An Excellent Combination of Syrup For Laxative Relief
An advertisement touts Syrup or Fioa from the California Fig Syrup Co claiming a pleasant taste and potent laxative effects. It emphasizes cleansing the system, easing constipation, and treating colds, headaches, and fevers gently. The text cites senna as the medicinal basis and warns to buy only from the California Fig Syrup Co to avoid imitations. The product is priced at 50 cents per bottle and sold by druggists in multiple cities including San Francisco Louisville and New York.
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Caliorgia Fia Synup Co
Canmormia Mia Synur Co
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
New York
All Druggista
Gas meters and dials explain gas consumption method
The San Francisco Examiner describes how to read a gas meter with four dials showing hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and an auxiliary dial for texting. It explains when each dial advances and how to compute total feet of gas used, illustrating with example readings from two meters and a period from April to April 27.
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San Francisco Examiner
Yee Dong
Nebraska teacher Miss Watson saves university building
Miss Watson a Nebraska teacher at Corner University fought off two armed arsonists as they tried to burn a seminary building. She attacked with a weapon, was captured, bound, and refused to reveal information. Fire was smothered, and she was later rescued. Governor Poynter sent a letter of thanks as citizens honored her bravery.
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Nebraska
Luther
Watson
Corner University
Wilson
University
Church 200 Years Old in Wilmington Proves Historic Shrine
A historic Protestant Episcopal church in Wilmington, Delaware, marks two centuries as a venerable gray landmark in the city’s busiest district, embodying enduring faith amid urban bustle.
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Protestant Episcopal Forth
America
Delaware
Me Cky
Wilmington
Del
Zulus Fearful of Mothers-in-Law in Customs
Among Zulu customs, married men dread their mother-in-law. He avoids her gaze, shielding himself with his shield whenever he passes by her dwelling.
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Inlaw
The Weather Illusion And Thunder Effects On Stage
A Chambery Journal summary notes stage devices to mimic wind, lightning, thunder, and snow. A wind wheel with silk differs in sound, thunder via iron sheet and falling cannon balls, and a perforated revolving cylinder dispersing paper snow. Messengers may misalign in later scenes.
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Chambery
No Ceremony When Reed Woo Admitted to the Bar
Speaker Reed recalls becoming a lawyer at a Shoreham House dinner hosted by Richard O. Kerens of St. Louis. He describes taking the bar exam before Judge Wallace, noting a constitutional question about the legal tender act and the first earnings from defending a Mexican charged with murder, a twenty five dollar fee in gold.
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Reed Woo
Reed
Shoreham House
Richard O. Kerens
St. Louis
Wallace
Tuolumne County
Woman chosen Surrey county council president
A woman, Lady Roberts Austen, has been elected president of the Surrey county council, said to be the first woman in England to preside over a public body. County councils in England resemble boards of supervisors in the United States and now extend to Ireland.
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England
Lady. Roberts
Austen
Surrey
Ste Isaid
United States
Ireland
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised remedy for swollen feet
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve tired swollen feet, smarting or tight shoes, corns, swelling, sweating, and blisters. It claims to color and comfort feet, ease pinions, and fit shoes, selling for 25 cents with trial packs and address for Allen S. Olmsted in LeRoy.
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Allen
LeRoy, N
Unclear OCR fragment on trial setup and pupils
Fragmentary text mentions a trial, a pupil, and a location, with unclear wording and missing context making details and entities hard to identify. No verifiable names, dates, or places can be confirmed from the readable portion.
Fragmented excerpt hints at historic medical ads and patents
The readable text references Uncle Sam and Stars and Stripes, mentions an inventor and harvesting machines, and cites foreign origins. It contains garbled phrases about a cough medicine and a mail order offer at 289 Arch Street Philadelphia, with scattered names and places like Chicago New Zealand Norway and Queen Victoria.
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Sam
Norway
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