The Genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna
The California Fig Syrup Co. claims its syrups are produced by its chemists using a unique method. It warns buyers to insist on the full company name on the package to avoid imitations and ensure the genuine product and its benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
The
COLT
Firiaieta
Bron Medical CO
Tom
Requier
Goshen
Ind
the National Dairy Machine CO
Chicago
Ili
A Man of Resource A Hamlet Beard and Othello Plan
A backstage exchange shows an actor needing ten cents for a shave while his beard grows after four days of playing Hamlet. The manager suggests switching to Othello, noting the quick remedy.
Cure for severe skin eruption with Cuticura products
A Chicago reader describes an intense itchy eruption beginning with pus-tules that spread to the hands and body. After trying doctors and various ointments, use of Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills relieved itching in days and cleared the eruption in about three weeks, with no recurrence to date. The testimony dated November 1907 from HH Kruts koff and a firm名 appears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Krutskoff
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Peter Drag & Chom, Corp
Soleropa
Local Coal Prices Spark Railway Jests
Smythe asks about coal costs and Jones replies he pays nothing. He lives near the railway line and wet his son to make grimaces at engineers passing the trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smythe
Jones
Freed at Last From the Awful Tortures of Kidney Disease
Mrs Rachel Ivie of Henrietta Texas describes fifteen years of kidney trouble and two years unable to leave the house. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring her health and enabling her to work like a healthy woman at nearly eighty. Sold by all dealers for 59 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Ivie
Henrietta
Texas
Dean
Dean's
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Resinol Ointment Endorsed by London User
A reader testimonial praises Resinol Ointment as the best healing ointment found after two years of use. The fragment includes social quips about gender curiosity and a joke about a football coach, reflecting a mix of household and humorous notes typical of a busy page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John BD. Dain
London
Eng
Missouri State Capital Items Record on Hunting Licenses
Commissioner Tolerton reports 43917 licenses issued since the new game and fish law took effect August 16. Of these 1653 are state licenses. St. Louis led with 879, Kansas City and Jackson county 269, other counties totaling 1368, plus 285 from other counties and 48 nonresident licenses at $25. State treasury expects a $50,000 balance in the game protection fund by January 1.
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Tolerton
Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas City
Jackson County
St. Louis County
Greene County
Jasper County
Callaway County
Clay County
Buchanan County
Game Protection Fund
Lost Registered Letters Found In Queer Place
The Overland Limited No 2 on Friday November 5th saw a five letter registered packet from The Schuyler pouch fall beneath the wheels when a pouch catcher failed. The mail was scattered but the five letters were later found safe on the dining car trucks, reporting a near miracle of recovery. Postoffice Inspector L A Thompson traced the search and confirmed the letters’ recovery by the car cleaner, praising the Union Pacific track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schuyler
Postoffice
L. A. Thompson
Council Bluffs
Union Pacific
Country Neglecting the Children Tuberculosis Shame
The article cites Stockholm data showing 1.61 percent of children aged eight to fifteen with tuberculosis and predicts 273,700 U S children affected if applied nationally. It notes only 11 open air tuberculosis schools exist with nine more considered and warns accommodations will cover at most four tenths of one percent of needy children. A Walker County Messenger correspondent relays a courtroom quip about a bigamy trial and Judge McReynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
Darky
Walker County Messenger
McReynolds
Crum
Allanta Constitution
Secret workers The Plan Upon Which Coffee Operates
A Memphis wife shares her husband’s decline and recovery after stopping coffee and using Postum. She credits improved stomach and heart health, weight gain, and renewed vigor after a year of beverage change. The letter promotes Postum and cites the book The Road to Wellville, ending with a dubious advertising flourish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Wellville
Spohn elected mayor of Goshen Indiana
Spohn's Distemper Cure firm led by Spohn, former County Superintendent of Schools, wins Goshen mayoral race by a strong majority. Author notes the candidate's focus on accuracy in figures and reflects on marriage bliss with a closing quip about single life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
An Ta Eben
Choannes
Spahn Medical Co
Spohn
Goshen
Ind
Local Applications Clarify Health Symptoms
A fragment suggests the phrase local applications relate to a health issue. The illegible text mentions a cadet and disease terms like catarrh, hinting at a historical medical note or advert. Further readable details are not available to identify entities or a clear event.
Domestic Quarrels and Patent Cures Parade in Ad Page
A collage of household squabbles and remedies fills the page with humorous quips and mock wisdom. Patented tonics claim rapid cures for rheumatic afflictions while quipping about marriage and social mores. Various products and brands appear, including soothing syrups for children and liver tonics, all pitched in a late 19th or early 20th century ad style.
A Kneeling Proposition Dead at Age 0
Minstrel Pony Moore, once famed in Chicago, dies at a young age. A veteran manager recalls his touring wit and jokes. Moore endured a foot injury, limping on stage with a pillow-like paw. The tale includes vaudeville banter about Liza Johnson and Calhoun White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pony” Moore
Liza
Calhoun White
Hypnotism Recognized by Medical Profession Through Centuries
A condensed quotation notes hypnotism as long known by medicine since the fifteenth century and tested by savants like Charcot in Paris and Bernhelm in Nancy, yet its results have not justified broad clinical use. The item references New York Press and Harper's Bazar dialogue about a baby and a shopping call.
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Charcot
Paris
Bernhelm
Nancy
New York Press
Work of a budding genius at ten years old
A ten year old girl, daughter of an artist, imagines a great place in literature and writes a poem about her first church wedding. While reading to guests, she describes the bridesmaids with a line noting some had pug noses and each wore a blue ribbon about her abdomen.
Featherly Recalled for Bread Mention by Landlady
Mrs. Hendricks the landlady notes Featherly never takes the last piece of bread, while Dumley adds Featherly isn’t quick enough in the exchange. The remark appears in a Bazar piece quoting the pair.
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Frank Blake
Supt
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M. D. Aber
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W. F. Maring
Bank of
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Aber
Supreme Court
McQuillin
Albert B. Chandler
United Railways Company
St. Louis Transit Company
Bates
Chandler
Main Street
W. G. Bartley
Bartley
Rev. Bartley
Gov
Hadley
Cooper County Cclicuit Court
Charles Dunnavant
Missouri River
Gov. Hachey
Maggie Bardwell
Butler County
Crand
Gov. Hadley
National Civic Federation
Washington, D. C
J. W
Peters
J. P. Gilmer
J. McD. Trimble
Frank Hagerman
Seneca Taylor
John F. Lee
Frederick N. Judson
Frederick W. Lehmann
Selden
Spencer
J. L. Hornsby
Owen Miller
Queer Place
Permatiem
Kingsley
RED Cross
Hoa
Renee
Mia
Winslow
Ana Rey EY
Saye Sy
Tommy
Freddy
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Props
W-L-Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Ife
Brockton
Mass
W. L.douglans
Douglas
L. Drers
W.L. Douglas
Brockton, Mass
Kansas City Directory
Grant Ave
Arthur
Djawn
Bollelior
Suai’ Deere Implements and Velie
Cesler
John Deere Plow CO
DR. Davis
Defiance
James McGune
Mercer St
Jersey City
N. J
N. Y. Kansas City
PUTNAM FACELESS_ DYES
Mereneneires Teatre
Lewis Peoria
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