Medicinal claims and anecdotal tales from old period ads
An editorial fragment and clippings praise Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s ailments, with a money‑back guarantee and claims of benefits. It also includes a Sylvester anecdote about quantics and a Baltimore agent testimonial about lumbago cure with Salvation Oil.
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Dr. Pierce
One Rat Experience At Buffalo Grocery
A rats infestation tale from Buffalo describes a barrel of molasses breaking and a large rat slipping away in mud and molasses. The scene ends with all other rats vanishing from the premises, leaving no further evidence of infestation.
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Buffalo
Reducing Weight At Very Small Cost Report
Boston Globe reports a method to cut weight with minimal expense. Readers urged to mail two cent stamps for a copy to Beting Circulating Library in Chicago Illinois.
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Boston
Beting Circulating Library
EL Washington Street
Chicago
At the Zoo Button Help Sparks Unlikely Pair
A playful scene at the zoo features a rattlesnake asking for a button to be sewn. The elephant replies that needles and cotton may be found in its trunk as a possible solution, capturing a light hearted moment from the Philadelphia Record.
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Zoo
Philadelphia
Garfield Tea Promoted as Remedy for Modern Excess
A brief note claims Garfield Tea is a simple herbal remedy to help Nature counter modern excess of eating and lack of outdoor exercise. The description contrasts a girl content with a wax doll against a boy who desires a live dog to chase things.
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Avittly
Bile Beans Offer and Family Note from New York
A Mrs A A Tobias of Coverdale California sends 60 cents for two bottles of Bile Beans Small to be sent to her home. A Flaxisu woman in Minnesota reportedly bears six children at once and the father jokes this will finish the family. The ad promotes Dr D Jaynes Expectorant as a cough remedy. A stray remark notes poets encourage.
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Z.F. Durin & Co
New York City
A. A. Tobias
Coverdale
Minnesota
August Flower Restores Vitality Says Market Seller
TER THE Flyer August Flower for Loss of vitality and general debility. After taking two bottles I gained 69 Iba. I have sold more of your August Flower since I have been in business than any other medicine I ever kept. Mr. Peter Zinville says he was made a new man by the use of August Flower, recommended by me. I have hundreds tell me that August Flower has done them more good than any other medicine they ever took. Grorck W. Doz Sardis Mason Co Ky.
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Peter Zinville
Grorck W. Doz
Sardis, Mason Co
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