Doctor Operation and a Woman's Recovery in Gabba Kans
A Kansas woman recounts falling last March, developing a painful lump on her right side that grew large enough to disturb sleep. After seeing doctors, she believed surgery was needed for a tumor caused by rupture, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound reportedly dissolved the lump and offered relief from multiple female ailments. The ad promotes the remedy and invites readers to write for free advice from the center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gabba
Kans
Kansas
Lydia E.kham
Curse Centre
Lynn Aass
A Sad Case
A brief, stark dialogue fragment contrasts a simple meal question with a memory lapse. The exchange hints at deeper emotional or cognitive strain, leaving the reader with a somber, unresolved impression.
Fresh Water Sea Voyage From Sarnia to Fort William
A summer trip offering inland sea travel from Sarnia Ontario to Fort William Ontario aboard Northern Navigation Co steamers. New fast vessels join the fleet, operating with the Grand Trunk Railway System. Descriptive literature and rates available from W S Cookson at 917 Merchants Loan Trust Building Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarnia
Ontario
Fort William
Northern Navigation Co
Great Lakes
Grand Trunk Railway System
Cookson
Merchants, Loan & Trust Building
Chicago
The Doctor's Data in a Laughing Exchange
A Howard girl doubts her age as parents quarrel over the year of birth. A doctor teases she was born on the steenth day of April, 189, and notes he is still owed. A witty exchange follows about aging and doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
Practical poultry care guidelines and observations
Counsels on egg age and fertility, duck and chicken care, housing, feeding, and mating. Notes that older homers show warts, roosters and hens ages matter, separate flocks improve results, and damp spring weather requires protection for turkeys. Emphasizes that well cared for pullets begin laying in November and good bloodlines yield better year two performance.
Protect Chicks in Feeding in Mixed Flock Yards
The article stresses separation measures when keeping chicks with adult fowls to safeguard feeding and health. It emphasizes providing suitable space and barriers to prevent crowding and competition, ensuring chicks access to food without interference from older birds.
Chicks Gain Easy Feed With Simple Wooden Crate
American Agriculturist describes a lightweight wooden crate with outer laths that allow half-grown fowls to enter while preventing full-grown birds from reaching the feed. The interior can vary, but a dry mash should be kept inside at all times. A wire-covered top reduces standing fowls, and multiple crate sizes help house birds of different ages.
Ventilating a Henhouse Advice from Rural New Yorker
Mr C S Greene advises venting henhouses by wide south windows open daily to admit air and sun. Build three hinged muslin covered frames, keep them open in pleasant weather and at night only shield during storms or freezing risk. Ensure north west east walls are tight to stop drafts. when warm, keep all windows open day and night unless storms intervene.
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C. S. Greene
New Yorker
Stale Egg Trade Across Nations
The stale egg business thrives in England with yolks used by tanners and whites by fine paper makers. In America the eggs find use mainly in cheap bakeries.
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England
America
Trap Nest For Laying Hens
Instructions describe building a trap nest and a double nest box for hens. Details include dimensions, two-compartment design, lever-arm mechanism, top lid options, and securing doors. Benefits cited include selective breeding for heavy layers and ease for small fanciers, with leg bands for tracking eggs laid by each hen.
Poultry Houses and Ventilation Methods
Poultry houses should be fresh air oriented with airtight sides and a largely open front. Ventilation is best achieved by a cloth window that can stay open most of the time. Use ordinary cheesecloth. the front should be about one third cloth or grille, evenly split.
Itchy skin cured in a day by Cuticura remedies
A testimonial from Frank Gridley of New York City describes a night of extreme itching spreading from hands to the body. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the writer reports the itching nearly vanished by April 1 and completely left that day, with a note about Cuticura being sold worldwide. Also included is a short anecdote about Lee Wyman and a child’s quip about the ten commandments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
Lee Wyman
Wyman
Doan's Kidney Pills Cured Mrs Kautz For Three Years
An Indianapolis style ad and a humorous dialogue: Mrs Catharine Kautz of Findlay Ohio credits Doan's Kidney Pills with permanently curing kidney trouble after four years of back ache and weakness. The ad notes price at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. A Sunday school joke follows about souls and air with two boys named Willie and Bobby debating heaven and bones.
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Catharine Kautz
Center St
Findlay
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Willie
Bobby
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claims Deafness Cure
An old testimonial touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as able to cure deafness caused by catarrh, offering $100 for an uncured case. It describes deafness as due to inflammation of the Eustachian tube and notes catarrh as a primary cause, with a drugstore sale pitch and related pills. The snippet ends with a joke about a vacation making a man new.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Skepticiem and Cure Ads Echo Odd Beliefs
A fragmentary old piece mocks skepticism with a quip about a man spurning chicken salad for moral beliefs. It then markets Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, and notes that even truthful men exaggerate.
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Pierce
The Overland Simplest Car And Its Low Price Claim
The Overland car is marketed as simple, reliable, and high output with pedal control, minimal parts, and automatic operations. Models range from 25 to 40 horsepower with prices from 1 000 to 1 500 dollars. The ad touts factory efficiency, nationwide dealers, and a 20 percent price cut in the past year.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lake Huron
Lake Superior
Biggins
Miss Cayenne
Washington, Star
Boston Herald
Nest Box
Mrs. Wyman
California Fig Syrup Co
Willys-Overland Co
Toledo, Ohio
Hay
Philo Hay Spec. Co
Newark
Bazel J. Meek
CHIL
Missouri
Licothe
CIO Wean
Dr. R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Wester
Deneen
Illinois
Jovernor Deneen
Trinda
Sask
Serena Jan Itengling
Manito Sankatel Swan
Alberta
E.t.holmes
Jackson $T
St.Paul Ding
W.v.bennett
Tor
Maine & B
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