St Jacobs Oil Advertised as Curative by London Doctor
A Baltimore based company offers St Jacobs Oil with a claim of being a great remedy built from an eminent London physician’s formulation. A free sample bottle is available upon request.
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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1902
Page
7
A Baltimore based company offers St Jacobs Oil with a claim of being a great remedy built from an eminent London physician’s formulation. A free sample bottle is available upon request.
New York society women auction and donate worn clothes to charity. They sell street gowns with worn hems, rumpled dinner and evening toilettes, and hats that have seen use, with all proceeds to benevolent causes.
An old advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promises $100 for a cure and urges sending for circulars. The pitch mocks other remedies and includes testimonials style lines about ear inflammation and mucus, with notes on Pills and mixtures.
A critique from the Chitryen Inter Ocean condemns repeated layers of wallpaper that hide tilth and foster disease by trapping flour paste animal glue and colors. Health officers warn such practices legalize risk and urge safer coatings like Alabastine to prevent danger from smallpox and other illnesses.
An Austrian effort reports savings of 2915 dollars achieved by avoiding TSO bile use for army transport. The maintenance and procurement shifts reduced costs compared with traditional horse drawn methods.
An advertisement-style appeal states Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery purifies and enriches blood, claims cures for boils eczema and other eruptions, and prevents hemorraghes from sun exposure. It includes testimonials from Mrs. M Hartrick and others, urging readers to request the 1008 page People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser free by mail, with options for paper or clothed volumes.
Advocates argue for point euchre where scoring is by points across each game rather than by games. A 120 point tally card tracks points. head table players must play fast to limit others while rules mirror standard euchre. Two hours of play award prizes to the highest points, per New York Sun.
A compact note from London Tatler on how grandmothers and relatives mispronounced words. It lists examples such as lay for slept, potticary for doctor, woman for woman, noble or obleeged, brarvelit for bracelet, dl'monds for diamonds, Tuesday for Tuesday, pook for Duke, fast for first, chariot for chariot, Harriet for Harriet, Jeamnes for James, goold for gold, galler for yellow, sturrups for stirrups, squrrels for squirrels, wrepped for wrapped, Gertrude for Gertrude.
A reader from Trinity Springs Indiana names Jo an F Borex and endorses Piso's Cure for Consumption as unmatched for coughs and colds. The note is dated February 6 at 10 a.m.
A Baltimore musician, averse to social events, attends a concert reluctantly. The poorly conducted music and a doleful expression drive his friend to remark on his enjoyment. He bluntly replies that the opposite of what is expected is precisely what he enjoys.
An antiquated patent medicine claim promotes Hamilin's Blood and Wiver Pills as a universal cure for constipation. The ad-style note urges readers to visit druggists for the remedy, reflecting period marketing language and health fads.
Arnold Scott of Bernardsboro Maas a long time mail man has been blind for fifty years and twenty five years in town service. He is noted for efficiency in collecting and delivering mail and his steady work for the community.
The piece contrasts infant growth with monkey traits, noting babies resist the monkey type early and rapidly diverge from it during development. It highlights jaw and limb strengthening in apes versus the expanding brain and skull in human infants, and cites doctors on upward human evolution slowing to environmental adaptation in infancy and youth.
Putnam Faceless Dyes are easier to use and color more pools brighter and faster colors than any other dye. Sold by druggists, 10c per package.
Manchester England and Boston USA have nearly equal populations, as do Birmingham UK and Baltimore USA, according to a source comparing city sizes. The finding highlights close demographic parity between these pairs across continents.
A Philadelphia Record note quotes a club woman praising charity work as a new female profession. It cites New York training schools, early opportunities with leadership roles, and strong salaries such as five thousand dollars for a head of organizing charities in Philadelphia, predicting methodical, expert charity careers nationwide.
At a recent meeting of the Anthropological Society of Washington evidence was presented that tattoo marks on Eskimo women were made to indicate relationships.
A terse critique portrays R Yonie as a man lacking ambition who sneers at existing conditions and fails to take action to improve them. The remark emphasizes his reluctance to contribute to necessary reforms.
A sharp line critiques character, declaring virtue in a good woman and vice in a bad one. The piece frames moral judgment as social standard, contrasting positive and negative traits with emphasis on personal integrity.
The advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal female remedy. It claims cures for ovarian troubles womb disorders and related backache and nervous debility, asserts safety and wide endorsements, and directs readers to buy from druggists with no substitutes.
A fragment describes Irish language use among mixed descendants in the Bahamas and occasional Irish speaking Afro-British phrases near London docks. It notes old Irish apple-women at the docks and references Cromwell’s banishment.
A Germantown matron asked for Saratoga chips at a camel grocery. The clerk apologized saying only straight kindling bundles remained. He showed a circular bundle of resin-tipped sticks and asked if these would do.
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