What 10 Dollars Did for This Woman in Danville Va
A Texed reader test of Lydia E Pinkham remedies is cited from Danville Virginia. A woman reports quick health gains with ten dollars spent on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. The ad also touts the product as a forty year trusted tonic for female health and invites letters to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
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Danville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mattie Haley
Colquhone Street
Lydia
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
No Joke at Chicago Athletic Club Foolish Park Prank
A bachelor was lured to a park on a snowy Chicago evening by a fake pink violet scented note from friends to test his supposed dislike of women. He arrived sulky, mocked at the club, and George Ade joked about his reaction saying he would not even look at a joke at his own expense.
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Chicago Athletic Club
George Ade
Life's Road Smoothed by Change of Food
A Troy woman credits Grape-Nuts with ending years of bilious headaches and insomnia caused by indigestion. She states daily use since two years ago improved sleep, eliminated head pains, and renewed energy, urging others to try the product. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and promotes The Road to Wellville.
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Troy
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
In Famous Oberammergau Village A Study Of Life And Faith
Archibald Marshall portrays Oberammergau as a courteous, gentle, deeply religious village of 1650 inhabitants. Narrow streets host shops and carved wares while temporary booths pop up for travelers. Men keep long hair, salute with Gruss Gott, and a wooden cross crowns the mountains as Barabbas sweeps the road in a vivid scene from festival life.
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London
Oberammergau
Archibald Marshall
Rocky Mountains
Barabbas
Vast field ice seen east of Newfoundland by Lord Antrim
The British steamer Lord Antrim reported a field ice stretch over 200 miles long east of Newfoundland. Delayed en route from Narvik to Philadelphia, the ship reached Halifax for coal and navigated south and east to skirt the ice for nearly two days amid continuous westerly gales.
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Halifax
N. S
Newfoundland
Lord Antrim
Narvik
Norway
Philadelphia
$1,000 ear of corn tale linked to Minnesota exhibit
At the National Corn exposition in Nalias Texas an ear of corn called the $1,000 ear drew attention. James J Hill won a $1,000 prize for the 14 inch ear, claimed as his property. In New York a wounded groom married his bride Mary O Sullivan despite injuries and bandages, aided by two friends.
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Nalias
Tex
Minnesota
Biden
J. J. Furlong
James J. Hill
Mr. Hill
New York
Michael O'Donnell
Mary O'Sullivan
Peace in That Family
A child taken to the police station after being lost tries to name her parents. After many attempts an officer asks what names her mother uses for her father. The girl replies she does not call him any name because she likes him.
Watery blisters on face case from Indiana child
Mrs A K Wooden of Smithville describes a one year old girl with red pimples and watery blisters on the face that spread to a fiery red scale. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment three times daily, itching and burning subsided within two days and the skin healed in about two weeks with no recurrence eight months later.
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Smithville
Ind
A. K. Wooden
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Promise Gentle Relief
An advertisement touts Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a cure all for bowels, liver, and blood cleansing. It nonchalantly markets Brom Quinine laxative tonics, cough drops, and fashion dyes, noting signatures and various remedies while urging readers to consider the value of relief from ailments and unreliable promises.
Their Breed
A terse dialogue about prize chickens. A young man notes the father’s fine fowl and asks about incubators. The reply from a boarding school returning girl identifies the breed as Plymouth Rocks, reflecting light social humor in Dallas News prose.
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Dallas News
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