Women and medicine myths in a housewife era ad
A long ad style piece touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the sole transparent cure for women's ailments. It argues the formula is fully listed on bottles and trusted by many physicians, urging readers to seek Dr. Pierce's guidance and his book The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser. It blends anecdotes, jokes, and domestic vignettes to promote the product and related remedies.
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Dr. Pierce
America
F. Se
R. V. Pierce
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Main St
Buffalo
N. Y
Weary Willis and the Shell Game Moral
A tramp named Weary Willis, a broker by trade, finds luck with a shell game and gambling odds. He wins big then loses most of it in a scam, proving the moral that one should eat while the price is in hand and beware quick gains.
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Weary Willis
Uncle Sam
Mother
Rockefeller
Willis
Cicero
Tor Buck
Poker session at Jack Pott’s house this evening
Friend Paridon asks about the many hot water bags and Jack Pott reveals they are for a poker night at his home tonight for the boys.
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Paridon
Jack Pott
Unimpeachable Remedy Ad Named Hood's Sarsaparilla
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as an unimpeachable remedy for a blood disease and urges readers to buy now. It also promotes products from People's Coal and Cement Co including half gallon bottles of water and five gallon Gemijohns, with listed prices and phone numbers. The noisy ad references Bull end Bear and a variety of goods from local merchants.
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Hood
Purolis Tilled Water Company
Gemijohns
Great Amalgamated School of Correspondence Promises Locomotive Build
A sensational notice claims a mass audience support for starting a Great Amalgamated School of Correspondence teaching higher intellectuality. The first lesson supposedly shows how to build a locomotive using iron boilers fire boxes and a stack. The item urges obtaining materials from dealers free via referral and ends with unclear garbled text.
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Amalgamated School of Correspondence
Queen Fires Her Maids In Italian Royal Household
Rome reports Queen Mother Margherita of Italy dismissed three maids in a year over a common offense. A veteran servant who received many castoff dresses from the queen was found selling them to second-hand dealers for large profits. The others then repeated the scheme.
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Rome
Margherita
Italy
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Autograph Photo From Paris Unveiled
Special to The Sun in Pittsburg reports an unpublished autograph portrait of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw taken in Paris during her confession to Harry Thaw about relations with Stanford White. The copy is the only one in America, brought by Ida Vera Simonton who plans to testify against Harry. Simonton, once a friend in Paris, recalls Evelyn as Mrs Thaw wearing white and the pet name Littl Eve.
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Pittsburg
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Paris
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
America
Ida Vera Simonton
Harry
Miss Simonton
Evelyn
Thaws
Mrs. Thaw
Littl Eve
the Sun
The
Sun
Thanksgiving Dinner for Five at Five Dollar Cost
The Sun presents the final article by culinary expert Alice G. Kirk on a moderate cost Thanksgiving dinner for five at $5. It lists an at home menu including oyster cocktail soup turkey with trimmings and plum pudding. A plum pudding recipe is provided with ingredients and step by step directions.
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the Sun
Alice G. Kirk
Boys and Dog Kill Bear Cubs for Circus Sale
Port Jervis New York November 19 three boys Johnny Smith Benjamin Cortright and Henry Schneider hunted with shotguns They trapped two cub bears after mother bear charged Xavier guns fired killing the mother and wounding the boys The boys planned to sell the cubs to a traveling circus for five to six dollars each.
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Port Jervis
N. Y
Johnny Smith
Benjamin Cortright
Henry Schneider
Benny
Cortright
Mamma Bear
Schneider
Smith
Young Smith
Man fined and jailed for whipping 9 year old stepson
Richmond Indiana report states Ora Mullenix was convicted of brutal whipping of his nine-year-old stepson and received a fine plus jail time from Judge Converse. The incident occurred recently and highlights local child abuse case handling by the court.
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the Sun
Richmond
Ind
Ora Mullenix
Converse
Flame Recipes and Orange Charlotte Desserts
A collection of step by step home baking notes describing a four egg sponge cake with separated eggs and beaten whites, sugar, vanilla, baking powder and sifted pastry flour, plus a gelatine based orange jelly dessert whipped with egg whites and folded in, set with orange pieces.
Decorative fur trim coat with pony fur and braid ornament
A charming coat of Russian pony fur sits six inches below the waist with a boxy round silhouette. Puff sleeves are enclosed by a large braid ornament, matching garniture trims the collar. Edging and cuffs use plain ermine for a refined finish.
Theater Banter and Theatrical Quips Amid Encore Laughs
A fragmentary dialogue recalls a brushes with danger and romance as a character credits Binks with saving him. The exchange pivots on themes of fate, love, and theater funny business, ending with a punchy joke about a theatergoing appetite.
Saw Triple on the Bridge at Midnight
A lone observer on a bridge at midnight witnesses three moons shining behind a dark church tower as the clock rings the hour, an eerie moment captured in verse tone.
Old Time Rum Fruit Compote Steam Baked Dish
A historical recipe describes chopping beef suet figs and orange peel then mixing with flour brown sugar and spices. The method includes sifting with baking powder salt cloves nutmeg cinnamon and combining with eggs milk then steaming in molds for six hours.
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Hiram
Wall-st
New York
Mandy
Wall-st. Bears
Daily Story
Fortune’s Freaks
Chiosu
People's Coal and Cemelt CO
Logsdon Bros.’ Fuel Company
Queen Margherita
Evelyn Thaw
Dog
Bear
Nally
Cubs
Cascarets
E.M. Dickson
Resiner St
W.lndisnapolis
ST Ea Ae
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
Everett True
Everett
Sutton
Indianapolis
Panama
A. J. Yawger Coal CO
King Coal CO
Blake Street
Spodeusipay
R. Adams
Hudson
Indianapolis Gas Company
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