Mrs Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Leesburg Woman
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia writes to Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing months of feminine ills. The letter accompanies claims the remedy has helped thousands of women with displacements inflammation irregularities and related symptoms. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg,Va
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mantel Ornaments Bring Staffordshire Ware Craze
Women collect mantel ornaments from Staffordshire ware seeking multiple figures to form a small army of animals and figures. Many pieces are new, imported, and stock in antique shops grows as demand rises for bridge parties and quaint old fashioned china.
Kentucky Burgoo and Vintage Dinner Menu Ideas
A historic kitchen guide outlines a five pound veal roast dinner plan with successive days of meals including burgoo soup stock from the bone, a mixed vegetable and meat puree, and a dessert lineup with cabinet pudding and patty pancakes. It details ingredients like veal, squab, chicken, beef, corn, tomatoes, peppers, rice, and spices, plus baking steps for a molded dessert and festive patty tins.
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Kentucky
Recipe for a spiced almond loaf with frosting
Bring two pounds of honey or sirup and one-quarter pound butter with one pound sugar to a boil. Dissolve baking powder in water, cool, add six eggs, one-quarter pound eltron, ground cloves and cinnamon, one quarter pound almonds, then one pound flour. Mix well, roll to quarter inch, bake slowly, cool and slice. Frosting optional.
Marking Linens With Curling Rons Technique
A brief note describes using curling rons as a substitute for a fat iron to mark linens. After marking, heat the trons briefly without scorching and press marks between the trons. Reheating the tron is not needed for many linens.
Washing Tiles
Instructions advise running a lengthwise basting thread through four in hand ties to prevent wrinkling during washing. The note emphasizes smoothing the fabric and maintaining neat appearance.
Sloan's Liniment Promotes Horse Cures Across Rural Trials
A. D. Bruce of Aurelia Iowa shares multiple anecdotes praising Sloan's Liniment for curing fistula and sweeny in horses. He recounts using the product on a stubborn case that veterinarians doubted and notes neighbors also reported success, with praise for Sloan's Sure Colle Cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweeny
Sloan
A. D. Bruce
Aurelia, Ta
Humorous Tales and Snatches From the Street News
A collection of brief humorous anecdotes and sketches including a boy washed at the town pump who says he washed up to his shirt, a playful piece about fast trains and nations, a barrister’s witty defense joke, a cook’s cure and a bull terrier interruption at a Sunday school social evening with a boy’s quip about a bull pup becoming a bloodhound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Bede
Minnesota
Grape Nuts Restores Brain and Nerves Says Sufferer
A Wisconsin woman describes dyspepsia relief and dramatic recovery after using Grape-Nuts with milk and lime water. She reports weight gain from 90 to over 145 pounds, restored speech, and renewed appetite, crediting Postum Co’s product and the claim There’s a Reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Phga
Test Linseed Oil and Paint Adulteration Warning
A guidance note explains how poor or adulterated linseed oil affects paint and how to detect kerosene and other contaminants on a black painted surface. It mentions using a blowpipe to test white lead adulteration and provides the National Lead Company address in New York for free instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lead Company
Addrom
Woodbridge Building
New York
Mind of Lady Maccabee Identified After Accident
A loafer in railroad yards picked up a glittering badge and pinned it to his coat before colliding with a slow freight train. He was found unconscious and identified as a Lady Maccabee by the badge on his coat after search by Patrick Doyle, the yardmaster's assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Patrick Doyle
Doyle
Patrick
Woman Kidney Pills Save Columbus Patient Says Cure Found
Mrs. Rebecca Mack of Columbus reports kidney trouble relief from Dean's Kidney Pills. She says back pain faded, nerves steadied, and energy returned after starting the treatment. Pills sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y. Also includes a joke about a suitor and a furniture coat of paint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Mack
Rich Street
Columbus
Ohio
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Secret birthday dress longing shocks husband
In a brisk exchange from the Tatler a wife confesses a secret longing for a new dress and hat for her birthday. The husband probes while she insists on a reckoning, ending with a humorous vow to reveal the longing.
Cure to all stages of Catarrh claims in 19th century ad
An assortment of patent medicine pitches appears, including Hall's Catarrh Cure offering $100 reward if it fails, advertisements for Allen's Foot-Ease, and self help prose about judging a man by what he does not pay or say. The passage blends medical pseudo science with product pitches and light fiction about Pat and Mike reacting to a big touring car.
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Hall
Qab Clog & Sonmiwuvga
Tornanly
Addrom F.C
Cheney & GO
Toledo
Pat
Mike
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Howard E. Burton
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