Backache and Young Women Heal With Vegetable Compound
A classic testimonial promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the remedy for backache linked to female health issues. The ad claims the product relieves pain, headache, abdominal weight, and nerviness, restoring normal organ function and body weight, with Mrs Pinkham offering free advice and thousands of cured cases including Marina Glenn of Cincinnati.
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Lydia
E. Pinkham
Marina Glenn
Dudley St
Cincinnati
Kennedy’s Medical Discovery Claims Broad Cures
Donal d Kennedy of Roxbury Mass announces a remedy from weed that he says cures humor from scrofula to pimples. He cites over eleven hundred cases with two failures and possesses certificates from near Boston. The label promises first bottle relief and full cure with proper dose.
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Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Reading passenger befriended by two women on pass scam
A genial Philadelphian avoids exposure after two women with a pass for a gentleman and wife ask him to escort one woman and swap the other under his ticket. He chooses the younger woman and boards the parlor car with her, fearing word would spread but it never did.
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Reading
Marriage Offer From Jarvia Pinner in Clay County
A peculiar ad in The Manchester Star invites young women aged sixteen to twenty two in Clay and nearby counties to marry Jarvia Pinner of Pigeon Roost Clay County Kentucky. He offers 150 acre farm orchard 300 bearing trees modern hogs and chickens and promises his real and personal estate. Applicants must be well recommended of good form and pretty face. No Suse named. No cross eyed woman. Rare opportunity.
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Manchester Star
Clay
Jarvia Pinner
Pigeon Roost
Clay County
Adam
Suse
Arid Region Exposition Proposal for Utah and West
A plan proposes an arid region exposition in Utah with cooperation from neighboring states. It aims to travel to major Eastern cities to display field and orchard products and mineral treasures, counter desert misconceptions, and attract immigration and capital to the West. The effort mirrors a San Francisco exhibit and could later tour smaller towns.
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Utah
Rockies
Sierras
San Francisco
Electrical Dentistry Gives Pain Free Tooth Extraction
Electricity is now used by dentists to extract teeth. A three wire battery with two handles and a forceps wire is applied as the patient grasps the handles. When electricity is turned on, the tooth and surrounding parts become insensible to pain and the tooth is removed with a jerk.
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Scienco
Mail's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Notes
Repeated notes promote Mail's Catarrh Cure taken internally priced at 75 cents. Glens Sulphur Soap touted for skin whitening with pink and white complexion claims. Also references a Half Fare Sunday Excursion on Nickel Plate Road offering one fare round trip between local points.
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Prioa
Nickel Plate Road
Tny
Paralyzed by anemia cured by Pink Pills, Mrs Mather states
Mrs. A Mather of New York describes fifteen years of nervous prostration from anaemia and poverty of blood. After failing with multiple doctors she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with a rapid recovery after three boxes. Her daughter also reports cures, and the pills are marketed as a general blood and nerve tonic.
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Preas
New York City
A. Mather
East One Hundred and Twelfth Street
New York
Williams
Dr. Willams’ Med. Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Elevator history and Rome Colosseum reference at convention
Elevators credited to modern use in hotels and homes are contrasted with a 2000 year old principle from Rome used to lift beasts at the Colosseum. The Republican National Convention in St Louis on June 210 1890 features a Wabash Rail Road round trip fare to St Louis offer with travel details via ticket agents and C.8. CuAnk.
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Rome
St. Loma
St. Louis
St. Jous
Fragmented Advertisements and Public Notices Across 1905
A jumble of quotes and notices includes Bank of England dividend fractions paid to the Exchequer, a testimonial from Amos Kelner, and assorted health cures. It also lists rail excursion ticket alerts on Nickel Plate road, soap and remedy ads, and pediatric teething products.
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Bank of England
World’s Columbian Exposition values progress in medicine and industry
The piece extols the exposition as showcasing mechanical improvements and notes eminent physicians praising advances in medicinal agents. It mentions Syrup of Figs as a superior laxative and references the Talmud on sun stopping. It also notes Nickel Plate excursion tickets and a pope’s pearl estimate tied to Leo.
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Kennedy
McElree
Cardus
Benlers
Prbedel
Sione Tee Hep Mong
Abu
Tin
Glenn
Elevatos
Amos Kelner
Cherry Valley, IL
Kline
Arch St
Phils
Aira
Winslow
Yawad Teins
Anna Enna Saaette Frand
Joshua
Leo
OLD Eyes
Pond's Extract CO
London
Heaven
Sapolio
Pearline
Macirenn Sano
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