A Danville Bachelor Tax Sparks Town Debate
In Danville Illinois a push to tax unmarried men sparks a civic feud. Citizens including clerks and lawyers back a petition to raise a bachelor tax while bachelors publish a playful reply urging social clubs and opt for matchmaking over punitive levies. The row highlights old maids and debutantes pressing for homes amid bachelor resistance.
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Danville
Old Maidé
John H. Rigon
Joseph Mies
Samuel” Strauss
Michael S. Plant
C. H. Evans
Clarence Baum
Cannon
Washington
Hirgy Brittingham
Jo Etc
Thomas A. Gahne
F. ‘Keegan
William H.dwyer
Ray F. Barnett
Denville
Thia
Irish Faith Through Famine Echoes Guidon View
A Guidon writer praises Irish resilience and faith amid blight in the fields. The tale recalls a landscape where potato vines wilt, yet villagers respond with resignation and trust in divine providence. A windstorm damages a landowner’s forest, but authorities clear the road and poor keep what they were denied, seen as God’s hand.
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Ireland
Mikey
Tha
Proprietoria
God
Then There Was a Fight in Chicago Journal
A fragmentary remark recalls a confrontation with the lines You refuse to fight met Certainty You are a coward and mention of a minor term, reflecting a terse exchange captured in the Chicago Journal.
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Miniter
Chicago Journal
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted for female ailments
Historic advertisement claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the most successful remedy for women’s ailments in the country. It purports to treat inflammation, falling, displacements, weakness, backache, and nervous symptoms, and to cure tumors at an early stage. It also claims relief for kidney complaints and general debility with a long list of associated symptoms.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Mrs Pinkham Invites Women for Free Health Advice
Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts invites women suffering from any form of female ailment to write for free medical guidance. She has advised sick women for more than twenty years and learned the craft from her mother in law Lydia E Pinkham.
Mexican Province Advancing to Wealth in Merida
Yucatan once among Mexico's poorest states has become prosperous. Merida, the capital, features well paved and lit streets, well kept by a corps of white wings. The city boasts well built homes, some palatial, all clean and newly painted, with extensive sidecar transport across the area.
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Yucatan
Merida
Untarrly Catarrh Cure and Timber Cut Figures Excerpt
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward and promotes Cheney's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from wholesalers in Toledo. It asserts internal use cures blood and mucous surfaces. Also includes Hall’s Vanity Pills and cites timber cutting figures since 1880 totaling 700,000,000,000 feet with 80,000,000,000 feet of coniferous stumpage.
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Tait
Uur
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
I. J. Cheney
Hie Orin
Walaa
Rixwan & Manvin
Holesale Druggists
Hale
Hall
United States
Dr Kline Cure Promises Nerve Restorer Patent Remedy
Fraudulent medical advertisement promises permanent cures for diseases and invites readers to order a $. Dr R H Kline of Philadelphia claims a great nerve restorer with a cheap treatise. Also notes about ancient glass mirrors and a tobacco product ad from Lewin factory in Peoria Illinois.
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St. Vitua
Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Frightens Families
Fragmentary, misspelled ad copy lists patent remedies and moralizing lines. Items mention teething, easing pain, and broad claims of universal equality until proven otherwise, all presented in a tarnished early 20th century tone.
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Winslow
His Usual Nightly Stunt
A blushing girl resists an infatuated young reporter who pursues her motions despite her pleas and the late hour. The dialogue centers on a love-struck man pressing to be heard as Miss Helen objects, though tension rises over his persistence.
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Jay Nel
Gil Perworld
PeTeelyey
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Mrs. Pinkham
Venice
Tewis
Lewin’ Factory
Peoria
Dodd
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