Voyage on a Pacific Steamer Memoir of a Sea Trip
An amused reminiscence of a Pacific voyage from San Francisco to Honolulu aboard a liner. The narrator notes Chinese stewards, pidgin English, and dining saloon rituals, recounts rough seas, a comic concert mishap, and lively crew stories. He contrasts oceanic solitude with vivid shore sights and a welcoming US naval band at Honolulu.
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San Francisco
Ceylon
Pacific
Porter
Hiquimaux
Honolulu
Molokai
Father Damien
Job tale of the hurricane bargain and boils
An Atlanta Constitution excerpt portrays Job facing a test of endurance as the Devil unleashes boils and a hurricane. Job protests he sought relief not catastrophe, insisting he can endure bites but not a tempest’s fury.
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Baid
Dickey
Job
Atlanta Constitution
Cured Her Children With Cuticura Remedies
Mme Napoleon Duceppe of Montreal recalls that her three daughters suffered eczema with itchy eruptions on the backs of their heads and a plump baby with neck folds that bled. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment four to five times, all conditions disappeared and were declared cured. May 21, 1907.
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Mme
Napoleon Duceppe
Duluth St
Montreal
Que
Different Effect Smoked Me Right In The Stummick
Mrs Goodsole expresses strong revulsion at smoking as she tells her boy it sickens her, using a folksy twist to convey disapproval and concern for his health. The exchange highlights generational attitudes toward tobacco in a domestic moment.
In Pinch Use Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement
A Success Magazine ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a cure for painful feet and growing nails. It claims to make new shoes comfortable, reduce sweating, and offers a trial package from A. S. Olmsted of Le Roy, New York.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
How the Governor Fell
Gov Hughes addressed the West End Woman's Republican club of New York and compared his happiness to a young lady visiting Venice on the Grand Canal. He quipped that life has never seemed so full before while recounting the remark to his audience.
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Bea
Sandy Hook
St. Vitus
Gov. Hughes
West End
Woman's Republican Club of
New York
Venice
Grand Canal
Garfield Tea and Jokes Advertise Digestive Remedies
A string of humorous quips promotes Garfield Tea as a herb laxative from Garfield Tea Co Brooklyn. The ad mocks dietetics and jokes about love and sermons, mentioning Lewis Single Binder cigars and a Peoria factory.
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Garfield
Garfield ‘Tea Co
Brooklyn
Peoria
Piles Cure Promise By PAZO Ointment Ad
An old advertisement promises to cure piles in six to fourteen days with PAZO Ointment and offers a money back guarantee. The text includes garbled stray phrases and odd punctuation.
Damage Bone by Rats Realizes Hidden Cost to Farmers
J H Van Burden, a Milwaukee grain merchant, warns the agricultural department estimate that rats consume vast grain amounts, suggesting a national loss near 100 million dollars yearly. He pegs the rat population at 150 million, noting urban rats access less grain. The piece also quotes H R Haweis urging purpose through work.
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Svesatern
Agricultural Department
Josing
J. .H. van Burden
Milwaukee Grain
Woman Restored to Health by Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy
Sallie French of Pancannla Indiana Territory writes that after seven years of female troubles she was run down and nervous. Doctors gave no help. She credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound after using it she is now strong and well.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie French
Pancannla
Ind
Ter
Mrs. Pinkham
Warve
J. Bennett
el Paso
Tex
Cardui
Cardus
Fre ‘Sa Ore
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Joseph B. Bowles
Spon
Paris
United “States
Pawel
Welco Us
Edsk Dianee
He. W. i
Mans
Success Magazine
Eve
Dowies
Grater
Eton
Putnam
Monroe Drug Company
Quincy
Ilinois
H. R. Haweis
Carters
Alabastine Co
Grand Rapids
Mich
New York City
Ss . Seavenh
Maxim
Merry Widow Gems
Partnard
Merry Widow
Jerome H. Remick & CO
West 41St St
al Idall
Winters
Snort
Southwest
Rock Island
John Sebastian
Rock Island-Frisco Lines
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
R.R
LaSalle Station
Chicago
Frisco Building
St. Louis
March
State
St. Chesebrough
Mfg
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