Salvation Ol expansion as cure all remedy grows popular
Salvation Ol offers a synonym for cure of rheumatism neuralgia gout and related afflictions and gains daily popularity. It is priced at 25 cents. The text also claims a man who can teach others how to get rich.
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Cincinnati
Hood
J. J. McMurray
Notary Public
Ravenswood
W. Va
Boston
New Orleans
Buffalo
Yercelonia
Spain
M.S. Carill & CO
Lincoln St
All Shoe
Mass
For the Children Number One
A brief reading of a children's exchange where Robbie insists on looking out for number one and Katie counters that the counting should start with the other person, making her number one. This vignette appears in the New York Recorder.
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Robbie
Katie
New York Recorder
Largest Cannon in the World Belongs to British Empire
The article states the largest cannon in the world belongs to the British Empire. It was taken by the English during India’s conquest and cast around 1500 by Chubby Koomey Khan of Ahmednugar. Inside, seats were installed and English officers used it for quiet chats or noonday sleep.
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India
Chubby Koomey Khan
Ahmednuggur
New York Ledger
Curious Fish Games and Queen Bess Revisited
A New Orleans Picayune piece draws quirky lessons from fish playing tag and leap frog, then moves to London’s People’s Palace and Queen Elizabeth I. It notes fish tame with kindness, a New Orleans man raising goldfish, and contrasts Bess’s vanity with clever rule.
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Picayune
London
People's Palace
Elizabeth
Bess
England
Hogarth’s Clever Red Sea Staircase Tale
A miserly nobleman haggles over Hogarth’s Red Sea painting for a staircase. Hogarth agrees to the low price and finishes quickly. The canvas shows a red ocean with Israelites crossing. Egyptians drowned, as the artist notes. The patron pays, recognizing value beyond the haste.
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Hogarth
Red Sea
Howarth
Miier
Harper
Royal Baking Powder Proves Best for Cakes and Biscuits
An advertisement extols Royal Baking Powder as superior to old-fashioned soda and sour milk methods. It claims leading hotels, restaurants, and city homes use it for quick rising foods, and asserts the product avoids sour, soggy, husky textures, lumps, or ruined ingredients, making it indispensable for the best food.
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Acre Ass
Courtroom Thunder Ended by Corporate Counsel’s Tactics
A Massachusetts lawyer famed for winning verdicts by appealing to jurors emotional bias was outmatched by a corporate defendant’s attorney. The rival studied his opponent’s delivery and opening plea, exposing weaknesses and undermining his own client’s case, leading to a loss that shocked observers.
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Massachusetts
Leston Globe
No Other Way Clipped Exchange Reflects Moral Truth
A clipped excerpt from an exchange quotes a boy who explains that learning to skate comes from getting up after each tumble, illustrating a simple moral and practical truth about resilience and perseverance.
August Flower praised for relief of sick headache
L C Frost of Springfield Massachusetts reports his wife used August Flower for sick headache and heart palpitations with immediate relief after years of doctors with little result. The ad notes machinery for butter and cheese factories from Davis Rankin Co Chicago, promising a broad catalog and sales.
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August Flower
Boston
L. C. Frost
Springfield
Mass
Alexandra
Algonew m
Davis & Rankin Bldg
Mfg. Co
West Lake Street
Chicago
Ill
Snakes in India Cause Mass Mortality
Snakes in India kill likely over 50,000 people annually and are a leading cause of death. British efforts to destroy them have met little success as locals revere cobras as sacred. Some low-caste Hindoos breed snakes to meet official bounty demands, a practice now discouraged.
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India
Proverbial Pills and Dining Pleasantries
The piece cites Byecham's Pills priced at 25 cents a box and famous as "worth a guinea a box." It notes a witty exchange about dinner, hosting, and tomorrow's hare or venison dish, then mentions Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye-water as a physician's prescription remedy. A comic exchange over a asleep foot and loud trousers closes the column.
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Byecham
Isaac Thompson
Syrup of Figs Promises Health Benefits and Purity
A classic advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative aiding kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims quick relief from colds headaches and fevers while curing constipation, with broad medical approval and satisfaction. Available nationwide in 50c and 81 bottles from the California Fig Syrup Co.
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Druggista
California Fig Syrup Co
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