Williams Pink Pills Promote Rapid Relief for Rheumatism
A heavily promotional piece touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as rapidly curing rheumatism and related conditions. It cites Mrs Margaret Gantz of Burlington Town recounting six months of pain and stiffness and two weeks of pill use leading to two years of relief, plus claims of broader cures and nationwide availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
He Oedy
Problane
Willian
Margaret Gantz
Bodeman Street
Burlington
Witliame
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Sclanectady
NCY
Record of early 1900s ads and notices on science and commerce
A compilation of diverse 1900 era items includes claims about American astronomers winning Royal Society medals, Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children, English forests sizes, tobacco and cigars, litigation over Brooklyn land, and medical and optical mischief. It also notes Winged products and a large bird destruction count for aigrettes in Venezuela.
The Best He Could Do
A clergyman reluctantly dismisses a gardener who stole from his garden. He writes a letter of recommendation praising the thief’s tenure and excess harvests, noting the gardener’s two years of service and more produce taken than any prior employee.
Careful Review of Castoria for Infants and Children
Important to Mothers urges careful examination of Castoria bottles for infants and children. It notes safety and proper use while warning against mislabeling or unsafe preparations. The notice stresses trusted packaging and recommended dosing practices.
Red Ants for Sale Advertisement Sparks Denver War
A reported print ad offering ten thousand ants for sale at five cents per thousand inflamed Denver tenants on Thin Worth and Stout streets. Mary Bruner denies placing the notice and says the uproar is neighbor spite as she defends her unfamiliar month in the city and vows to expose the culprit behind the phantom pest sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Thinworth
Stout
Denver Post
Egypt
Stout Street
Mary Bruner
Mrs. Bruner
Deacon's Prayer and a Parson's Corn Crib Trick
A southern deacon with seven children seeks one sack of corn to feed his starving family. He enters the parson’s corn crib at dusk, armfuls of yellow ears in a sack. A gunshot startles him, he prays aloud he cannot steal, and the parson’s voice demands he surrender the sack, ending the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rainsford
New York
Tablet system praised for stopping rail collisions in New Zealand
United States Consul General Til lingham reports from Auckland that New Zealand adopts the tablet signaling system to prevent rail collisions. Drivers must carry a tablet before leaving a station, and interlocking machines ensure only one tablet per section, making simultaneous trains in the same block impossible. The system aims to eliminate collision danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
United States
Tillingham
Auckland
Department of Tommeron
Newmarket
Rmivehine
Fine Game Fish for Un lucky Anglers. Going and Coming
A Chicago Inter Ocean item describes a depot near the Union depot area where trains depart for the W V grounds. A dealer in West Stowe profits from anglers who return empty handed, selling fins to those who fail to catch fish, a season’s tale of misfortune and contrived signs.
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Union Depot
Tin Amall
Fin
Chicago Inter Ovenn
Hadley Yale President Lovingly Teased In Rail Tale
The Buffalo Commercial reports a humorous self deprecating story from Yale President Hadley. While traveling with his wife they notice a motherly elderly woman quietly sympathizing with Mrs Hadley. She whispers she understands well and claims a family member shares the same issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hadley
Yale
Buffalo
No Evil Shall Befall Thee Poem Fragment
A religious verse fragment attributed to Marianne Farningham expresses trust in God. It reflects a prayerful request for protection during hardship, affirming faith in divine will and guidance through storms. It mentions Father and Son, comfort in God, and reliance on trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pether
Disjointed Senate Speech On Drink Spurred by Old Man
In a South Carolina dispensary discussion Senator Tillmas recalls an elderly man who ruined his reputation through alcohol abuse. The tale centers on a moral lecture about drinking water as a rare, pivotal moment, underscoring a drinking problem and family shame, with a punchline about where water is ever asked for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Tillmas Sali
Richest American Soil and a Double Pear Crop
James Goodwin noted an unusual pear tree in his Salt River valley yard. A single early variety bore fruit in May, then bloomed again, producing a second tilly matched crop ripening alongside the first, astonishing observers at the spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt River Valley
James Goodwin
Small Salary for High Office
The poet laureate of England earns only 340 dollars a year plus a bogshead of wine, a fractional part of what Alfred Austin earned. The salary has not risen since Lord Tennyson’s death, though an increase was planned before his passing. The present laureate thus received the unchanged afterdeath adjustment.
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England
Alfred Austin
Lord Tennyson
Necessity for Learning in a Poor Family School Scene
A teacher rebukes James for letting his younger sister go ahead in class, noting that he is older. James replies that girls must be smarter than boys, citing his father's view that a girl is likely an old maid who must learn enough to teach. The exchange highlights gender expectations and family attitudes toward education.
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James
Fragmented Verse Fragments From Frost Herald
The reader is presented with garbled dialect riddled prose or poetry about longing and oblique references to elaters, Bras, Tarn Caupe, and ROM News, with uncertain names and misspelled terms. The piece reads as a damaged column or verse fragment, lacking clear events or a coherent narrative to summarize.
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the Frost Herald
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PLYOR
Rosewater
Elty
Omaha Bee
Iarid Kennedys
Famove Wickete
Newtear
Ballia
Royal Astronomical Society of England
Mother Gray
Atul Druggists
Olmsted
Levy N.Y
Engianos
New Forest
Hampshire
Forest of Dean
Windsor Forest
Lewis
Peorla
Brooklyn
Wien
Cheney & LO
Toleda
Pathin
Rhine
Congressman Nilderbrandt
Ohio
Washington
Mr. Hildebrandt
Philadelphia
Mas
Toon Rouse
Maple Street
Norwich
Roland H. Mollineux
Gotham
William
Whitney
South Wales
Denbighshire
Flintshire
Venezuela
Paris
Niuseum
Pekin
Europe
Mina
Marianne Farningham
Ntion Btur
Nettie Blackmore
Minneapolis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lodge
Lydia
Pinkham
Nevin Diuacenonn
Central Ave
Lydia FE. Pinkham
E. Pinkham
Mra Winkham
Mather
America
Mra. Pryxuam
Jennie I. Kowamoa
St. N. W
Washington, D.C
THE
Defiance Starch CO
Omaha, Neb
Keister's Ladies’ Tailoring College
Hiwo Gilwert
Cor Vandeventer Ave
Louis
Ft Hied
Tele
Cal
Goldfield Shipping
Wi Ore Huldfeld
Neren
ORR omMce
Chemical Laboratory Iors
Tapemerte Lasik
Hutier
See
Mack Bik
Linnear
aMirtet
Fei
Thompson
ST. Louis
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