Eczema Sufferer Credits Cuticura Remedies Victory
Mrs. Alfie Eteon of Battle Creek Michigan describes nine year relief from painful itching and bleeding eczema after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Regenerative Lotion. She cites dramatic improvement after first bath and four bottles of remedies and urges others to write for confirmation. The note closes with a ball wrestling aside remark.
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Thad
Alfie Eteon
Inn Road
Battle Creek
Mich
Northwest Notes: floods, smallpox, and rail actions in the west
Reports from Carson Nevada warn of smallpox and an epidemic fear while floods trap traffic along the Reese River valley. Montana and Nevada telegraph links extend to Billings and Manila dispatches note spy executions. Mining, legal actions, fires, strikes, and notable deaths fill a wide west news roundup with multiple named places and people.
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Carson
Nevada
Reese River Valley
Nevada Central
Montana
Western
Millers
McKay Vs. Francis Mohawk Mining Company
Goldfield
Montana Eastern Telephone Company
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Exchange
Billings
Ed Beckathorn
Tonopah
Mae Talbott
Reno
Thomas Horn
San Jose
Cal
Comstock
Virginia City
Manila
Sparks
Denver
Rock Island
Carson City
Henry Riter
W. G. Douglass
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Horace Clark
Mena Given
Garfield
Charles J.guiteau
Pueblo
Colo
Spokane
Warren
LaChapelle
Helena
A Little Cold and Its Fatal Outcome
A poem notes a neighborly wake as a man dies from a simple cold. An earlier advertisement warns neglect of coughs can lead to serious trouble and promotes a home remedy mix of glycerine virgin oil of pine compound whisky with instructions to take a teaspoonful every four hours, sold in drug stores.
Weather Laughs At The Paper’s Joke
A lighthearted exchange mocks a newspaper weather forecast predicting a warm clear day. The humor hinges on a reader claiming the weather forecast itself is the funny part, highlighting playful newsroom banter.
Marriage as a Game of Chance and Diplomacy
A Judge muses that marriage resembles a fair game where the husband leads at first but often trails after the wife. He cites confusing rules, comparing nighttime robberies with daytime diplomacy and noting wives gain privileges in life’s games.
Sunday School Ad at Brooklyn Church Seeks Youth Members
A Brooklyn church uses shop window placards to recruit children for its Sunday school. The signs read Wanted Boys and girls to join our Sunday school and list benefits for attendees. The ad mirrors entertainment promotion styles to attract youths.
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Brooklyn
The Appetites of Kings
A remark on royal feasting notes Alfonso XII’s routine breakfast of rump steak with potatoes and occasional eggs with sides. The passage, drawn from Recollections of M Paoll in McClure's, comments on sovereigns as valiant eaters and daily expenditure.
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Spain
Alfonso XII
M. Paoll
McClure
A Change of Food Brings Health Improvements
A testimonial from a Missouri couple credits Postum and Grape-Nuts with curing stomach and nervous troubles after coffee and certain foods were omitted. The wife reports four months of weight gain and symptom relief. the husband notes better sleep and disappearance of cramps. A brother in California also uses Postum with family.
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Ili
Postum
California
Wellville
Opera the Great Leveler
A New York Sun brief recounts a theater moment at a Wagner opera where a woman points out a well-known butcher in the audience. The exchange reveals the vendor’s frequent opera attendance and his broader interests beyond cutting meat, highlighting cross social humor.
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Opera
Leveler
New York Sun
We Offer Reward for Use of Catarrh Cure
A vintage advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for any use of Hall Catarrh Cure not cured by the remedy. It asserts the founder F J Cheney is trustworthy and lists Toledo wholesalers and a mail order option. The text promotes Hall Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous surface remedy with mail delivery and local drugstore availability.
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Fd. Quaney &Co
F. J. Cheney
Pasneung
Watorna
Kimaan & Manin
Heat Problem Dialogue Sparks Infernal Banter
In a brief exchange a speaker vows to burn coal in a location while another quips that the devil will handle the heat later. The remark humorously implies a persistent heat issue and a mischievous solution.
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Nick
This Will Interest Mothers
An ad touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children as a remedy for fever, headache, stomach illness, teething troubles, bowels, and worms. It claims quick relief and harmlessness with a simple dosage, and provides a sales address in Olmsted Roy.
Woman Impresses Man With Soft Heart Or Head
A proverb-like remark notes that any woman can make an impression on a man who has either a soft heart or a soft head, highlighting a playful view of gender dynamics.
Bromo Quinine and Laxative Claims in Outdated Ad Phrases
A garbled OCR snippet features a promise for Bromo Quinine as a laxative and cold cure, mentions Lavok signature of BE W GROVE, and touts no substitutes for Perry Oops Poindiller. The passage includes aphorisms about pleasing neighbors and rheumatic relief, with disjointed phrases and misspelled terms.
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Lavok
BE. W. Grove
Lydia E. Pinkham Herbal Remedy Praised by Chicago Reader
A Chicago reader credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her severe health problems. The letter claims relief from inflammation and weakness after prior medical doubt, and endorses the product's safety and effectiveness based on testimonials and laboratory records from Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
William
Irene
21St St
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia FE. Pinkham
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John J. Brown & Son
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Howard E, Burton
al VE Ad Vitagerald & Co
Pata
Thompson
Baby
Guens
Northwest
Alexander J. Whitney
Colorado
Garnett
Government Forestry Service
Butch” Cassidy
Sundance Kid
Kid Curry
West
Utah
Argentine Republic
la Chapelle
Puck
Perry Oops Poindiller
Joo
Samuel Ptower Pyle
the Centaur Company
New York
Bears
Gastoria
Pan
Swoom
Sonorbilt Shoes
Cmayer
Marthe Washington
F. Mayer Boot & Shoe CO
Wisdensin
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