's
Ulster
John M. Smyth Company
Patents Insued Last Week to Novihiesatern Inventors
A list of patentees includes Thomas M. Crepar Swat Tver Minn signal hintern Adelbert J. Hill Southfield Min col a controlled skin medal measurer Albert PD Molt Ashby Mion Weating dram Biibiud A Kuan Minneapolis Minow adjustable tooth band Stiles Lindersmith lart bault Minn steam boiler Nels I Lodahl Peterson Minn currycomb Henry E Peterson St Paul Min de vice for drawing corks Murle I Spe ward Duluth Minn garment atretal er Bernardas Tordahl St Olaf Mian Windmill regulator Adolph Wulff St Mans Minna portable smoke house Merwin Lothrop Johimon Patent Attorneys VIL O12 Pioneer Press Ddy St. Paul
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Novihiesatern
Thomas M. Crepar
Swat Tver
Minn
Signal Hintern
Adelbert J. Hill
Southfield
Min
Albert PD. Molt
Ashby
Mion
Biibiud A. Kuan
Minneapolis
Minow
Stiles Lindersmith
Lartbault
Nels I
Fragmented 19th Century Ad Snippets Highlight Quips and Remedies
The brief reads like a collage of old advertisements and column snippets. It mocks infant behavior and teases life hacks while promoting Allen's Loot-Ease powder for foot ailments and a French science claim on hypnosis or intoxication. It closes with a snide note about a judge’s wife from Atchison Globe.
Free Nomentenda. Homeseekers in Milk River Valley Montana
Moses Folsom writes for the Great Northern Railway announcing openings for homeseekers in the Milk River Valley area of Montana along the Great Northern line. Includes contact in St. Paul Minnesota for instructions and prospects.
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Milk River
Montana
Great Northern Railway
Moses Folsom
N, Ry
St. Paul
Minn
Intensified Minors and a Quirky Local Shop
In a lively city snippet, a resident reports a nearby enamel shop five doors from their home, while another wary observer notes a sharp contrast as progressivism collides with old habits. The piece mentions a bustling woman pushing practical sales and hints at social expectations around marriage and enterprise without sensational detail.
The Lady Alice Mine Strike Tale of Luck
A penniless Denver man recalls 1882 when overhearing a mine strike led him to guess a vein called the Lady Alice. He pocketed ore, impressed a banker, and soon learned the mine existed. Stocks surged, and he made $2,100 from his guess and timing.
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New York Mail and Express
Gald
High Raise
Denver
Charpiot
Sandian District
Alice
N. G
Alles
Smith
Catching His Fish Was Done While Others Looked Away
The McFarlane Hunting and Fishing Club at Penetanguishene, Ontario, awarded Philip S. Flinn for the largest one day catch. Rumors say he hid from view to add big bass to his string, later confessing he took fish from the old wreck. The next day the club fished the site but caught little.
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McFarlane Hunting and Fishing Club
Penetanguishi Ine
Can
Philip S. Flinn
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Flinn
Elub
Careful Inspectors Find Arsenic in Carpet Import
In Sweden yarn is banned if it contains .0008 per cent arsenic. Inspectors condemned a carpet for one thousandth of a grain of arsenic in sixteen square inches, roughly one grain in a piece of carpet ten feet square.
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Sweden
Angy New Resigns After Quarrel With Leading Man
In Stray Stories Angy New explains she quit after a dispute with the lead actor while others sided with him. Sue Brette recalls no one else to fill the role, only the understudy was ready.
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Angy New
Sue Brette
Boston pauper cites 300 women licensed to preach
A St. Louis Republic excerpt quotes a Boston pauper claiming about 300 women have been licensed to preach while the rest have not bothered to obtain credentials. The remark notes widespread reluctance to seek authorization.
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Foulnine
Boston
St. Louis Republic
Lydia Pinkham's Medicine Praised by Satisfied Women
A collection of letters from women in Lynn Massachusetts and Campbellsburg Indiana praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They claim relief from female weakness headaches and nervous symptoms after using the product and urge others to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Ible
At Pinkham
Doug Staney
Campbellsburg
Ind
Dean
Lydia E. Pinkham
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