Hood's 1895 Calendar A Heart Shaped Prize From Hood Co
Lowell’s Morning Mail reports Hood’s calendars for 1895, heart shaped with Winter and Summer faces, designed by Maud Humphrey. The edition totals 10.5 million, produced in Lowell with massive machinery and 100 workers, promoted to advertise Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pills. Readers may send six cents for a single calendar or ten cents for two.
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Lowell
Mass
Morning Mail
Hood
Wood
New York
Liverpool
C. L Hood & Co
Talking points and quirky notes from early columns
A miscellany of statements notes Canada lacking gold coins, China's tea crop expectations amid war, a marble statue like smile, France’s national pawnshop handling millions in pledged goods, Greens boro jail revival conversion, and a historic February 14 1717 snow depth across New England.
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Canada
Japan
France
Greensboro
N. C
New England
Sohrage's Million Cure Rheumatic Claim Across Ark
An OCR fragment references Sohrage's $1,000,000 rheumatic cure with names and addresses in Arkansas and nearby locales. The legible bits list George Renshaw, E F Klein, W J Schulte, Joseph Zabner, and locations in Hot Springs and St. Louis, with scattered street data. The rest appears garbled.
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Sohrage
George Renshaw
Jonesboro
Ark
E. F. Klein
Ea i
Sikad
Death by own action club in Jersey City seeks death by lot
A New Jersey death by own action club formed by a dozen young men aims to draw straws to decide who dies by their own hand. Legal fears block open promotion, so members meet monthly for a black themed dinner while paying funeral expenses for each member. William Carroll leads the group which claims boldness lies in choosing to die, yet they seek to avoid notoriety.
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New Jersey
Suicide Club
New York Journal
Robert Louis Stevenson
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Jersey City
South Seas
Lot
Sdlsace
Tion
Paris
William Carroll
Hibernia Thames speed boat hailed as swiftest small craft
The Hibernia, a Thames pleasure boat, is described by the New York Advertiser as the fastest small boat afloat. It reaches about 29 mph with the stream, 26.25 mph against it, and measures 48 ft 3 in long with a steel locomotive boiler and two high pressure engines. Built mainly for umpire duties at regattas, it has logged over 3,500 miles without a wrench.
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Thames
River Thames
England
New York
An Impossible House
A comic tale from Detroit Free Press where a couple asks an architect to design a plain eight room house to suit themselves inside, while revealing they are not particular about the exterior. The architect sighs that an impossible house cannot be designed in his office.
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Detroit Free Press
Ratification Meeting Echoes in Sleeping Home
Mrs. Billtops wakes Mr. Billtops at midnight with the noise. He muses that rats are holding a ratification meeting and drifts back to sleep, the memory of the prior night’s gathering lingering. The odd remark highlights a humorous, surreal moment from a newspaper quote.
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Ezra
Billtops
Elizabeth
N. Y. Sun
Royal Baking Powder Declared Pure and Superior
U S Government chemists report after testing brands that Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure, strongest in strength, and superior to all others.
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U. S
Curious Facts Highlight 19th Century Insights
Summary of scattered observations: cotton prices in Liverpool at a 64 year low, African and Indian instruments origins, Germany developing gas powered streetcars, Catholic Total Abstinence union shows 57350 members, critique of cocoa processing by German chemist Professor Stuizer, warning against potash and ammonia treatment that harms flavor and purity, Walter Baker Breakfast Cocoa praised as pure and soluble, an Atchison Globe note claiming a woman’s prayers drive her husband to drink.
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Liverpool
Africa
India
Germany
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
United States
Stuizer
Walter Bager & Co
Dorchester
Mass
A Child Enjoys The Pleasant Syrup of Figs Remedy
A child benefits from Syrup of Figs for gentle laxative relief. If parents suffer costive or bilious symptoms, the remedy is presented as the best press remedy and a family bottle is advised to be on hand.
Fragmentary Zen Inquiry Describes Bodily Focus
A cryptic note notes a man growing self conviction about being a genuine essence. The text describes a fringe forming at the bottom of his trousers as a symbolic detail of this belief.
The Century Co Plans New Magazine Venture
The Century Co. notes that cheap ten cent magazines lack depth and features of the leading periodicals. It cites vast costs for War Papers Lincoln Life Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson and other landmark works. The firm hints at expanding it has begun a pronoun on unknown venture.
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Lincoln
Century
Joseph Jefferson
The
Century Co
Best Life of Napoleon by Sloane and Century features
A promotional notice touts The Best Life of Napoleon by Professor William M. Sloane as a major historical work with access to French archives and newly discovered memoirs. The Century Co. plans exclusive modern art reproductions and original drawings, highlighting high editorial standards and the magazine’s value at thirty-five cents per issue.
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William M. Sloane
Sloane
France
National Archives
Century Co
Pen and Whisky Habits Book Offer
A promotional notice from B. M. Wooley of Atlanta Georgia inviting every interested man and woman in the United States to obtain a book on diseases related to pen and whisky habits with a free copy sent.
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United States
B. M. Wooley
Atlanta
Gatee Art
Hardest thing to acquire is laughing naturally
Dramatic teacher quotes that the hardest thing to acquire is laughing naturally without apparent effort. A would be soubrette replies she has mastered it, while misheard words and stray phrases circulate about a mention of someone’s little boy.
Japan Tightens Peace Efforts and Suits
Japan maintains a firm stance on peace and legal actions amid regional tensions. Government sources emphasize defense alignment and international treaties while pursuing lawsuits related to security and diplomacy.
Brilliants Truth and Courage in Daily Life
A compact reflection on honesty restraint and moral effort urging endurance over action. It notes that true reform often starts from personal cultivation and prayer, with a warning that hatred harms the hater and effort benefits all.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
Napoleon Tet Vwhittry
Smith
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical
Pierce
Golden
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Aphael
Angelo
Rubems
Snett
S Douglas Shoe
Ce Ordovam
L. Douglas
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