Nickel Plate map shows Boston convention hall and sleeping car line
The Nickel Plate Railway publishes a Boston map marking the Christian Endeavor Convention Hall and the 4th International Convention state headquarters from July 10 to 15. It highlights the through Drawing Room Sleeping Car service between Chicago and Boston and offers copies from B F Lerner, General Passenger Agent.
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Nickel Plate Road
Boston
Mass
Christian Endeavor
Chicago
B. F. Lerner
Risky editor schemes to buy a story from actress
A New York Weekly item recounts a plan to offer $10,000 to the actress Madame Highart at the St. Gabriel Hotel to write a short story, with a cautious response from a trusted employee and the editor noting not to proceed.
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Madame Highart
St. Gabriel Hotel
Whittaker
New York Weekly
What Man Expects of as Wife
Mrs Kingsland writes in the July Ladies' Home Journal that a husband expects his wife to be purer and nobler than he is. She argues a Christian standard shapes the ideal wife, even for men with little personal religion, as a moral measure of a spouse.
Help for Working Women and the Pinkham Cure
Six o clock marks the end of the day for working women in stores offices mills and factories yet home duties continue. The ad touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female complaints including ovarian trouble and menstrual irregularities and invites readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance from a woman.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Kennedy's Medical Discovery Brings Sweeping Cures
A Roxbury Massachusetts physician claims a weed remedy cures all humor from scrofula to pimples. Claimed success in over eleven hundred cases with two exceptions. Offers book by postal card and says results begin with first bottle. Warns of temporary stomach discomfort and suggests one tablespoonful on water at bedtime.
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Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Widow Brown Rejects Farmer Jones in Cash Offer
A prosperous farmer seeks marriage with Widow Brown offering wealth and home. Widow Brown, terse, lists her assets and warns she would not marry for money and orders him to leave within three minutes.
Youthful precocity as shown by famous child prodigies
The note surveys child prodigies including Ruskin who began writing at age six and printed work at fifteen, Macaulay who authored a universal history and a poem at seven, Elizabeth Barrett Browning who read Homer at ten and had The Battle of Marathon printed as a child, and her epic at age eleven or twelve.
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Macaulay
Scott
Red Tape Halted Barley Sale in Roumania
A Braila dealer sought Galatz barley prices through the state run telephone. He was required to notify Iramaki in Galatz first by letter or telegraph. He objected calling it nonsense, but the official insisted the law demanded prior notification, delaying the sale.
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Roumania
Board of Trade
Galatz
Iramaki
Not Always a Good Plan
A dialogue about asking favors after dinner shows a troubled husband complicating a favor with anger. A magazine editor cites a flaw: the author is unknown, risking exposure of how he wrote it. A brief note on tongue injuries and heart rate completes the clipping.
Syrup of Figs Promotes Health on Travel and Home Use
Advertisements promote Syrup of Figs for kidney liver and bowel health with bottles sold by druggists and from the California Fig Syrup Co. Railway and travel offers include reduced excursion fares to cities and a pamphlet from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. the Nickel Plate road lists lake shore homes and accepts inquiries with a stamped return.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Northwestern
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Ashland
Bayfield
Marquette
Deadwood
Dakota
Hot Springs
Pelvel
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Salt City
Lake and Mountain Line
B. Knnakern
Chicage
Nickel Plate Road
Lake Erie
B. F. Orner
A Queer Proposition on Birth and Death Timings
Two men born the same moment in New York travel the world in opposite directions for fifty years. The westbound traveler loses a day each year while the eastbound traveler gains a day. On death at fifty, one has lived 100 days more than the other due to the time zone round trips.
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New York
Similar Chemical Position in Heel Epidermis and Keratin Nail Structures
A study notes that the chemical composition of the heel's epidermis closely resembles that of nails horns and hoofs. This comparison highlights shared keratinous material characteristics across these tissues.
Opium Smuggling Plagues Charlestown Prison
Twenty percent of Charlestown State Prison inmates are habitual opium eaters. Ward and Bridges say preventing smuggling of the drug into the facility is nearly impossible.
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Charlestown
Mass
Bridges
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Promoted as Anti Malaria Cure
Advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe antidote and preventive for malaria and associated symptoms. It claims the preparation also treats biliouaness constipation dyspepsia rheumatic and kidney trouble nervousness and debility.
McElree’s Wine of Cardus and Black-Draught Tea Benefit Moms
A mid wife reports using McElree’s Wine of Cardus and Black-Draught tea for pregnant and postpartum patients with positive results. A Kansas woman shares personal recovery from female weakness after two years of illness and successful treatment. A Georgia reader claims shorter birth pains and healthier baby after use. Henry IV reference included.
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McElree
Cardus
Thedford
Mall’s Catarrh Cure and Pigos Cure Ad Claim
An 1904 Brooklyn notice lists remedies with claimed cures for catarrh and whooping cough. It mentions Mall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents and Pigo's Cure as a successful remedy. It also includes linguistic notes on Corsica Chile and Peruviant terms.
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Mall
Pigo
M. P. Diemen
Throop Ave
Brooklyn
The Cheerful Idiot Reflects on Vanity of Man
A philosophical boarder remarks that a human skeleton would fetch about $25 at market, while the Cheerful Idiot suggests it would total a bit over two hundred cold bones, noting the vanity of man.
Nicotinized Nerves and a Cure Ad
An old advert promotes No-To-Bac from Sterling Remedy Co New York City claiming it relieves tobacco cravings. The copy touts vigor and manliness and offers a free book Don't Tobacco or Smoke Your Life Away. Costa Rica is noted as rich coast in a stray line.
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Tobacco &Pit
Ad Sterling Remedy Co
New York City
Cage
National Educational Association Meeting Excursion Rates
Notices advertise Wabash and Northwestern Line excursion fares for the National Educational Association meeting in Denver July 5 to 12 1895. Fares include round trip plus 2.00 membership fee with liberal return validity and side trips to the Rockies Black Hills Yellowstone and Pacific Coast.
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Wabash Railroad
Denver
Wabash R. R
CRANE
Gen’! Pass. & Tkt. Agt
St. Louis
National Educational Association
Col
Northwestern
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Rockies
Black Hills
Yellowstone National Park
Pacific Coast
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
Northwestern Bay
Evidence of cures for consumption with Dr. Pierce remedy
The article claims hundreds of witnesses attest that consumption is curable by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It asserts many advanced cases with bleeding lungs, severe coughs, weight loss and weakness have been cured, even after long illness.
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Pierce
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Hood
Kennedy
Jones
Widow Brown
Brown
Farmer Jones
Sharp
Prussia
Borussla
U.S
Madam Bolavert
Henry IV
France
Corsica
Chile
Land
Costa Rica
National Educational Association Meeting
Monver, Colo
Colorado
Glenn
Dr. Pierce
Pearline
Morse Bros., Props
Beecham
B.F. Allen Co
Dolrich
Palmer
Mase
D. H. Cate Atanee Agent Q
BE. R
Birmingham, Ala
Cee
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