Doan's Kidney Pills advertising and poetry critique
An old advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney disorders with a testimonial from Mrs. A. E. Fulton of Portland Oregon. It claims rapid relief and urges readers to remember the Doan's name and buy at 50 cents a box. The passage also mocks a poetry submission to magazines and laments modern verse.
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Dean
A. E. Fulton
Skidmore S&t
Portland
Ore
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Burning skin relief with Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Edward Nenning of Watertown New York recounts a severe four year eczema ordeal confined to bed for six weeks. After exhausting medical aid she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent and slept well for the first time. Three weeks later she was mobile and fully cured with no ill effects.
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Edward Nenning
Salina St
Watertown
N. Y
The Gaz Meter Baffle During Sunday School Talk
A minister spoke to a Sunday school class about the heart as a powerful organ. In a pause a child quipped that the heartbeat is the gaz meter, delivering a humorous twist to a lesson on life and rhythm.
Portrait in Profile Quietly Baffles Fashion Studio
A fashionable photographer and a woman with a pronounced squint share a shy, awkward moment. He initiates the portrait in profile, noting the eye’s shy charm as both embarrassment and art converge in the studio.
Artistic Temperament Echoes Hamlet Advice
The remark notes Hamlet’s authority in addressing the players and contrasts it with Stormington Barnes’s observation that while Hamlet could be quiet and patient in that scene he also appeared nervous and frascible in other parts like a typical stage manager.
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Hamlet
Stormington Barnes
Morning After Reflections on Resolution and Misfortune
A reflective line compares New Year resolve to a one sided flirtation with misfortune, suggesting optimism can clash with fate. The phrasing implies a wary, philosophical tone about how plans meet reality. No specific people, places, or events are named.
Weighing Fraternal Bonds On A Quiet Sea Evening
Mrs Fenton and her cousin Fred share a tense escape from society aboard a calm sea. She reveals loneliness and longing as tears rise, and he responds with a bold confession of love. The moment reshapes their perceived future and a possible life together.
Love and money drive a hurried engagement in chapter XX
Fred Musgrave and his cousin Laura Fenton discuss marriage for love and wealth as they face immediate travel to London. She reveals her own relief at freeing him from poverty and insists their vows will endure. He reassures his love, plans a November wedding, and promises to return quickly from a shooting party before traveling abroad for the winter.
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Laura
London
Mrs. Fenton
Fred
Mr. Breffit
Fred Musgrave
Red
Goodby
Mrs Fenton Flees to Paris Amid Threatening Pursuit
Mrs Fenton, elated by a sudden windfall of luck, plans to flee to Paris after recognizing a threatening stalker from a train carriage. She orders immediate packing and seat on the night mail, while anxiously awaiting the stalker’s next move and hoping to avoid shipwreck of her newfound prospects.
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Fred
London
The
Express
German liquor costs exceed army and education outlays
A German newspaper quotes figures from 1904 to 1908 showing annual alcohol spending at about 3 billion marks, with per capita consumption of beer and wine, totaling 750 million USD. The estimate notes the total exceeds army and navy costs, workmen’s insurance, and public elementary education.
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Wing
Germany
Army
Navy
Making the Bread Good Grade of Flour First Requisite
A historical bread making guide outlines flour quality yeast choice and mixing. It details scalded milk or boiled water methods, and a step by step dough mix knead rise bake sequence with specific proportions for two small loaves or one double loaf and biscuits.
Poorly Paid German Toy Makers of Sonneberg
Sonneberg workers, including families, endure sixteen hour days with weekly earnings often below 2.40 dollars. Berlin exhibitions once showed Sonneberg crafts paid at four cents per hour. Children reportedly worked six hours after school polishing doll heads for about 1.25 cents an hour.
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Sonneberg
Germany
Berlin
Dolla
Apple Dumplings Boiled And Steamed In Readers Recipe
Boiled apple dumplings are described using sour milk soda salt butter and flour dough. Apples are peeled cores filled with sugar wrapped in crust edges sealed tied with cloth and boiled in slightly salted water for thirty minutes. Steaming is also advised for a nicer finish.
Sugar Gingerbread Recipe Steps and Measurements
A kitchen note outlines hard sugar gingerbread with butter sugar milk and flour quantities. It describes creaming butter adding sugar folding in dry ingredients, rolling on an inverted drip pan, grating, sugaring, baking in a moderate oven, and cutting dough strips four and a half by one and a half inches after removal.
Orange and Mint Salad Recipe Card
Peel sweet oranges and section them removing skin and pith. Arrange on crisp lettuce leaves and pour French dressing over the top. Sprinkle with freshly chopped mint. Appealing and refreshing in hot weather.
Ham Hash Fricasee Style Guide Card
A simple recipe mix equal parts cold boiled potatoes finely chopped ham and bread crumbs. Fry about ten minutes and garnish with slices of hard boiled eggs.
Conversation Sparks Between Mrs Talkalot And Mr Talkalot
A dialogue snippet features Mrs Talkalot scolding Mr Talkalot for language and him replying he treats it as a recreation rather than a correction, highlighting their playful exchange and differing attitudes toward speech.
Looked Like a Pattern at the Summer Resort
A humorous exchange reveals mistaken identity as a husband shows a map of Halley’s comet while a dressmaker uses a pattern for a shirtwaist. The chatty remarks expose a comic mix up between scientific diagrams and sewing plans.
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Halley
Dresmaker
Chicago Evening Post
Real Reform Knickerbocker on Municipal Government
A satirical poster or cartoon dialogue questions municipal governance. The rocker persona suggests first creating an office after an auto and mocks likening kind words to wasted effort, advocating swift decisive action.
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Kipling
Woodshed
Post
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
W. E. Norris
Munyon
Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
Shell Searf
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U.S
Harold Somers
Wellville
Phote
Bete Creek
Mick
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