Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Local Union Leader
Mrs Sophie Binns of Fruitvale Bal writes Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing congestion and inflammation of the ovaries after eighteen months of illness. She reports pain relief and improved health within two months and urges others with similar symptoms to use the remedy. A $5000 forfeit note accompanies the letter.
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Sophie Binns
Young People’s Christian Temperance Union
Fruitvale
Bal
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Boston man’s routine breakfast in Newspaper Row
A white-haired man about seventy visits a local restaurant in Newspaper Row each morning for mince pie equash pie cheese and coffee, with regularity like sunrise, yet shows no signs of dyspepsia.
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Boston
Newspaper Row
Boston Journal
Salzer seeds claim high onion yields and catalog offer
1,213 bushels of onions per acre touted by Salzer's new cultivation method. The Connally district distributed nearly $1.3 million pounds of onion seed, priced at 60 cents per pound. John A Salzer Seed Co of LaCrosse Wisconsin offers a mammoth seed catalog and a market gardeners list for 2 cents postage.
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Salzer
Ts Connally
John A. Salzer
Why He Run Runaway Messenger Boy Strategy
A dialogue humorously attributes a messenger boy’s speed to a sly ruse. Penn claims he warned of a fight in his office to spur the boy to dash twenty blocks, while Stubb-How questions the trick and speeds involved. The scene hinges on quick wit and a staged urgency.
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Stubb
Penn
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh and Fake Cures
A garbled advertorial collects patent medicine claims and quack remedies. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo, claims internal ingestion and blood action, and mentions Piso’s Cure, Hamlin's Wizard Oil, Coles Carbolisalve, and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Multiple ad slogans appear with dated quips.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Guano &Co
Peculiar to Itself St Jacobs Oil Claims Long Record
The ad touts St Jacobs Oil as uniquely effective for fifty years with undisclosed ingredients. It alleges miraculous killing effects and cites thousands cured, asserting sales surpass all other proprietary medicines and far exceed combined oils and liniments due to proven superiority.
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St. Jacobs
St Jcobs
Vogeler’s Curative Compound Promises Strength for Children
Advertises Vogeler’s Curative Compound as a remedy for weak digestion and general weakness in children. Claims doctors approve the product to purify blood, restore color, and increase flesh. Recommends small daily doses for infants and persistently sickly youths, noting a formula from a renowned physician.
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Vogeler
Jacobe Ol
Lid
Balttewre
It Was a Cocktail Cherry
Adriana seeks an evening out with Mister Johnson in a kitchen scene that leads to fear after a black man allegedly drugs her drink with a knockout in a restaurant. The New York Evening Post quotes the tale as a colored imagination transforming a candied cherry into a frightening scene.
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Adriana
Mister Johnson
New York Evening Post
St Peter Was an Irishman in Congress Tale
In a New York Times clipping, a door keeper in the house of representatives boasted St Peter was Irish, prompting Benton McMillin of Tennessee to remark no colored man would have given that cock a chance to crow three times.
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House of Representatives
G Isle
St. Peter
Benton McMillin
Tennessee
Congress
New York Times
Way to wear them joke from Joseph Jefferson
Joseph Jefferson, en route from Buzzard's Bay to Onset on Cape Cod, encountered two bloomers from a camp meeting group at Onset. They asked, “Please, Mister, is this the way to Wareham?” He replied with a quip about how he wears them, adding humor to the exchange.
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Joseph Jefferson
Buzzard’s Bay
Onset
Cape Cod
Wareham
Jefferson
New York Times
Movable feast and old railroad lore mix in light scroll
A collection of short items: a mother jokes about roastology for her daughter’s studies, an explanation of why Easter is movable tied to lunar cycles, light social quips about 20th century conveniences, and a lengthy old-time cautionary note on homestead residence and time limits plus county finances.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Fragmentary rants and slogans amid a meeting night dialogue
A garbled OCR fragment shows a heated exchange referencing Crank Yes Goodart and a crowd at a meeting night. Phrases disparaging “blooming idiots” and claims of rigging appear alongside unrelated product mentions such as PUTNAM FADELE DYES and a note on druggists selling a 10c package. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear narrative context.
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Crank
Goodart
Philadelphia
Dignity of Lincoln in His Correspondence
The article debunks tales that Lincoln wrote familiar notes to Stanton or Seward. It shows Lincoln appointed chaplains, used formal forms of address, and avoided personal salutations. Leslie J. Perry notes Lincoln’s seriousness and regard for others’ dignity in his official letters.
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Abraham Lincoln
Stanton
Lincoln
Mr. Stanton
Seward
Halleck
Sir
William H. Steward
Edwin M. Stanton
Leslie J. Perry
Lippincott’s
Letters found in library books reveal stray personal papers
A veteran librarian recounts common finds tucked between pages of recent novels including love letters, photographs, curls of hair, ribbons, wedding invitations, and even a one hundred dollar bill. Checks and stamps complicate ownership as mailings are attempted and funds set aside.
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Uncle Sam
Richard Carvel
Senator Sewell Obeyed Orders as a Soldier
An officer at the Union League club recalls Senator William J. Sewell declined a brigadier general appointment to stay in the Senate. The president explained the need for his influence in military affairs, and Sewell later wrote he was “merely obeying orders as a soldier.” The remark echoes a Civil War era stance and ends with a Rouchefoucauld maxim on merit and reputation.
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William J. Sewell
New Jersey National Guard
Union League Club
McKinley
Senate
New Jersey
Sewell
New York Times
Berlin Observers Strained by Surging Star Discoveries
Berlin astronomers who once promised to compute orbits for any newly found stars now face heavy workloads. Since March 1901 two stars were found and researchers expect over 40 yearly discoveries for some time. The team anticipated rest but welcomed by Herr Wolff's discovery of a small planet requiring orbital calculations.
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Observatory
Berlin
Herr Wolff
Not Going to Be Engaged Over Ring Demand
Dialogue snippet shows a woman insisting on full commitment as a man cites a pressing engagement and declines an intimate evening. She demands the ring be returned if he cannot be fully present. The exchange underscores tension over expectations in a distant engagement.
Cuba's First President Named in Banana Republic Tale
The piece claims Cuba has elected its first president despite bans on self-government and notes the president as a popular choice. It also advertises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for headaches indigestion dyspepsia constipation biliousness spring fever and malaria urging readers to obtain the genuine article.
Thoughtful Mindset: Turn From Evil to Good
A quotation emphasizes that brooding over wrongs cannot mend them or prevent repetition. It urges shifting focus to honest, pure, kind and courageous thoughts continually to leave no room for negative reflections. The advice appears in a Success publication style.
Masquerade at the Book Party Ends With The Crisis Idea
A young woman seeks a suitable persona for a literary themed gathering. A friend, fresh from a tale about vaccination, suggests she dress as The Crisis, sparking playful debate over fashion and fiction in a social salon reported by the New York Evening Post.
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New York Evening Post
Price of Admiration Notice in Gentlemen's Theater
The only son, in his juvenile histrionic stage, plays in a makeshift theater in his mother’s drawing room. A posted notice reads that only audiences under seventeen may enter, suggesting exclusivity and a staged performance in a domestic setting per the New York Evening Post remark.
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New York Evening Post
Adam and Eve and the Fig Leaf in Ireland
A humorous discussion at the Authors' club features John Boyle O'Reilly arguing that Genesis suggests Eden lay in Ireland, citing the fig leaf incident and the Wearing of the Green as the motive for Adam and Eve's eviction, a quip traced to the New York Times.
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Japan
Authors’ Club
John Boyle O’reilly
Orient
O'Reilly
Ireland
New York Times
Letters That Are of Little Valine In Life's Start
The piece argues a young man should learn through practical experience after leaving college. It claims formal recommendations are of little value and that a year or two of hard knocks builds true self-estimation and career progress.
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F. Augustus Heinz
Bright's Disease Cured by Kidney Pills
Mrs Kitty Seaney of Sullivan Illinois was thought to suffer from Brights Disease with severe back pain after months of illness. After using Codd s Kidney Pills as advised by locals the kidneys expelled dark diseased matter and health returned. She took ten boxes and fully recovered with no pain or Brights Disease symptoms.
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Bright
Sullivan
Kitty
Seaney
Codd
Passing It On and Quips from a Fargo Column
A collage of preface and witticisms from the Detroit Free Press style column featuring Dr J H Rindlaub in Fargo North Dakota. It lampoons lending, self restraint and cautions readers to stop a racking cough with Cole's Cough Cure. It notes a habit of haste to get rich makes men poor and includes advertising copy for the remedy.
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Ambrose
Archibald
Arthur
Detroit Free Press
Cole
Noted Knight Templar Endorses Peruna Health Cure
A Chicago based Knight Templar Colonel T P Moody praises Peruna in a long testimonial letter. He credits Peruna with curing years of catarrh and stomach trouble and notes his wife’s improvement as well. The piece promotes Peruna as the undoubted remedy and urges readers to obtain the Peruna Medicine Co. pamphlet.
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Perma
Colonel T. P. Moody
Over City
United States
Buffalo
Chicago
Masons
Colonel Moody
Oriental Consistory Masons
Michigan Avenue
Ill
Peruna
Southwest
Rey
T. P
Hartman
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Col
T. P. Moody
The Times Support for the South in 1861
Prof Goldwin Smith notes The Times shifted to backing the South after wavering in 1861. The paper, seen as representing England's wealthier class, urged Southern victory even as Grant pressed toward Petersburg and Richmond neared checkmate.
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The
Times
Grant
Petersburg
Richmond
Spence
England
America
Prof
Goldwin Smith
Atlantic Monthly
Patents Innned Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
Northwestern inventors listed include George H. Ebel of St. Paul Minn reversing gear for engines Stephen A Huntley of Elk Point S D magazine firearm Herman W Lillo and O A Glere of Rock Dell Minn sack holder George W Look of Quincy Minn aerator for milk James Farley of Waukesha Wis brake head Patent attorneys Lothrop Johnson 011 012 Pioneer Press Bldg St Paul Minn
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Northwestern
George H. Ebel
St. Paul
Minn
Stephen A. Huntley
Elk Point
S. D
Herman W. Lillo
O. A. Glere
Rock Dell
George W. Look
Quincy
James Farley
Waukesha
Wis
Lothrop & Johnson
Pioneer Press Bldg
St. Paul, Minn
Statesman or politician illustrated by Brooklyn Eagle
A Brooklyn Eagle cartoon caption debates whether a man is a statesman or a politician. The exchange suggests enduring integrity cannot be bought, only influence proven through action.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Earliest Russian Millet Promises High Yields For Hay
Promote abundant hay with earliest Russian millet. Expect 5 to 8 tons per acre. Seed offered by John A. Salter Seed Co. in La Crosse, Wisconsin, at 50 pounds for $1.90 and 100 pounds for 3. A humorous aside notes a woman who claims she would die if her photo appeared in the paper has her photograph ready.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Man Denouncing Favoritism Seeks Favors Alike
A terse remark notes that the loudest denouncer of favoritism often seeks the same preference himself. The statement suggests a critique of hypocritical zeal in pursuing personal advantage.
The Economical Housewife Makes New Dishes From Crusts
A concise note on turning old bread crusts into new dishes shows thrifty cooks reuse ingredients to reduce waste. The tip highlights creativity in daily cooking and practical reuse in the kitchen.
Fortunate is the Man Who Falls for Rising Higher
A pithy two sentence reflection on ambition and credibility. It contrasts the value of rebound effort with the emptiness of hollow promises, highlighting resilience and integrity in pursuit of improvement.
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Ocean Grove
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Old
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Sid
Chicago Journal
A. D
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Twentieth Centur
Ottinger
Ing
Mairy Sre
Young “Poorman
Chicago News
William E. Halstead
Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Tor
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Boards of Guardians
School Board
London County Council
County Council
Putnam
Mr. Lincoln
Senator Sewell
Astron
Omers
Plevna
Kas
W. H. Houston
Cuba
J. H. Rindlaub
Fargo
N. D
London Times
Alabastine Company
Grand Rapids, Mich
Virginia
Eheean Markets
Brees Eee
Vogdat
Eetate Herald
Nathan
Henry Irving
Cleveland
Cornelius Vanderbilt Crosa
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
Roosevelt
Algernon Sartoris
Gen. Grant
Army
John Lawsor
St. Joseph's Hospital
Milwaukee
Man
Earth
Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfinch St
Revere House
Heaton
Mass
Boston Herald
Fole’s
Oush
Mikai
Keats
Liberal Commission
Lincoln, Neb
Asa
Ing. A. Jd. Tower CO
Rowerg Et
Twin City Paint & Wall Paper Co
Dept. F Reference
Brand Navias Americas Bank
Bk Paul
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