Change of Life Testimonial Voice from Mrs Prrxnam
Mrs Prrxnam describes relief from postmenopausal symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. Mrs E Sailer of Los Angeles endorses the remedy for charitable work aiding dependent mothers. The advertisement urges women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
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E. Sailer
German Relief Associat
Los Angeles
Cal
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Soren
Hill St
The Gauge of Strength
A brief quip from a Chicago Post item features a boy boasting about his father’s discipline style in a woodshed setting as he challenges a rival. The exchange highlights bravado and rural family dynamics in a compact line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Post
Piso's Cure for Throat and Lung Ailments Praised
An Indianapolis reader from Van Buren, Indiana in February 1900 endorses Piso's Curé as the best pest medicine for throat and lung affections. The note highlights personal satisfaction with the remedy.
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Piso
Endslar
Vanburen
Ind
The Coming Man and a Cold Cure Ad
The London Globe quotes Prof Bruner predicting future humans with a brain as master and a larger body minus floating ribs appendix and little toes. It foresees taller future man with bigger chest limbs. An ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim to cure a cold in one day with druggist refund if not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruner
London Globe
Too Early to Tell at Ohio Wedding Vow Moment
In a fragmented wedding exchange, a clergyman begins the vows but the groom interrupts saying it is too early to decide. He asks for a few weeks to determine better or worse, as reported by the Ohio State Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio “State Journal
Eye Ear Nose and Throat Specialist Dr Rindlaub
A compact ad string presents Dr J H Rindlaub of Fargo North Dakota as a specialist in eye ear nose and throat. The text quotes various sayings and references a product Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething and a few generic notices about farming offers and rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Rindlaub
Fargo, N. D
Rural mail delivery sparks nationwide rural progress rush
The article extols free rural mail delivery as a transformative force, noting its rapid growth from 43 routes in 1897 to over 6,000 routes serving about 600,000 farms and 4 million people. It describes the vast territory covered and forecasts expansion toward one million square miles, with funding rising from 40,000 to 1,750,000 dollars by 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
William L. Wilson
Charleston
W. Va
New England
New York
New Jersey
Alabama
Colony Fork
Louisville & Nashville
Ummer
Iowa Colony Co
Des Moines
Lows
Submerged City Discovered Off Rovigno After Deep Sea Dive
A diver reports ruins of an inhabited town at eighty-five feet off the Rovigno peninsula in the Adriatic. The submerged streets and walls, identified by mortar layers, suggest a catastrophe sunk the settlement. Some link it to Pliny’s Cissa. others seek the vanished island’s fate. Goethe quote ends the piece.
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Nineveh
Babylon
Carthage
Rovigno
Istria
Adriatic Sea
Pliny the Elder
Cissa
Early Kansas Judges and Curious Contempt Tales
In Topeka two early lawyers faced off before a Jefferson county justice of the peace over reading from books. One lawyer was fined for contempt after arguing against reading case law. In Harper county a cattle thief case ended with the county attorney barred from the preliminary hearing, allowing the defendant to go free.
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Kansas City Journal
Topeka
Jefferson County
Justice of the Peace
Harper County
Campbell
Wichita
Squire Spencer
Daniel
The Worcester Tale Schwab Relates at Banquet
President Schwab of United States Steel recalled a Worcester tale about a superintendent who rushed home to save his choking son, recalling a Worcester doctor who quickly freed the coin. The anecdote, told at a Worcester Chamber of Commerce banquet, showcases Worcester’s sharp business minds.
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Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Worcester
Mass
At Wass
Iladelphia Saturday Evening Post
Hunter and Hordemen of the Lamuts in Siberia
A traveler among the Eski mos describes the Lamuts a remote Siberian tribe noted for reindeer herding and pursuit of game. Their sole occupation is hunting and reindeer breeding with clothing made entirely from reindeer skin.
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Siberia
Reindeer Trade and Use In Nomadic Societies
The text details trading leverage and value of reindeer with neighboring tribes. It notes reindeer meat and by products as staple food, including flesh blood horns hoofs and gristles. It describes the reindeer’s gentle back movement and saddle design with a wooden flap board, moss padding, and deerskin lining.
Salt in the Bread Says It All
An Alabama resident recalls a neighbor farming couple once poor yet kind to a visiting tax assessor. During a frugal noon meal, the man offers a brief grace and a quip about salt in the bread, revealing quiet hardship and moral support amid poverty.
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Jefferson County
Birmingham
Ala
Sally
Jim
LOGIc OF THE SABBATH REST PROMISED BY AINSLEE
Psychologist urges one day of rest weekly as a humane practice. He argues Monday nerve refresh, a new rhythm, and personal rest varies by person. He supports churchgoing but allows field and family leisure for peace and tranquility.
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Ainslee
G. Stanley Wall
Ainslee’s
Not a Successful Dip at Church Bazaar
A parish bazaar prize tub yielded a comic scene as four pompous gentlemen dipped and drew in turn. One, hairless like a billiard ball, pulled out an envelope bearing a local hairdresser’s business card offering a free haircut and shampoo. The card was donated humorously by a clever barber.
Dying in an Almshouse a Grandson of Robert Fulton
Palmer Fulton, descendant of inventor Robert Fulton, was found dying of starvation in a Shelby Ohio hovel and moved to Richland county almshouse. A quiet middle aged man, he worked at the Shelby tube factory for seven years but sickness left him destitute. His uncle died in New York and his brother in West Salem Ohio. Fulton hides his misery while authorities probe the fortune.
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Palmer Fulton
Robert Fulton
Hudson River
Shelby
Bucyrus
Richland County
Fulton
Shelby Tube Factory
Joseph
New York
West Salem
Almshouse
Utica Globe
The Worlds Greatest Choir of Alexander Nevsky
Russia claims the world’s greatest choir based at the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in St. Petersburg. Monks from Rus monasteries are trained there as voices boost mass music with powerful, glass-shattering tones. Monks follow vegetarian diets and do not shave their hair.
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Russia
Alexander Nevski
St. Petersburg
What Prose Really Is, A Breakfast Table Quip
Dr Henry Van Dyke recounts a tale about a university professor and his wife discussing prose and verse at breakfast. Their children Walter and Maud interrupt with a curious question about prose. Maud asks what prose is and Walter replies that prose are animals without feet.
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Henry van Dyke
Walter
Maud
Lincoln’s Prescription Ancient Advice From Lincoln to a Neighbor
The Philadelphia Times cites a letter where Abraham Lincoln advised an Illinois farmer in poor health to eat three square meals, pray, think of his wife, be courteous to creditors, sleep well, exercise, go slow, and avoid biliousness. The note frames happiness as living for others and ends with a Tolstoy quote.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Philadelphia Times
Italian Captain Recommends Peruna Cure for Catarrh
The Italian captain O Bertoletto writes from Pensacola that Peruna cured his chronic stomach catarrh after doctors failed. Congressman J D Botkin also testifies to Peruna and Manalin relief from decades of stomach catarrh and constipation. The letter urges others to try Peruna and seeks Dr Hartman’s free advice for new cases.
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Peruna
O. Bertoletto
B. Hartman
Columbus, O
Manalin
Washington
J. D. Botkin
Erma
United States
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Ae Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Claims of Cure
A newspaper ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only constitutional remedy. It claims to treat catarrh systemically via blood and mucous surfaces, offers $100 if it fails, and promotes accompanying Hall's Family Pills, with Toledo based manufacturers F. J. Cheney & Co. and price 75 cents.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Coo
Customer questions prices for shirtwaist work
A lady asks a boy if his mother hand-sews shirtwaists and what price she charges. The boy replies he does not know the exact price and assumes it is the same as what she pays the steam laundry for hers.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Northwestern Inventors Awarded Patents Last Week
List of patents issued to inventors from Northwestern region including windmill controller by William Banish and Nels Erickson rail way gate, home fastener by Pfremmer, garment supporter by Wolvin, and ship construction. Also mentions patent attorneys Lothrop and Johnson and the Mother Grays Sweet Powders advertisement with testimonials and price.
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Northwestern
William Banish
Sheldon
N. D
Harriet Blenkhorn
Minneapolis
Minn
John Bowman
Wessington
S. C
Nels Erickson
Red Wing
Joseph Pfremmer
Fountain
Ferdinand Spiering
Arlington
Augustus Wolvin
Duluth
Lothrop and Johnson
Pioneer’ Press Bidg
St. Paul
Labor-Saving Device Shocks Wheat, Deacon’s Claim
A Baltimore News excerpt notes Deacon Smith boasting of a labor-saving device. The dialogue shows skepticism as a New York contact tests the contraption, likening it to startling the wheat. The exchange hints at innovation and rural theharvest challenges.
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Zeke
New York
Baltimore News
Pharmacist Endorses Cole’s Car Bolisalve and Arbolisoap
A.W. H. Rees of 303 Main St Peoria Illinois testifies after twenty years of use that Cole's Car bolisalve and arbolisoap consistently give satisfaction and he recommends them to all customers.
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A.W. H. Rees
Main St
Peoria
Cole
Man Reassesses Career Path as Purpose Wanes
An unnamed man clings to diminished purpose as confidence in a grand career fades. The piece notes a shift from ambition to resignation, exploring how self-doubt expands with perceived missed opportunities and growing disillusionment.
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Dean Mrs. Prrxnam
Hamlin
S. Ardin
Chicago
Chav
Postal Service
Post Office Department
Goethe
Kansas
Barber
Robert
Tolatol
Congressman Botkin
House of Representatives
Washineton, D. C
Mississippi
Mother Gray
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N. L
Ole's
Rave Rey
Miodig
University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
St. Edward's Hall
A. Morrissey
ST. Mary's Academy
Conservatory of Musicc
Ofurope
Europe
Iton Normal School
St Mary's Academy
P. O
St. John’s University Collegeville
Benedictine Fathers
Northwest
The
Hrev
Ainty
Minnesota
Berssee
Nicollet Avenue Arcade
Powers Mercantile Company
Nicollet Avenue
First Avenue South
Fifth Street
Minnes
S. E. Olson CO. Polis
Woodward & Co
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