The Best Is Cheapest Motto and Household Tips
A compact collage of advice and slogans: Hood's Sarsaparilla praised as best and cheapest medicine. guidance on cleaning diamonds with boxwood dust. winter health tips stressing ventilation and proper footwear. a anecdote about a luggage mix up on a train. an offer to save nickels via Sked Cross and Jinbee’s starch premiums. a furniture cleaning method using linseed oil turpentine soap and warm water. reminders of commonplace care from the New York Evening Post.
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New York Evening Post
Mrs Pinkham’s Medicine Restores Women’s Health Says Satisfied Users
Readers report dramatic relief from womb trouble and nervous distress after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and associated products. Mrs E B Knox of Geruano Ouro and Mrs M L Suzans of Guy Manan Mic a credit these remedies for renewed energy, sleep, appetite, and ability to work.
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Vinxuam No
Pinguam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mas
M. L. Suzans
Guy Manan
Mica
Contention Over Admiral Dewey in Presidential Debate
C H Robinson voices strong opposition to repeatedly naming Admiral Dewey as a potential presidential candidate. He condemns the practice as indecent and insulting to Dewey, arguing it pressures a hero who has publicly refused political office. He cites Mark Hanna and others as instigators of the agitation and urges restraint.
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Mark Hanna
Ao Plaint
Gold Standard Press
Hero of
Maniia
Mark A
McKinley
Mr. H
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Hanna
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Wm. C. Whitney
Seth Low
The
New York World
Wage earners can gain freedom through independent labor
W. H. Harvey argues wage earners would gain purchasing power under a system resisting free coinage. He warns that westward mining booms and farming profits would create independent employment, enabling home ownership and self-support, while condemning trust pressure on unions as leading to slavery and national ruin.
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West
Rocky
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Republ
W. H. Harvey
Illinois and Luzon in imperialist argument
It Favors Imperlatiom, Farm, Field and Fireside of Chicago argues for bimetallism and joins the imperialist bandwagon. A quoted Chicago Times-Herald piece defends imperialism by comparing Illinois to Luzon, noting Illinois cannot coin money or establish a state church, and claiming Illinois is an integral part of the United States under imperial rule.
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Chicago
Chicago Times-Herald
Illinois
Luzon
Times-Herald
United States
Illinois River
Illinois and the United States in the Sulu treaty critique
A fragment argues that Illinois and other states share federal restrictions on issues like coining money and slavery, while Luzon natives have no voice. It questions why polygamy and slavery were not similarly addressed by a “big blue pencil” compared to the Sulu Islands in the treaty.
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United States
Illinois
Luzon
Sulu Islands
English moneylenders and land grabs threaten American prosperity
W. H. Harvey argues that English moneylenders have consumed America’s balance of trade and precious metals by foreclosing on property. He cites vast holdings in Illinois Logan and Sangamon counties, Kansas, Michigan, and along the Northern Pacific, with English tenants and rackrent practices supplanting American owners. He warns England seeks subjugation through a gold standard.
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England
Illinois
Logan
Sangamon
Lord Scully
Kansas
Northern Pacific
Michigan
United States
W. H. Harvey
Equality in 1900 bad report from New York banks
A Nonconformist critique accuses the Associated Banks of New York of hiding true reserve levels. It notes most national banks hold less than 26 percent reserves yet operate illegally, contrasting with Nebraska rules and predicting a future where bankers are held to the same law as others. The piece laments leniency toward wealthy banks and calls for strict enforcement.
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Associated Banks of
New York
Covent
Nebraska National Bank
Bankers of
Nebraska
McKinley Policy Prompts Public Support Debate
A trance medium asks about policy while imagined figures mock, yet public applause greets McKinley’s countrywide talks on living issues. The piece argues offensive partisanship is not worse for officials than for a man paid by the government for other aims.
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MecKinley
Nero
Charles
St. Bartholomew
Herod
Bryan
McKinley
Wealth, taxation, and labor as economic ideals
A writer argues that demanding full taxes from capitalists reduces funds for labor and that thrift in labor mirrors thrift in wealth. The notion equates tax resistance with preserving capital for wage payments, framing economy in labor as akin to wealth economy.
Christmas Mail Order Desk Deals and Catalogs
Quartered Oak Desk priced 4.96 and rings 25c to 25 dollars headline mail order Christmas shopping. The long catalog promises two million customers worldwide and urges readers to use its 304 page guide for home furnishings, clothing, pianos, organs, sewing machines, bicycles, and more with free linings, carpets, and freight. Expressed offers include made to order clothing from 5.95 to 20.00 and cash-on-delivery options, plus a July 3 address for Baltimore. Additional notes cite Piso’s Cure, Findley’s Eye Salve, and Belgian voting laws with penalties, and a Brooklyn testimonial.
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Parta
C. O
Altimore, MD
Waa
The Perfumed Woman in Feminine Reverie
A polemic on perfume and femininity praises the perfumed woman as the real feminine ideal. The speaker contrasts libertine tone with praise for fragrance, lace, roses, and devotion to husband and children, invoking a nostalgic, playful tone about romance and womanhood.
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Washington Post
Mara
Gehenna
Egypt
Curious Facts From A Dated Almanac Of Oddities
Curious statements cover a wide range from biology and superstition to technology and warfare. Notable items include hair and finger growth in seasons, a six to seven ounce herring with about 30 000 eggs, ambidextrous luck, a Michigan justice marrying couples with jingles, Tokyo’s six hundred public storytellers, and a Rafflesia arnoldii flower. Also noted are a public wedding at a Middlesboro fair, a man shedding skin each July in Butte, long-unclear postal delivery from Moscow to Okhotsk, a Tupuselei village in New Guinea built on piles, old salt superstition, spiders using pebbles as anchors, Paris streets with fevacio, Boer rifles in 1881, and rifle alterations for speed of fire.
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Michigan
Japan
Tokio
Sumatra
Middlesboro
J. M. Price
Butte
Mont
Sea of Okotsk
Moscow
Siberian
New Guinea
Tupuselei
Paris
Admitted It Himself
Two famed Chicago lawyers argued at the Illinois State House steps in Springfield and challenged Charlie to decide who was the top lawyer. Charlie claimed he was the best in the state, admitting the fact rather than offering proof.
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Chicago
State House
Springfield
Charlie
Illinois
No Fear For George and a Mother's Worry Over News
A Chicago Time Herald piece features Mrs Magnus trembling at messenger visits fearing telegrams for her son. The conversation shifts to concern for Harry, newly named to his college football team, amid wartime casualties and family anxiety.
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George
Mrs. Magnus
Harry
Chicago
Time
Herald
Queer Residents Noted By Hoston Citizen
A local exchange in the Hoston Transcript cites a resident remark about the town having many queer people. The speaker notes his wife is similarly unconventional, though she was not born into his family, highlighting social views of identity in the community.
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Hoston
Endless Chain Starch Book offers Christmas premiums
The ad promotes Red Cross and Hubinger's Best starch with a five cent package deal, including two Shakespeare panels or a Twentieth Century Girl Calendar as premiums. It also discusses the transition to the twentieth century beginning January 1, 1901 and calendar reforms in Russia and astronomy.
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Red Cross
Hubinger
Mading Mousey
Russia
Dee
Greece
Mubinger
United States
J. ©.Ubinger
Keokuk
Jows
OATH OF FIRM PARTNER IN TOLEDO CASE
Vy OW TOLEDO sworn as senior partner of FI Ow firm in the Clig Tourede county and Slits, the firm will pay the sum of CATA shat. HA JATARTOT CDR sworn before me in December 1886. Hiatt 5 Catarrh Cures in union claim to affect blood and mucous surfaces. testimonials from CHkxky Co Toledo sold by Drive Hall's Family Pi.
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OGIO
Toledo
Lions Country
Fraik J
Beal
AWD
A.W. Greason
Notary Pabhie
Hiatt
Sertor Teatimionials
Fo Chkxky & Co
Voledo
Drive
Hall
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Philippines
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Bulls
Pittsburg Glass Co
Pittsburg
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W. L. Douglas Shoe CO
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Mass
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