A Slave From Boyhood From the Red Wing Paper
Edward Swanson of White Rock Goodhue County Minn recalls thirteen years of painful illness starting at age eleven. After tried doctors and patent medicines, Dr Williams Pink Pills restored health enabling him to walk and do chores. The ad notes pill price and availability.
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Red Wing
Minn
Gid Edward Swanson
White Rock
Goodhue County
Ms Puch
Dr. Williams
J. Williams
Dr. Wilae Medicine Company
Schenectady
The Summer Girl at the Seashore and Night Dialogues
A collage of light verse and humorous exchanges set across trains and seaside scenes. Witty snippets feature a mix of sailors, society types, and comic misunderstandings, with personalities like Commodore Starboard invoked and playful digs at wealth and social pretenses.
A Gourmand Miss Gushah My lord and the tavern tale
A comic dialogue sketches a touring American scene with a flirtatious belle, a drunken lord, a wife’s reproach, a swooning charmer, a gossiping boy Willie, Betsy’s joke about a lovestruck man, a poet and an editor angered by a prank. The pieces form a rowdy vignette of social gossip and literary mischief.
Hint to Doctors in a Quack Medicine Cartoon
A satirical note records a dialogue where a patient claims the medicine fails because it doesn’t taste bad enough to work while the wife questions its effectiveness. An aside mocks extravagant city folks as “scarecrows” made of old clothes and straw, reflecting urban hypocrisy.
Too Late. The house aroused by a burglar
A brief, humorous collage of old newspaper items. A homeowner shoots at a masked intruder while his wife jokes the suspect gained nothing. Other quips feature schoolroom mischief, a racy misunderstanding, and light social banter in dated voice. The tone mirrors late 19th century humor columns with quick quips. Different snippets include a yolk of egg diet witticism and social gags about engagements and languages.
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Mr. Jones
Mrs. Jones
RAMS HORNS FAITH TESTS GODS WORD AND SINNERS TURN
A garbled 1900s advertisement collage cites moral uplift lines and medical cures. It brims with product pitches for digestion strength and tonics, mentions Dennis Reardon Boston architect gone blind since age nine, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Parker’s Gliger Tone, Hindercorna, and various patent medicines. It hints at travel ads, royal praise, and comic snippets about bicycles and elections.
Whaling Fleet Dwindles and Royal Cyclists Noted
The article notes about 46 vessels remain in whaling from a past peak of 500 ships. It mentions monarchs and royals in Europe cycling, including Belgium and the Netherlands, and a tongue in cheek line about historic figures cycling at royal castles. It ends with a line about a carriage horse bearing no malice to the horseless carriage.
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United States
Wilhelmina
Het Loo
Czar
Waldemar
Carl of
Denmar
George and
Nicolas
Greece
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New Brunswick
N. J
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Jackson
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Salzer
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la Crosse
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Wale
Mickey Plate Road
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Starboard
Palm
Arctie
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Panmy
Mangles
Dills
Mandy Flees
Forgiture
Eitor
Matts
Hari Luck
James
Brooklyn
New York World
St. Maggs
Chicago
Miges
Pippe
Willie
Chawley
Betsy
Heuben
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Thundee
Charles Tr
London Morning Journal
Atlantic City
Tere
Philadelphia Times
Dix
van Billby
Miss de Gushah
U.S
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Dennis Reardon
F. BR. Lotz
Scott St
Covington, Ky
Knights
Nickel Plate Road
Chautauqua Lake
Niagara Falls
Thousand Islands
Rapids
St. Lawrence
Saratoga
Palisades of
Hudson
Hoosac Tunnel
Berkshire Hills
J. Y. Calahan
Adams Street
Oscar of
Sweden
Parker
Hindercorna
Dr. Line
Toby
Hangon
Holmes
Homer
Cee
Ruth Cleveland
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Ewis
Phila
Academy of the Sacred Heart
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Academy Sacred Heart
St. Joseph
Moe
Ady
Husson
Clairette
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