Three years after Lario touts Dean's Kidney Pills in Denver
Eugene E Lario a Denver ticket seller reiterates his earlier endorsement of Dean's Kidney Pills noting the remedy relieved his backache for years. The Adv lists Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and price. A Cambridge professor comments on bird migration as a great mystery. Defiance Cold Water Starch is pitched as superior and chemical free with a 16 oz claim and warning against inferior 12-02 packages. Zululand hairdressing notes bride coiffure and cone erection apart from tribal customs.
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Eugene E. Lario
Twentieth Avenue
Union Station
Denver
Col
Dean
Foster-Milvurn Co
Buffalo, M. Y
Defiance
Cure for Consumpts Offered by Pisw’s Publisher
Fragmentary notice advertising a cure for consumption by Pisw or Pies Moore Street Norwich. Appears in an old local publication with unclear date and wards. Details are unreadable, but references a cure and the Norwich address.
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Norwich
Editor’s Pursuit of Revenge Over Aged Bride Story
A local editor courting a woman of uncertain age with a known bank balance is cut out by a neighboring-town gentleman who marries her and brings her home. The editor retaliates by leading an account of her wedding under the headline Another Old Resident Gone, detailing the social maneuvering and consequence.
Mysterious Ad Notice From Castorta Patents
Odd, all caps ad promotes Castorta as a safe remedy for infants and children with a forged LM Fiat signature claim. The text references a Korean bride, social caste pressure, and a garbled list of names and places. It ends with a general call to buy a laxative product and a Sworn statement date, all in a fragmentary, sensational style.
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LM Fiat
Costly Hungarian Superstition Burnt Hay Barn
A Hungarian superstition holds lightning fire can be quenched only with milk causing a barn with a farmer’s entire hay crop to burn in one province. The superstition leads locals to refuse water despite losses. Deflunce Starch.
Usury Punished in Pressburg Lending Case
A Pressburg money lender received a twelve month prison term for usury under Hungarian law. The sentence highlights the criminal offense of charging excessive interest in lending activities reported from Hirugary authorities.
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Hirugary
Pressburg
Vienna bachelor club members vow not to marry piano players
A Vienna based bachelor club boasts a pledge not to wed any woman who performs on the piano. The unusual vow highlights social clubs' playful yet pointed stance on music and marriage.
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Vienna
Mission to the Tron steeple sparks a perilous voyage
Travers awaits a meeting in London with a mysterious note writer believed to be Smithers. A Glasgow messenger hints at a Jessie clue while danger closes in as Travers is assaulted from behind, chloroformed, and wakes on the Staked Plains amid gleaming white stones and strange vaults.
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London
Jusanita
Smithers
Peeret
Ah Sin
Chianti
Jacek
Lia
High Street
Walter Scott Mentens
Reb Rev
Travers
Pines
Jacok
Jack
Jove
Mr. Travers
Neoone
Cum
Juanita
Jessie
Nedopolis of Craszew and the Anchoria voyage
Jack Travers awakens in a distant city of the Necropolis of Craszew, plans escape over a tall wall, and learns the Anchoria steamer has sailed. With Smithers missing and a Scotland Yard watch ongoing, he boards a night cab to the landing stage then shifts to plans for a Liverpool fast liner to reach New York before dawn. The pursuit continues as a rival Anchor line steamer is spotted on the horizon.
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Jack
Craszew
Nerrapoolis
Arevle Street
Anchoria
Smithers
Gleven
Scotland Yard
Wemyss Har
Clyde
Liverpool
Teutonic
Stron
New York
Senor Roblado
Queenstown
Dannts Rock
Glassow
Lrst
Race Across the Ocean Delays Stir Oslo to Queenstown
In Chapter IX, Jack and Travers race toward Liverpool then Holyhead and Dublin. A late London mail may reach Holyhead to catch the Irish train to Queenstown. Travers dines in Liverpool, buys a watch and a pistol, while Jack and his aide hurry to the Welsh terminus and board to Ireland, where Teutonic sits in harbor at dawn awaiting the mail.
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Ocean
Liverpool
Jack
London
Holyhead
Irish Sea
Dublia
Queenstown
Travers
Teutonic
Old Philadelphia Speaker Quits After Rowdy Session
Philadelphia press recalls a campaign scene in Maine where a speaker, aging and sought after nationwide for political medicine, faced a disruptive audience. A stubborn question sparked chants to eject the man who insisted on more air and an exit.
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Tie
Ito
Maine
Trade Chances in China Offer Enormous Foreign Work
The article surveys vast opportunities for foreign trade with China, estimating colossal orders across railways telegraphs bridges and port projects. It notes southeast China could require tens of thousands of miles of rail and massive steel and iron input, with Germany England France Belgium and the United States each potentially handling large shares. It also describes a schoolyard bean game as a playful aside about counting and prizes.
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Steat
China
Germany
England
France
Belgium
United States
Italian Geographical Society studies Bolsena Lake
For two years the Italian Geographical Society prepared an exhaustive monograph on Bolsena, cataloging its geography geology rainfall seasonal changes and the seiches. Seiches show 12 to 15 minute cycles with water rises up to a foot, peaking near Narta and Bolsena with notable differences of several inches.
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Italy
Italian Geographical Society
Bolsena
Rome
Narta
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad Claims Global Skin Care
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap as the world's greatest skin soap used worldwide for cleansing skin and scalp, soothing hands and baby rash, and serving toilet and nursery needs. It also features Cesare Lambrose describing essentials for becoming a millionaire in America, emphasizing quick perception, rapid decision, thrift, and insatiable profit drive.
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Cesare Lambrose
America
Defiance Starch Promises Bigger Value For Cold Water Brands
The notice claims Defiance Starch surpasses other Cold Water Starch by offering 16 ounces per package while priced like 12 ounce brands. It suggests fear of keeping stock fresh and hints at superior quality compared to rival products.
Parson's pumps prompt three chaplains from London
An Aden correspondent of the London Telegraph notes that Maj-Gen Egerton, lacking pumps, sent a telegraph for three Parson's pumps and received three chaplains from the Church of England, Scotland, and Roman Catholic.
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Aden
London Telegraph
Egerton
London
Guaranteed Cure for Tiles and Protrailne Tries
A dubious claim offers a guaranteed cure for tiles and related issues with a drugstore remedy. If the appointment fails to cure within fourteen days, customers are promised money back.
Dr Kline’s Great Serve Hestor cure ad and odd tidbits
An old newspaper fragment touts a permanent cure for fits with Dr Kline’s Great Serve Hestor and offers a free bottle. It markets Ashantee Vegetable Butter, a tiny republic off Sardinia, and a teething remedy for children, with garbled contact lines and inconsistent typography.
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Dr. Kline
Hestor
B. H. Kave, Ltd
Arch Street
Phiadelphia
Luck and health tips from old time snippets
A collection of brief maxims and practical folk remedies. Definitions of luck include rising early, frugal living, punctuality, self reliance, and steady trust in God. Health advice covers a lung exercise and a home remedy for colds using egg, water, butter, sugar and whisky. It also notes industrial waste heat potential from blast furnaces and its imagined power.
Wife at 3 a.m. quarrel over slippers
A fragmented dialogue shows a wife accusing John Henry of drunkenness at 3 a.m. He insists he is not drunk and searches for his slippers. A speaker names the fireplace as the location where the slippers have been since the previous evening. The scene ends with confusion about the slippers’ whereabouts.
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John Henry
Reading Nations Show Germany Leads in Books Published
Germany published 23,607 books in 1893 while Russia produced far less. Newspapers show the United States served by about 22,000 journals, whereas Russia with its 130 million people had only a fraction, a count near 500.
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Germany
Russia
United States
A Confirmed Pessimist Uncle John And Mary Reunion
Uncle John teases Mary about her new little sister and her habit of looking on the dark side. Mary agrees the baby cries, and she notes her sister’s consistently gloomy outlook.
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John
Mary
Coffee Addiction Reversed By Postum Promotion
An Indiana woman describes lifelong coffee troubles including severe dyspepsia and stomach pains. After converting to Postum breakfast, her health improved and coffee cravings faded. The letter endorses Postum and promotes The Road to Wellville pamphlet from Battle Creek Michigan.
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Indiana
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Forcing Plants to Bloom by Ether Vapor Treatment
A report describes forcing flowering plants to bloom early by exposing them to ether vapor in a sealed tank for forty eight hours, then moving to a hothouse where full bloom occurs in two to three weeks. Lilacs azaleas and dentzins respond, a method now widely used in Germany.
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Germany
Mastery of the Appetite Reflected in Huntington Lunch
The text notes Colis P Huntington valued perfect mastery of appetite. At a luncheon he offered a guest one of his apples and a slice of old fashioned bread and butter as a simple, frugal meal reflecting his temperate dining style.
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Collis P. Huntington
Cured Rheumatic Pains Praised by Greenson for Dodd's Pills
A Jun 2 special notes Richard R. Greenson of Jrickland praising Dodd's Kidney Pills after years of crippling rheumatic pain. He claims relief from four teen boxes, with prior doctors' medicines failing. Also quotes a physician on wart removal with muriate of ammoniia and mentions incubators shipped abroad, artificial teeth for soldiers, Defiance Cold Water Starch, and giant Amazon leaves.
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Jrickland
Richard R. Greenson
Dodd
Mr. Greenhow
Peruna cited by Sisters of Charity in testaments
Catholic Sisters report Peruna relieves catarrh and throat illness in care of numerous charges. Letters from Detroit and Napoleon praise its benefits, urging more readers to consult Dr Hartman of Columbus for guidance and a free book.
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Sisters of Charity
Peruna
Hartman
United States
Detroit
Mich
S. B. Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna Medicine Co
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