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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1886
Page
2
The item highlights fashion trends for American goods in London, mentions various tonics and remedies like Prickly Ash Bitters and Botanic Blood Balm, and includes testimonials from readers praising cures for headaches, stomach and kidney issues. It notes beauty products, jewelry, and dress adornments popular in the period.
A collage of 1887 Living Age periodical promotion and reader testimonials from Boston to Philadelphia, praising its bite sized weekly volumes. It extols breadth from literature and science to travel and poetry and lists subscription deals including combinations with Harper’s Weekly and St Nicholas. Also includes health remedy ads for bitters Kemp’s and a cure claim for consumption with a free recipe offer.
A vintage ad touts Winslow's soothing syrup for teething children. It claims it is the prescription of a leading female physician in the United States and has four decades of use by mothers. The text asserts benefits include relief from teething pain diarrhea and griping and promises rest for both child and mother.
Practical notes on poultry feeding and cooking ways. Advice on plant placement in window gardens and ways to clean and refresh carpets. Tips cover preserving fats for cooking, making cakes, pickling onions, and controlling crowing roosters with a swinging lath.
A polemical piece argues horse hooves should be left to natural design rather than iron shoes. It claims excessive shoeing causes lameness by hindering the hoof’s natural structure and elasticity, urging respect for the Creator’s work over human intervention.
A Barger Bros. advertisement claims refunds to customers who have used three fourths of a bottle without relief. The text asserts the product enriches cleanses and purifies the blood and tolls the system and invites customers to call at their store.
A collection of amusing and curio items from Philadelphia Syracuse Minneapolis San Francisco Baltimore and Exeter. Highlights include a young Philadelphia woman praised for attractiveness a Vassar student refusing improper fractions a Minnesota prodigal son telegrams a Fort Ann elopement potatoes scandal and a San Francisco figure with jet black hair. Also noted are a Jones family reunion near Baltimore a failed bicycle ride by Mark Twain and Colonel Ellsworth’s Mech an icville origins.
A collage of quirky quotes and tangential notes from various papers. Items include satirical jests from Verchant Traveler and The Major, playful exchanges about donkeys and insomnia, comic snippets on newsrooms, and a flurry of scattered jokes, floriculture fads, and archaic trivia about New Jersey’s naming.
The ad asserts rheumatism grows insidiously and that Athlophor sees its cure. It claims physicians have studied many diseases but failed to provide relief, insisting Athlophora alone can cure rheumatism neuralgia and headaches with reliable results.
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