Healing power of Petersons Ointment cited in letter
Letter from Buffalo purports to praise Petersons Ointment for ulcers feigned healing and pain relief. It recalls a Medina New York testimonial by Mrs Albert Gouthcott about a large leg ulcer cured after nine dollars worth of salve. It also mentions Dr Beery and a mine laying system described by Admiral Sims.
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Saya Peterson
Buffalo
Rich
Sune
Peterson
Albert Gouthcott
Medina, N. Y
Aledy Peterson
Ototment Co., Inc
Buffalo, N. Y
William 8. Sims
Change Necessary and the horse joke exchange
A comic exchange about medical advice and riding a horse. The Boston Transcript quips about the doctor preferring a horse to treat dyspepsia, joking that a broken collar bone might be the outcome. The refrain shifts to a pun on “horse” and tents shaped like a house.
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Boston Transcript
Freezone promises painless corn removal for cents
A bold ad claims Freezone instantly relieves corn pain and lets you lift the corn away with fingers. It touts a tiny bottle sold by druggists as a cure for hard and soft corns and toe corn without soreness. It also notes immigration figures from 1820 to 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Calotabs Promoted as Nausea Free Calomel Tablets
An ad claims Calotabs calomel tablets offer a nausea free, safe cleanse for biliousness and constipation. One tablet at bedtime with water, no taste or griping, promises a morning liver cleanse and renewed appetite, with refunds if not satisfied.
Canteen Worker Comforts Home Sick Soldier Reading Fry Chicken
A Red Cross canteen worker soothes a homesick Black soldier in khaki who cries over a cookbook. He confesses he longs for home while tears fall, then remarks how the book on frying chicken recalls home. A brief joke about Boreleigh and Misa Bright follows.
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Saturday Evening Post
American Red Cross
Canteen
Two Sisters Deemed Insane After Rural Life Decline
In North Dakota two elderly sisters Katherine and Rebecca McCulliom were removed from their dugout to Jamestown State Hospital. Once homesteaders, they claimed a real estate deal involved queer tasting apples that sicken them, a possible fraud by a shark. The pair from Scotland, who moved from Iowa, owned 820 acres and cattle, lived in a ragged dugout with minimal shelter, and rarely left the farm.
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Dickingon
N. D
State Hospital For
Jamestown
Katherine
Rebecca McCultom
Pomeroy
McCulliom
Scotland
North Dakota
Iowa
Dickinson
Weds Life Term Prisoner In Sing Sing
Jacob Miller a former salesman began a life term for burglary as a fifth offender in Sing Sing. He married Hannah Rosenbaum hours after sentencing, the first recorded case of a life prisoner marrying before serving time. Both expect they will someday live together.
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New York
Jacob Miller
Sing Sing
New York City
Hannah Rosenbaum
Don't Try to Shoot at Ground When Angry
Chicago police respond to a report of a shooting at 2340 West Adams Street find Edward Sykes, 36, with a revolver at his feet and a self inflicted leg wound. He says he aimed at the ground to frighten his wife after a quarrel but missed. He is taken to the county hospital.
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Chicago
West Adams Street
Edward Sykes
Sykes
No Reducing for This Bird
Lexington engineer John Dalley weighing 250 pounds credits his size with saving his life after being thrown from a baggage car door on a Louisville and Nashville train. He survived knocked unconscious and bounced clear of the wheels. Airplane Won Race With Death in Knoxville, L. P. McAuldz learned his mother was dying in Augusta, Georgia.
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Lexington
John Dalley
Loulaville & Nashville
Airplane
Knoxville
Teen
L. P. McAulldz
Augusta
Cuticura Talcum Ad Promotes Versatile Powder Use
An advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum as part of a scented face and baby powder trio with soap and ointment. It claims the powder renders other perfumes unnecessary and highlights a 25 cent price, alongside a tonic vegetable pill ad and a quip about men who claim to know it all.
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Fletcher
Fiatches
Casteria
Csdarers
Orim
A Good Time Spoiled by Misgivings Over Spending
A reflection notes that luxury pleasures hinge on spending large sums yet are frequently undermined by lingering doubts. The quote hints at the tension between desire for opulence and caution about expense.
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Ponter-Milburn CO
N. Y
France
Boreleigh
Misa Bright
Wis
Castoria
Iceland
Wright
Paina
Alem C
Holland
Sul Generis
Manoto Sotinka
Sac
Ech
Paibe
Ieee
Welic Tre Corporation
Michie A . Clings
Ordi Seta
A, N.Y
Prilbeons
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