Rural Swain and Cupid Win Hearts in Country Life
Ernest McGaffey portrays farm youth courting through buggies, dances, band concerts, fish fries, and shivarees. He notes the buggy as status, early marriages by 18 to 21, and community gossip fueling rustic romance with circuses, picnics, and weekend dances.
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Zeke
Cupid
Jake Beaver
Osgood Farm
Jake
Ward McAllister
Nevermore
Queensbury
Kiris
Sone Grove
Enward
George
Mariar
Bob
Ernest M’gaffey
Advertisement Touts Truth Behind Goods
A dated warning on trusting ads urges buyers to insist on exact products and avoid substitutes sold as similar. It cites a nurse and a detective character as protection from kidnappers, reflecting period emphasis on safeguarding readers from deception and crime.
Severe Hemorrhoids Relief Reported by 80 Year Old
An 80 year old man from Hopkinton New York describes months of failed remedies for hemorrhoids and eczema before using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with a suppository syringe. He credits the treatment with restoring health and recounts self care thereafter. The note is paired with a verse about reading between the lines and a talking nag.
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J. H. Henderson
Hopkinton, N. Y
Cupid
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Testimonials Ad
Woe offer One Hundred Dollars Rewar for any care of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J CHENEY & CO Toledo. We have known F J Cheney for 15 years and believe him honest and able to carry obligations. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts upon the blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
Druggivta
Theatrical Manager Seeks A Good Show
A column notes a church spelling bee anecdote and quotes poetry about hope. It lists a national Civil Service recruitment flyer and promotes a health tea claiming benefits for rheumatism and gout.
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Towne
Browne
Enders Finds Relief with Dean's Kidney Pills
John A. Enders of Pen Argyl Pennsylvania suffered six years of back pain headaches and dizziness. A specialist found his kidneys sound but urine showed brick dust sediment. After using Dean's Kidney Pills his kidneys began to act regularly and he passed gravel stones. He reports feeling better and no further kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Enders
Robertson Avenue
Pen Argyl
Mr. Ender
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
His Double Grief in City Court Shows Two Prisoner Fates
In a city court sentence day a man jailed for two years for larceny sobs while a fellow inmate facing seven years for bigamy jokes about leaving his family. The exchange reveals stark contrasts in their destinies and emotions.
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Pen
Leavin
Lea Leavis
Jack"” Cremer
Allen's Foot-Ease Cures Hot Aching Feet
Patent medicine advertisement cites Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for hot sweaty callous swollen feet with a 25 cent price sold by Druggists. Mentions trial and supplier names and warns against substitutes. Also references electric signs and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and wind colic with generic claims. A cynical line about laziness closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
All Druggista
Olmsted
Roy
Syrup of Figs and Senna Promoted as Wholesome Laxative
The Well-Informed prefer Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna for a simple pleasant laxative with known wholesome components. The California Fig Syrup Co. markets this remedy as ethical and effective, sold by leading druggists for fifty cents per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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Resselas
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Ernest McGaffey
Ather
Ether
Peima
Bowles
Newport
Jimmie Hawkshaw
Mathera
Bearn
U.S
Hopkins
Marden Bld
Washington, D
Dodds
Ately
Ana
Guar
L.douglas
Sir Eet
Putnam
L Carters
Tiver Pills
Bostonmy
Congram
Veneton OF
Mele
Pington & Wilson Attys
Nera
Coat Ped Nees
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
H. M. Williams
Lew Building
Toledo
Ohio
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Masa
Yass
Poush Carton
Addreas Pacific Coast Borax Co
Chicado
West Virginia
California
Empire Ranch
San Joaquin Valley
E. E. Henderson
Jefferson Ave
Moundsville
W. Ys
Medatone Company
Enat 23Rd Street
New York
Temperance
Patriotic Post Card CO
Saginaw, Mich
Bend Postu
ADAMS @& JONES, Dept. BK
Cincinnati
Nanouna Pensio
Taker & Whitman Co
Washington, D.C
John MuMornia
Defiance
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