Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedy Promoted by Patient Testimony
A Chicago woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with avoiding a third surgery after doctors warned she would die. She suffered inflammation and a small tumor, but after using three bottles she recovered. The ad urges women to build up their system to address displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and related symptoms.
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Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tey
Frien
Biggest Rooster Hat Joke and TB Concerns Abroad
A jumble of 1910s era notes reports tuberculosis rising among Japanese laborers, calls for new camp health systems, and editorials from Fliegende Blatter. It includes a humorous exchange about marriage and a Bible lesson anecdote, plus an ad for Dr Mitchell’s Eye Salve and a Houston Post quip about privacy in marriage.
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Japan
Peery Davis Painbillet’s Quirky Ledger Tale
Fragmentary OCR note references Peery Davis Painbillet with an odd omen of colic womb inveterate bowel trouble and wounds. A stray line mentions Bh am Slonipou and the habit of keeping his mouth shut appears to link to a curious biographical or diary fragment.
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Peery Davis
Bham Slonipou
Plague deaths in Amoy and other early 20th century news
Fortnight ending June 14 reports 131 bubonic plague deaths in Amoy. News covers church pension plans, birth trends, a tornado casualty in Missouri, battleship bids Arkansas and Wyoming, alligator shipment by rail, Kambala submarine fundraiser, Black Hand trial in Fernie, California homicide, Missouri education funding veto, mutiny reports in the Philippines, Woodmen of the World grant, Noordam collision near Nantucket, an assassination attempt in Bellefontaine, Lorimer becoming a U.S. senator, Vicksburg voyage, steel strike prep, Heuwah clashes near Amoy, French earthquake rebuilding aid, Gjoa gift to San Francisco, Union Pacific robbery arraignments, and broader immigration-law debates at a fraternal convention.
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Amoy
United States Norwegian Lutheran Church
W. H. Butterbaugh
el Paso
Texas
Monette
Andrew A. McCormick
McCormick
Arkansas
Wyoming
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Kambala
Joseph B Rameria
Chiccago
Black Hand
Canada
Fernie
B.C
Prson Harper
BE. Bennett
Hugenta T. Bennett
Joseph Davis
Santa Ana
Cal
Philippine Constabulary
Davaco
Philippine Islands
Woodmen of the World
Holland American Line
Noordam
William J. Bryan
Nantucket
William K. Niven
Bellefontain
Bottbe
United States
Vicksburg
San Francisco
Horn
Atlantic
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers
American Steel and Tin Plate Company
Heuwah
Moclim
France
Fallieres
Raold Amundsen
D. W. Woods
Pred Torgensen
James Gordon
Jack Shelton
Omaha
Union Pacific
Lane Cutoff
Cll
Junior Order of American Mechanics
Detroit
Slimkine and Podger Barter a Small Debt
A brief dialogue shows Slimkine asking about a minor matter of six dollars in the hands of a bill collector yesterday. Podger replies that he borrowed a dollar from the collector, clarifying the casual handling of debt between them.
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Podger
Cuticura Cures Longstanding Eye Inflammation
G B Halsey of Mouth of Wilson Virginia suffered two years of inflamed eyes despite home remedies and physicians. After one week with Cuticura Ointment his eyes improved, two weeks later nearly well, and no trouble since. He praises Cuticura at age sixty five with date April 4 1908. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston Props, Moston
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Cutiura
G. B. Halsey
Mouth
Wilson
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Bole Props
Moston
Mixed Blood and Witty Roasts in a Cartwheel Tale
A Cincinnati Enquirer fragment links a countess described as blue blood to a blunt western retort about ancestry. The piece contrasts aristocratic pride with frontier bluntness, then shifts to humor about screens, mosquitoes, and a doctor advising reduced whisky and soda.
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Countess de Pourtales
New York
Biarritz
Wild West
Clincinnati Enquirer
Grape-Nuts User Credits Health Restore Story
A Denver woman recalls losing appetite and strength after meals until trying Grape-Nuts. She reports rapid relief, weight gain of 12 pounds, and renewed energy, crediting the food and the slogan There’s a Reason. Trial urged with The Road to Wellville referenced.
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Denver
Doan's Kidney Pills Aid Women With Kidney Trouble
A historical newspaper snippet highlights Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache, hip pain, dizziness, headaches, and bloating attributed to sick kidneys. It cites Mrs. C. R. Foresman of Canon City Colorado endorsing relief after using two to three boxes, with Foster-Milburn Co. noted as the manufacturer and 60 cents per box price.
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C. R. Foresman
Highth St
Canon City
Colo
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Teacher-Now Jimmy Green On Defining An Octopus
Jimmy Green dismisses a question about an octopus with a playful reply that confuses eight with an eight sided cat. The exchange humorously blends school talk with a nonsensical creature notion.
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Jimmy Green
The Novel Type Described in a Late Magazine Story
The Atchison Globe ponders a late magazine tale that paints a “lovely girl” as small and dark with vivid features. It questions whether a woman fitting that striking, theatrical description would prove worth real-world experiences and value in daily life.
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Atchison Globe
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Carl C. Petersen
Dubuque
Egypt
Sea
Houston Post
Tella Lea
Dodds
William Lorimer
Illinois
House of Representatives
Senate
Cuticura
Paine
George
Success Magazine
Dolan
Casey
Calahan
Wolfe
Puck
Allen
Andrew
LeRoy
Farmer Hayrick
Mere. Winslow
Castoria
Samuel Yierer
Centaur Company
NEW_YORK
Bears
Grea
Libby
Vienna
Eicrecus
Thompson
Conney
Sige
Carters
Tiver Plucs
Canton
Aek
Vaadene
DOAUG
THE
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mara
Daisy Fly Killer
Howard E
Burton
Aesarangne
Bilvor
Gil Toh
Hana Ee Pal
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