Ballooning Gains Social Fashion in Berkshire 1908
The New York World notes ballooning as the coming trend for the Berkshire smart set next summer. It highlights Lenox and Pittsfield as ideal bases, costs around 76 dollars for short trips, and cites Aero Club plans to reduce expenses. Safety, navigation aids, and sky pilots rise in popularity among the Four Hundred.
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Lenox
Milky Way
Heavenly Boulevards
Lady Harbard
Alan R. Hawley
Aero Club
East Forty-second Street
Pittsfield
Mass
Stockbridge
English Aero Club
Aero Nauts
Heaven
Conflicting Evidence and the House Hunter Parable
A Washington Star quote recalls Justice John M. Harlan explaining how conflicting evidence can favor one statement. He uses a parable of a house hunter and a boy to show how a 20 minute walk versus a five minute ad claims can guide belief.
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John M. Harlan
Chevy Chase
Electric Postal Vans in Hamburg Use Battery Driven Vehicles
Since August first two electrically driven vans have collected and carried letters from outer areas to the central post office in Hamburg. The Rundschau fur Electro technik und Maschinenbau notes each vehicle uses a battery of ampere hour capacity with two 2.5 horsepower motors and a standard speed of about ten miles an hour. The letter bag receptacle extends from the driver’s seat to the rear axle with movable sides for rapid loading and unloading. A small box under the driver's seat stores registered packages.
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Hamburg
Rundschau Fur Electrotechnik Und Maschinenbau
Dusting the walls with a bag covered broom
A Boston Post suggestion explains dusting walls by covering a broom with a bag or fuzzy canton flannel, drawing the bag tight with a drawstring to fit the broom for easier dusting.
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Boston Post
Lavender Oil Fragrance for Dining Room Atmosphere
The Boston Post recommends a few drops of oil of lavender in a silver bowl half filled with hot water placed in the dining room just before dinner to create a delightful fresh atmosphere.
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Boston Post
Length of Stitches in Needlework
The length of stitches varies with surface size and number of shades to blend. Short stitches in small spaces may be about one thirty second of an inch, while in large spaces long stitches approach half an inch and short stitches about three eighths of an inch.
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New Haven Register
Leather chair polish recipe from Boston Post
A home remedy describes improving shabby leather chairs by boiling linseed oil with vinegar, cooling, bottling, and applying with a cloth to restore polish. The polish softens the leather and helps prevent cracking.
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Boston Post
Veil Armors and Flows Across Face in Fashion
The veil is a key part of a costume influencing overall effect and youthfulness. Bordered veils heighten the chin to back of the coiffure line, altering contour based on facial shape, making proper adjustment an art. New Haven Register.
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New Haven Register
Clever clothesline saves closet space
A housekeeper with small children devised a compact clothesline using a wire threaded through safety pin holes and hooks. By threading pins between hooks she can hang many garments side by side without disturbing others, ideal for summer hotels or cottages and enabling quick access to each item.
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New Haven Egister
Old Fashioned Dairy and Cake Recipes From A Century Ago
A collection of vintage recipe fragments including Drop Cakes with sugar milk sour cream currants and eggs Chocolate Doughnuts with flour baking powder and cocoa Chicken Cream and Lettuce with cream minced chicken and a tabasco note Jelly Sauce with currant jelly cornstarch and lemon juice Cocoanut Soup using fresh or dried coconut curry powder onion butter flour milk and greens appears in scattered steps and measurements.
Norwegians Longest Lived Among Ideo Nations
The survey finds Norwegians have the greatest longevity while Spaniards show the shortest lifespans among the ideo nations studied.
Bromo Quinine Laxative Promoted by E W Grove
Ad highlights Laxative Bromo Quinine with the claim to cure a cold in one day and notes signature of E. W. Grove and a price of 25 cents. Mentions oversized Cuban cabbages with heads weighing up to twenty pounds.
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E. W. Grove
Cuba
Cure for eczema with Cuticura remedies
A Montreal mother recounts curing three children of severe eczema using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment after prior failures. She also notes rapid improvement for a bleeding neck fold in another baby. The date given is May 21 1907. A separate line mentions a man staying under water for four minutes twenty nine and a quarter seconds.
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Mme
Mapedecl Duceppe
Duluth St
Montreal
Que
Billion Dollar Grass Promises Big Harvests
An Iowa farmer on 100 acres earned 3800 dollars selling seed and produced 300 tons of hay. The notice touts “Billion Dollar Grass” and related seeds promising high yields and urges readers to mail 10 cents for seed catalogs from A Poe Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin. It claims extraordinary crop potential and hints at additional offers and leap year trivia.
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Iowa
John A. Salzer
America
Victoria
A. Poe Seed Co
Lanee Wis
A.C
State St. Chesebrough Mfg. CO
New York City
Fragments of Health Claims and Urban Oddities
A collage of promotional lines notes Brown's Bronchial Traches for cough relief and bronchitis, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, a claim about Japanese fortunes, a glove cutter in Paris earning up to 100 dollars weekly, Carfield Tea as a laxative, and a curbside conductors issue before New York street cars.
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United States
Real Estate Owners’ Association OF America
West 42d Street
New York
Woman Restored to Health by Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Letter from Mrs. Sallie French of Pancannla Indian Territory recounts seven years of female troubles and nervy breakdowns. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her recovery after seeking advice and using the product.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie French
Pancannla
Ind
Ter
Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women by Lydia E Pinkham ad
An advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing remedy for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and backache. It invites women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential free advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
ASNT Seeks Auto Owners With Quick-Sell Circulars
An advertising notice from John Ser of 12 Parham Street Carthage NY advertises illustrated circulars targeting automobile owners. The brief mentions quick sellers and big items, urging action today.
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ASNT
John Ser
Parham Street
Carthage
N. Y
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Connecticut
Rovices
New York World
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Paris
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Thompson
Arava AW Shoes
N.Y
CWE Gar
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