Free to Twenty-Five Ladies Defiance Starch Contest
Advertises a contest offering 25 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition to five winners from Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri sending in trademarks from a 10 cent package of Defiance Cold Water Starch. Mail by Sept 1904 to Defiance Starch Co Omaha Nebraska with tickets mailed Sept 6. Includes notes on other modern products and a jumble of assorted items and anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance Starch Co
Ilinoia
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Omaha
Nebr
Kidney Pill Ad Promises Cure and Free Trial
An advertisement promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney waste and backache, featuring Mrs J I Bowles of Durham NC recounting relief after nine months bedridden. A free trial offer via Foaster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is advertised, with price 60 cents. The notice also notes a church union prospect discussed by Rev H T Stephens of Kansas City University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Specius
J. I. Bowles
Core St
Durham
N. C
Ean Weing Conan
Fragmented 19th century ad and notice mix
A jumbled OCR page fragment offers drug ads and notices. It mentions a reward offer for a rare item, names Chesney Co Toledo, and includes references to J Cheney. It also cites Rev. Charles A. Tuckingham resigning over doctrine, a Red Cross Ball Blue note, Germans teaching Chinese for trade, Mother Gray’s powders for children, Roosevelt speeches, Defiance Starch pitch, and a New York medical college endowed by Rochkefeller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
CHESNEY @ CO
Toledo
J. Cheney
Ali Busbee
Kewkaw & Maney Wiiv
Pamby Vilietore Tipatton
Qualified Ambition and Courtship Fragments
A rough dialogue features a young man applying for a drug clerk role, questioning his competence and recalling his awkward skill set. Nearby, an argument about love unfolds with fretted pride and stubbornness, ending with a late reflection on changing views and aging. The scene mixes job intrusion with personal recollections and sharp banter.
Private Opinion And Banter On Handouts And Manners
A fragmentary dialogue shows contrasting voices debating charity and dignity of a hobo. An unsympathetic woman snubs him while a gentler speaker defends his gentleness. Interlocutors from New Yorker and Chicagoan comment on manners and a musician pairs lullabies with hard-to-compose lines.
Gossip and Snappy Quips Echo Through Theatre Set
A lively snack of theatrical banter features Mme Prima declaring a split while drift from a mutual friend’s death prompts morbid jokes. Wikeman quips on reincarnation, and Bragg recalls the famed tragedian who originated Hamlet as audience chatter and character names buzz in a stage-side dialogue.
Thirteen as Luck in American History Expert Says
Prof A L Totten, ex military instructor at Yale, replies to a New Yorker on 13 and Friday. He cites thirteen letters in BE Pluribus Unum and thirteen repeats on the Great Seal, noting baker's dozen and biblical reference as cultural marks rather than misfortune. He urges not to fret over the number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Totten
Yale
America
Heradiry
Israel
The Spirit and the Flesh in Local Exchange
A local council debate touches public dinners and drunkenness as Borough President Cantor recalls a constituent who preferred Dunkirk for liquor. The piece notes shifting tastes, a New York Times critique, and the era’s beauty trends before detailing Chicago mall order trade and cash-only business practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Woodward
Cantor
Fredonia
Dunkirk
Cme
Tim
New York Times
Chicago
Be Value on Travel Through Erie Railroad Company
A reader is urged to contact the Erie Railroad Company in Chicago for free booklets on Summer Tours and regions including Chautauqua Lake Cambridge Springs Denmark and Her Army. Denmark is noted as having 187 soldiers per 10 000 people, the largest army proportionally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Railroad Company
Trailway Exchange
Chicago
Chautauqua Lake
Alea Cambridge Springs
Denmark
St. Louie
Haifway Exchange
New York
Bowton
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Are Falls
Cambridge Springs
Peruna Promoted as Treatment for Nervousness in Women
An archival ad extols Peruna as addressing nerve weakness in women by improving digestion and nutrition. It cites Miss Blanche Urey of Memphis writing that Peruna restored strength and health after exhaustion. Claiming no narcotics, the tonic supposedly offers lasting relief by stabilizing the stomach and nervous system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna
Peruana
Blanche Tivey
Memphis
Rem
Alabama Street
Klanche Urey
Perana
Wien
Howell
Wieden
Perna
Well Known Canadian Lady Endorses Peruna Drink
A letter from Mary Horns of Spring Garden Road Molifax N So claims Peruna cured her indigestion and digestive troubles after three months of use. She praises the medicine as restoring health and strength following prior unsuccessful remedies and dieting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna
Mixn
Mary Horns
Spring Garden Road
Molifax
N. So
Lam
Porina
Mary Hyrns
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Vermont
Arnold Ball
East Maven
Harmon F. Eddy
Stratton
William Tudor
Somerset
John Tudor
Stamford
Peoria
Newport
Bar Harbor
Miso
Eoi
Boris
Trinity Springs
Ind
Carracrosa
Ireland
Hla
Colorado
Lydia, Pinkham
H. T. Stephens
Kansas City University
Possiby
United Brethren, Primitive Methodiata
Cumberland Presbyterians
Charlies A. Tuckingham
New Jersey
Pittsburg
Red Cross
Roosevelt
Oice
Mr. Roosevelt
Medical College
Rochkefeller
Defiance Starch
Omama
Neb
Archie
Freddy
Amnanda
Algernon
Cer
Laat
Muscian
Mme. Prima
Mme
Donna
Fido
Morrell
Wikeman
Ascum
Bragg
Hamlet
Allen
Jase
Corus
Allen Animated
Leltoy
Fac Sumile Signature of
Hartman
Blanche Grey
Winga
Texas
St. Louis
Rome
Towle
KATY
St. Lowis
Tull
St Lovie
Tee
Keister's Ladies’ Tailoring College
Olive T., Cor
Vandeventer Ave
Louis
Bears
Castori
Atne
Allegie
South
Finketa
Chicago & Northe Western Railway
Inestrose
Kniskern
Chicagh
TRE Daily Fly Killer
Dekel
Jane Teabales
United
Diralwees
Genersiy Glee
Thompson
Ts Atu Byit
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