Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted To Women
A faded ad touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female diseases. It cites a testimonial from Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown Pa describing relief from organic disturbance and nervous headaches after use. The copy claims thirty years of use and cure for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and other symptoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cure for eczema cited as Cuticura success story
A Newark Delaware testimonial claims eczema on the hands cleared after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, noting two boxes of ointment and one cake of soap completed the cure. The account appears alongside brief items on a sea serpent sighting, Whitewashing clothes with Red Cross Ball Blue, Uncle Jerry remarks, and a misapprehension correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cevlad
Cuthura
W., H. Dean
Newark
Del
Tricks of Jail Birds and Arcturus Motion
A Minneapolis Journal clipping describes convicts feigning illness with chalk tongue red undergarment flushes and tobacco. another piece notes Arcturus as one of the six greatest stars, its vast distance causing negligible parallax while slowly drifting southwest over the sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nedles
Minneapolis Journal
Arcturus
New York Press
Afraid to Eat and the Grape-Nuts Cure
A letter-like testimonial recounts a girl who suffered indigestion and starvation from irregular meals and overwork. After trying many foods, she found relief with Grape-Nuts, noting renewed appetite, strength, and health with continued use as part of her diet. The ad cites Postum Co. and references The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Old Home Day Reverie Nostalgia for a Rural Past
A nostalgic poem from the New York Sun recalling a bygone farm life. The speaker longs to revisit childhood scenes at a farmhouse, meadow, river, and swimming pool, noting long years since leaving home and asking after neighbors and schoolhouse memories. The verse blends family, farming chores, dances, and winter pastimes with a rueful sense of time passing.
Lone Boy Reels in Eagle Nest Adventure tale
A Sioux youth nicknamed Lone Boy treks along Smoky Hill River breaks to hunt. He climbs a cliff to reach an eagle nest, narrowly dodging swooping parents, then captures two fledglings and secures them to pine limbs by tying their legs, amid dangerous ledge and canyon danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hic
Catches Eagles, by which name he is known to this day
A Sioux boy trapped on a pine shelf above a canyon survives with a daring plan to escape. He frees two eaglets, uses them to leap to the canyon floor, and returns to the Brule Sioux village, where he is honored as Wamblt Yuza for his remarkable feat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hia
Vigoros
Brule Sioux
Cat and dog clash ends in broken engagement melodrama
Three young women in a northeastern city neighborhood share a wary affection for a fearsome cat named Scary William. After a dog arrival provokes a battle, a masterly cane swing provokes a broken engagement, heartbreak for the maid, and a disconsolate youth. Scary William remains unbothered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parrs
Scary William
Tle
William the Conqueror
Bill
William
Scary
Lcary
Cabin John Bridge
Willian
Washington Saar
Disinfected School Rules and Family Frustration
A father laments his child’s sterile school routine and safety fixes, with boiled ink and carbolic soap. The fragment ends with a stubborn pledge to join a fresh air crusade as a Baltimore American aside and a remark about England’s vast land expanse.
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Moor Somme
Lis
Puck
Tan
Baltimore American
Ambiguity and Mischief Amid Old New England Burial Plots
A quixotic tale recalls Mr Church who buried four wives in one lot and faced mixed remains during relocation. New headstones quoted quips about Emily Mary and Hannah Church. The text shifts to a grammar lesson where a visitor corrects sentences about Pennsylvania and anthracite coal, praising a bright pupil, then notes etiquette rules and Guam farming practice.
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New England
Mr. Church
Vale of Tears
Church
Hannah Church
Emily
Emily Church
Matilda
Pennsylvania
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Lynn
Mase
Wldouglas
W.L. Douglas
W. E. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Sperk St
Brockton
Mass
Seny Free
THE
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
P. Aviseuuilia
Cascarets
James McGune
Mercer Bt
Jersey City
M. J
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
N.Y
Vulcan
Lawsons Trinity
National and
Balaklala
Mal Yeu Shasta Brokerage Co
Dunsmuir
Cal
Brazil
M. J. Nicoll
Uncle Jerry
Jerry Teebles
Wareham Long
Jail Birds
Skip French
Jim
Jack
Kate
Lulu Fenn
Ben
New York Sun
Lone Boy
Smoky Hill River
Aeakyou
Love Boy
Hoon
Cearles
Chila Utto
England
Mary
Hannah
Philadelphia Ledger
Adair
Guam
Castoria
Consett
Lerartes Fic Syrup Co
DRU
T. Felix Gouraud
Wwe
Goearaud
Ferd
T. Bopeies
Great Jones Street
New York
Lunda
Panhandle
Nebraska
California
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Utah
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
American Forwarduns CO
Madison St
Cilico Square
Buffalo
International Mfg Ce
Hagerstown, Md
Rosebud
Dallas
Gregory
S. D
Chicago& North Western Railway
Roosevelt
Chicago c North Western Ry
Great
Missouri Valley Corn Belt
B. Kniskern Pase
N. W
Rye
Chicago, Fl
Rosebud Reservation
Tripp County
South Dakota
Chamberlain
Presto
Chicaco
Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway
Presho
F. A. Miller
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