Barton Learns About Money and a Senatorial Rise
Orphan Barton Baynes goes to live with relatives on a farm near Lickitysplit in 1826. He meets Sally Dunkelberg and the “Silent Worah” Rovirg Kate, learns fortunes, and plans to run away. Silas Wright Jr. rescues him after a misstep and aids his home, then Wright's Senate election is announced.
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Barton Baynes
Peabody Baynes
Deel
Rattleroad
Lickitysplit
Sally Dunkelberg
Barton
Kate
Silas Wright
Baynes
Wright
United States Senate
The Great Stranger and the Winter of Debt
A homestead tale unfolds as a new stove changes the mood of a family facing poverty and looming mortgage. John Axtell and Leah, amid ruined plans, watch progress with hope while Grimshaw, the estate owner, tightens the squeeze. A chorus of resilience, fear, and communal aid carries them toward a difficult Potsdam trip and the decision to sell livestock to survive the winter.
Sword-swallower craving appeal amid flat’s drum kit
A quirky item notes a sword-swallower’s appetite joke and mentions Cuticura products for baby rash relief. It describes hot baths with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with scent of Cuticur a talcum, priced 25c. It ends with a humorous line about tenants in a flat above owning a trapdrum outfit.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertising Claim
An old advertisement offers $100 for any case Hall's Catarrh Medicine cannot cure, claiming the medicine acts through the bloodstream to mucous surfaces and has sold through druggists for over forty years.
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HALL
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Chile
August Flower remedy advertised for various ailments
The notice promotes GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER as a household cure for constipation and digestive troubles, claiming benefits for liver function and low spirits. It also notes relief from indigestion and nervous symptoms after a few doses, urging readers to ask their druggist and noting its sale in civilized countries. The text includes a wedding exchange where the mother of the bride is asked for comment before the ceremony, and a witty reply about having much to say.
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John Axtell
Deel
Syes
Rodney Barnes
Green
Freckles treated with Othine double strength promise
An old advertisement claims Othine double strength removes freckles and improves skin. It urges buying one ounce from a druggist, applying night and morning, with a money back guarantee if it fails to remove freckles. The ad ends with a proverb about giving according to means or meanness.
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Svar Drugelat
Change in Woman's Life That Change in Woman's Life
A forty six year old woman describes relief from heat flashes nervousness backache headaches and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims it restores normal conditions and offers confidential advice from the Pinkerton Medicine Co. with forty years of experience.
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Lydia EB. Pinkham
M. Godden
Napoleon St
Fremont
Ohio
Lydia i
Pinkham
Pinkhorn Medicine Co
Lynn, Mase
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