Electric Light Improves Public Speaking Voice
Singers actors and public performers speak with greater ease in electric light venues. Temperature is more even, cold risk lowers, speakers stay cooler less throat dryness and huskiness. Since electric lighting introduced performers are reported to be in better voice than before.
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Cupid
Vilage
Leste
Somers
Guch
Dodd's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Mrs. Smith for Growing Girls
Mrs A N Smith of West Pembroke Maine testifies her daughter aged thirteen suffered weekly Crazy Spells with yellowing eyes and poor appetite. Doctors offered no help until one box began improvement and about a dozen boxes cured most spells. She still takes them occasionally. Mothers urged to heed such advice for daughters' health.
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Tor
West Pembroke
A. N. Smith
Dodd
When I came to town rich in cash and bonds
A London Outlook tale recounted by a prosperous man who arrived with a red bandanna handkerchief containing six thousand pounds in cash and bonds and later built wealth with land and a factory. The anecdote highlights moral reflection on fortune and success.
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London
Obituary Mixup by Consul General Adams
Edward L. Adams, U.S. Consul General at Stockholm and former editor of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, authored an obituary that misquoted a neighbor’s child’s tragedy. The piece described “the burned pants” and elicited sympathy for the bereaved parents, prompting shock at the garbled line.
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Edward L. Adams
United States
Stockholm
Sweden
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Adams
Doctor Gains 36 Pounds via Grape-Nuts Diet
A physician details his health turnaround from 119 pounds in January 1899 to 155 pounds after adopting Grape-Nuts for breakfast. He credits the food with lasting strength and records many patients who benefited, noting the product’s sustaining power and his continued use in practice.
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Ohio Valley
Costum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Uttle
Wellville
His Other Self By Sarah Grand Chapter I
Mrs Leslie Somers living with her rich family and her ailing husband at a seaside resort shares a blissful early marriage with a devoted son. A quiet holiday turns tense when their son roams the heath as her husband vanishes and a looming shadow grows on the horizon.
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Leslie Somers
Heself
Lfe
Daresia
Wilfet
Rascal
Eight Years of Torture and a Kidney Cure
Henry Soule of Pultney Street Hammondaport New York details eight years of severe kidney pain gravel and diuretic issues. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills with a complete lasting cure and notes better digestion and sleep after symptoms disappeared. Doan's pills sold by druggists for 50 cents a box with free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Conan
Henry Soule
Pultney St
Hammondaport
N. Y
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Forgiving Mistress Learns of Maid’s Religion
A Boston Record item recounts a colored maid returning late and shouting with joy, “I've got ’ligion.” The mistress grants forgiveness for this time but warns it must not recur.
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D. €. Brewer
Missus
Boston Record
Female Wellness Claim Ad From Fort Wayne Printer
An advertisement offers a mailed sample cure for female weakness by H. H. Warnes of Fort Wayne Indiana. The notice promises a sample worth more than five dollars upon receipt of address and stamp.
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H. H. Warnes
Fort Wayne
Ind
The Why of St Green-You and Short a Strained Talk
In a terse exchange, Why and Short discuss their distant relation and a possible debt. Brown denies any lending intent, clarifying that Short did not owe money. The dialogue hints at a personal dispute without conclusive resolution.
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St. Green
Short
Brown
Salzer Seed Co Catalog Promises New Farm Seeds
Ad highlights Moravia barley and speltz for hog and cattle feeding across states including Dakotas and Colorado. Promotes Salzer’s billion dollar grass teosinte, cane, and 100 other seeds with 10 cent stamps to La Crosse Wisconsin for a big catalogue and samples. Also pitches Mrs Winslow’s soothing balm for teething with price.
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Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Colorado
Salzer
Teosinte
Salter
Ehoe
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
C. N. Ad
Reader Testimony Credits Vegetable Compound Cure
A Windsor Ontario woman Irene Harpoon reports four years of salpingitis and ovarian inflammation eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims she recovered in five months and warns against neglect risking hospital operation.
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Dean Mas. Prnenaun
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tony
Irene
Sandwich St. Windsor
Ont
Miss Hapgood
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