Perfect Womanhood and the Menace to Female Health
The piece warns that feminine organ disorders threaten happiness and marriage. It urges immediate action with a tonic boasting specific powers to rebuild the system, noting symptoms like energy loss, redness, dark circles, backache, headaches, and irregularities.
Wifie Forgot to Tell A Moving Tale From Boston
Dustin Farnum recalls a Boston resident Brown whose wife loves moving. Brown follows a moving van with a suitcase and bird cage, unable to predict his next residence. The anecdote ends with a quip on public praise and a financier who manipulates others without force.
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Dustin Farnum
Boston
Brown
Open Scams A Parisian Fake Medal Tale
A New Yorker in Paris recalls meeting a countryman who wore a large red badge of a national republican committee emblem. The man explains he bought a glow with tips to a wallet and uses the badge for status, claiming foreigners respect anyone bearing such decorations even if they are meaningless.
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Harper's Weekly
Paris
National Republican Committee
Bik
Legion of Honor
Order of the Star of India
Walter
Manny
Court or Caught in a Snippet of Quip
Wyer asks about the trouble after a man says his automobile sold him to the police court. Acher replies he could not control it and notes running fast or slow leads to the court or nowhere. The quip ends with a reflection that saving money from bad habits would lack fun without them.
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Harper's Weekly
Wyer
Acher
Sterling Remedy Company
Does Your Back Ache Benefiting From Doan's Kidney Pills
Fenner Street resident James R K Keeler of Cazenovia New York recounts years of back and kidney pain finally relieved after using Doan's Kidney Pills from FosterMilburn Co Buffalo New York. He notes the pills gave relief from the first box and two boxes restored his health. He recommends them to his wife and friends.
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James RK
Keeler
Fenner St
Cazenovia
N. Y
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Spicer Claimed Grocer Orders From Leading Boston Families
The report notes Spicer, linked to noted Boston families, asserts he handles grocery orders by phone for prominent households. The piece emphasizes his claimed connections and business method.
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Boston Transcript
Griggs
Spicer
Briggs
Stomach on Strike Pills Claim Cures for Mrs Stackpole
A Lowell Massachusetts woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing years of stomach trouble and backaches after other physicians failed. The ad promotes the pills as a blood builder aiding anemia rheumatism neuralgia and nervous exhaustion and notes prices and availability. The piece ends with a joke about two doctors agreeing at a post mortem.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary Stackpole
Liberty Street
Lowell
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Company
Schenectady
Nervous Disease Cure Promoted In Philadelphia Ad
An advertisement for a “ Wiest nerve Restorer” by M M Kline of Philadelphia claims cure for nervous disease and urges readers to obtain a bottle and instructions. The item is followed by a humorous tale about a parish in England where locals hunted woodcocks during church, prompting the parson to suspend service for a fair hunt.
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Vitus
Kiines Wiest
M. M. Kline
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Deal
Tastington
England
Baby eczema cured with Cuticura products
A parent recalls eczema worsening at three months and relief after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The family reports continued success, noting a six month old baby is now cured after spending $1.25 on one cake of Soap and two boxes of Ointment at 348 East 65th Street, New York, in 1906.
Fragmentary Insight on Truth and Friendship Reflected in Speech
A fragment reflects on honesty and the value of truth in friendship. The lines discuss how truth benefits those who seek it and caution against deception within relationships.
Unfriendly Bear Faces Farmer in Bear Encounter
David Kyler, a farmer, went fox hunting and fought a bear that attacked him. He shot the bear, killed it, and claimed the bear should be locked up. Game Warden Finnegan arrived and reminded about the bears’ closed season.
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New York Times
David Kyler
Mr. Kyler
Kyler
Finnegan
Catarrh Cure Ad and Foot-Ease promotings
A compact 19th century ad mix promotes Hall s Catarrh Cure and Hall s Family Pills with testimonials and price and a separate Allen s Foot Ease shoe powder. Also includes a quip about names at funerals and a line about Hezekiah.
Pierce Medicines Promoted as Curatives for Women and Breath
Advertisement extols Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription as potent alteratives and nerve tonics. It claims benefits for nasal passages throat stomach and bowels with non alcoholic formulas made from native American plant extracts. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pellets and urges readers to mention the Sioux City paper.
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Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Sioux City
How to Exercise the Bowels
A 19th century style health blurb explains digestion with vivid claims. It asserts that slow transit poisons the body and that Cascarets are the only safe bowels medicine, urging regular use.
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