Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Women
Philadelphia and Providence readers report relief from displacement, backache, and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They credit improved sleep, appetite, and work capacity, urging others to try the remedy despite chronic female health complaints.
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Lydia E. Pi
Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Harry Fister
Dounton St
Nicetown
Providence
R. I
Abel Law
Lippitt St
Providence, R.I
VEW PER FECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook Stove
The VEW PER FECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook Stove with Fireless Cooker Oven offers both features at a low cost, cheaper than many coal ranges, and is available in two sizes through dealers. Look for the triangle trademark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triangle
Tailor Sends Lawyer a Bill for Suits and Servants
The Central Law Journal reports a Philadelphia tailor billed a lawyer $100.25 for services related to a neighbor suit. The list includes measuring, sorting, warrants, cloth merchant fees, cutting, alterations, day book entries, ledgers, button dealer, certiorari removal, and service costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Law Journal
Philadelphia
Marine Eye Remedy Ad From Chicago Firm
An old advertisement offers Nrv Marine Eye Remedy for red weak watery eyes and granulated eyelids. It promises eye comfort with a no sting formula and asks readers to write for the Book of the Myc by mail free from Marine Eye Remedy Co in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nrv Marine Eye Remedy
Book of the
Myc
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Hard to Please Bean Soup Joke
A humorous exchange centers on a customer inspecting a bean soup served to him. The patron awkwardly asks to be shown the bean, turning a simple meal into a lighthearted moment about expectations and service.
Laundress Praises Red Cross Ball Blue Laundry Additive
A testimonial style ad notes that beautiful clear white clothes please the laundress who uses Red Cross Ball Blue offered by grocers.
Misheard Front in Russian Retreat Trade Winds
A reader misnames a mountain range in a wartime dispatch, thinking of the Goodchild ranges, corrected as Beskids. The exchange clarifies geographic confusion over military movements in a European theater.
Detectives Probe Disappearance in River Mystery
A married man vanishes and relatives drag the river while investigators search for his “lady friend.” Police pursue leads as a river search continues.
Two Bears in Every Family Proverb Discusses Forbearance
An essay cites the Milwaukee Journal on the value of forbearance in family and neighbor relations. It argues for patience to avoid quarrels, but notes limits where restraint becomes harmful and revenge has no place.
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Milwaukee Journal
Oranges Used to Fight Bridge Fire in Fillmore
Will Wileman, driving a wagon of oranges, saw smoke on a Bardsdale bridge approach in Fillmore California. He spread oranges over a crack and stomped them, the juice seeping through to smother the fire caused by a discarded cigarette.
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Fillmore
Cal
Will Wileman
Bardsdale
Wileman
Naval Cutting Tools From In Fusion Process
The bureau of ordnance of the navy department reports extraordinary results from cutting tools made with a new in fusion process. Soft steel is hardened to great depth by introducing carbon and other elements via a special powder, yielding cutters that outperform high cost tool steels in depth speed and reach. Milling cutters produced this way cut deeper and faster than top carbon tool steel and rival high speed steels in performance.
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Naval
Bureau of Ordnance
Navy Department
Naval Gun Factory
Luck and Bismarck Tale Echoes of War Fervor
A veteran correspondent recounts meeting Bismarck during the Franco Prussian War while under martial law in a French town. After curfew he sought tobacco and was stopped by a towering figure who proved to be the chancellor who spared him only after a brief exchange about cigars and discipline.
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Bryan
Europe
Bismarck
Easy to See Parable About Unclaimed Life Insurance
The Exchange notes a parable on unseen fortunes from life insurance. An estimated 30 000 to 40 000 beneficiaries have never claimed policies whose funds await rightful heirs. Many lives pass without seeking these riches despite clear opportunity to claim their title.
Dark in the Evening Schoolhouses
A Philadelphia Ledger correspondent advocates expanding school use beyond daylight hours. The Home and School league has long fought for evenings and extra days to turn idle schoolhouses into centers of social activity, arguing schools belong to the people and should be economically used for community purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home
Philadelphia
Ledager
On Her Wedding Eve A Man’s Web of Love and Fear
An unnamed narrator recalls a past entanglement between a reliable middle aged suitor William Smith and a dashing lover Roger Renfrew. A dramatic confrontation at the aunt home reveals Roger’s scams and Smith’s protective danger proving the narrator’s awakening before marriage.
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William Smith
Roger Renfrew
Roger
Smith
Mr. Smith
Shaving Rule Shapes Baseball Fans’ Viewing Habits
A saying links self shavers to listening less to baseball, implying beliefs about media, distraction, and attention. The maxim suggests personal grooming choices influence sports consumption in social contexts.
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Urges American Made
A brief advertisement extols Red Cross Ball Blue as the best American made laundry product. It promotes it as a trusted choice for clean clothes and encourages grocers to stock the item.
Victim of Circumstances in Court
A prisoner charged with loitering and vagrancy tells the magistrate he earns a living by manufacturing smoked glasses for viewing eclipses, noting the industry requires long spells of enforced leisure. The exchange reveals a humorous yet poignant defense as the court hears the case.
Hands Like Velvet Hand Care Ad
An old Cuticura advertisement promotes daily use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment to keep hands velvet. It instructs hot soaks, drying, ointment rub, and overnight bandaging, calling it a one night treatment for red rough chapped hands. Free samples offered by mail with 32 page Skin Book from Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Man shifts views on Red roost in railroad car stunt
A commuter loudly proclaims he has switched sides to support the Reds in a political row aboard a train. An onlooker calls him an anarchist, but the conductor laughs and explains the speaker is merely touting Rhode Island Reds chickens.
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Rhode Island
The Brighter Side in a European War Moment
In a light exchange Mr Jobbins and Mr Snoozedorf discuss consolation from the European war. Mr Jobbins notes that wealthier neighbors cannot travel to Europe this year and return to make him feel as if he had been somewhere, since he merely went to Colorado.
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Mr. Jobbins
Mr. Snoozedorf
Europe
Colorado
The Shirker
Boston policewoman Mrs. Anna Steinauer discusses her bete noire the girl who smokes. She says the good old fashioned girl works hard while the modern cigarette smoker turns up her nose or fails to appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Steinauer
Boston
Neutral Belle Keeps Choice Undeclared
Dialogue features Belle urged to reveal preference between two suitors while she defends a strict neutrality. The exchange highlights social expectations of choosing a partner and propriety in romance.
Riddle Note on a Square Meal Phrase
A Toledo Blade riddle describes a man planning a modest meal with a pound of round steak a pyramid of mashed potatoes six oval biscuits a triangle of pie and two cups of flat coffee, then calls it a square meal.
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Toledo Blade
Twelve Years Ago I Signed the Pledge
A hard-featured house wife taunts a liquored tramp. He replies he did something worth while twelve years ago, claiming he signed the pledge. The exchange captures a sharp social moment between character types amid unspecified setting.
Do you Keep any Servants
A dialogue notes a householder denying keeping servants but admitting temporary workers stay on premises a day or two at a time.
Mighty Siow Pay
Miss Weary sighs and yawns as she admits creditors deserve sympathy. The speaker notes the habit of paying as they go and jokes about disliking a person’s laugh more than any trait.
Reformers Question Liquor Consumption Across Nation
A reformer asks how many gallons of intoxicating liquor are consumed annually in the country. The man with the red nose replies humorously that he does not know but offers to help by lending a dike to cross the street and support the cause.
Inventor vows to end war with deadly weapon
The inventor declares, I shall yet succeed in producing a weapon so deadly that war must cease. Miss Cayenne comments that a few more engines of destruction may kill off people until there won't be enough to conduct a battle.
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Miss Cayenne
Fox Trapper’s Fox Kept Captive by Snowbound Trap
Arthur Neefe of Sweden Bradford County set a woods trap but snow prevented access until last week. A lively fox was found inside with near by gray and white rabbits four mice and a woodchuck partially eaten. The captive was sustained by his fellows during imprisonment and visited by them. He lost a foot but seems otherwise unscathed.
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Pennsylvania
Arthur Neefe
Sweden
Bradford County
Philadelphia Record
Ex-corporal seeks park job bayonet drill proof
An ex-corporal asks if he must pass a civil service exam for a park position. A district leader replies by requesting a letter from his captain confirming bayonet drill proficiency, implying it would convince the commissioner of his qualification.
Trouble Ahead in War Zone Home
The head of the house returns quietly and asks for his mother who is hidden upstairs in a war zone area. A boy hushes him, saying she is waiting and has your range.
Joke Exchange Between Patience And Patrice
A light dialogue comically suggests a divorce prerequisite. Patrice quips that a woman should remarry first before pursuing divorce. The exchange humorously frames marital breakup as a step in social maneuvering.
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Patrice
Baby's Bedroom Hygienic Care For Infant Comfort
The room for a baby should have no upholstered furniture or heavy curtains to prevent dirt and germs from breeding. Walls should be washable with a damp cloth and the temperature kept around 68 to 70 degrees in winter. in summer keep the room cool with awnings and shutters. open windows day and night in summer and air the room two to three times daily in winter.
Weary Cyclist and Native Vexed by Distracting Sign
A traveller asks for Poppleton distance and learns it is ten miles, but a signpost was turned to trick Zeppelins. The native explains the redirection to fool approaching hazards.
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Vilage
Poppleton
Dinner Missed Over Speech Content
A dialogue notes a doctor missing a big dinner for Professor Jay due to a late case with speeches to be published. The wife tells him not to worry, as the speeches will appear in print, while the dinner cannot be rescheduled.
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Jay
Two Inches of Water in Cellar Sparks Trenches Remark
A landlord remarks on two inches of cellar water while a neighbor compares conditions to soldiers in trenches, noting they stand in waist-deep water daily. The exchange mixes a domestic nuisance with wartime hardship imagery.
Observers note love’s stubborn math in marriage
A quip from the Observer of Events and Things laments that in marriage rituals a woman always possesses a left hand despite multiple vows. The remark wittily critiques repeated settlements of conjugal union.
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