Grain-O and Jell-O Promised Healthful Delights
Fragments advertise Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children and Jell-O as a quick, no bake dessert. Also promoted are Allen's Foot-Ease for foot comfort, Beeman's Pepsin Gum for digestion, and various patent medicines. Mentions census work and a vivid anecdote about Sir Charles Warren bathing on a battlefield.
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Bird
Wearren
Sir Charles Warren
Bouncer
Vaal Kranz
Charles
Buller
Ladysmith
Charles Warren
London Daily News
The Turn of Life The Turn of Life
A period in a woman's life is described as critical and Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is promoted as a trusted aid. The copy claims many women have benefited and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts, urging readers to write.
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Et and
Avery
Agricultural notes on rose hoppers and self feeding troughs
The piece discusses rose hoppers on rose leaves and their destruction with slug shot, stressing early intervention. It also details a portable self feeder for cattle with a long wooden frame, troughs, sliding grain doors, and cost estimates, plus guidance on soil moisture and field cultivation comparable to garden care.
Farm tools and stock care tips from Ohio Farmer column
Implements for shaping a sleigh-runner trough to lift soil ahead of corn rows are described, with rope fastenings and careful clearance to avoid shovels. The piece then urges pushing calves early with liberal feed, plus continued milk and grain, to build profitable dairy stock, and details chick brooder care, feeding, and required supplements for growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim T. Irwin
Ohio
Henry Stewart
New England
Cubans Respect Centipedes For Size And Tenacity
An old natural history note mentions Cuban regard for centipedes as a formidable insect. UHeig, quoted by locals, notes centipedes called view pies or hundred feet. Specimens reportedly reach eight inches, with naturalists capturing several examples of notable length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uheig
Trade Review Signals Cautious Business Ahead
R G Dun weekly review notes Congress adjournment and peace progress in South Africa easing prices, but warns changes likely after the presidential election. Labor disputes restrain domestic expansion while iron price declines and weaker pig iron ratios temper profits. Wheat shocks and grain receipts slump, with US failures at 206 this week and Canada at 19, as exports rise from Atlantic ports and fall from Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
China
South Africa
Bessemer Association
Pittsburg
Southern
Steel and Wire Company
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Canada
New Zealand Amazons Regiment Formed in Wellington
A novel corps called the New Zealand Amazons has been formed by Wellington ladies. The group is drilled to a military schedule and their impressive height and discipline have attracted wide attention across the colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
New Zealand
Barrie Seeks Parliament Seat for Holmburch and St Andrew's
James Matthew Barrie, celebrated author of The Little Minister, runs for Parliament representing Holmburch and St Andrew's universities. A former political editor and London journalist, he wrote Better Dead in 1887 and gained fame with Sentimental Tommy and Tommy and Grizelle. He enjoys popularity among university commons.
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James Matthew Barrie
Holmburch
St. Andrew's Universites
Barrie
Nottingham
London
St. James Gazette
The
National Observer
British Weekly
Speaker
London Hill
Little Minister
Tyro
Tommy
Tommy and Grizzell
Whiskers and Whims of Early Modern Style
Excerpted notes mention Muhammad whiskers and Turkish styles, a Turner's Hall preacher enforcing standing during hymn singing, and a Hungarian custom of beard shaving with only the upper lip adorned. Also references Jell O dessert, plague inoculations in Bombay, Grove’s Tasteless Chill Cure, Cuba postal service, and Vienna’s railway.
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Robinson Crusoe
Sallee
England
Wilson
Joseph Jacob
Turner's Hall
Philpot Lane
Jacob
Personal warmth in letters sparks breach of promise suit
An old Indianapolis Journal excerpt notes a quarrel over adding warmth in correspondence. A man once sent letters with too much personal warmth and faced a breach of promise suit, illustrating risks in intimate letter writing.
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Indianapolis Journal
Health books and cures lure readers with bold claims
A 19th century style advertisement touts Gold Medal Prize Treatise and The Refopes of Life as self preservation guides. It promotes mail orders from the Peabody Medical Institute in Boston and claims health gains, vigor and happiness. It notes furniture moving costs and a Turkish goods purchase figure, with a $100 reward tease from Vere Hall.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Boston
America
Prospectus
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Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Moscow
Carter
New York
Switzerland
Grove
Cone
Lydia E. Pinkham
Agricultural
Ti Ia
Breaders’ Gazette
Pittakorg
Groln
Abollau
Ohio Creamory
Taney Country Rail
SL Bay
Bode Bee
New Mowbey
Baltimore
Olno Creamary
Philadule USA
Bultleun—Creamery
Layt Liberty
Paccattur
Ae Beg
York
Trade Review
James M. Barrid
Bombay
Bvh. Huis
Phila
Vienna
Mayland
I. & Parker
Fredonia
Vere Hall
Turkey
Gray
Cole
Iver
Mia
G. LL
Alderson
Ector
Tex
Addréas
J. C, Ayer
Lowell
Saas
Ivan
Frey
Zanesville
Druggista
Ares
Cor
Glensio Son
Pension Bureau
Fielyl
Etty Sinca
Leonard
Verit
Umps
Abla
Ing House
New York City
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