Sovereigns and Grain-O rise in late 19th century notices
An eclectic mix of notes on sovereign coins becoming jewelry in India and a new coffee substitute Grain-O marketed as a cheap, stomach friendly drink. Mentions of vast English and Irish landowners, and Edward VII’s ties to Jewish families in London, including Rothschild alliances and a royal wedding in 1881.
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Tony
Edward VII
London
Central Square
Leopold de Rothschild
Mile
Marie Perugin
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild
Beeman's Gum and Patent Medicines Parade
A jumble of early 20th century ad copy extols Beeman's PepSin Gum and Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children, touts Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and notes a 30,282,564 acre newly seeded winter wheat area, reflecting period advertising and agricultural data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamsure Piso
Tuomas Hon
Maple St
Norwich
N.Y
Women must sleep and the Pinkham remedy
A warning notice endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for nervous prostration sleep problems and related symptoms. It cites Mrs. Hartley of Chicago as a cured patient and presents the product as a remedy for indigestion exhaustion womb displacement fainting dizziness headache and backache affecting women's nerves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartley
Congress St
Chicago
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Glasgow's tallest chimneys and world height record
The article catalogues the world’s tallest chimneys from Glasgow to Cologne and Bradford, noting Townsend shaft at Port Dundas 468 feet high, St. Rollox at 445 feet six inches, and Bradford Manningham mills shaft at 256 feet six inches with 8,000 tons of material and a $50,000 cost, plus related industrial hazards and other brief notes.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Townsend
Port Dundas
St. Rollox
Cologne
Royal Smelting Works
Freiburg
Saxony
Bradford
Eng
Manningham Mills
Newlands Mills
Pearls of Thought and Wise Adages Across Philosophers
A compilation of quotations from Dryden Bacon Shakespeare Pope Cicero Montesquieu Thoreau Parker Swift Shenstone and others. The lines urge prudence in speech, integrity of faith, use of reason, and the value of conscience and distant horizons in cultivating national affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hare
Bacon
Broadhurst
Johnson
Shakespeare
Pope
Macaulay
Cicero
Montesquieu
Thoreau
Theodore Parker
Washington
Shenstone
Pigeon Thieves Prey on East Side Aviaries and Rival Flocks
A New York Post report details pigeon rustling schemes on the lower East Side where thieves use a long pole to drive rival flocks from rooftops. Captors lure exhausted birds with grain, seize them for 50 to 60 cents, and claim victims rarely pursue legal action. Also includes a Walnut Hill anecdote about ice tongs and a note on France mirroring England in American apple adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower East Side
East
New York Post
Women outgraduate men in 1900s high schools says report
The article notes that 86 124 girls graduated public high schools in 1899 vs 20 344 boys. It attributes this to boys leaving school early for work. It also mentions a Wellesley faculty student conference creating a court of revels to observe holidays. It cites various ads and statistics on health products, war stationery costs, and Michigan salt output for 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wellesley
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England
Duke of Northumberland
Ireland
Marquis Myngham
Wales
Watkin Williams Wynn
Beeman
Mia. Winslow
A. Harriacy
Sy Brake
Corrine Induack
Cryful
R CO
Boston
Mass
Monroe Drug Co
Unionville
McKinley
Crry
ToLepo
Lucas County
Crexey
F. J. Crexxy & Co
Toledo
Eac
Caranan
Harn
Caranan Cunx
Frank J. Crenny
Island of
Formosa
Carter
Frey
Academy of Medicine
France
Heine
Etroleum
Brut
Morese
Lane
Jafira
Abyssinia
Java
Amsterdam
Louis XIV
Garfield Tearfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
New York
Yad Janos
Hunyadi Janos
Andreas Saxlehner
Fulton St
N, Y
Fortune
Dryden
Walnut Hill
Jee
Tee Trust
Omaha World-Herald
Europe
London Chronicle
Neurotico Medicine Co
Hornellsville
Michigan
Trans- Caspian
Siberia
Wests
Timmes
Icilhenny
Tabasco
Milo B
Fentab Joy
Atlanta
Frese
M. Guere
W. L. Douglas
Hm We
Teu
Cascarets
Sternoulal
Ana
Soney
Marten Theneestor
STERI
AOA Bare Ing Remedy CO
Not
I For Stars Co
Lene
Lion Coffee
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