Why Women Write Letters About Pinkham's Medicine
Women who are well often ask if the Lydia E Pinkham Medicines letters are genuine. The company states it never publishes fictitious or untruthful letters and that all letters have full consent. Thousands of women nationwide write grateful letters because Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has relieved displacements ulcers irregularities nervousness and other female ailments, restoring health and inspiring aid to others.
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Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lydia E. Pinkham
Catboats Named For Nine Lives Quip On Craft Types
A quip on boat naming notes that a catboat earns its moniker from the idea one should have nine lives to venture out in such a craft. The tongue in cheek line appears in a light exchange about maritime terms and seafaring lore.
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad and Cartoon Gag
Red Cross Ball Blue promises snowy white clothes on washday and warns against cheaper blue that turns fabrics greenish yellow. Large packages sell for only a few cents at grocers. A cartoon caption jokes about firing a chauffeur who spent time in jail.
Electricity Kills Insects With New Ground Treatment
A Department of Agriculture development uses salt water applied to soil and electric current through trenches to generate a gas that instantly kills germs larvae and insect pests in the soil. The method leaves vegetation unharmed and can treat large areas by digging shallow trenches.
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Department of Agriculture
Freckles Cure Ad Claims Clear Complexion
An old ad touts Othine double strength as a guaranteed remedy to fade freckles with nightly and morning applications. The guarantee offers money back if it fails to remove freckles. A note: several club members discussed wartime sympathies and then joked about drinking soldiers’ health.
Prohibition Voices From Denver on Crime and Labor
Mr Alexander Nesbit, Denver sheriff for 12 years, cites declines in crime and public vice since prohibition. He notes fewer murders, suicides, and lower ambulance loads, praising cleaner streets and improved patrol conduct. He also mentions the disappearance of saloon culture and post theater drinking as indicators of early reform. Divorced from liquor, labor movements claim prohibition strengthens organization, with unions and journals advocating end of liquor traffic and pledges urging removal of alcohol influence.
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Alexander Nesbit
Denver
Pueblo Chieftain
Labor Movement
Labor
Galesburg (Il
Labor News
America
Plumbers’ Journal
Hiquor
E. J. Keenan
Ohio
Cincinnati
Keenan
Temperance Messages From Health Expert and Baseball Fraternity
A medical expert warns alcohol harms digestion and body defenses, increasing susceptibility to diseases like typhoid and cholera. The Baseball Players Fraternity plans to ban beer among members, while Boston Braves pitcher Wd Ruelbach credits temperance with extending athletic careers and conserving energy for longer playing years.
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Baseball Players' Fraternity
Wd. Ruelbach
Boston Braves
Beef Instead of Whisky Reflects Prohibition Mood in Denver
A Denver woman laments changing times as she recalls her husband trading whisky for a rib roast, signaling shifting attitudes toward prohibition. The Denver Post notes the remark captures the era, while a digression questions whether a saloonkeeper would be invited to address schoolchildren.
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Denver
Cole
Denver Post
Common sense as asset to worker and firm
A brief Indianapolis News reflection argues that a skilled sober worker is an asset to both employer and self, with no economic slavery involved. It emphasizes practicality and individual value in labor.
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Indianapolis News
Absenting Physicians in German Society 1914 List
The Society of German-Speaking Abutment Physicians in 1914 numbered 496 men, including some of the most distinguished men in the empire.
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Society of
Empire
Canada’s prosperous era and Western farming boom
The February 11 1916 bulletin says Canada stands at a threshold of prosperity driven by farm product values and wartime factory output. It cites a one billion dollar 1915 net output, prairie contributions near half, a $310 million wheat crop, dairy gains in Ontario, and rising horse stock and autos as farmers invest in comfort and growth. Bank clearings rise sharply in Western provinces, Calgary and Moose Jaw show strong gains, with February 1916 bank clearings at a record level.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Ontario
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Prairies
Western
High River
Manitoba
Western Canada
Saskatoon
Moose Jaw
Sask
Calgary
Alta
Athens Verse Reflections In Pauls Athens sermon
The lesson outlines Paul in Athens as he reasons with philosophers at Mars Hill, showing how he found common ground yet called for repentance. It notes his use of Greek sources, the argument for one God, and the necessity of personal faith in Jesus Christ, culminating in the resurrection as evidence.
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Athens
Paul
Thessalonian
Jesus Christ
Areopagus
Mars Hill
Brotherhood of Man
Aratus
God
John
Jesus of Nazareth
Up to the Audience Yarn About Seymour Hicks
Seymour Hicks recounts a joke from a well known dramatist about his Richard III role. The dramatist quips that Hicks will not need a hump since the audience will supply it, making light of stage make up and audience perception.
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Seymour Hicks
Richard III
Seymour
Richard
Mr. Hicks
Exclamatory Rheumatism Affects Local Patient Says Clerk
In a dialect filled exchange, Martha clarifies a patient’s condition. The attendant insists the term is inflammatory rather than exclamatory, noting the man hollers when anyone approaches him.
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Sin Hushan
Martha
Free Book on Rheumatism Cure Requested by Readers
Notice offers a free book explaining the cause and cure of rheumatism or neuritis. Signed by Jesse Case, Dept. C. W., Brockton, Massachusetts. Readers are invited to write for the volume.
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Jesse A Case
Dept. C. W
Bruckion
Mase
Iuy
Caustic Rebuke Buoys Naval Gunnery Prank
In a North Sea gunnery drill a fogbound flotilla failed to engage a target until 300 yards away. The firing ship destroyed the target instantly. The senior officer, famed for his biting wit, quipped to the crew asking why they did not bite the target closer.
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North Sea
Fo Tulla
Care for your hair with Cu ticurn Ointment adv
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura ointment to soothe dandruff itching and scalp irritation claiming benefits for hair complexion hands and skin. It offers free samples by mail with a booklet and instructs readers to address a postcard to Cuticura Department L Boston. The ad ends with a misquoted aphorism about false friends and vanity.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
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