Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement from Lindgren Case
Charles Lindgren of La Porte Indiana testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured severe back pain and lameness after he first used them in 1897. He repeats his faith now, three years later, and notes a free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York with sale through druggists.
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Charles Lindgren
la Porte
Ind
Dean
Doan
Lindgren
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Snakes Scarce in Sandwich Islands and Product Ads
Snakes are scarce in the Sandwich Islands with Ireland-like scarcity noted. Allen's Foot-Ease promises shoe comfort enabling smaller sizes and foot relief for various foot conditions. Defiance Starch offers better quality for the same price. A gallows scene underscores caution against excess, while Bullhead cigars promote taste.
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Sandwich Islands
Ireland
Brief Dispatches From The Uncommon Sense Column
A collection of quips and witticisms on topics from gender and marriage to money and philosophy. The snippets touch on wit, virtue, vice, work, and social norms with humorous, pithy observations.
Reflections of a Bachelor Humorous Observations
A collection of wry maxims from the New York Press on marriage and courtship. The notes poke fun at gender roles and social habits with playful quips about engagement, love, taxes, and burglars.ulares
Nuggets From Georgia
A reflection on wealth and poverty from the Atlanta Constitution, noting riches can seize all it can, happiness lasting only if cherished, and the paradox of overreaching wealth while poverty remains ever present with the poor at meals. The prose critiques excessive desire and warm comfort that makes people resist leaving abundance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaze Wen
Atlanta Constitution
Silly Benches and Bold Quips in a Dental of Delights
A humor column riffs on odd phrases about court silence in romance for the deaf, a pianist described as unable yet earful, an undertaker’s view of oblivion, temperance marriage queries, a living skeleton’s fate, a clerk selling figures by the yard, a bookkeeper tallying by the foot, and soda drinkers clinging to a last straw on hot days.
Pointed Paragraphs on Money and Marriage Wisdom
A Chicago News collection of pointed maxims on money, love, and marriage. Observations note women’s economics, courtship, and post marriage dynamics with humor and caution. The pieces reflect social mores and human behavior in brisk aphorisms.
Quiet Thoughts on Self Improvement and Faith
A reflective moral meditation praising kindness and self discipline. It asserts happiness comes from serving God, values knowledge over wealth, and cautions against selfish use of family love while urging inner growth through study of others' writings. It emphasizes truth, humility, and resignation to divine will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gruggsiat
Alabastine Company
Grand Rapids
Mich
Bamboo for Scaffolding in Java Builds Lighthouses
The French consul at Batavia highlights bamboo as essential for scaffolding in Java noting a lighthouse built with it. He cites bamboo canes eight to ten inches in diameter and fifty to sixty feet long, claiming strong resistance and non rotting whether underground or in water as it dries and ages.
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Batavia
Java
Chess and civilization linked by Scottish scientist
A Scottish scientist argues that nations with frequent chess play are more civilized. He notes that Spain flourished as the world's best players in its historical splendour and Italy during the Renaissance, while currently few in those countries regard the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Italy
Labor on Railroad Folders
A Western railroad publication shows the labor behind time folders. A general folder compiles sixteen divisions of schedules for over 500 trains and 2,000 town names, with 60,000 figures checked and corrected when changes occur.
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Big Western Railroad
Ogden Assay Co trains readers with steady progress
The Ogden Assay Company, once at 129 Sixteenth Street, Denver, has moved to 1725 Arapahoe Street in a more convenient location. They are known to mining men for reliable work and advertising, showcasing success earned through persistence and fair customer treatment.
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Ogden Assay Company
Sixteenth Street
Denver
Arapahoe Street
Various Patent Medicines and Humorous Snippets Found in Ad Humour Series
A mash of early 20th century advertising copy and jokes lists patent cures for catarrh and teething, with lines about Siberia, cold cures, and a joking courtroom of life. It includes humorous exchanges about medicine costs and etiquette as well as product pitches for Defiance starch and Baxter’s Bullhead Nees.
NEXT MORNING PHILOSOPHER
A collection of observations contrasts the diligent house builder with the hod carrier and notes a difference between the real and professional working man. It touches on prosperity versus hard times and the idea that wealth appears on paper rather than in pockets.
What We Need for War and Knowledge
A poetic catalog listing essential items imagined as tools for enduring conflict and understanding. It pairs metaphoric objects with vast aims, from cushions for bloodshed to a telescope for time, a blanket for the deep, and a key for access, evoking struggle and insight.
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children Featured
An advertisement touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children used at the Children’s Home in New York. It claims cures for feverishness stomach teething disorders bowel regulation and worm destruction with over 30 000 testimonials and offers a sample for free. Also mentions other products and various quips from the period.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen
Olmsted
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