Golden Medical Discovery advertised by Dr. Pierce
The article promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a forest plant extract from the American woods to purify blood and restore stomach, liver, and kidney balance. It claims to cure indigestion, coated tongue, headaches, and constipation without alcohol or habit forming drugs, urging readers to reject substitutes and use the recommended pellets for constipation.
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Nature
Ature
Forest Plants
R.V. Pierce
Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Paris Crowded Housing Metrics Report
Paris shows dense living conditions with an average of 128 residents per acre. The metropolitan area contains about 700000 apartments and lodgings renting under 100 dollars yearly, while around 17000 units yield 800 dollars or more.
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Paris
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Base Cures foot pain
An advertising notice for Allen's Foot-Base powder claims it cures painful smarting nervous feet and ingrowing nails, makes shoes feel easier, and stops sweating. Sold by all druggists for 2 cents with a trial package offered free. Address A. S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
No Pleasing the Man. Breakfast delays Sunday unrest
A unquotable New York Press remark laments the difficulty of staying in bed Sunday morning while breakfast is not ready, noting the frustration mirrors that of rising on other days. The wry line captures a household clash of routine and expectations.
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New York
Free 6 Tons Grass Hay for Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Farmers can obtain six tons of grass hay at no cost for feeding hogs cattle and sheep. The offer emphasizes plentiful fodder and wide suitability for barnyard livestock.
Salzer's Seed Catalogue Offers Bargain Seeds and Free Grass
The John A. Salver Seed Co announces a special Salzh Nanoainan seed book featuring bargain seeds and a promise of free seed to grow 5 tons of grass. Remit and receive a package of cosmos flowers. sale promotes fashionable, serviceable seeds from Lock Crawford, Wisconsin to La Crosse.
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John A. Salver Seed Co
Lock Crawer W
la Crosse
Wis
Impending Crisis Cited by Professor and Odd Piles Claim
A professor remarks that crises attract many Helpers who push events forward. The text promotes a dubious “guaranteed cure for piles” with implausible claims and references refunds if an appointment fails, suggesting a sensational or fraudulent ad in a historical paper.
Night Cap Wedding Gift From Countess Fabbricotts
A bride received a lace night cap as a wedding present from Countess Fabbricotts. The notice mentions a large package from Hed Cross Ball Hive and references fashion notes about 16th to 19th century shoe styles and materials.
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Countess Fabbricotts
Gino Uy
Russ C Company
South
Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy
The notice advertises Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims to soften gums reduce irritation and ease wind colic. The ad mentions a bottle and its comforting effects for young patients.
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Winslow
Preservation method for eggs and a cure claim follow date
A letter from J. Boren of Trinity Springs in February 1909 discusses greasing warm eggs with vaseline to preserve freshness for weeks or months, noting earlier application extends the "new laid" quality. The writer also asserts Piso's Cure for Consumption outperforms any cough or cold remedy.
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Jons F. Boren
Trinity Springs, Ltd
Why Hield Keeps Walking Do you keep stationery joke
John Hield a floorwalker in New London Conn jokes about stationery and keeping his job. A promotional round trip to California costs 50 dollars via the Salt Lake Route. See local agent or J L Moore Salt Lake City for details.
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Hield
John Hield
New London
Conn
California
Salt Lake
J. L. Moore
Salt Lake City
Gesture Languages in Australasia Persist in Tribes
Some Australasian tribes maintain gesture codes as highly efficient forms of communication, rivaling spoken language in select communities. The regional tradition endures in areas where sign systems enable rapid, nuanced exchanges, illustrating cultural adaptation and continuity.
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Australasia
Lincoln's Youth Friend Quinine Remembered in Burnett Home
Mrs Vienna Lyster, aged 89 near Los Angeles, recalls Abraham Lincoln’s youth as a clerk in New Salem. He boarded for a dollar weekly under her father’s roof and teased her as “Quinine.” She describes his daily seven mile walks from Parson Cameron’s cabin to Denton Offutt’s store and his enduring strength. He was a tall gaunt boy of about 21 when he left home to seek his own way.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Abraham Lincoln
New Salem
Vienna Lyster
Lincoln
Burnett
Fair Ann Rutledge
Murnett
Illinois
New Orleans
Sangamon River
Tom O'Shanter
Nancy
Jane
Martha
Sarah
Salina
Serena
Ellea
Caroline
Margaret
Cameron
Denton Offutt
John Cameron
Mrs. Lyster
Abe
Father names child Michael in church mixup
In Boston a father with fourteen children presented his baby at a church. The priest suggested names, none fit until the father agreed to Michael. After the ceremony he admitted the baby was a girl and he already has a Michael at home, prompting surprised reactions.
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Michael
Lincoln in New Salem Early Years and Neighbors
The article recounts Abraham Lincoln's 1831–1836 period in New Salem Illinois as a time of learning from love and loss, detailing local figures including Rev. John Cameron and the Rutledge family. It describes Lincoln's youth, his lodgings with Mrs. Lyster's family, his nickname Quinine, and playful pranks amid the early town’s development.
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Illinois
Lincoln
Lyster
Vienna Cameron
Quinine
Ann Rutledge
New Salem
John Cameron
Lloyd
Presbyterian Church
James Rutledge
Cameron
Sangamon
Rutledge & Cameron
Denton Offut
Lincoln's Mother's Tribute From St Nicholas
Lincoln was a social sunny tempered boy who enjoyed jokes as much as study. His stepmother said Abe never gave a cross word or refused a request and was the beat boy she ever saw, as noted in Helen Nicolay's The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln.
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Abe
Helen Nicolay
Abraham Lincoln
St. Nicholas
Clock 700 Years Old In Exeter Cathedral
A clock in Exeter Cathedral England is seven centuries old with a seven foot dial. The dials display the time of day and the moon phase.
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Exeter Cathedral
England
Remarkable Bridges on Carrick-a-Rede Island
The Carrick-a-Rrede rock off Ireland is reached by a rope bridge across a sixty foot chasm and an eighty foot deep drop. The salmon lure travelers as storms make the bridge swing and perilous passage. A cavern nearby yields bones of horse, ox, deer, sheep, goat, badger, otter, water rat and various birds.
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Auld
Emerald Isle
Carrick-a-rede
Great Northern Railroad
Ireland
Amundsen Says Lieut Hansen Near Magnetic Pole
The Eagle City Alaska dispatch reports Capt Amundsen stating Lieut Hansen observed within ninety miles of the magnetic pole and believes he passed over it. Movements of the needle render the result uncertain and allow other deductions from these observations.
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The
New York Herald
Eagle City
Alaska
Capt. Amundsen
Lieut. Hansen
Youth Reaches Majority. Father Pays For Forbearance
Irving D Froelich of Newark turned twenty-one yesterday and received the promised reward for restraint. His father Samuel Froelich, head of a large wholesale liquor house, had agreed when Irving was fifteen to give $1,000 if he would refrain from smoking until adulthood. The son found flowers at his desk and two $500 bills under a cigar box, though he said he would rather wait another twenty-one years for the same offer.
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Irving D. Froelich
Newark
Samuel Froelich
Irving
New York Sun
Catching Turtles in the West Indies
A description of a method used in the West Indies where a ring and line are attached to a sucker-fish’s tail. The fish is cast overboard and dashes for the first turtle it sees, gripping the turtle with a suction apparatus on its head. The fisherman then hauls in both turtle and fish.
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West Indies
Distant European Miser Dies in Berne Household
Reby, famed as Europe’s most frugal man, dies in Bern after living on three cents a day. He kept to bread and water and shunned society in a dilapidated home. A house search uncovered gold and securities valued around $575,000.
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Father Reby
Europe
Berne
Absent-Minded Daniel Drew and Colorful Omens
A sketch recounts Daniel Drew as a naturally absent minded man who buys too many undershirts and underdrawers, prompting his wife’s exasperation. It also surveys color shifts in seasons, noting white yellow pink and crimson blooms, and a note on the elusive blue rose and black tulip, with lore on the word jag in English dialects.
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Daniel Drew
Depew
Drew
Daniel
Pearson's Weekly
Cheap Tea in Japan Trade Reveals Poorer Class Drink
A cent a pound tea shows how poorer Japanese classes obtain tea. The piece describes bancha as the cheapest variety, made from trimmings of tea bushes clipped after the first crop.
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Japan
Word Building Contest with Grape Nuts Prizes
A 1906 promotion invites families to form as many words as possible from Y I O Grape Nuts letters. The top 20 win $10 gold pieces, 16 win $5 boxes, 200 win $1 boxes, and one person with the highest total wins $100 in gold. Entries must include a letter about Grape-Nuts. contest ends April 30, 1906, at Postum Cereal Co. Bat tle Creek, Michigan.
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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
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St. Jacobs
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