How to Clean Diamonds and Winter Health Tips
This extract offers household advice and consumer tips from a period newspaper. It promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a cost effective remedy, explains a diamond cleaning method using warm water, yellow soap soda, boxwood dust, and polishing tissue, and gives winter health guidance to keep colds away by ventilation, cool sleeping rooms, and wearing rubbers in snow. It also includes humorous anecdotes about luggage and promotions for starch premiums, plus a cleaning recipe for furniture polish using linseed oil, turpentine, soap, and hot water with frequent polishing.
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Independent
New York Evening Post
Mrs. Pinkham’s Medicine Restores Ailing Women
Letters from Mrs. Kuhn and Mrs. Suzan recount dramatic improvements after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and related products. They describe relief from womb troubles, fatigue, nervousness, and insomnia, with renewed energy for daily work and gratitude to the remedies.
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Uerree
Pinkuam No
Dean Mus. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mara
Keun
Gensano
Onto
Mas
M. L. Suxans
Gux Mansn
Micu
New York Fashions Show Silk Lace Gowns and Velvet Details
Noting a wealth of blue cheviot and serge costumes with machine stitching on coats and shirts. Describes gowns in Cronstadt blue with lace trim, guipure collars, and sable hems, plus periwinkle and hydrangea hat trimmings. Highlights breakfast jackets in storm serge, new street gowns with velvet revers, and fine French flannel jackets for winter wear.
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Cronstadt
Oronstadt
Belgian Voting Laws and Eye Salve Ad Burned in Fragment
An OCR fragment shows Belgian law with voting penalties for different social groups. It also advertises Findley’s Eye Salve promising cures for chronic and granulated lids in 80 days and common sore eyes in 3 days with money back, sold by druggists or J. P. Hayren of Decatur Texas.
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Findley
J. P. Hayren
Decatur
Texas
The Perfumed Woman and Edgars Reform Tale
A survey of a Washington Post critique on a perfume ad claiming feminine virtue, followed by a tale about Little Edgar who disobeys and faces his parents' discipline. The piece juxtaposes notions of femininity with parental influence and youthful mischief.
Pith and Point Jokes and Humorous Quips Across Papers
A collage of humorous snippets from various papers includes a skit about a cloak purchase with a $10 extra charge, a suffragist line about not wearing a man's collar, and a waiter salad button joke. Other items poke at marriage relations, authors as snobs, and a Sunday school roll call remark.
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Harry
Puck
Chicago Post
Smith
Ura
Jinks
Binks
Harper's Bazar
Civilization
Indianapolis Journal
Watts
Gotrox
Jimmy
James
Beacon
Thomas
Englishman Seeks Information About New World Myths
The Chicago News notes an English traveler asking about dangers from hostile Indians and crocodiles in the Hudson and at Niagara Falls. It cites lore on why Florida was named by Ponce de Leon, from Easter dates and flower imagery, as discussed by the Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower.
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Chicago News
Hudson River
Niagara Falls
Florida
Ponce de Leon
Pasqua de Flores
Queer Lot in Town Cited by Citizen
A Boston Transcript line quotes a citizen describing the town as full of queer people and odd characters. He notes his wife is somewhat the same, though not originally from his family. The remark emphasizes town social differences and personal remarks.
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Lugesge
London Answers
Boston Transcript
Starch promotions hint at gift premiums and a century’s spark
Readers learn that purchasing Red Cross and Hubinger's Best starch includes premiums like Shakespeare panels or a calendar. The piece rambles into a calendar year 1900 to 1901 transition, noting the century’s start, leap years, and calendar reforms in Russia and the civil day shift.
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lSe
Ge, Heenan
Red Cross
Hubinger
Siniess
Russia
Greece
United States
Keokuk
Iowa
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad In 1886 Legal Oath
An 1886 sworn statement by Frane J. Cheney asserting the senior partnership of F J Cagney Co in WE County promises one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hayes Catarrh Cure. The notice, dated December 6 1886, promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with testimonials and nationwide distribution.
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A.D
A. W. Gleason
Hall
Fr. Casey & Co
Toledo
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Hood
New York
New York City
Serge
SILK
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Brooklyn
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Eascladea
Washington Post
Mars
Gehenna
Hksos
Egypt
Edgar
Edgar Sed
Eddie
E. Kiser
Ayer
Procter & Gamule
Dr.Bull
Dr. Bull
Arter
Pittsburg Glass Co
Pittsburg, Pa
W. L. Douglas
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Douglas
W.L. Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton
Masa
Starever
Witpara
Hattalo
Wellington
Sayre
Arnold
Dr. Grant
Mivision Wiashi
Montreal
Vittsburg
Oughiller
Harmtems
Buffalo
Morris, Ugton, BO
Tes Claims
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Atty Alam
Dr. M. Il
Green
Atlanta
Bron, U. Ag “de
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