Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Detroit Artist
Miss Gannon of the Detroit Amateur Art Association urges young women to use Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female troubles. The letter from Miss Grima Gayloy of Detroit claims six weeks to full recovery after taking the remedy, praising its effects and urging others to follow suit.
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Gannon
Detroit
Amateur Art Association
Lydia GE
Pinkham
Peitwood
Lydia
Pinkbom
Mie Grima Gayloy
Jones St
Kery Mich
Lydia Bckham
Miss Gannon
Mra Pinkham
Collared Head recipe fragment with meat paste method
A fragment describes making a meat paste by grinding cold ingredients, adding dry mustard, heating, and pressing into a form to chill. Slices are intended to be served thinly, with an emphasis on timing for proper texture.
Evening Coat of Grondcloth and Home Remedies
A series of craft notes describe an evening coat of grondcloth with raffia embellishments and wheat ribbon embroidery, plus a summer porch pillow in olive green and yellow. The text shifts to home remedies for coughs and pneumonia, recommending molasses mixtures and hot water applications, and urges onions in diet for fevers and colds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wonéin
Artade Worker
Disease Traced to Cattle in Denmark Turbulent Spread
A Danish investigation links tuberculosis to cattle after the import of Schieswic Holsteins. The disease spread rapidly, prompting a government commission to test 144000 head with tuberculin and find a single true infection. The article notes the rapid transmission following cattle importation and official testing efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
DeCostas Liver Pills Health Insurance Pitch
An odd health ad touts DeCostas Liver Pills as health insurance for 26 cents. It claims a cough remedy, promising relief from lung disease with a bottle of Cough Balsam, urging readers to start with a small cost to stop coughing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tsee
Frocks for Debutantes and Their Lightweight Fashions
Frocks for young girls feature flat senson fabrics such as lace chiffon crepe de chine in thin materials. Simple hems finish the bottom with lined taffeta or satin, and an interlining is required. Many gowns use two interlinings for a delicate effect with chiffon or mousseline de soie. Color contrasts like light green over pale brown or pale rose over cream and dove are common.
Spring and Summer Fashions Highlight White Wool Lace
The piece notes bold spring choices with Barese and plaid grenadine to lead next summer, white garments as key items this season, and white wool lace as striking yet practical. It warns that certain military styles may camouflage uniforms and recommends avoiding very circular walking skirts due to sagging.
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Epriming
Valle Ace
Simple Home Remedies and Delmonico Fashion Note
An old piece extols sulfur as a cure all for sickness claiming it strengthens households, aids scarlet fever and diphtheria as a blood purifier. It contrasts with a New York confection item noting a dinner gown at Delmonico was black velvet with lace and a white lace toque.
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New York
Delmonive's
Started at the Foot and the New Sized Show
A fragmentary item notes George Sanger beginning a circus act costing 40 and valued at 1,000,000, Luther Gray's Sweet Powders for Children endorsed by Mother Gray at the New York Children's Home, claiming cures for constipation teething and worm issues with 20,000 testimonials, plus a curious Harvard college diploma prerequisite for law divinity and medicine admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sanger
Luther Gray
Gray
New York
LeRoy
School of Law
of Divinity
Medicine
Harvard
Honest Catarrh Cure Claim Attracts Testimony
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with endorsements from local doctors and merchants in Toledo. It claims internal action to ease catarrh and promises a money back test. Also promotes Waldring, Kinnan and Marvis as druggists and Hats’n Family Pills as the best.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Prova
Toledo
Chenes
Thole Rem West & Truax
Whaleele
Walding, Kinnan & Marvis
Experiments to Determine Earth's Density at Tamarack Mine
Experiments to measure Earth's density will be conducted at the Tamarack mine at a depth of 4,550 feet by the Geodette survey. The density of the earth has previously been computed only from formulae based on the law of gradation.
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Earth
Tamarack Mine
Russia’s Richest Man Dead in Moscow at 85
Nikolai Terestchenko, Russia’s wealthiest man, died in Moscow at age 85 leaving an estimated fortune of $100 million. For decades he lived a frugal routine sleeping four hours a day and starting work at 2 a.m. with secretaries, eating only one solid meal daily.
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Russia
Nikolai Terestchenko
Moscow
Mage
Bia
American invents self recording envelope to deter tampering
An American invents an envelope that records any attempted opening. The flap carries a chemical that reveals “Attempt to open” if dampened or tampered with, signaling the intrusion and discouraging further attempts to access the contents.
Built Over Food That Rebuilt a Man’s Body and Health
A Reading Pennsylvania club treasurer touts Grape Nuts as a cure for a long standing digestive ailment. He notes rapid improvement within weeks of starting the cereal and claims full recovery after about a year, crediting daily use at breakfast and lunch with continued dinner usage.
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Pa. Treas
Bays
Drige
Aeuth Oateene Paynes
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Pai
New York Times
Z.C. M
Prince Tailtress
Osden Assay Co
Wes
Ser Thompson's
Natal
Paul Kruger
Atkins
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