Thirteen-Year-Old Girl’s Recovery Promised by Pink Pills
A Paola Kansas family credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing Mary McKinney after four years of nervous symptoms including paralysis like episodes and a St Vitus dance impression. The story cites medical advice, gradual improvement, and ongoing use with emphasis on the pills’ blood and nerve benefits and availability through druggists or mail order.
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Bnd
Paole
Kansas
James Wey
Hillsdale
Times
Rn Mckinney
Wwaltend
Witch
Ade
Mrs. McKinney
Mary
Williawstich
Dr. Wills
Williama
Waether
Williame
Ste Raya
Dr. Willams
Marina
Wood
McKinney
Dr. Williams
de. Williams’ Medicine Company
Bokinectady
Handy kitchen aid for sensitive hands with soda use
A practical remedy for hands exposed to strong soda alkalies. Mix equal parts electric fold and glycerine, apply after dishwashing, rinse in warm water, dry, then rub with citric acid glycerine solution and dry again. If nothing else available, vinegar and renin may help. no soap stains remain. Also a note promoting Salzer seed catalogue with sample seeds.
Untitled ad and dialogue fragment about ambitions
Fragmentary dialogue and ad text discussing ambitions and traits like a pirate or merchant. Includes oblique references to trust, No-To-Ban, and a burglar stealing money and a manuscript. Mentions malaria risks and a medicinal remedy claimed effective against fever and nervousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
Megidi
Panama
Michigan Idols Unearthed Near Newberry By Hunters
Two hunters near Newberry Michigan uncovered a large carved slate tablet eight by twenty five inches plus three life sized or three foot statues facing east. The images are thought to depict a man a woman and a child and are interpreted by scientists as worship artifacts possibly linked to early Sin worship or Toltec Aztec influence in pre Columbian America.
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Sint
Weeal Lakes
Indiana
Newberry
Mich
New York Journal
Mexico
Central American
Michigan
Xmal
American Rulne
A Reputation for Onions in Egyptian Trade
A writer in Chambers' Journal notes Egypt’s onion trade is highly competitive with English imports displaced. Ancient ties to onions are cited from pyramids and Bible references. Four ships sail from Alexandria to Liverpool Hull and London. The Baali onion, grown in yellow soil with light irrigation, travels well. The Miskaoul variety is less shipped due to moisture absorption. Egyptian onions are praised for quality and ongoing seed improvement.
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Megtana
Egypt
Saya
Chambers’ Journal
Pyramid
Chenpa
Beypt
Alexandria
Liverpool
Hull
London
Humorous, oddities and crimes from scattered notices
A collage of brief curios and misadventures from Mohave worm infested zones to a 2 million windfall for a canal laborer. Other items note a perfumed mortar in ancient Constantinople, a Philadelphia election bet with a peanut around city hall, elopement in a Delaware county poorhouse, and a Bath divorce claim over crackers at night.
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Mohave County
Arizona
Richard Pilkey
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Lyell
United States
Black Hills
Philadelphia
Delaware County
Ind
Bath
Horoscopes and Instructions for Free Readings Offer
Instructions demand full name and address for free readings by mail. Prof G W Cunningham at 194 South Clinton St Chicago outlines stamps and identity requirements. Horoscopes describe merging signs Virgo Libra Sagittarius and traits, with emphasis on ambition, health, love of arts, and fortunes.
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G. W. Cunningham
Dept
South Clinton Street
Chicago
X. Veru
Aries
Mare
Venus
Mara
Venua
Horoscope Notes for Hirlen at Dubuque
The excerpt appears as a personality horoscope for Hirlen of Dubuque noting zodiacal signs Libraria Ing and Venus as ruling planets. It describes a medium height slender build fair complexion and hair, with cheerful temperament, occasional blues, a strong sense of justice, admiration for fine arts, and sporadic strong intuition, plus above average marital fortune.
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Kmichiboro
Ts Data
Venus
Mara
Ngure
Dorn
Helens
Catro
Hirlen
Dubuque
Tows
Uranus
Ancient dice and dominoes across world history
The passage notes old time game cards in India showing a vizier on horseback, mentions claims that dominoes existed in Solomon's era among Jews, cites ivory and marble dice as rare in Roman households, and records similar dice found in Thader and other Egyptian cities across Britain.
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India
Great Britain
Dico
Thader
Egypting
Metaphysical and Moral Sketches in 19th Century Columns
A fragmentary collage of period pieces: a devout evangelist described as wholly consumed by spiritual work. a five year old daughter and a polite coalman encounter. dental and medical quackery warnings about mercury in catarrh cures. a humorous dialogue about nothingness and the gardener Pat. an advertisement for No To Bac tobacco resistance. and a light quip on noisy urban nights.
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PJ. Cheney Co
Moledo
Fide &Co
Tealimonlais
Drugalets
Pat
Tommy
the Gardner
Harper
NeeTo
Huc
Dragiist
Lobavco Divenpeare
Sterling Remedy Co. Colcago
New York
Webster's
Worcester’s
Century
Oana Waki Woltto-Henara
Marion Harland
Rudyard Kipling
H. Ridge Haggard
Wilkie Dale Tins
Misé Mulock
Banta Fe Route California Limited Service Ad
Leaves Kansas City at 0 40 a m on Thursdays and Sundays arrives Los Angeles in 67 hours and San Diego in Gi hor Returns from California on Thursdays. Equipment includes superb vestibule Pullman palace sleepers buffet smoking car and dining car. Another express train carries both sleeper and tourist cars from Janean City at 224 p m daily to Los Angeles San Diego and San Francisco. Inquire of W Hagenbuch P T A Kansas City Mo.
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Banta Fe Route California Limited
Kansas City
Los Angeles
San Diego
California
Ico
W. Hagenbuch
Taxing Luxury Proposals Hit Bachelors and Widows
The Jabes Balfour province advances a tax plan on bachelors by age brackets with monthly rates from 50 cents to 30 dollars, and allows widows and widowers three years post bereavement to remain untaxed. The Buenos Ayres Standard discusses health, and New Jersey wine recommendations and bottling practices appear in the same fragment.
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Jabes Balfour
Hus' A Jaro
Buenos
Maud Muller and the Summer Boarder Tale
A brief verse notes Maud Muller in a sunlit meadow with hay, a summer boarder whose flattering words lead her to marry and depart. She later regrets leaving after glimpsing her misfit spouse, contrasted with a contrasting rake named Petroit Tritume.
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Maud Muller
Speculative science notes haunt a curious page
The column jumbles odd phrases about spider silk fibers and giant spider counts, a self promotion for De Kay's Long Balm, and a flyaway theory that the moon resembles a plumb bob with the large end toward the Earth. The mix shows a curious historic newspaper page blending ads, curiosities, and speculative ideas.
The Cheerful Idiot and a Farm Ad Mixed News Snippet
A garbled local item blends a comic line about Maceo possibly being alive with an ad for farm land near Moustat Chesterville in Texas. It mentions high priced, well drained land, abundant rainfall, easy terms, and a Chicago address for Fertile Parmanda information, plus a fragment of a school story about a prank.
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Maceo
Moustat
Chesterville
Texas
Parmanda
Southern Texas Connication Co
Joist Lispkkitiota
Mgr
Rialto
Chicago
Warren County Man Claims Futuristic Two-Headed Creature
A distorted clipping describes an Indiana resident from Warren County claiming a future call features a two headed creature. The text references legal limits on concealed weapons and medical concerns, with garbled phrases about health and fear.
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Warren County
Indiana
Drying Bottles By Seed Absorption Method
A quick method to dry bottles before filling with powders uses one ounce of white mustard seeds rotated in the bottle to absorb all moisture. The note claims the technique has long been used in large establishments, with additional odd references to candy cathartics and Sweden. It then oddly shifts to claim restrained intoxication, bread soaked in wine, and finally a Spain report about 10,000,000 sheep and 30,000 shepherd dogs.
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Witex
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Salzer
John A. Salter Hood Co
la Croane
Wis
Cqusepa
Detroit Free Press
R. T. Brooke
Tonkawa
Okla
Foren
Min Tion Iso
San Francisco
Mrs. C
Winn
New Jersey
Torr
Reaumur
de Kay
Tom
Johnny
Johany
Scottint
Hilne
Ayer
Enalerr
Alba Litelder
Avtantalion Sive World
Balene
Siont
Marley
Tedantey Glen Boiey
Earhart
Jacobs
Sweden
Jess
Hissin
Spain
Bey I
Palmer Weterbury
Anil
Melanie
Baal
Rtralling
Krwkne
Weekly World-Herald
Omana, Nee, Eae
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