Local notes from Loveland and Platteville items
Estes Park mail moves thrice weekly and Rev Harper assists Evangelist Coates as Loveland canal prepares to reap spring water. Odd Fellows plan a Christmas masquerade and club dance. Platteville sees Par House purchase and new hall lease, plus church progress and brick work at Lup ton. Mrs Winslow’s Teething Syrup advertised for mothers. A Boston Bulletin quip notes bicyclists resemble tired wheels.
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Estes Park
Wylon
Longley
Odd Fellows
Birk Hall
Rev. Beardsley
St. Vrain
M. E
J. ¥. Ozment
Lupton
Platteville
Ballard Horehound Syrup touted as universal remedy
An old advertisement touts Ballard Horehound Syrup as a cure for coughs throat ailments and croup promising full relief. A sample testimonial from agent J Fezer urges customers to choose this syrup over others. The piece also includes quips contrasting allopaths and homeopaths and a reprint snippet about log cabins and a beer joke.
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Ballard
Fezer
Remarkable youth renewed by electric bitters tale
An Iowa elderly woman, Phoebe Chesley Peterson of Clay County, claims kidney pain and lameness vanish after using Electric Bitters, enabling self care and housework. Ad copy notes price and local merchant. A second item quotes Dr L L Gorsuch praising Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for uncured cases, listing office in Toledo Ohio.
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Phoebe Chesley
Peterson, Clay Co
Iowa
J. F. Fezer's
Segar
Totepo
Messrs
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
L. L. Gorsuch
Summit St
Causey
Props
Toledo
Ohio
Stiffness-Stiff Nee Seals Noted By Mrs Baggs Reading
A fragment from the New York Weekly features Mrs Baggs noting fur points. She cites texture and price as key criteria in evaluating fine seal fur.
Dr King’s New Discovery Cures Consumption
Mr W H Morgan of Lake City Florida fell ill with a severe cold and cough leading toward consumption. He used Dr King’s New Discovery and experienced immediate relief after about six bottles, remaining well thereafter. Trial bottles free at J F Fezer’s drug store. Humor note about hats follows.
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W. H. Morgan
Lake City
Fla
Dr. King
J. F. Fezer
Best salve promises cures for skin ailments
The advertisement touts a salve that cures cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever tetter chapped hands chilblain corns and all skin eruptions and even piles with a money back guarantee. It sells for 25 cents a box and is offered by J F Fezer. The note mentions Sir Edwin Arnold as a London Telegraph editor.
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J. F. Fezer
Sir Edwin Arnold
London Telegraph
Boston Post
Castoria and health prompts across old papers
A collage of old snippets mentions Castoria for children, a train route tweak for Pullman sleepers from Salt Lake City to Chicago, a light quip about a jilted lover, and Syrup of Figs as a health aid with price notes. Names include Yonkers Statesman and Life magazine.
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Union Pacific
Chicago and Alton
The Oldest Clerk in Washington the 90 Year Old Scholar
Washington note profiles Professor John W. Scott nearly 90 and active in the pension office as the nation’s eldest government clerk. He recalls Ben Harrison and other youths at Oxford and Indianapolis, praising his son in law, while detailing veteran clerks like Judge Lawrenson and W. P. Moran, their long service, fading strength, and pension-era lives.
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Washington
John W. Scott
Benjamin Harrison
Pension Office
Professor Scott
Twelfth Street
Ben Farrison
Ben
Farmers’ College
Cincinnati
Tie
Oxford
Dr. Anderson
Anderson
Carrie
Town Hall
We McNutt
Eaton, O
DR. Scott
Harmer Dana
Milton Sayler
Congress
Ben Harrison
David Swing
Chicago
Idianapolis
Vermont Street
Indianapolis
Ray House
Henicks
Scott
Interior Department
James Lawrenson
General Post Office
Uncle Sam
Lattmore
Vilas
Lawrenson
Gen. Heath
President Polk
White House
Post Office Department
Cave Johnson
Martin van Buren
Andrew Jackson
Johnson
Governor Hubbard
Connecticut
Navy Department
W. P. Moran
Navy
Department
William Hunter
State Department
James Eveleth
War Department
United States
Smith
Treasury
Hiram Pitts
Richard White
John Lovejoy
Walter Wellman
Population figures place New York ahead of Philadelphia
The record shows that in 1810 New York City led Philadelphia by a small margin, with New York at 96,573 and Philadelphia at 96,664. By 1820 New York rose to 128,706 while Philadelphia reached 108,116, marking New York’s first sustained lead in population.
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Philadelphia
New York City
New York
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Colorado
Piatteville
Winslow
Boston Bullet'n
Mrs. Cumso
Aner
Reformer
Chicago Globe
Li A
Bucklen
Castoria
Yonkers Statesman
Jenkins
Syupshits
California
San Francisco
Can
Lovievnan, Ky
N. Y
Trim
Phcita
Paine
Jas. L. Bowen
Springfield
Mase
Wells
Richarde
Burlington
Draggista and Merchants
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Wood
Aaza Yeer
Portland
Louisville
Red Cross
S. L. Sawyer & Co
E. Brocks
Greenlee & C9
Denver, Colorado
ACORN
Ie Sae Air DO
NeEia
Albert Igo
James
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain
James Means & CO
Lincoln St
Boston
Mass
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