Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Milwaukee Reader
A Milwaukee woman reports relief from years of female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims she was advised to undergo surgery but avoided it, and credits the remedy with restoring her health. The letter highlights the drug's national outreach and Mrs. Pinkham's free advice from Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Milwaukea
Wis
Lydia BE
Pinkhatti
Pringin Wiy
Lydia B
Piaitizin
Lydia BH
Pinkham
Extra Taree
Firatat
Milwaukee
Pinkham Medicine Company
Mass
Lydia
Jumble of Advertising Quips and Anecdotes From Past Pages
Fragments recount a Curita Remedies testimonial from 1908 and a verbal speedometer anecdote. The ad copy describes rashes and persistent swelling cured by three sets, credited to Potter Drug. The second item parodies legal language and slang from a World article about a Maine horseman in a damages case.
Valuable home remedy promises cures for coughs and throat disease
A dubious home recipe claims to break up severe colds and cure coughs within a day using a mixture of concentrated pine, glycerine, and whiskey. Marketed as endorsed by a medical authority, it advises regular doses and asserts druggists can provide the ingredients, including a labeled concentrated pine in half ounce bottles.
Reward offer for Catarrh cure by Hall's remedy
An advertisement hawks Hall's Catarrh Cure offering one hundred dollars reward for cure of catarrh not helped by the remedy. It cites testimonials from Dr J Cheney and partners, praising the cure and promising results with internal use. Also mentions Hall's Pills for constipation and recalls humorous fiction quotes.
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Hall
I. J, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tr. J. Cheney
Watoina
Kinxon & Marvin
Senator Martin N Johnson of North Dakota Dies
United States Senator Martin N Johnson died at his hotel in Fargo on Thursday night after an attack of acute Brights disease. He was 59, survived by his wife and brother. Johnson had served eight years in the House and was repeatedly nominated to the Senate. governance shifts follow his death and the perilous North Dakota political outlook. He was born in Wisconsin, educated at the University of Wisconsin, and long connected with farming and church activities. The body was to be taken to Petersburg, Nelson County for interment.
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United States
Martin
N. Johnson
North Dakota
Bright
Argo
Burke
Johson
McCumber
Johnson
Pettersburg
Nelson County
Racine
Wisconsin
Nelson Johnson
Norway
Wisconsin University
Congress
Matholdist Miscopal Church
Major General Otis Dies at Rochester Home
Major General Howell Stephen Otis U S A retired died at his Rochester New York home at 1 20 Thursday morning after a long illness diagnosed as Benile debility and a severe cold born in
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Howell Stephen Otis
Rochester
N. Y
Otis
Resignation of Spanish cabinet prompts Liberal government
Premier Antonio Maura and the entire Conservative Cabinet resigned in Madrid. After King Alfonso's acceptance, Signor Moret formed a new cabinet with himself as Premier and Interior Minister. New ministers include Perez Caballero Foreign Affairs and de Luque War.
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Antonio Maura
Madrid
Alfonso
Signor Moret
Moret Y Prendergast
Perez Caballero
Senor Atvatladao
General de Luque
Wealthy Woman Milled is Auto
Mrs Gardiner Green Hubbard widow of the first American Bell president and mother of the wife of Prof Alexander Graham Bell was thrown from her automobile in a collision with a trolley car in Washington DC and died at Garfield Hospital Her skull was fractured Fire In Pennsylvania Taw Nearly a dozen buildings valued at 200000 were burned in Mapleton Pa including the Clarendon Hotel J W Bells General Store and the Mapleton Item office Dam Varsta Twenty Ave Dead Twenty five persons drowned after a dam burst at Lake Darkos thirty miles northwest of Constantinople Turkey the lake provides water for the capital Santa Fe Adopts Telephone The Santa Fe Railway has authorized replacing telegraph with telephone for train dispatching on its Bakersfield Cal to Albuquerque NM line about 800 miles
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Gardiner Green Hubbard
American Bell Telephone Company
Alexander Graham Bell
Washington, D. C
Garfield Hospital
Pennsylvania
Mapleton
Clarendon Hotel
J.W. Bell
Varsta
Lake Darkos
Constantinople
Turkey
Santa Fe
Santa Fe Railway
Bakersfield
Cal
Albuquerque
N. M
Man the New Creator and the Steel Myth
A fragment summarizing Eugene Woo’s Success Magazine article on steelmaking, contrasting ancient gods with modern industry. It frames steelworkers as the new creators, likening industry to mythic conquest and Miltonic heroism while pondering “What is Man?” in the era of steel.
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Man
Niagara
Ward
Eugene Woo
Success Magazine
Thar
Jove
Hercules
Milton
Lucifer
Goda
Snari and Winkley Comment on War Departments
In a lively exchange, snari mocks Winkley and notes a rebuke about making the post office self sustaining. He argues that the war and navy departments should be operated under the same self funding principle. The remarks reflect a pressurized stance on government efficiency.
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Snari
Winkley
Post Office
War
Navy Departments
Spohn Distemper Cure Advert Gets 600000 Bottles Sold
Distemper in horses and dogs across ages cured with Spohn’s Distemper Cura. Stable preventive claims, bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar. Agent recruitment and free book offered from Spohn Manufacturing Co. Goshen Indiana.
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Inali Ita
Agenta
Spohn Mad, Co
Epco
Goshen
Ind
Prompted remedies and household hints flood a era ad copy
A collage of early consumer ads and domestic trivia echoes in a busy page. The clumsy text promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease with dubious claims and lists druggists, while businesslike lines hawk poisons and insect killers. Personal quarrels and sharp satire mingle with mock legal chatter.
Obscure Household Banter and Funeral Quips Highlight Local Page
A dialog about women's clothes and vestments opens with Mr. Tames noting extraordinary attire as his wife cleans and prepares to go. fragments recount a New England funeral scene with a cautious clergyman and aging mother, while ad snippets and odd lines mix into the page’s mosaic of ordinary life and stray products.
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Pooketa
Mr. Dames
Munyons Eminent Doctors Offer Free Medical Diagnosis
Munyons advertises free medical diagnosis from eminent doctors. Readers are invited to mail a postal for a disease inquiry and an examination blank. Doctors will diagnose and advise cure or non cure without obligation, at Munyon's Philadelphia address 58th and Jefferson streets.
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Munyon
Munyon's
Jefferson Streets
Philadelphia
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Gregory
Rea CO
Dept
Minneapolie
L. Wilson
Puryear
Tenn
Potter Drug & Chem. ‘Corp
Cathara
Bouton
New York
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Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Cleveland
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Peary
Cook
D. O. Nutt
Tia
T. HR
Kermit
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Bell
Court Viester Cain
Maracas
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U. 8
Hoteldin Fario
Rochester, N. Y
MASON
Otih
Frederick
Moret
King
Mr. James O
Washington, D.C
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Sloan
Hiraien
AL Tate
U.S.A
Bustragette
Opin
Allen
Alivicas
A. B. Olmsted
le Noy
N.Y
Stewart
Otr
Wlee
Ian Ds
New England
Rayo
Standard Oil Company Incorporated
McIntosh
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Truss Co
Walent St
Idead
Zoele Fy Noll
Vee N. UL
Wren
Dr. Pierce
Perfection
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Newrest Agency
Standard Oil Company
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