Healing Ulcer Prompts Patient Praise Of Peterson Ointment
A Buffalo resident, Peterson, receives a letter praising Peterson's Ointment for healing a severe ulcer. The writer, Mrs. Albert Bouthcott of Medina, N Y, reports dramatic relief after using the product and endorses mail orders from Buffalo, N Y. The ad-like clippings also include miscellaneous medical and nautical notes and jokes.
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Peterson
Buffalo
Stra
Albert Bouthcott
Medina, N. Y
Potensole Ototment Co., Inc
Butalo, N. Y
Freezone corn remover claims painless relief
An old advertisement touts Freezone as a painless corn remover with a tiny bottle sold by druggists. It promises instant relief and easy lifting of hard and soft corns and between toes without soreness, noting a long immigrant arrival statistic from 1820 to 1910.
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Allen
Ady
Calotabs Calomel Tablets Promise Nausea Free Relief
Inventive tone promotes Calotabs as a new calomel tablet for biliousness and indigestion. Claims include no taste no nausea no griping and a morning cleansing effect with a refund if not delighted. One tablet at bedtime with water. price thirty five cents. ad insertion.
Soldier's Homesick Tears Over Canteen Cook Book
A wounded or tired GI in khaki reads at a Red Cross canteen and cries when a helper asks how to ease his homesickness. He confesses shame about making a baby while a cook book on frying chicken lies open beside him.
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Saturday Evening Post
American Red Cross
Canteen
Sunday Social Standoff Over Bright Visitation
Boreleigh muses why Miss Bright avoids Sunday visits while Bangs suggests she treats Sunday as a day of rest. The exchange hints at social tensions and etiquette in a small community.
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Boreleigh
Miss Bright
Bangs
Sisters With 30 Year Dugout Life Committed to State Hospital
Dickinson North Dakota report describes Katherine and Rebecca McCullom two aging sisters once homesteaders who lived thirty years in a dugout after returning from Pomeroy Indiana. They owned 820 acres and cattle, carried $850 cash and $100 in gold, wore ragged men’s clothes, and never bathed.
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Dickinson
N. D
State Hospital For
Jamestown
Katherine
Rebecca McCullom
Pomeroy
Tate
McCullom
Scotland
North Dakota
Towa
Weds Life Term Prisoner In Sing Sing
Jacob Miller, a former salesman, began a life sentence in Sing Sing after a New York City burglary conviction as a fifth offender. He married Hannah Rosenbaum, his sweetheart since childhood, hours after his sentence, a first recorded case of a life term inmate marrying before serving time.
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New York
Jacob Miller
Sing Sing
New York City
Hannah Rosenbaum
Man shot self while aiming at ground after quarrel
Chicago police respond to an alarm at 2840 West Adams street find Edward Sykes thirty six with a hand grasping his right leg a revolver lies at his feet He says I shot myself I aimed at the ground and missed He explains he fired to frighten his wife after an argument and hit his leg He is taken to the county hospital
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Chicago
West Adams Street
Edward Sykes
Sykes
Cuticura Trio Ad Promotes Toiletry Essentials
An old advertisement touts Cuticura talcum and related products as essential in toilet requisites. It claims a scented face skin baby and dusting powder, plus perfume, render other perfumes unnecessary. Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills are advertised as a gentle vegetable tonic and purgative.
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Wright
A Good Time Spoiled by Misgivings Over Spending
A reflection notes that pleasure tied to high spending often falters due to lingering doubts. The piece cautions that extravagance can undermine enjoyment and suggests restraint as a safeguard against regret.
No Reducing for This Bird
Lexington engineer John Dalley weighing 250 pounds was thrown from a baggage car door on a Louisville and Nashville train near Lexington and survived after being knocked unconscious. In Knoxville a race with death ended when L P McAuliffe learned his mother was dying in Augusta, Georgia and an airplane flight carried him to Augusta.
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Lexington
John Dalley
Louisville & Nashville
Knoxville
Tenn
L. P. McAuliffe
Augusta
McAuliffe
Pulot
Billy"Brock
Auguata
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B. King
Doan
Bos Doan
Poster- Milburn CO
Tam Parker
Sae
William S. Sims
Boston Transcript
France
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Michigan
Wyje Hope
Fletcher
Lance UN
ALO Tires Cy Reine Ee
Iceland
Holland
Casteria
Castoria
Sul Generis
Daley
N.Y
Rae
Annes Sa
Settee J Mthordes
Ublic Tire Corporation
Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL
Europe
Hay
Tut Hma Remedy
Uncle Sam
A-1 Products CO
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Golden
Franklin N. G. Pitteburgh
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