Rheumatic Pains Fade With Pink Pills Purify Blood
Dr Williams Pink Pills claim to purify the blood and heal rheumatism. A Sandy Hill NY woman testifies to dramatic relief after months of debility and swelling, noting regained appetite and activity within months.
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Williame
Frederick Brown
Sumpter Street
Sandy Hill
N.Y
William A
Dr. Williams
Mrs. Brown
Dr. Willums Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Patriot citizen jokes about naval academy graduates
A colonial era barroom banter scene has a patriot declaring that an American Naval Academy graduate is unbeatable once trained there. A second speaker with a mustard-colored mustache jokes the graduate is already hardened from training.
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Naval Academy
Food and Study A College Man's Grape Nuts Experience
An ambitious student describes diet changes from greasy foods to Grape Nuts. After following package directions, his strength and weight improve, his head clears, and study becomes easier. His sister and brother also report health and mental benefits from Grape Nuts, per Postum Co. claim.
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Frank
Post Office
Washington City
Postum Co
Mattle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Mission Riots Destroy Nanchang Mission and Kill English Family
Consul-General Rodgers reports American mission stations at Nanchang in Jiangxi destroyed by riot. Fourteen missionaries escaped. an English Kingham family of four was killed. The gunboat El Cano is sent from Nanking to Kinkiang as unrest spreads along the Yangtze. Some dispatches say inland Irish missions are safe and other reports confirm the Nanking scene.
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Philadelphia
Seecess Magazine
Rodgers
Shanghai
State Department
Nanchang
Kianjsi
Kingham
Nankin
Kinkinng
Yangtse
Fletcher
Raleigh
Navy Department
Methodist Board of Foreign Missions
Methodist Board
J. W. Bashford
Methodist Episcopal
R. H W. Carroll
Colombia Earthquake and Tidal Wave Kill 2000
Reports from the Pacific coast describe a major quake and subsequent tidal wave striking Colombia and extending to Costa Rica. Some towns were leveled, hundreds of corpses sighted, and tens of thousands left homeless across Esmeraldas and Manabi regions with tremors felt inland.
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Colombia
Costa Rica
Pacific
Central America
Tumaco
Tuquerresin
Loyayan
Colomban
Mosquera
San Juan
Domingortz
Lia Tola
Antioqui
Barbaacoas
Popayan
Tuquerres
Manizales
Pereira
Esmeraldas
Manabi
Rilo Verde
Camarones
la Tola
Limones
Borbon
Pinguagi
Oldest Inhabitants Warned Away From Area
Fragmentary notes reference Panama Canal transit, Castellanes marriage longevity, and calls to avoid longtime residents. A line mentions a warmer year in 1797 while comments allude to political unrest and revolutionary sowing. Also notes Col Mann and a borrowing habit faced as a challenge to reform.
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Panama Canal
Col. Mann
Cure for Psoriasis Claimed After 35 Years with Cuticura
W M Chidester of Hutchinson Kansas recounts a long battle with psoriasis across his body including scalp. He credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with complete cure in thirty days, claiming the result remains permanent about five years later.
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W. M. Chidester
Hutchinson
Kan
Conversation on a city street car line overheard in Cleveland Leader
A brief dialogue captures a man and woman aboard a street car. The lady comments on the gentleman offering his seat and remarks on travel frequency, while the man questions how she guessed his long ride. The exchange appears in the Cleveland Leader.
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Cleveland
Farmer K
Cleveland Leader
Free 5 Tone Grass Hay Offer
Advertisement touts free five ton grass hay for feeding hogs cows sheep and swine, appealing to farmers and livestock owners with ample fodder for livestock sustenance.
Salter Seed Co Bargain Seed Book Ad and Misc Snippets
An assortment of vintage ad snippets including Salter Seed Co offering a bargain seed book with discounts and free seed offers, plus assorted quotes and a catarrh cure patent medicine pitch. Items include humorous farmer lines and political quotes from newspapers.
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Iential
Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Questionable Compliment from a Louisville Humorist
A Louisville Courier-Journal item quotes a humorist saying some of his jokes have been extensively copied. A friend questions whether the copies are jokes or quasi literary curiosities.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Nickel Plate Road Low Rates Reach Several Regions
The notice promotes very low home seekers rates via Nickel Plate Road targeting West Northwest Southwest and South routes. Travel is offered on the first and third Tuesdays of each month through April 17. For full agent details contact C A Melin T P A Fort Wayne Indiana 765.
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Nickel Plate Road
C. A. Melin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Not Military. General X and Major Y recall a civilian driver
General X and Major Y recall seeing a man who looked civilian yet once commanded in war. The exchange notes he now runs an automobile station rather than a battlefield role, as recorded in the Princeton Tiger.
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General X
Major Y
Princeton Tiger
Superstitious Ex-Customer Quits Butcher Shop
A humorous exchange follows the question why the ex-customer stops patronizing the butcher. The reply cites superstition about a horseshoe nailed over the door and explains the change in habit.
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Gunaboat
Kinkiang
Enland
Sal Salzer
Michigan
Houston Post
Ben
Hall
Berd
F. J. Chaney & CO
Toledo
Draggiata, TK
Fall
Washington Star
York
SNES
Jae Ee
St. Jacobs Oil
Price
Cotton Wood Falls
Kamses
Bears
Gastoria
Sloans
Dr. Earl
Sloan
Albany St
Boston
D. Meadaghe
W. Brewner
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