Marine Eye Remedy Claim Prompted In Market Ad
An ad for Marine Eye Remedy Co. of Chicago touts a “Marine Eye Remedy” with claims of curing eye discomfort and reducing smarting. The passage also includes a child’s joke about God knowing everything, used as a quoted aside from the St. Louis Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
St. Louis Republic
Chas. H. Fletcher
Albert W. Kahl
Buffalo
N. Y
Gustave A. Eisengraeber
St. Paul
Minn
H. J. Dennis
St. Louis
8. A. Buchanan
Philadelphia
J. B. Simpson
R. EB. Eskildson
Omatia
Net
L. R. Robinson
Kansas City
Edwin F. Pardee
New York City
N. B. Sizer
Brooklyn
Foulke By Brandt Dinner Tale Echoes London Joke
At a New York dinner the Marquis of Queensberry reportedly recalled a London incident. A peer tipped a Westminster taxi driver who mistook him for a member of the House of Commons and the driver vowed he hoped the peer would be turned out. The peer replied he was in for life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis of Queensberry
Foulke
Brandt
New York
London
Westminster
House of Commons
House of Fords
Ife
Victoria
Johnny
Jim Milla bin
London Weekly Telegraph
Lady rejects aged servant as unsuitable helper
A job-seeker at an intelligence office encounters a blunt Irish woman about fifty who protests being deemed too old for the post. The exchange ends with the applicant lamenting the mismatch and the Irish woman retorting with pride and humor about age.
Coffee Harming One In Three Ad in Postum Push
A New York hotel man and a series of testimonials claim coffee harms one in three, causing restlessness, nervousness, and sleep loss. The man finds Postum reduces nerves and restores sleep, with companions noting weight gain and calmer symptoms after quitting coffee. The ad portrays Postum as a safer substitute and urges readers to switch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Postum
Chas. H. Fletcher
Suffrage Mass Meeting Planned in Indiana
Indiana suffrage leaders announce a state mass meeting at Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis on April 23 to advance the suffrage movement. Dr. Hannah M. Graham, President of the Indiana Equal Suffrage Association, heads Arrangements with Central Labor Union and city officials to invite communities and officials to speak and participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Hannah M. Graham
Indiana Equal Suffrage Association
Tomlinson Hall
Indiana
Doctor Graham
Suffrage Association
Central Labor Union
Samuel Lewis Shank
Charles W. Fairbanks
Albert J. Beveridge
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Taggart
John W. Holtzman
John J. Keezan
Edgar A. Perkins
James Kinney
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Winfield T. Durbin
Morris M. Seuerlicht
Francis H. Gavish
Association
Board of Trade
John F. Barnhill
W. H. Landisraf
W. K. Stewart
Milas Anna Locke
Variety of jokes and advertisements in a 1900s style page
A scattered page features humorous quips about charity and unemployment, asides about Marie Tempest and a Nash-like nose joke, brief dialogue sketches, a teacher story, and light social satire. It also includes whimsical ads and titling lines about skin salves and health potions from Cole's Cartoli salve and Garfeld Tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Tempest
Waldorf-Astoria
Marle Tempest
Miss Tempest
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ane
Wny
Alabastine Company
Grand Rail
Wich
Beak
Water Street
Gerald
Geraldine
Tve
National Committee
Charles Fairbanks
James Whitcomb Riley
John W. Kern
Thairmen
Elihu Root
Levi P. Morton
Adlai E. Stevenson
Joseph J. Choate
William J. Bryan
Alcon B. Parker
Ghent
Newark
High Commission
Canada
Newfoundland
United States
Niagara Frontier
Sulgrave Manor
Northamptonshire
England
George Walrington
C. A. Greathouse
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Greathouse
Hampton Manufacturing Company
B. Nusabaum
Allman
W. Hampson
Beckman-Bennett Company
Shelbyville
W. Beckman
M. Hennett
FF. U. Olive
Killion Coal
Mises Petersburg
Burton Cassady
State Board of Pharmacy
Technical Institute Laboratories
Spencer House
Offcerd
State Board
Burton Casssdy
West Terre Haute
Jerome J. Keene
B. E. Miller
Noble County
Cassady
Mr. Keene
Interstate Association of State Boards of Pharmacy
Columbus
Clay Bool Hotel
Pharmacy School
Purdue University
J. N. Hurty
H. E. Barnard
State Board of Health
William Scott
Daniel Stewart Drug Company
G. B. Moxey
State Board of Finance
Howe
Carl H. Milam
Indiana Public Lbrary Commission
W. D. Howe
Indiana University
Milam
Library Commission
Marshall
Washington
E. J. Fogarty
Michigan City
Fogarty
General Assembly
Harvester Trust
Farmera
C. G. F Boswell
William F. Butler
D. EB. Crippe
Hillinsburg
J. J. Gaynor
E. W Miller
C. Remler
William T. Lawhorn
A. J. Marks
Bicknell
R. Matthes
J. A. Shepperd
Ham
Castoria
CIO
USS
Terr As
Ness
VacSville
Guaray
Putnam Faceless
Coorg
Ranart
Brown
Greene
Judge
Frost
Dawber
Snow
Front
Cole
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Invalided Hotel and Surgical Institute
Fesney
Asncemy
Peraemen
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