Broad array of olde time remedies and social quips
A collage of Victorian era lines includes satire on public opinion and gender roles, product ads for Dr Bull’s Worm Destroyers and Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, praise for Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, and quips about health, medicine, and domestic life.
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Dr. Bull
Miss Larkins
Nagda
Dr. Pierce
Temptations of Business Men From Talmage Sermon
Reverend T De Witt Talmage discusses temptations facing merchants in Brooklyn and New York. He rebukes deceitful bargaining, false promises, and stock market excesses, urges integrity, providence, and the spiritual uses of commerce, warning of moral downfall from greed.
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T. de Witt Talmage
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Talmage
King Solomon
Jerusalem
Cleathem
Fitem & Brothers
Solomon
Brooklyn
New York
Petrarch
Cardinal Colonna
New England
Oakwool
Ivy Hill
Pleasant Retreat
Eagle Eyrie
God’s Angels
God
United States Mint
Irate Customer and Dealer Debate Moth Holes in Wardrobe
A shopper accuses a tailor of selling moth-eaten clothes while the dealer dismisses the complaint saying moths do not eat cotton and that holes betray costly wool garments. The exchange captures a comic frontier language style from the New York Weekly.
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New York Weekly
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California
GAN Fraa
Louisville
Icisco
Cal
W.Y
Carters
Carter Medicine CO
Bride
Cheatham
L. L. Brown
Hahnville
Swift
S. S.S
Swift Splafic CO
Isaac Thompson
Thompson
John L. Thompson
John L. Thompson, Sons &Co
Troy, N.Y
Ouresio
Bras Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Grannan
Barean
Lebanon
Madison
Us. Inc, Mineral Springs Co
le Fayette, In
Meeker Medicine Co
Mbicago
Scott
Hell
Merchants’ Exchange
Pompey