Peruna Endorsed by Officials in 1887 Letters
Commodore Nicholson and Dr W Godfrey Hunter among U S officials praising Peruna as a cure for catarrh in 1887 letters. Virginia and Kentucky former congressmen also applaud its benefits, urging readers to seek Dr Hartman’s free medical advice if results are not prompt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Nicholson
United States
Guatemala
W. Godfrey Hunter
U. S
Confess
Kentucky
Washington, D. C
W. G. Hunter
M. D
Congress
Virginia
Fox
G. BR. Brown
Martinville
G. RB
Brown
Peruna
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Paxton GO
Columbus Ave
Bostod
Maat
San Francis del Louisville
Bree
York
N.Y
Frice
Music and Wild Animals in a Snowbound Retreat
Two musicians, a drummer and a piper, flee a wedding party and take shelter in a deserted inn. A pack of wolves attack. the drummer beats his drum and the piper plays. The wolves are terrified and fight, several torn apart, while the survivors escape through a wall hole.
Tried by Time and Product Claims in Denver Ad
A letter from Evigene W. Lario of 751 Twentieth Avenue Denver endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney trouble. The testimonial notes relief, cites a prior interview, and promises nationwide praise upon request. Also included are statistics on coffee and pencil production and a line about Canadian patents and rail totals.
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Evigene
W. Lario
Twentieth Avenue
Union Station
Denver
Colo
Saya
Wherry
Doan
Interlin
Dom
Dean
Larlo
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Petitions opposed immigration and old travel curbs in 19th century
A century ago readers noted petitions urging Congress to curb immigration. A swift coach between New York City and Albany charged 8 dollars, with extra for baggage. Ohio farmers faced a state tax on land and penalties for late payment. A Cuban ship was seized by a British vessel with the master forced to disrobe and detained along with two sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goneral
Congress
United States
New York City
Albany
Ohio
Seventy-Five Years Ago in Civil War Era Items
A jumbled list cites a ton a day horseshoe foundry by Robert Hobart of Pennsylvania, a Parke Vandalia mail route 105 miles weekly, prisoners begged by Russian capture, and a host of 19th century events from Garrison to Cuba protests and Lincoln era measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. Hobart
Pennsylvania
Tostotice Department
Parke
Vandalia
Russia
Fragmented 19th Century News Nuggets Collide in One Brief
A jumble of historic items covers theft of Chancellor Livingston’s body from a Red Hook vault, mill worker strikes in Charleaton, treasury threats to New York banks aiding gold schemes, and a Chicago to Lake Kampesk a rail excursion. Also noted are Credit Mobilier actions in Hartfont, a Louisiana lottery crackdown, Mary Anderson’s Ingomar in London, Northern Pacific’s completion in St Paul, a Jews massacre plot in Agram, Bulgarian nihilist plots, and the Protena relief crew at St Johns with their ship lost in the Arctic.
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Robert R. Livingston
Robert Fulton
Red Hook
N. G
Charleaton
Andrew Carnegie
Thoma A. Scott
Hartfont
Conn
Gresham
Post-Imatera
M. A. Dauphin
Mary Anderson
London
Ingomar
Enties
8, Paul, Minn
Agram
Bulgaria
Greely
Protena
St. Johns
NFF
Genet
Uncertain text points to Brazil conflict and Chicago panic
A fragmentary report notes a rebel blast in Tio de Taneira Brazil, bankers in Chicago marking the end of a financial panic with a banquet for Tames HH Hekels then Controller of the Currency, and about nine hundred unemployed men lining up for work at public booths on the Chicago lakefront. An express train on the Lake Shore line near Kendallville Indiana and a large theft figure are mentioned in cautionary fragments.
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Tio de Taneira
Brazil
Chicago
Tames HH
Hekels
Chicago Lake Front
Lake Shore of Michigan Southern Railroad
Kendallville
Ind
Mythic Eskimo Tale Of Forbidden Love And A Jump To Sky
In a Hakimo myth from the Wikimos a sister and her brother fall prey to a dangerous passion at a friend’s dance hut. A soot smeared kiss reveals the brother. she flees as he pursues. They leap toward the end of the world and into the sky where the moon chases the sister, and his sooty cheek darkens the earth whenever he returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann
Pexas Finds a Remedy for Kidney Trouble
Texas residents report dramatic relief after trying Dodd's Kidney Pills for chronic kidney disease. Henry Vaughan of Rural Route No 3,Mute, says he suffered 18 months before using the remedy. Vaughan claims he is now cured and urges others with kidney trouble to try it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pexas
Texas
Henry Vaughan
Haymaker in Pleasant Fields and heredity study note
In Pleasant Fields a quoted exchange discusses haymaking and a grass widow, while Mrs Gacar Tripp of Big Rock-Ti mentions Piso's Cure for consumption as her preferred cough remedy. Dr Whitman of the University of Chicago endorses a biological approach to heredity variation and evolution at Carnegie institution.
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Piso
Mra
Gacar ‘Tripp
Big Rock - Ti
Whitman
The
University of Ghilengo
Oarnegin Institution
Cost of Being an Officer In the British Army
The commission investigating subaltern expenses reports average initial outlays of about 1000 dollars for infantry lieutenants with annual charges around 780 dollars and 480 private income leaving 800 more from personal funds. Cavalry figures are 3000 initial, 1400 annual, 800 private income, with infantry officers often reducing to 600 and cavalry costs rising to 6000.Recommendations call for war office to provide kit and saddlery at nominal rents to ease costs, saving infantry officers about 250 initially and 35 to 100 yearly, and cavalry about 1500 upfront and a yearly saving of around 1000.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Cavairy
War Office
Grooma
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Pneumonia Statistics
An old advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure touts a one hundred dollar reward for uncured catarrh and lists testimonials from druggists in Toledo Ohio. The text also cites pneumonia death rates from 1860 to 1900, noting a rise and an overall increase versus consumption declines.
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Hall
I. J. Cheney & CO
Tolailo
Hays
J. Cheney
Minn Glally
Yolr Tym
West & ‘Trax
Not dititie the Same Th hear to-day that your son was is undertaker
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a misheard profession, a money refund claim, and a statistic on birth rates among foreign born versus native born in Massachusetts. The text is garbled, with scattered phrases about a son, an undertaker, and refunds for putnam products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Massachusetts
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Commodore Nicholson
Peru-na
Somerville Nisholgon
United States Navy
N. W
Winchester
Repeating
Nchester Repeating Arms CO
New Haven
Gonn
W. L. Douglas
Java
Mall
Winstratel
Wel
Douglas, Brockton
Maas
Pita
New York
Ripana
Goce
Alldruggiate
ANP Banking House
Sneraya Alba
Jwaeh
PirzauxaLy
Eagland
Germany
Canady
Rall
the Weekly
William Lloyd Garrison
Massachusetts Temperance Society
Galena and
Chicago Union Railway
Obiengo
Wos
Trafic
Cuba
M. Loule
Jumbn
Dr. Kane
Greenland
Lincoln
Seward
Washington
Tiamora
St Topuis
Troy
N. X
Denlars
A.J. Tower
CCL
Boston
Mass
S.A
Canadian C0, Limited
Toronto
Cal
IBM
Rawat Ont Thompson
Wien
Galdwell
Pepsin
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