A Short History of a Serious Call of Catarrh Overcome
A concise account describes a chronic cold ending in cure through Perema. It notes the patient’s struggle with persistent symptoms and relief following treatment, highlighting the relief and renewed health after the remedy's use.
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Perema
Peruna credited with curing chronic catarrh
Mr Arthur Tremblay of Mont Pleasant Quebec recounts severe catarrh that resisted constitutional treatment and local remedies. After trying Peruna for two weeks his appetite returned and the disease gradually disappeared over several months.
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Arthur Tremblay
Dates Street
Mont Pleasant
Peruna
His Last Chance
A fragment from Fliegende Blatter features a tense exchange about debts owed and a plea to delay payment until tomorrow. The brief dialogue hints at familial tension and impending financial obligation without broader context.
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Fliegende Blaetter
Trial Proves Election of Dr. Thomas Electric Oil
Trial praises Dr. Thomas Electric Oil for bodily pains coughs colds and respiratory affections. If proven sovereign it is a remedy worth praise else dismissed as untruth.
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Thomas
Dog companionship quip from Baltimore American snippet
A fragment from the Baltimore American quotes a speaker asking about getting a dog for company while noting the husband is a professional barker for a big store and often growls at home. The text reads as a light, humorous dialogue line rather than a full news item.
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Baltimore American
Catarrh Cure Advertised as Internal Remedy
A period advertisement claims local applications fail to cure catarrh and promotes Halle Catarrh Cure taken internally. It asserts the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces, calls it a reputable physician prescribed tonic, and offers testimonials and family pills for constipation.
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Cheney
Toledo
Druggtets
What is a lie through a child’s witty reply
A vicar asks what a lie is and a child answers that a lie is an abomination yet a pleasant help in time of trouble. The piece cites a humorous quotation from a Lutheran source and ends with a testimonial from Mr. J. W. Brown of Chicago praising Holloway's Corn Cure for curing his coins and wishing more for friends.
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Holloway
Mr. J. W. Brown
Chicago
OToole and Come Home In Wrangle Over Dinner
The fragment shows a lively exchange with OToole urging someone to return home for five pence, and a tense scolding from OBrien. The dialogue hints at a domestic scene filled with urgency and humor as characters argue playfully about timing and who must face supper.
Skeleton found in West Cumberland garden sparks cold case talk
In Workington a buried skeleton emerges from Peter White’s garden opposite the church, prompting speculation of foul play. The bones may date to the era of the Campbell works and outlaws, with a coroner unable to rule out connections to regional disappearances, including a Seaton villager lost after a late return to Workington Bridge.
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West Cumberland
Peter White
North
Workington
White
Hen Campmell & Co
Dronfield
Iromaml Steel
Leawlersoesa
Gardon
Seaton
Powkes
Workington Bridge Station
Canada’s First Railway Era and Early Canadian Lines
The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway opened in 1835 with limited rolling stock and a 1412 mile St. Lawrence to St. Johns route. The first run occurred July 21 1896 after repairs and a near incident with the engine. The project cost estimates and early design used wood rails with flat iron. The era of serious Canadian railway building rose between 1853 and 1856, with the U S Boston to Quincy line opening in 1827.
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Canada
Champlain and St. Lawrence
Laprairie
Earl of Gosford
St. Johns
United States
Boston
Maas
Quincey
Panther Rampage In Calcutta Ends With Fatal Shot
Panic swept Calcotollah, Calcutta as a panther mauled four men before being shot by Superintendent Merriman. A baby’s mother alerted locals, the beast attacked a coolie, a druggist’s shop, and a warehouse before finally being killed after a close struggle with a native helper.
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Calcotollah
Calcutta
Phears Lane
Merriman
Morocco's modest navy aids coastal logistics
Morocco maintains a small navy of two old merchant vessels the Sui-el-Turk and Al Haseanl built in Middlesbrough and 1382 respectively both captained by Germans. They carry field guns and mainly transport grain stores and prisoners along the coast and to Moorish towns. The fleet is said to have supported Englishmen in Moorish naval service amid a French bombardment of Casablanca.
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Morocco
Casablanca
Europe
Middlesbrough
Exceedingly Prim Richmond Spinster and Her House
A stately Richmond spinster lives alone in a grand mansion admired citywide. A seven year old niece visited and described marvels of tea parties and immaculate housekeeping, noting a humorous fly washing itself in Aunt Sarah’s house. Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills touted for cleansing blood and curing skin eruptions. A cartoonish dialogue about inventing a flying machine ends with a joke about predicting its fall.
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Richmond
Sarah
Harpers Weekly
Minard's Linitment Cures Dandruff at Yacht Club
A fragment from Life magazine notes a prominent yacht club member praising Minard's Linitment for dandruff. A witty exchange asks about the man's official capacity, answered with the joke four gallons.
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Minard
Dandruff
Painless Teething with Baby's Own Tablets
Mrs N Sauve of St Rose de Lima Quebec reports her baby cut six teeth with no trouble after using Baby's Own Tablets. The product claims to ease inflamed gums and feverish discomfort and is sold by medicine dealers or by mail from Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 25 cents a box.
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Cross
N. Sauve
St. Rose de Lima
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Evelyn Myrtle Courtship Rejected Card
Evelyn and Myrtle discuss Harold’s prospects with Evelyn noting the suitor is green and Myrtle saying he is blue. Myrtle claims she rejected him last evening in Pittsburg Leader style conversation.
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Myrtle
Evelyn
Pittsburg
Itch Lotions and Scathed Discourse in Odd Notices
A collage of 1903 pest remedies and odd quotes appears: Woolford's Sanitary Lotion promises cure for contagious itch in 30 minutes, a courtroom jab about blows and disgrace, a comical priestly remark on a would be bride, a Minard's Liniment customer praising recovery from a sprain, and a sculptor’s wry line about cutting a sorry figure.
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Woolford
Baltimore
Minard’s Liniment Co
Minard
University of Maryland
W. C. McClean
St. Paul Street
Oliver Typewriter Co
An Expensive Gooseberry Bush
An Austrian case over a boundary gooseberry bush ends with both farmers allowed to pick fruit on their side of the line and barred from destroying the bush. Costs split. each paid 225 kronen. The judge cautions it may take centuries to recoup losses as annual yield is minimal.
The Elusive Fever of a Pew Creator
In a Moor studio Felton Felus wrestles with a new picture and a growing sense of family tension. Mollie, the child, charms the father while Evelyn Felts misreads a painting titled The Scare of the Senses as flesh rather than a jeweled chain.
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Feltas
Hintor
Portieres
Peter
Mr. Morris
Feltus
Festus
Mollie
Feitus
Brokenis
Evelyn Felts
Fragment of a painting life of Festus and Mollie
Festus battles jealousy and artistic obsession after separation from Evelyn. A telegram brings Mollie’s demand for her father Taddy, stirring a plan to heal the family. Evelyn reveals a painting chain explains the rift, and Festus consoles her while Mollie sleeps peacefully.
Mozart's Morning Routine Shaped by 6 to 10 O'clock
The passage describes Mozart's preferred work window from six to ten in the morning and his irregular daily tempo. It notes fits of intense focus and times of reluctance, including a court concert delay. The anecdote recalls Emperor Joseph discovering Mozart’s blank score and his witty reply.
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Mozart
Joseph
Love's Trials Bride There
A fragment from Pearson's Week depicts a couple in conflict over marriage and affection. The dialogue centers on concern over fidelity and daily care, with one character accusing the other of changing after marriage while recalling past affection and shared meals.
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Pearson
Clergymans fall in antique Pennsylvania pulpit
A rugged pulpit in a small Pennsylvania mining town church broke loose during a sermon. The minister, insisting he was unhurt, quipped that he disliked the connection as he picked himself up after the fall.
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Pennsylvania
The
Philadelphia Ledger
A Pastoral Night on the Fence at Mrs. Filligan’s Pigsty
Betsy and Willyam dream of marriage beside turnip trees and cabbage bushes. He promises a pig to share their life, while she resents the idea and insists she already has him. The scene unfolds under a tranquil evening with zephyrs and a singing frog.
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Betsy
Willyam
Reynolds
Impossible request for provincial burial funds denied
The civ servant’s wife in France died and the husband, distraught, pressed to have her interred at provincial expense. A deputy replied that such aid was impossible, noting the request could only apply to the individual, not the survivor’s relatives.
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Civ
France
Ring inscription humor and medical mischief in a city column
A comic exchange in a Philadelphia Inquirer column threads a jeweller advising a ring inscription to fit multiple engagements and a doctor sparring with a wife about a husband’s dwindling finances. The humor rests on wording and mischief around relationships and money.
Melancholy days, lover shoots girl dead in Nanterre tragedy
A sixteen year old girl from Garonne Colombes in Nanterre met her lover on the way home. She told him she could not bear to see him and he shot her dead. The report notes the grim chorus about winter coal and saved money.
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Peter
Festus
Jove
Mollie
Ebeltus
Mollies Wello
Taddy
Mother
Mother Perself
Garonne Colombes
Nanterre
Chicago Record-Herald
Library desks and mistaken titles in city reading rooms
A Philadelphia Press item humorously recalls librarians using detective skills in crowded districts. A boy at a desk asks for a book by a feller named Dirt, prompting catalogue checks and cross questioning before a note to the mother yields a proper request for something by George Sand.
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Sherlock Holmes
Dirt
George Sand
Quips and Quacks in a 19th Century Page
A collage of brief witticisms and ads including a husband weakly urging privacy, a nostrums claim for Parmelee's Vegetable Pills to treat eye inflammation with rapid effects, a cartoonish exchange about a name for a dog, a playful London Telegraph jab at Mr Bachelor, and an aged barber Allen Batchelor noted as England’s oldest barber.
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England
Allen Batchelor
Guildford
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