Kidneys Injured Man Seeks Aid After Railroad Crash
William White of Three Rivers Michigan describes lasting kidney damage from a railroad collision. He details pain, weakness, and hospital stay before claiming Dean's Kidney Pills provided dramatic recovery over seven years of medical care. Advertisement notes 50 cent boxes and Foster Milburn Co. Also references 1907 motor car production and 1903 sales figures by American Motor Car Manufacturers Association.
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William White
R. R
Constantine St
Three Rivers
Mich
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
American Motor Car Manufacturers’ Association
Cure for Chapped Eczema Brought Relief
Walter H. Cox of Boston describes three months of severe itching burning and cracking hands until Cuticura remedies cured him in a month. He could not move thumbs due to deep cracks and sleepless nights, but relief followed after using the products from Potter Drug and Chem. Corp.
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Walter H. Cox
Somerset St
Boston
Mass
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Antonio
Paolo Monti
Ermenegeldo
Giacinta
Maddalena
Dante
Father
Papa
Paolo
Boaster
Alessandro
Teodoro Fabri
Teodoro
Ida
Costanza
Achille Donati
Archille
Copper bath Marat slain by Corday goes on sale in Paris
A Paris sale lists the copper bath used to kill Jean Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday. The tub, once sold to a museum for 600 dollars, is described as an old tub shaped like a wooden shoe and scarred from ancient usage.
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Marat
Charlotte Corday
Paris
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Turkish treason tale
Old Turkey regime falls and Abul-Huda, the sultan's trusted astrologer, ends his career. He is confined on the island of Principo in the Sea of Marmora facing treason charges. Caviling medical advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a money-back pledge.
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Hall
F. J. Reney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Curxey & Co
Consu
Turkey
Abul-Huda
Prinkipo
Sea of
Marmora
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days and Other Notices
An assortment of ad copy and fragmentary notices touts cures for piles with Paro Ointment promising relief in 6 to 14 days and refunds if ineffective. Other line items mention English hydraulic presses for boat hulls, Garfield Tea, statistics about Brooklyn populations, Mrs. Winslow’s Syrup for teething, Burma petroleum wells yielding years earlier, and assorted testimonials.
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England
Garfield
Gartild ‘Tesco
Brooklyn
When Smoking Is Least Harmful
The article argues tobacco amblyopia risk can be reduced by hygiene and timing. It advises against smoking on an empty stomach and before dinner, and warns against smoking late at night to stay awake. It also condemns chewing the cigar between the teeth.
Sawbury Mystery Through a Philadelphia Inquiry
A fragment from the Philadelphia Inquirer questions the identity of Sawbury, noting a small boy reciting a poem and speculating he may have influenced the captain. The exhibit hints at a curious scene with the boy standing on the burning deck and an intelligent younger brother weighing Sawbury’s role.
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Vasablanca
Sawbury
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fragmented verse on life as theatre and art
A fragmented poetic passage contemplates life as a chaotic stage where captains and ladies, trulls and clowns enact a farce and tragedy. It questions whether lasting spectacles exist beyond magick and art, invoking aging notaries and the truth at life’s epitome.
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Iite
Antonio Reads for Italy's Loving Teacher
In a small Italian immigrant community, Antonio, a shy child, learns to read with the patient help of his teacher. His progress sparks pride among family and neighbors, culminating in a special gift from Paolo Monti and a heartfelt tribute to the teacher and to Italy.
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Bernard
Maddalena
Antonio
Teacher
Double the Problem Airship or Submarine Dilemma
An amateur inventor debates whether to build an airship or a submarine. A friend suggests the airship because it simply needs to rise to fly, while the submarine requires getting beneath the surface and then resurging. The Louisville Courier Journal quotes the anecdote.
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Louisville Conriar Journal
Potted Pigeons Fry in Pork Fat and Onion Gravy
Boston Post describes a method to prepare six pigeons with pork fat and onions. Fry pork slices, brown pigeons rolled in flour with onions, remove pork, then simmer pigeons in fat and water. Add diced carrot after half an hour, cook until tender, strain gravy, and serve thickened over the birds.
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Boston Post
Peach Marmalade From Early Preservation Notes
A New York Telegram excerpt describes preparing peach marmalade by peeling seven pounds of peaches and three and a half pounds of sugar with vinegar. Spice with cinnamon or cassia, cloves in a bag, simmer until thick, then can and seal.
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New York Telegram
Hungarian Chicken Paprika Dish Notes
A detailed home recipe from the Pittsburg Dispatch instructs browning onions in butter, adding paprika, browning chicken pieces, simmering in stock until tender, then removing the meat and finishing with a sour cream scald before serving.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Chocolate Cake Recipe Steps From Old Home Cook Book
Melt chocolate with milk in a double boiler then cream butter with sugar add egg yolk milk and salt with melted chocolate and flour sifted with soda mix three times and bake thirty minutes. For frosting boil sugar and water to a bread spin then pour over stiff white of egg and beat cool with lemon flavor.
Meat Chowder and Household Tips from Boston Post
A Boston Post clipping presents a meat chowder recipe with pork onions potatoes milk and crackers plus household hints. It suggests frying pork then simmering vegetables, adding meat, milk and softened crackers. includes tips on doughnuts sponges egg drops lamp wicks warm food storage and cleaning tricks. notes on wax beet tallow and dusty carpet care.
Marshall Field Made Money Reminiscence Tale
In an 1880s memory from Leslie’s Senator An recalls a Chicago visitor who endorsed an $80,000 letter of credit and prompted a land purchase. Acting as agent, 30,000 acres near cheap railroad lands were bought at $2.65 per acre, yielding over a million dollars for the Chicago client Marshall Field.
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Chicago
First National Bank of
Marshall Field
Leslie
New Canal Barges Will Speed Traffic Between Stettin and Berlin
The construction of a large canal for barges between Stettin and Berlin has commenced with government support to push the work forward. It aims to be ready for traffic by 1912 and will enable goods to move by lighters of up to 600 tons at reduced freights.
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Stettin
Berlin
Then and Now Complete Recovery From Coffee Addict
A Louisville woman credits Postum and Grape-Nuts for her dramatic recovery after nine years of coffee dependence. She was nearly prostrated by caffeine, avoided trips, but after switching to Postum and Grape-Nuts she regained health and now supports three charity groups while raising five children.
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Louisville
Postum
Postum Co
Bat Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pligs
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