Classified advertising items from a Portland page era
A dense list of local businesses and services including attorneys, jewelers, music schools, optometrists, photographers, and traders. It also contains a note on the word fall used as a linguistic example, illustrating its varied meanings from decline to placement.
Sailors Beliefs on Winds and Storm Spirits
Sailors across eras and seas held that whistling during calms could invite a favorable breeze. Legends say lbation or sacrifice placates storm spirits to allow ships to proceed unmolested on their course. Russian sailors are noted for pouring oat meal and water on a rocky promontory to seek a wind favorable to their plans.
Allen's Foot-Ease and Health Ad Blends Quotes and Remedies
An old advertisement blends a cure for blistered feet with lines from Thomas Jefferson and Garfield Tea claims. The fragment mentions Allen's Foot-Ease powder for sore feet, then pivots to chronic constipation as dangerous and promotes Garfield Tea as a remedy.
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Allen
Garfield
Learning softens wildness and fear with balanced reason
Bacon argues that study calms fierce minds by exposing doubts and difficulties. It trains judgment to weigh both sides, rejects rash offers, and demands examined, tried conclusions rather than superficial learning.
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Bacon
Ant-proofing refrigerator with glass insulators
A common glass insulator technique suggests placing insulators under a refrigerator’s legs and filling the interior with kerosene or similar material to deter ants and insects. This method reflects early pest control ideas using accessible hardware store items.
Bayer Aspirin Ad Promotes Genuine Tablets
An advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine with the Bayer Cross stamp. It claims physicians have prescribed aspirin for over eighteen years and that millions have proven its safety. The ad notes affordable twelve tablet tins and larger packages from chemists, and defines Aspirin as Bayer’s trade mark.
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Bayer
Minute Men in American Revolutionary and Civil War eras
Minute Men were citizens pledged to field at a minute’s notice. They first appeared during and just before the War of the Revolution and reemerged at the start of the Civil War, sometimes enrolled as regular militia.
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Minute Men
Tribute to the Press and Health Claims Fragments
A collage of quotations criticizes press influence and religion while noting a scientist compares germs to a comma. It also cites a garbled line about illness and claims Cuticura products improve skin and health with advertisements for Cure care routines.
Indispensable but Undesirable Riddle
A concise historic puzzle excerpt from the Edin burgh Scotsman dated item presents a riddle about something one does not want yet would not part with if possessed, framed as a humorous query about a bald head.
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Edinburgh
Freezone advertised as painless corn remedy in Cincinnati column
A Cincinnati authority promotes freezone as a quick painless treatment for tender corns and callouses. A small bottle costs little and allegedly removes hard or soft corn or callous with immediate relief, with no skin irritation. Ady note urges druggists to stock it for the public.
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Cincinnati
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