Morphine Epidemic Splits City Physicians and Spouses
A Paris morphine crisis is exposed by a famed physician who tables statistics showing physicians and their wives lead the morphine fiends list. The report notes rapid spread across professions, blaming doctors for addiction and warning of civil-code accountability if negligence aids harm.
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New York Herald
Aobert
Paris
Delaht
Durbis
Aubert
Ici
Ales Statistica
Steed
Rubber Teeth Now A Cheap Mass Denture Innovation
A New York World report explains a dentist inventor has created a rubber denture set with a hollow metallic matrix forming the teeth as a single piece. The rubber teeth shade by chemical bleaching or layered rubbers, with a cheaper set priced at 1.50 to 2 dollars. The design weighs less than traditional dentures and a pricier variant includes a metal facing for durability.
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New York
Deaf Mutes In This Country
The article states that there are 40,000 deaf mutes in the United States, highlighting a sizable deaf population. It notes the existence of 40,000 individuals with hearing impairment in the nation.
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United States
Folkloric Child Protection Belts and Amulets Spotted Abroad
A report notes Irish tradition placing a woman's hair belt around a child to ward off harm. In Holland a cradle is filled with garlic salt bread and steak for a newborn as protective rites.
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Ireland
Holland
Seeds Claim Big Yields From Salzer Campaign
An anonymous farmer in Mishicot Wisconsin touts Salzer seeds claiming extraordinary per acre yields for barley oats corn wheat potatoes and grasses in 1896. The notice offers 12 farm seed samples worth ten dollars for ten cents via John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin. Also a remark on early rising and a woman's constitution.
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John Breider
Mishicott
Wis
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
W.m
Lake Shore Schedule Calendar Issued by RS Ry
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway issues a calendar for the season. Copies may be obtained by sending six cents in stamps to A. J. Smith G P A Cleveland for postage and delivery.
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Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry
A. J. Smith
Cleveland
Tricky Electric Car Wows New York Reader
A humorous dispatch from the New York Journal describes a trolley ride that shocks a passenger. The man panics after a sudden jerk and a jolt of electricity while the conductor explains the car runs on tricity.
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Cohoes
New York Journal
The Livery of Billowsness and Patented Bitters Cure
The passage describes yellow vision and bodily discomfort. It touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for these symptoms and a cure for malarial, rheumatic, and kidney complaints. It claims to restore appetite and sleep and to address nervousness and debility.
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Hostetter
Fragmented dialogue item with oddly garbled quotes
A garbled dialogue snippet contains misquoted remarks about a burglar wife, a man reloading, and various nonsensical lines. It mentions a clerical phrase about economizing and a candy remedy priced at 1c or 25c. The text is incoherent and lacks a clear news angle.
No-To-Bac advertised as tobacco cure option
Over 400000 users cured by No-To-Bac advertised here. The ad claims it regulates or removes tobacco desire, saves money, and improves health and manhood. Cure guaranteed with prices 50 cents and 1.00, available at all druggists.
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Chicago
Montreal
Can
New York
Fashion shifts from raven black to gold hair
A playful verse notes the transition from dark hair to blond fashion and the rise of golden locks as the current beauty trend. The speaker contrasts Mary’s old hair with the new preference for shimmering gold tresses.
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Mary
Obscure 19th Century Patent Medicine Saturated Ad
A collage of old ads and quotes praising patent medicines and tonics. Mentions Hall’s Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo and various testimonials, prices, and unrelated quips about bicycles and social observations.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O, Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
O, Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggista
O. Hall
Pacific Coast Two Through Trains and Health Advertisements
The notice describes daily two through trains via Union Pacific to western points with through sleepers and fastest times. It lists destinations like Salt Lake City Helena and San Francisco and asks readers to inquire at M1 17th St. corner Curtis. Separate blurbs promote Heine's Great Nerve tonic a $2 trial bottle and Cascarets for liver and bowels. It also notes a plan by Baroness Hirsch to donate 2,000,000 francs for a hospital for consumptive children on the Riviera.
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Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
Salt Lake
Butte
Helena
San San Francisco
Sacramento
17Th St
Corner Curtis
Hirsch
Riviera
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Peters
Sens
Tees! Developments
Billowsness
England
Dobbs
J. B. Palmer
Seattle
Wash
Germany
Italy
Spain
Portugal
St. Jacobs Oil
Dandy Cathartig
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
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