Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement misprint cements comfort claim
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure aching feet and ease tight shoes. It promises rapid relief from sweating and stinging feet and stresses availability in druggists and shoe stores at 25 cents. The piece ends with a humorous exchange on jokes about religion from the Philadelphia Press.
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Allen
Adilness
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Smith
Smythe
Philadelphia Press
Cramming Hens by Maghinert A Modern Fattening Method
A historical note describes a new mechanical method to fatten chickens for market. Fowl are confined in small stalls and fed via a wheeled pump apparatus that injects a paste of Indian and barley meal with milk into the crop, replacing older hand methods.
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England
Origin of the Sandwich and Poultry Care Techniques
The article recounts poultry feeding practices with a tube to the crop, stressing careful handling and timing for efficiency. It then describes how the Earl of Sandwich popularized a portable bread meal to avoid leaving the gaming table, giving rise to the term sandwich.
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Earl of
Sanidwich
Pleasant Incidents and Humorous Sketches From a World of Laughs
A collage of comic vignettes and jokes from varied voices and settings. Notes of everyday folly and light satire echo in dialogues about marriage, gossip, and misadventures, with playful exchanges and humorous misreadings.
Fragmented comic dialogue snippets from multiple papers
A collage of brief, dated quips and dialogues from late 19th or early 20th century newspapers. Phrases espejo humor and social satire touch on marriage secrecy heredity fashion theatre and daily life with quick exchanges and punny lines.
Advertising Feud Brings Luminous Nighttime Signs
A peculiar patent from a German inventor enables phosphorescent advertising on city boards and fences. By night the letters glow a smoky, eerie brightness while remaining ordinary by day. The jumble of current ephemera includes patent medicines, hair treatments, and travel notes, reflecting a bustling, sensational marketplace.
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