Dodson's Liver Tone promotes healthy liver function
An old soda advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims the tonic starts the liver without causing sickness or salivation, suitable for children and adults, and warns calomel as dangerous mercury that weakens bones. It promises relief from biliousness constipation headaches and sour stomach and guarantees money back if not found superior to calomel.
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Dodson
Mortgage versus home purchase debate echoes in Texas papers
Abilene Reporter and Galveston News weigh the contrast between mortgaging an automobile and financing a house. The pieces argue houses retain value longer while cars deteriorate under debt, joking that a mortgage reflects ill health in a car and sturdiness in a home.
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Abilene
Cmr
Galveston News
Get Rich Quick: Jernegan’s Ocean Gold Scheme in Boston
The piece recounts Rev P F Jernegan and the Electrolytic Marine Salts Co marketing a scheme to extract gold from seawater. Off ces opened at 53 State Street and 235 Washington Street as gold fever spread, with hundreds employed in Lubec and plans for 2.6 million shares. Jernegan fled to France with partners after gold crystals vanished and the enterprise collapsed, harming shareholders.
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James Powers
P. F. Jernegan
Jernegan
Brown University
Newton Theological Seminary
State Street
Washington Street
Marine Salts Company
Thomason
Jerneagan
New Yorker
Frank W. Thompson
New York
North Lubec
Marine Salta Company
Gloth Mer
le Havre
France
Louis Sincair
Chicago
Lubec
WA Electrory F" Marine Salts Company
Boaton
Port Bolivar widow jokes about undertaker proposal
A Port Bolivar widow reports an undertaker's odd compliment after she helped at her first husband's funeral. Also a boy defends his fall into a pond by saying he came to fish, not fall in. A joke about not running for president on the front porch echoes current timing.
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Port Bolivar
Ten Little Yellowbacks Fadeaway
A terse verse from Watertown Standard recounts a game of dwindling "yellowbacks" through mishaps and purchases on a journey, ending with a solitary ruined day. The piece reads as a playful, rhythmic ledger of incidents and outcomes during travel.
Widow receives proposal from dentist admirer
A Portheliver widow recounts receiving a proposal from her favorite dentist who claimed he admired her since he first noticed the way she wore her tonsils.
Tanlac Proves Worth Weight In Gold To H. Will Hide
Walter Will Hide of Cudahy Wisconsin, a Federal Rubber Co. employee, reports dramatic relief after two bottles of Tanlac. He describes years of stomach pain heartburn headaches and weight loss relieved with improved appetite nerves and energy. He praises Tanlac and notes local availability through Cervelat Chili Sausages and Special Ham beside Harry E Paulus.
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Tanias
Walter
Willhide
Federal Rubber Co
Cudahy
Wis
Howell Ave
Miiwaukee
Harry E
Paulus
Blacksmith's Daughter to Wed Kinloss Heir
Announcement in the Daily Mirror notes the betrothal of Hon. Luis Chandos Francis Temple master of Kinloss to Katherine Jackman a village blacksmith’s daughter. Temple is heir presumptive to the Baron Kinloss title after his brother’s death, while the bride is from modest means near Kinloss. The match has stirred London society. Temple’s clerical duties and his mother’s approval are mentioned.
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London
Luis Chandos
Francis Temple
Kinloss
Katherine Jackman
Daily Mirror
Baron of
Kinbass
St. Sepulchre’s Church
Northampton
Bayer Aspirin Package Promises Safe, Trusted Pain Relief
Aspirin praised as safe by millions and prescription use for over twenty years. Only Bayer packages with proper directions offer relief for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism cold and pain. Handy tins of 12 tabs cost a few cents with larger packages sold. Bayer trademark refers to acetylsalicylic acid product by Bayer Manufacture.
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Bayer
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