The Studious Girl and the Education Race
A feature on the education race between sexes highlighting the strain on health from incessant study. It cites a letter to Mrs. Pinkham praising Vegetable Compound for cure and energy, then shifts to a South African rail tale of Ceese the baboon acting as a switch-tender before being dismissed amid public outcry.
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Ceese
Hig
Kennedy's Medical Discovery Promises cures for humor
Roxbury mass resident Donald Kennedy claims a weed remedy cures scrofula to pimples. He cites eleven hundred trials with two failures and over two hundred certificates within twenty miles of Boston. He offers a book, warns of initial stomach reaction, and says no diet change needed. Sold by all druggists.
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Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Lawyers in Congress by State and Chamber
Of 89 Senators 63 are lawyers and of 356 Representatives 225 are lawyers. Tennessee both Senators and 10 Representatives are lawyers. Ohio has 2 Senators and 21 Representatives with both Senators and 19 Representatives lawyers. Texas has 2 lawyers in the Senate and 10 of 13 Representatives. New York has 1 lawyer in the Senate and 15 of 34 Representatives. Massachusetts has 2 Senate lawyers and 4 House lawyers with 9 merchantRepresentatives. Maine has 2 Senate lawyers and 3 House lawyers, Capt Boutelle the only non lawyer Representative. Mr Dingley has not practiced law for years.
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Tennessee
Ohio
Texas
Senate
New York
House
Massachusetts
Maine
Capt
Boutelle
Dingley
Double Baptism Ordered for Exceptional Twin-Headed Infant
Mme Leger of Blanzy near Autuo France is mother to a female infant with two perfect heads and one body. The child is healthy and likely to survive. Parish priest has been ordered by ecclesiastical authority to perform a double baptism ceremony.
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Mme. Leger
Blanzy
Autuo
France
Saved from Destruction By Hostetter’s Bitters
A Sanitary era claim touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as reviving inactive kidneys and preventing Bright’s Disease diabetes and other diseases. It also asserts the tonic cures malaria bilious rheumatic dyspepsia and related ailments with thorough effectiveness.
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Bright
Mumming in England Through the Holiday Season
For centuries mumming was a favorite English amusement during holidays. Groups in masks and festive attire roamed streets singing, performing tricks, and collecting drinks from households and passersby they encountered.
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England
Catarrh Cure Promoted By Local Patent Remedy
An old advertisement claims that catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes a tonic and blood purifier as a internaI remedy, listed as Hall's Catarrh Cure, said to be prescribed by a physician and sold by druggists.
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Dt OU
Hall
Gylcheney &Co
Deuglste
Germany manufactured in 1887 6,000O pounds of ilk
In 1887 Germany produced six thousand pounds of ilk valued at fourteen and a half million pounds, reflecting a historic production figure and substantial worth for the period.
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Germany
Gold Stock Trading Co Promises Large Returns
A 19th-century advertorial notes Gold Stock Trading Co of 835 and 87 Broadway New York declares a special unfamity bonus of 1d per cent plus 20 per cent regular dividends. It touts inside information on gold mining shares, claims huge gains from 60 to 1800 per cent, and offers certificates with eight coupons. The New York Financial Record praises conservative management and urges investors to obtain the prospectus for profit.
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Gold Stock Trading Co
Broadway
New York
United States
New York Financial Record
Muareh
City awards prizes for plans for new City Hall Park building
New York City funded seventeen thousand dollars in prizes for the best design of a municipal building in City Hall Park. The Legislature then banned erecting any building in the park in a separate action. Also mentions Syrup of Figs and the California Fig Syrup Co for a laxative remedy.
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New York City
City Hall Park
California Fig Syrup Co
Folklore Quips and Patent Ads From an Old Page
An assortment of quirky hearsay about soap and alphabets mixes with medicinal patent ads. Claims praise Glenn's Sulphur Soap and Dr Kline's Restorer while promoting a teething aid for children. Reads like a garbled preview of sensational tonics and novelty health products with period language and bold testimonials.
Ripans Tabulee Sold By Drug Company In New Halt
An advertisement notes Ripans Tabulee are sold by a drug company at 50 cents a box. It lists the seller as 18 Rishipacs oe cal Company at No 10 Spruce Street, New hal.
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Ripans
Rishipacs Oecal Company
Spruce Street
New Hal
Cotta
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Cheater
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Glenn
Wwinalow
Sapolio
Ort
Wit Ars
Union Fence Company
DE Kalb
Ill
William McMahon
Pearl Street
Brooklyn Village
Cleveland
McMahon
Mr. McMahon
Adams
McHiree
Cardui
Thedford
E. C. Adams
Hot Springs
Arkansas
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Italy
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