Enders Finds Relief After Years of Kidney Trouble
John A Enders of Robertson Avenue Pen Argyl Pennsylvania suffered long with back pain severe headaches and dizziness. After using Deans Kidney Pills his kidneys began to act more regularly and he passed gravel stones. He reports ongoing health since. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Enders
Robertson Avnue
Pen Argyl
Mr. Enders
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
The Eternal Tip And Patent Remedies In An Old Newspaper
Short observations on tipping as a social habit contrast with various advertisements. The page includes medical patent cures by Dr Kline and Dr H R Kline of Philadelphia, a teething syrup for children, a laxative Garfield Tea, and a claim about mine fatalities in America. It also notes Italy’s convict rate and a Georgia company selling paper nonpetite products.
Japanese Hair Export Trade Grows Rapidly
The British attache in Yokohama reports Japan’s hair export industry expanding quickly from 1904 to 1906, rising from about $1000 to $60,000. In 1907 growth slowed but the trade remained strong as largely black coarse hair from lower-class women is shipped, with Osaka producing large quantities for Paris wigs and related goods.
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Yokohama
Japan
Osaka
Paris
Growing a Foot a Day in Mauritian Desert Aloes
During a severe drought in Mauritius a striking display emerged as giant aloe stems produced white flowers. Shafts up to arm thickness rose from the plant centers, growing twelve to eighteen inches in a day, reaching about thirty feet tall. A cluster of aloes with flowering tops resembled a giant asparagus plant.
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Mauritius
The Freshman and The Right to Be Fresh
A college freshman must not infringe on the exclusive right of other undergraduates to be fresh, per the Brooklyn Standard Union. The note frames student conduct as a matter of courtesy and fairness within campus life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Standard Union
Grocer credits Postum for his nerves and health
A Cleveland grocer cites a customer letter and his own two year coffee withdrawal experience. He reports improvement in nerves and appetite after switching to Postum Food Coffee. He urges others with nervousness or stomach troubles to leave coffee and use Postum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Wellville
The Crowning Indignity by Wilbur Nesbit
A poem in which a younger sibling laments always inheriting older brother Alferd’s worn clothes and illnesses. The speaker notes Alferd’s new clothes, undergarments, and measles passing down, expressing anger at the persistent secondhand cycle and its unfairness. The piece conveys family economy and child’s envy within a Harper's Magazine attribution.
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Alferd
Wilbur Nesbit
Harper’s Magazine
Quotation Bites and Playful Snippets Across Papers
A collage of humorous quotes and cartoon captions from 19th and early 20th century papers. The items feature wry exchanges about honesty pay-as-you-enter schemes and sly observations on social manners. Notable quips include lines on photos justice pay arrangements and mislaid misunderstandings.
Racing Horses on the Ice in Canada
A transplanted Canadian recalls ice racing in Canada where horses were winter shod with long calks. He notes horses racing on frozen lakes in Nova Scotia and the thrill of speed on a yielding ice roadbed. He contrasts with slipping horses on New York streets in cold spells.
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Canada
New York
Nova Scotia
New York Sun
Signagraph machine signs many documents fast
A new device called the signagraph enables a writer to reproduce a signature on multiple documents. After writing the name once the mechanism guides nineteen additional pens, allowing twenty signatures in one stroke sequence. At four signatures per minute it could sign about 5000 documents in under an hour, versus two days by hand.
Alms from a Tomb Observed at Ide Ford
A 300 year old custom in Ide Ford near Chudleigh follows placing coins on the donor’s tomb by the rector and church warden while the poor come to collect at the far end. The practice continues as a local charitable rite noted by the London Standard.
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Ideford
Chudleigh
London Standard
Parental Inconsistency and Rubber Stamp Ink Note
A brief item notes a judge admonishing Willie to stop slang usage. It also mentions that rubber stamp ink is made from aniline dye and glycerin and can be bought at druggist shops in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
N. Y
Unsuitable suitor faces opposition in family feud
Roxley dismisses Mabel's lover as a pest and insists he would not approve a marriage. Ascum questions the prospects, while Roxley hints the girl and mother would approve only if the suitor shows sense and resolves the matter.
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Old Roxley
Mabel
Ascum
Philadelphia Press
Coal Hauling Costs On St Louis and San Francisco Line
The article states railway coal hauling costs for its own locomotives at 3 mile per an mile and labor for handling coal at 8 cents per ton.
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St. Louis & San Francisco
Cuticura Treated Elderly Patient Finds Relief from Piles
An eighty year old man reports chronic hemorrhoids with bleeding and eczema prior to using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills. He credits a month of treatment and ongoing use for improvement, noting high costs of other remedies before his cure.
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J. H. Henderson
Hopkinton
N. Y
Growth of Manual Training in Public Schools
The United States has 1327 cities with 4000 or more people and organized public school systems. Manual training is taught in 510 of these cities, up 90 in one year. In 1890 only 37 city systems included manual training.
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United States
Hall's Catarrh Cure ad from 1886 court affidavit
Frank J. Cheney of J Cheney & Co sworn as senior partner in Toledo Ohio pledges one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public A W Gleason. Ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally with testimonials and 75 cent price plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
J.cheney & Co
HaLl
A. D
A. W. Gleason
J. Cheney & Co
Voice Photography to Replace Writing and Stenography
Paris scientist Dr Marago photographs the human voice using a powerful magnifier to read spoken records. He predicts voice recordings will replace writing and alphabets, with zigzag strips as a new printing form and contracts bound by telephone-like conversations.
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Marago
Paris
Dubuque
House Work Sacrifices of Women in Domestic Life
A depiction of the pressures on American housewives as they keep homes tidy and children dressed, noting female hardship and silent suffering. The passage urges recognition and help for women bearing daily burdens.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helps Women
Women from Mayville New York and Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They describe regaining strength and ability to work a full day and urge other sick women to try it.
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F. Ellsworth
Mayville
N. Y
W. P. Boyd
Beaver Falls
Lydia E. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women Promotes Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
A vintage advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ills including displacements inflammation and fibroid tumors. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice and offers mailed instructions from Lynn Mass. John Grover advertises a “wonderful cure” with no doctors and a full guarantee mailed for a dime from Philadelphia.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
John Grover
Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia
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Paris Journal
St. Vitus
America
Europe
al Druggists
Italy
Country
H. H. Green
W.l.douglas
Dousse
I. Douglas
Bey
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Hasrock
Pater
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Record-Herald
Puck
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Subbubs
California 1 Rup Co
Regul
Mother Gray
Ont
Olmsted
Putnam San Nat
Quincy
Lilliness
Nt Lely
Wells
Jersey City
Frankfort Insurance Company
William Street
Health
BEA
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Paxtine
Atlanta
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