Get Rich Quick Is Oldest Bait in Boston History
A retrospective in Boston recalls enduring get rich quick schemes from gold rush tales to the Ladies' Deposit scam and Jernegan’s seawater gold plot. It traces promoters’ tricks from 49ers fever to 1920s quack investments, noting victims, lavish promises, and eventual collapses.
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Boston
Jason
James IL. Powers
Boston Globe
Teis
Klondike
Capt
Kidd
Exccution Dock
England
Gardner’s Island
Massachusetts
Sarah E. Howe
East Brookline Street
Airs
Howe
P. F. Jernegan
Irnegan
Indiana coal output and hours rise in 1920
Evansville district coal production from April to September 1920 surpassed 1919 by about 200000 tons with 1000 extra working hours. 1919 total was 977560 tons. 1920 period yielded 1,184,420 tons. Some mines in 1919 not reporting in 1920.
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Evansville
Southern Indiand
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Harry W. Little
Southern, Indiana Coal Bureau
Ryansville
South Bend
St. Joseph
August Schultz
Henry Muessel
Frank Chrobotn
Muessel Brewing Company
Steven Bartek
Ernest Gariepy
Carl Cook
Laporte
Walter Baker
Michigan City
Cook
Indianapolis
Special ,Coal and Food Commission
Indiana
Statehouse
Indiana Harbor
Anna Mirmak
Anna Maidin
Washington, D. C
Inanapolis
Department of Labor
Bloomington
Allen Block
Monroe County
College Avenue Motor Sales Company
Hub Clothing Company
Hub
Illinois
S. N. Cragan
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Ohio
Kentucky
Cragan
Indianapoliis
George
Bryant
Co-Operative Crop Reporting Service
Lafayette
Purdue University
State Department of Public Instruction
Terre Haute
Vigo County
Live Stock Breeders’ Association
Cultivate Patience and the Value of Waiting
A reflective piece on patience as a virtue and a form of self-control. It argues patience stems from self discipline and foresight, noting that time favors those who wait and that prudent restraint yields rewards.
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Pytien
Humppivy
Dew ‘Ra
Signs of Storms and Weather Cues
A brief note describes a sudden local wind lifting dust as a storm sign. It mentions swallows flying low as an indicator of rain and explains that rain reduces insects, causing swallows to adjust feeding and location.
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Tts
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Lowell Reader
Testimonial from Mrs. Theall Bessey of 186 Appleton Street Lowell praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a wonderful medicine for female ailments. The ad claims forty years of use as a standard remedy for displacement inflammation irregularities and related conditions and offers confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. to readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacal
M. Theall Bessey
Appleton Street
Lowell
Mass
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Health rhetoric on purity and medicinal claims
A promotional snippet extols purity and freshness as paramount for health and claims a universal bowel and liver regulation, kidney flushing, stomach sweetening, and blood cleansing power surpassing any medicinal preparation.
Bulgarian Blood Tea and Other Oddities in Ad Snippet
A fragmented ad snippet touts Bulgarian Blood Tea as a pure herb remedy claimed to prevent illness and aid sleep, alongside unrelated lines about Ohio moves and presidential wishes. It also includes a Roman Eye Balsam testimonial and stray quips, all attributed to a Houston Post source.
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America
Prairies
California
Massachusetts
New York
Sea
United States
Kidd
Klondike
Oklahoma Territory
Tone Mt
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE PROMISES CURE
An early 20th century advertisement promotes Halls Catarrh Medicine as a system booster and blood cleanser for frequent colds and acute catarrh. It claims internal action through the blood to reduce mucous inflammation and restore normal conditions. Circulars are free from BF Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Oia
Front Porch Climber Cited by The Kind in Political Dialogue
In a brief exchange The Kind notes a candidate described as a front-porch climber. The remark identifies a rising political figure and hints at a strategy tied to public engagement.
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Greencastle
Ind
Newton Theological Seminary
Heavenly Vision
F. Jernegan
Electrolytic Marine Salts Company
Jernegan
State Street
Washington Street
Marine Salts Company
Jernes Gan
Thomases
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Arctic
Frank W. Thompson
New York Bank
North Lubec
le Havre
France
Louis Sinclair
Chicago
Lubec
Jernegon
Bees
Admw
Eden
Indiana Bard of
Johnson
WW. Spencer
William H. Thompson
State Board of Election Commissioners
Maurice E.tennant
State Board
Harry Lear
Brazil
American Legion
State Department
L. Russell Newgent
Ihe
Department
Eligile
Legion
Lemuel
Bolles
Newgent
Indieniapolis
Indiana Retail Coal
Merchants’ Association
B. B. Heller
Coal and Food Commission
Heller
District
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Tewis
International
Anderson
Madison County
Texas
Calvin Mitchell
Len Mitchell
S. M. Cunningham
Crawford County
Crawford
John Lawrence
John McFarland
Muncle
William A. Thompson
Delaware
Kokomo
Howard County
Brown
Elizabeth Cornell
Tennessee
Ena
Mas
Nedien'ee
Houston Post
Dean
Henry Gregory
W. Martin St
East
Palestine
DOAN
Foster-M ™ Burn CO
Buffalo
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