Avoided Experience of Miss Merkley Prompts Vegetable Cure
A medical ad urges women not to rush into surgery for female troubles. It recounts Miss Margret Merkley of Milwaukee who avoided operation after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The piece promotes the product as a preventive and remedial option for gynecological issues.
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Lydia KE
Lydia E. Pinkham
California Fig Syrup Co
United States
Sayings from sages on virtue duty and folly
A collection of maxims from various languages and authors. It contrasts desire and riches, honesty and hypocrisy, duty and ease, and remarks on virtue, responsibility, and conscience across Seneca Franklin Grimm Publius Syrus George Eliot and others. The message emphasizes striving for duty and integrity over shortcuts.
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Franklin
Publius Syrus
George Eliot
Angel visions and a child’s playful heaven comment
A grandmother reports her youngest grandchild sees angels in clouds and hears a friend claim another angel exists. Pearl dismisses the idea with a humorous line about an angel resting on heaven’s back doorsteps and swinging her feet.
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Father Taylor
Little Pearl
Heaven
Doctor endorses Grape-Nuts for digestion and strength
A physician reports relief from indigestion after switching to Grape-Nuts for breakfast, noting improved weight and appetite and prescribing it for patients with digestion or recovery needs. He cites the food’s processed starch and retained nutrients as the reason, urging readers to try it with the Road to Wellville booklet.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Price
Dr. Price
Supreme Court tax ruling hits insurance surplus in Iowa
Des Moines report on Iowa supreme court decision that insurance company surplus is taxable under current law in Chicago Life of Des Moines vs board of review. It clarifies exemptions and that surplus is an asset of the company, not policyholders, with broader tax implications.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Iowa
Chicago Life of Des Moines
Board of Review
Hugh Brennan
Woodbury
Woodbury County
J. ®. Sage
Iowa Crop Bureau
Plymouth
Sioux
Kossuth County
Hardin County
Pottawatamie
Pottawataumie
Lee County
Wright
Lown
A. L. Urick
Iowa Federation of Labor
Urick
Supreme Court of the United States
D. D. Murphy
Elkader
Murphy
Eiven
Haddock
Dairy and
Dairy and Food Commissioner
State Executive Council
Yth
Cummins
Frank P. Crandon
Evanston
Ill
Chicago & Northwestern
Executive Council
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Board of Supervisors
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