Grateful Kentucky farmer praises Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mr W D Smith of Ethel Kentucky tells how Dodd's Kidney Pills helped him after back strain and kidney trouble. At 77 he says the remedy keeps him from backache and earned his life. He invites publication of the testimonial and photo. Dodd's Kidney Pills cost 50 cents per box from Dodd's Medicine Co Buffalo NY. Household Hints music and recipes offered free.
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Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Mr Smith
Dodd’s Medicine Co
Buffalo
Adv
Equally as Good
A Sunday school teacher asks pupils who wishes to go to heaven to raise their right hands. All raise them except Mary who explains her father bought tickets for Los Angeles.
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Middle West
Mary
Papa
Los Angeles
Weather Echoes and Advertising Fragments From Castoria Note
An OCR fragment combines an old Castoria advertisement urging mothers to check for the signature and noting 80 years in use with stray quotes about weather and ambition. The text mixes product warning and unrelated phrases, lacking a cohesive news item or dateline.
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Fletcher
Generous Munyon Almanac Free Offer
Professor Munyon issues a useful almanac with essays such as Don't Be a Cipher and The Power of Love, plus character reading, birth month meaning, dreams, and weather forecasts. Free with any one full-size 25c Munyon Remedy including Rheumatism, Kidney, Dyspepsia, and Paw Paw Pills. Address The Munyon Remedy Company Philadelphia Pa.
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Munyon
Pacific Slope
Almanac
The
Munyon Remedy Company
Philadelphia
Film Washer Lets Home Photographs Soak Clean
An Indiana man has invented a home film washer using a rubber hose connected to a bath tub spigot. A slot attachment grips the film and the hose hangs above the tub, allowing water to spray over the film without touching it. A bucket serves as a catch basin.
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Indiana
Do Elephants Sleep Standing Up Says Harper's Weekly
A Harper's Weekly note reviews whether elephants lie down to sleep. Gordon Cumming claims adult bulls may stretch out at midnight while Selous doubts even old bulls lie down. Most authorities agree elephants sleep lightly and mostly standing, about four hours in a day.
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Harper's Weekly
Gordon Cumming
Selous
J. L. Kipling
Riddles and Puns From a Bright Text Collection
A sequence of light riddles and jokes asks playful questions about everyday things. Answers include puns on teeth tongues gaits and hats with a few clever wordplays such as a carpet bought by the yard and a kiss described as a pleasure smack.
Pets for the Growing Boy
Prof John Willard Bolte argues that family pets shape a boy's character. He urges keeping a home lively with suitable animal companions, especially dogs, rabbits, pigeons, and bantam chickens, to teach responsibility and support moral development.
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John Willard Bolte
Two Odd Optical Illusions Shown In Gallery Sketches
The article describes two optical tricks: a left image makes two figures appear of different height though they are equal, and a right image makes parallel lines look curved. Diverging lines alter perception by guiding vision away from the center, but held edgewise the lines are revealed as true.
A Good Loser Story From Harper’s Bazar
A Rhode Island politician and late election candidate comes home provoked by his son Frank’s misdemeanor. The father asks the ten year old if he knows he is a candidate for a whipping, and the boy replies I hope I’ll be defeated.
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Rhode Island
Frank
Harper's Bazar
They Got Left A Railway Rule Gone Wrong
A Louisville newspaper recounts a family tale where John and Betty aged five and four miss a station and the train pulls away. The children later set out toward Sunday school but return halfway, remarking We got left. A wry moral about plans gone astray.
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John
Betty
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