Doan’s Kidney Pills Featured In Local Ads
Grippe hurts kidneys and Doan’s kidney pills advertised as relief from bed wetting and urinary issues. Testimonies claim rapid improvement for a nine year old girl and other adults including a fireman and a weight gain after treatment. The ads promise relief from back pain, swelling, dropsy signs, and urinary symptoms, with a free trial offer.
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Aurora
New Mexico
Doan
J. C. Lucero
Pury
W. Va
Dean
I Hooff
Point Pleasant
Jas. A
Laniam
Cuticura claims cure for skin and scalp ailments worldwide
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent as the ultimate remedy for eczema psoriasis scorched scalp and related skin humours. It urges daily bathing use of soap, ointment application and internal Resolvent pills to cleanse skin and blood with quick relief and lasting results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charterhouse
Rue de le Pali
Boston
Columbus Ave
Columbus Ave Drug & Chem. Corp
BolewarSe
Defiance Starch Trial and Other Everyday Promos
A jumble of product pitches and quips promotes Defiance Cold Water Starch with 16 oz per 10c package, Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, and Baxter’s Bullhead cigars, along with light quips about sleep, kitchens, and a cure for colds.
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Mother Gray
New York
A. S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N.Y
Change of Life Advice Promoted by Pinkham Medicine
The piece touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for the change of life in women. It cites a purported letter from Ber a Ross of Roslindale Massachusetts praising the medicine after six bottles and mentions a $5000 for est as proof of authenticity.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Bera Ross
Montclair Ave
Roslindale
Mass
Old-Aze Cradle of Plate Glass Wealth in Indiana
Albany special to the Indianapolis Sentinel profiles Capt. John B. Ford who built the United States first polished plate-glass factories in New Albany and Tarentum. From modest beginnings he became a multimillionaire, founding plants in Tarentum Creighton and Ford City while pioneering natural gas as fuel. He funded churches and other bequests despite years of poverty before striking success.
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United States
Albany
Indianapolis
John B. Ford
Indiana
Tarentum
Kentucky
Greenville
New Albany
Lenox
Mass
Washington C. de Pauw
Ford
de Pauw
Louisville
Jeffersonville
New York
Creighton
Ford City
Pittsboro
Plate-Glass Trust
Ind
Short Names a Real Advantage in Cabinet Roles
A historical note argues that the present cabinet favors short one or two syllable surnames with five of nine advisers bearing single syllable names Hay Root Shaw Postmaster General Payne and Attorney General Knox Secretary Moody and Secretary Wilson also short names The piece traces how predecessors had similar letter counts and notes officials shorten signatures from full names to initialed forms for daily documents in routine governance.
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Hay
Root
Shaw
Payne
Knox
Moody
Wilson
Hitchcock
Cortelyou
Day
Rod
Alger
Gage
Mr. Payne
Charles Emory Smith
Ber
Attorneat Knox
John Griggs
John
Benjamin B. Smith
B. B. Smith
The Might of a Lie and John G Carlisle’s Speech
Ex Speaker John G Carlisle now a New York lawyer faced a misrepresented Cynthiana speech cited as asserting the United States is not a nation. Carlisle defended that his critique targeted administration policy, not the nation, and denied a verbatim report existed. The lie haunted his hopes for political honors.
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John G. Carlisle
Washington Square
Pine Street
Cynthiana
New York
United States
South Carolina
North
Carlisle
Tribune
Machines replace hand shearing for Arizona sheep
The Baltimore Sun reports power clippers fully supplant hand shearers in Arizona. Twenty gasoline powered machines at the main plant employ as many skilled men, clipping 100 to 125 sheep daily with even wool, better fleece and fewer patches, though over clipping can blister skin if not regulated.
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Arizona
Baltimore Sun
Indian Cowardice Told Through Scalp Threat Tale
A Kansas City Journal excerpt recounts an Indian sizing up a desperate white man. The Indian responds with a moral jab by striking him twice with a heavy glove, then departs, calling the man a coward after witnessing his jaw drop. The piece closes noting laundry bills rise with longer days.
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Oklahoma
Kansas City (Mo
Local Advertisements and Vignettes From Early 20th Century
A collage of brief items and ads featuring a dramatic crowd scene, a jailbreak note to a governor, remedies for feet and coughs, starch and dye promotions, cigars, real estate references, and light social snippets. Notable names include Emily Broad Baxter’s cigars and Piso’s Cure claims.
Register of the U S Treas Uses Peruna for Summer Catarrh
Ho Judson W Lyons Register of the United States treasury reports Peruna as an excellent remedy for catarrhal affections in spring and summer. Letters from Miss Camilla Chartier and Mrs Kate Bohn praise Peruna for relief from dyspepsia headaches and other catarrhal symptoms with plans to recommend it widely. Dr Hartman offers further advice for cases not improving.
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Judson W. Lyons
Register of the United States Treasury
Washington, D. C
Augusta
United States
Camilla Chartier
West Lexington St
Baltimore
Miss Camilla Chartier
Kate Bohn
Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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Grand Trunk R. R
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Cuticura
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Defiance
Omaha
NEBS
Hall
Price
Baxter
Chas. B. Hires Co
Malvern
Old Aze
Capt. Ford
John G. Carlise
Carolina
Emily
San Luis Valley
Colorado Bureau of Immigration
Majestic Building
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Colorado
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Putnam
Joan F Borgu
Trinity 8 Springs
Edults
Artemus Ward
Journal
Ple
Belle
Lena
St.Jacobs Oil
Denver Directory
Denver Tent & Awning CO
R. R. Contractors
Larimer Street
Financial Contract Security Co
Tra Et
Moffat Road
Daniel Witter & Co
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GEO
Lawrence St
Kodaks & Cameras
Denver Photo Material Co
Champa ST
Colo
Modern School OF Business
Curtis Streets
Graham and Gregg Systems
E. E. Burlingame & CO
Cacoratony
Mailer Express
Lawrence St. Deaver
Colos
Leesa
Theveterse
God Sliver
Ogden Apssay
Rapahoe Street
Denvik
Culo
Register OF the
U. S
TREAZ
Ater
Winchester
Repeating
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
New Haven, Conn
Nagi
Wabash Line
West Shore
Boston & Maine
St. Louis
Wabash
Delaware
Lackawana & Western
New York City
Toledo
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Olive and
Eighth Streets
N. E. Cor
Caer
Bly
Woodworth-Wallace Colleges
L. A. Watkins Mdse. CO
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Eworks CO
L.A. Watkins Mdse.co
Wazee
N. U
Druggiata
H. K. Vaxton CO
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