Munyon's Paw Paw Fille Advertises Remedies and Personal Tale
An ad touts Munyon's Paw Paw Fille tonics claiming gentle stomach and liver relief without calomel and lists sizes and prices. The piece shifts to a dramatic personal story by J. W. Foley about a bedridden family and a book sale connected to a father’s loss, ending with a New York Times attribution.
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Munyon
Gista
Manon
Jefferson Sis
Philadelph Manyons
J. W. Foley
New York Times
A Pipe and a Wife in Rowland's Satiric Sketch
In Helen Rowland’s comic piece a narrator taunts Polly about pipes and marriage. He argues matrimony is a habit like pipe smoking and that love and cigars both fade to smoke, while Polly counters with playful sharpness about gifts and vows.
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Helen Rowland
Ughi
Polly
Olly
Broken Pipe and a Wife’s Clever Trade
In a humorous domestic scene Polly and Jack quarrel over a broken meerschaum pipe and a past habit of cigars. She plans to replace the bowl while he contemplates keeping memories, then she proposes a trade to buy a new pipe bowl, sparking a tender reconciliation.
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Ata Fevalyat
Pac
Polly
Jack
The Cautious Financier Sage Mind for Investments
A New Orleans States item describes Russell Sage as a perspicacious financier who never seems duped. Two promoters once urged a scheme. Sage listened an hour and then awaited his decision by mail, noting his wary habit of counting fingers after a handshake to signal suspicion.
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New Orleans
Russell Sage
Ian
New York
Boge
Mr. Sage
Mystery for the Barbers from Puck in Prunty Town Cream Parlor
A mock dialogue from a humorous column recounts a summer order at the Palace low Cream Parlor in Prunty town. A customer complains of hairlike bits in ice cream, while the proprietor speculates on shaved ice origins. The piece weaves quirky local humor with a dated vernacular.
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Puck
Carpingly
Palace Low
Pruntytown
Childs Prayer and Mother's Faith Echoed in Night Fireside
In the fireside hush the child’s treble and a mother’s memory return. The speaker recalls a cherished hour beside the hearth as a prayer threads through the room, inviting peace and the vanished trust of childhood. The poem closes with the familiar lullaby line “Now I lay me down to sleep.”
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Mother
Eugene Field
Doan's Kidney Pills End Kidney Woes and Do Cure
An 1906 testimonial from J. F. Alexander of Council Bluffs Iowa praises Doan's Kidney Pills for curing backache urinary disorders and kidney ills after the war. The ad asserts 60 cents per box and urges readers to seek Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York producers. Also includes unrelated Harpers Bazar quiz and a Cuticura skin cure anecdote from Robert Wattam of Chicago describing dramatic skin healing after months of sores.
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Dean
J. FP. Alexander
Ave. D
Council Bluffs
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Sunset Reflections On North Carolina Before The War
A northern tourist recalls a remarkable sunset seen in North Carolina and contrasts it with ante-bellum days. He meets an unreconstructed local who laments postwar changes and sighs at the beauty of the setting sun, wishing it had been seen before the war.
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Browning
North Carolina
Beautiful Wall Coatings Offer for Home Decoration
The Alabastine Company of Grand Rapids Michigan promotes its wall and ceiling coating as a rich smooth formulation that adheres without rubbing off insects or germs, comes in any shade, and is easy to apply with printed directions. A color plan book and color samples are offered free with home decoration guidance.
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Alabastine Company
Grandville Avenue
Grand Rapids
Mich
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Cure
Letters from women in Cresson and Baird praise the remedy for female complaints and kidney and bladder trouble. The ad claims the product helps long-standing derangements, cites decades of use, and offers free health guidance from Lynn Mass as part of the promotion.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Cresson
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ella E. Askey
Baird
Sarah Leighton, Baird
Lydia E Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Fated cafe chicken broth joke at Boston Courter
A patron asks how the chicken soup is made and the waiter improvises in dialect. The patron jokes that the chicken must have worn rubber boots, playing on the humor of the kitchen tale.
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Boston
What's that you call your mule
A Washington Star humorous item where an old colored man explains naming his mule Corporation after studying the animal and reading the papers. He says the mule causes him blame and abuse more than anything else in the township and still goes his own way.
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The
Washington Star
Corporation
Brooklyn Life Anecdote on a Little Girl’s Quick Witted Fare
A Brooklyn Life item recounts a girl riding a trolley who pays half fare. When the conductor asks her age she adds two pennies and quips that her statistics are her own, highlighting a playful exchange and the era’s humor.
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Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn
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Springfield
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