Backache remedy and alligator stomach curiosities
An old advertisement for Doan's Kidney Pills claims relief for backache and kidney trouble with a testimonial from J J B McCarver of Portland Oregon. The note also mentions a promotional price of 1 cent per box and cites Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Separately a Sudan alligator report notes a 12 plus foot animal with eighty five stones bird claws two human fingernails and three donkey hoofs found in its stomach.
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Doan
J. J. B. McCarver
Cherry St
Portland
Oregon
Sagar
Poan
Foster-Milburn Co
Muffalo
N.Y
Soudan
Trouble With Indian Agents and Defiance Starch Ad Mix
A senate remark by White criticizes Indian agents as two classes good and smart. The piece also promotes Defiance Cold Water Starch urging trial for housewives, highlighting a 16-ounce package versus 12-ounce rivals and claiming superior quality and quantity.
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White
Senate
Bailey
Texan
Surviving Pioneers Recall Maryland California Society
The Maryland California Pioneers now has about twelve survivors from an initial thirty three members at its founding. The group recently held a reunion in Baltimore.
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Maryland Society of the California Pioneers
Is&t
Baltimore
Stops the Cough and Works of the Cold Tablets
Lord Kitchener says remount troubles in South Africa stem from soldiers lacking knowledge of horse care. The page fragment also mentions laxative and quinine tablets for cough and cold with a price noted. The text is noisy and multiple ad-like fragments.
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Price
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Coughing Notice Offers Guaranteed Coach Cure in Wisconsin
An oddly phrased notice touts an “absolutely guaranteed coach cure in tablet form” with postpaid delivery, claiming Wisconsin and Lacrosse as destinations. The message reads like an advertisement for a medicinal product.
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WIS. Due CO
Lacrosse
Wis
A Valuable Nurse in Life Portrait
A briefLife notice praising Mrs Van Antler and Mrs Giltpace as exemplary nurses. The piece highlights Mrs Van Antler’s consistent care and the speaker’s relief at not seeing the baby between weeks, reflecting a flattering social notice in a period tone.
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van Antler
Giltpace
Physical Test for Teachers in Chicago Adopted
All applicants for teachers places in Chicago must now pass a physical as well as an examination. The policy imposes mandatory health screening and fitness testing for candidates seeking teaching positions in the city schools.
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Chicago
Fort Monroe to be Finest Military Post Yet
Government plans improvements at Fort Monroe aim to create a premier military station. When completed, it is described as the country’s mode army post and, by effort and skill, the finest in the world.
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Fort Monroe
Atvhisonu Ohl
Fragmented note on German pipe materials and moisture defense
A fragment discusses German water pipes made of lass with asphalt coating to prevent fracture. It mentions protective measures against moisture and exposure to acids and alkalis, noting that the design aims to resist penetration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Catarrh Cure Claims Across Wary Remedies
A garbled OCR item references treatments for catarrh and fevers, noting varied remedies and a discussion of a doctor or remedy seller. It mentions a public test or trial and consumer skepticism, with scattered names and places implied by the fragment. The readable bits point to medical nostrums and contested cures in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.
Authority on Jewish Literature Leader to Head Seminary
Dr S Schechter of Cambridge University England is set to become president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York City. He is regarded as the leading living authority on Jewish literature and will bring to the United States an ancient Hebrew manuscript discovered during his Egyptian explorations.
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S. Schechter
Cambrize University
England
Jewish Theological Seminary of
New York City
Egypt
Ancient Musical Instrument Discovery
A fragment discusses the sackbut as a trombone family instrument with a possible slide feature. The text asserts superior quality and quantity and notes Defiance Starch as taking the place of others.
Weird Tale of Petrified Ships Near Port Yukon
Alaskan Indians claim that along the Porcupine River about 15 miles from Port Yukon two petrified ships lie stranded in the mountains. The tale blends local lore with reported sightings as explorers pursue the unusual evidence.
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Porcupine River
Yukon
Dolores Seeks News of Her Father in Stormy Morning
In a rain soaked setting Dolores Johnson confronts illness and family duty. She presses Dr Dunwiddie and her uncle for access to her sleeping father as Mrs Allen maintains household routines and Chloe’s tension rises with the arrival of a wary, but eventual, suitor Joe Green is revealed as Dolores’s connection to the broader family circle.
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Dolores
Ven Green
Watt
Wasrood
Allen Tae
Gil
Dora
Charlie
Leven
Young Green
Dr. Dunwiddie
Miss Johnson
Von
Hans
Lin
Joe
Fragment from a passage on departure and reaction
The scene centers on a woman watching Jim depart with Green and Dr. Dewwiddie. She feels a mix of sadness and wonder as her uncle presents her with a small gift, then she slowly rises and speaks with little bitterness, the moment ending with a note that the tale continues.
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Wounge Green
Dr. Dewwiddie
Jim
Why He Stopped Fishing In California Salmon Tale
Dr Jaevid Starr Jiordan of Leland Stadord recounts a Philadelphia Post tale about an Indian fisherman who catches salmon with a streak of luck yet abruptly quits after a remarkable run. The story, told with rustic humor, ends with the question of what became of the man and his ashes.
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Jaevid Starr Jiordan
Leland Stadord
University
Philadelphian Saturday Post
California
Tuek Perusion
Hendie
Jordan
The Doctor Knew Best and Hans Skeptical of Death
A bizarre Bethlehem scene unfolds as Hans, a minsvivian visitor, becomes semi conscious during a trance like episode while his wife fears danger and a doctor confirms he is fatally ill. The piece shifts to testimonial letters praising Peruna with Miss Rose Gordon of Madison and Miss Rosaire Vou Strueoming sharing cures and gratitude.
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Bethlehem
Hans
Wes Cate
His Idea of Prayer Little One Says Thank God
Hazel, the five year old son of a Dayton Kentucky Presbyterian minister, is prepared for bed after a day of coasting. While sleepy, he repeats a prayer with his mother guiding him, asking God to bless the home and those less fortunate, then pauses to consider or perhaps joke about what the poor boys are doing tonight.
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Hazel
Dayton
Harold
Manna
Jesus
Papa
United States
Catching Cold Peruna Almanack Claim
A historical ad asserts that a teaspoon of Peruna before meals prevents colds in winter and that dosing during a cold speeds recovery, promising relief from chronic catarrh and bronchial conditions once established. The piece frames Peruna as a universal preventive and curative remedy.
Untitled Health Observations on Colds and Chronic Illness
The passage notes how even well established facts about catching cold and the progression to chronic conditions like catarrh bronchitis and consumption are often ignored. It laments that people neglect these truths and continue risky habits, delaying cures and allowing illnesses to worsen.
Catarrh Promises Whole System Relief Claim
Mary E. Sampson of West Derry Rockingham County New Hampshire reports severe headaches ear discharge monthly ailments and thirty years of deafness in one ear. After six bottles of Peruna and one of Manalin she says she feels calmer hungrier better and overall healthier. She calls Peruna a Godsend to women and a blessing to suffering humanity. Dr Hartman offers to evaluate cases and provide advice at the Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio and druggists stock Peruna.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Ohio St
Chicago
Ill
Miz
Pinkham
Selah Stowell
Wellington St
Kingston, Ont
Prixnam
Lydia KF
Mary E. Sampson
West Derry
Rockingham County
N. H
Manalin
Happ
The Settling Marriage Custom in Ireland and Scotland
A peculiar Old World practice known as Toeally the settling endures in County Donegal Ireland and in Kintyre Cowal Scotland. After public announcement friends meet at the bride’s parents house to fix a marriage date. A bottle of whisky is opened and each guest drinks to the couple’s happiness naming a date. The average of the named dates is struck and the date set. Neither bride nor bridezilla objects to the chosen date.
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County
Donegal
Ireland
Kintyre
Cowal
Detecting Counterfeit Five Dollar Bills from 1882 Series
The notice warns to inspect $5 bills issued by the Fourth National Bank of Reston for the A series 1882 Tillman register Morzan treasurer marks. If red ink imitation lines appear instead of silk fiber the note may be a recently found photographic counterfeit, so act accordingly.
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Fourth National Bank of Reston
Tillman Register
Morzan
Observer laments fees for physician license amid piano gift
The observer notes with concern that a reputable physician must pay for a practice certificate while a fourteen year old girl receives a new piano without such hurdle. The remark highlights perceived inequities in professional versus personal exemptions.
English Favor Canadians in Farm Labor Settlement Drive
Great efforts are being made to induce English farm laborers to settle in Canada. The initiative aims to boost agricultural manpower by persuading workers from England to relocate and work on Canadian farms.
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Canada
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