Love and Love Magic in Old Fashioned Style
A humorous reflection on love and marriage. The piece lampoons how couples often marry without true understanding, contrasts old fashioned romance with modern pretensions, and extols love as a sacred, powerful force that can overwhelm reason and appetite. It rhapsodizes over Cupid’s shaft and the genuine seriousness of love.
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Jose
Heaven
Satan
John Henry
Susan Jane
Sarah
Hymen
Romeo and Juliet
Cupid
Kansas
Drann
Millionaire Sunday School Exposes Practical Giving
A preacher mocks literal charity from the Nazarene and urges giving up life’s comforts. Leaders in oil, coal, beef, steel, and sugar trusts propose raising prices to fund universities, libraries, and missions, framing it as a practical Christian ethic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingdom of Heaven
Beef Trust
Steel Trust
Sugar Trust
Cuba
Philippines
Eight Great Secrets of Success
A man who answered cheap ad offers in Story papers learned harsh lessons about gullibility. He sent money for cures, farming tips, marriage guidance, and get rich schemes, only receiving odd, useless replies or junk products, exposing the scammy lure of easy fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Chicago
Stabbing Gossip and Warnings Across Town
A Graham Leader remark sparks talk as Brother Martin questions Moran’s visitors and a Moran ouster claim leads to a broader exchange. Albany News notes the grape vine telephone shapes public anxiety and recalls Mrs. S. H. Newson’s recovery with Electric Bitters, praised for liver and kidney troubles, while a final line argues for strict libel laws to curb public deception and political deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin
Graham Leader
Moran
Moran Ple
Albany News
Mac
Cream Vermifuge Advertises Baby Tonic
Extreme heat is described as a tax on babies digestive power and a few doses of White's Cream Vermifuge are promoted as a stimulant. The ad claims it aids digestion and strengthens children, priced at 25 cents at Graham Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham Drug Co
Constipated Dowels and Liver Health Claim
A Wichita reader from 142 N Main St reports using Herbine for ten years to regulate the liver and bowels, claiming daily expulsion of waste supports health. The note, offered by Graham Drug Co, prices the remedy at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Edwards
N. Main St
Wichita
Kansas
Graham Drug Co
Heat Weary? Herb ine Promises Restored Energy
A vintage health ad touts Herbine as a tonic to boost appetite aid digestion regulate bowels and restore activity during hot spell. Endorsed by H J Freegard Grand View Hotel Cheney Kansas who cites Dr Newton Newton Kansas. 50c at Graham Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Freegard
Grand View Hotel
Cheney
Kansas
Newton
Newton, Kan
Graham Drug Co
Calestorita and the Kind You Have Always Known
A brief note highlights Calestorita as a familiar figure or product title, suggesting a longstanding presence or reputation. The fragment implies recognition by readers of Besse or related branding, with a nostalgic or promotional tone.
Remembering childhood in a Missouri town
A weary city man revisits his boyhood in a Missouri town hearing names from the past. The talk shifts to former classmates now in varied lives from Congress to state politics, sports and preaching as readers recall Bulche’s boodle confession and the era’s local tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roe Feree
Missouri
Buche
Weatherford Herald
Startling Evidence for Dr King's New Discovery
Fresh testimony in great quantity declares Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds unequaled A Virginia man T J McFarland from Beaterville says three years of bronchitis ended after a few bottles He reports cure and notes effectiveness against lung throat ailments pneumonia and grip Edgar Matthews serves as local druggist offering trial bottles free and regular sizes at 50c and 1 00
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
T. J. McFarland
Beaterville
Edgar Matthews
Glasses for neglected vision urged by Graham jeweler
W C Hilburn a Graham Texas jeweler and optician urges timely eye care and thorough examination with skilled prescription to preserve sight for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Hilburn
Graham
Texas
His Last Hone Realized in Opening of Oklahoma
An old newspaper item recalls a settler’s harsh 1889 trek to Oklahoma. After severe dehydration and diarrhoea, a neighbor’s dose of Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy brought rapid relief within an hour, ending weeks of agony. Graham Drug Co. advertises the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Fortune
Chamberlain
Graham Drug Co
Post Office probe urged by editorials and reader letters
A syndicated letter urges public awareness of government waste and cites indigestion remedy advertisement. Mrs. Sarah W Curtis of Lee Massachusetts praises Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. A Texas editorial laments abuse of injunctions and calls for reform to limit district court jurisdiction to issue injunctions.
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Sarah W. Curtis
Lee, Mass
Chamberlain
Graham Drug Co
Texas
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General Real Estate Commission
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M. F. Arnon
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Beckham Sisalipank
Guy Pianos
C Fm Commission
Chickering Pianos
Boston
Emerson, Goggan
Thos, Goggan & Bro
Dallas
Cicero Smith
MO. C. Kay
W. C. Clark
Chas. Gay
A. A. Morrison
S. A. Johnson
O. Clark
Chas
Gay
W. Smith
A. 2. Morrison
Cicero Smers
Graham, Texas
Widmayer
West 4Th St
Carter Battle
Rock Island
Rock
Anderson & Waggoner
North Elm Street
Graham Branch C
West Ward
Ichogus
Dakin
Ae Bryson
Heas
Ee Jacksboro
Greathouse
Ory Vineyard
Berkshire
Pity Bridgeport
C. C. Miller
S. H. Newson
Decatur
Ala
Mave Alware
Congress
Jack Turner
Jack
Surpreme
Tim Hooley
Tim
State Society For Preventin
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Gladiators
Allus
Stub Junction
Cohasset
Tommie ‘Timson
Swiggers
Sam Swiggers
Sam
Skinny Hogan
Skinny
Billy Boles
Samville
Post Office Department
Pey
Pest
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