Munyon's Paw Paw Pills Offered Free by Professor Munyon
A Philadelphia advertisement promotes Munyon's Paw Paw Pills as a gentle liver stimulant and non irritant laxative. It invites readers to write to Professor Munyon at 53d and Jefferson Streets for medical advice and promises confidential diagnosis. The copy extols health benefits, condemns harsh cathartics, and notes regular bottles of 45 pills cost 23 cents from Munyon's Laboratory in Philadelphia.
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Munyon
53D
Jefferson Sta
Philadelphia
Munyon's Laboratory
Wollsons
California Fig Syrup CO
Salad with cheese and the art of serving it
A discussion of up-to-date salad service highlighting cheese varieties and presentation. It describes glass topped dishes with silver bases, crystal tops, and elegant cheese platters. Edam, Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Brie and cream cheese are showcased with specialized forks, knives, and cracker accompaniments.
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China
Dresden
Baked Tripe Recipe From Old Cookbook
A recipe for baking tripe with onions and butter. Wash trim clean and cut, fry onions in butter, layer in a dish, dust with flour pepper and salt, cover with milk or cider, bake in moderate oven about thirty minutes. Serve hot.
Ribbon Fig Cake Instructions From Vintage Recipe
A vintage recipe describes mixing butter and sugar, then flour and milk with eggs, baking powder, and spices. It instructs layering with fig filling and a lemon cream, alternating layers with white filling between, using raisins currants and cinnamon and cloves for flavor.
Steamed Fruit Puffs Recipe Card
Steamed Fruit Puffs. Stir two cups flour with three teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt. Add one cup milk to make a heavy batter. Grease small cups and drop a tablespoon batter in each. Add a spoonful of strawberry or raspberry jam, cover with batter. Steam thirty minutes. Turn out onto a plate and serve hot with cream or sauce. Makes six puffs.
Chocolate Sauce and Vanilla Cream Drizzle Instructions
Melt chocolate in a double boiler with the sugar syrup and vanilla. Keep hot until ready to serve the cream. Pour a small amount of sauce over each portion before serving.
Black Fitting Room Innovation Reported in East
A black fitting room described as an innovation in an eastern establishment is likely to spread nationwide. The walls are all black and under electric light create an evening color effect not achievable in daylight.
Change of Life Helped by Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Natick Massachusetts resident Mrs Nathan B Garavan reports severe nervous symptoms, chills, and insomnia due to a tumor diagnosis. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she claims full recovery, endorsing its use for the change of life and offering to publish her letter for others seeking guidance.
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Natick
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Exham
Literary character reads rather than chores in humor panel
A cartoonish exchange notes a woman preferring reading to housework. An ad copy touts Dr. Pierce pallets as small sugarcoated candies to aid stomach liver and bowels, claiming they invigorate without gripe. A patient claims insignificance, while a retired grocer adds a humorous line.
Miss Hartz Reads Sabbath Lesson With Wry Student
In Cleveland Leader fashion, Miss Frances Hartz reads the sixth day creation tale to her Sabbath school class. A student quips that God formed man from dust, joking if he dried him in the sun like mud pies. The exchange showcases playful classroom humor.
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Frances Hartz
A Question of Change at Church Collection
A humorous anecdote circulates about a young man and woman at church who fail to have change for the collection plate. The man whispers he has no cent, remarking he changed his pants, while the woman blushes and confesses the same in playful embarrassment.
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Judy
Antiquated Talk and Quilty Tales From Long Ago
A jumble of older language jokes and folksy quips describes phrases like quette and kicked the bucket. The piece weaves comic anecdotes about marriages, remedies, and antique mugs with dialect humor, including a potpourri of phrases, jokes, and snippets from a bygone community setting.
Phrase about Gotrox and a wealthy man with brains
A fragmentary sentence about a multimillionaire named Gotrox and a man with more money than brains. It contrasts money and brains and includes a quip about a wife praying for a hat and a husband paying. The text also contains jumbled phrases and a nonsensical line about a syrup for children and infamy.
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Gotrox
Married Money and a Comic Equivocation at Dinner
A New York dinner yields quips about a wife valued at forty million dollars and a penniless ex husband. Henry Dixey notes a wife’s likely fate with money and the perils of marrying for wealth. A city prosecutor in St. Paul pokes fun at a picket fence case. A Punch gag about butter and a bridge rumor wraps the page in wry humor.
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Henry E. Dixey
New York
Joan Burns
St. Paul
Judge Fine
Joe Goesik
Burns Caldy
Mike Chicket
Judge Finebout
Very Much Attached Swenson
A brief, humorous exchange on why ships are called she. Bengon suggests affection for a boat as the root of the habit, while Swenson asks about the origin of the pronoun usage. The dialogue centers on maritime language and playful curiosity.
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Swenson
Bengon
Too Much Like Work Boss's Son Overworked Office
The text portrays a boss's son burdened by duties beyond tearing calendar pages. It hints at a broader theme of overwork and shifting responsibilities within an office setting, with economic pressures hinted by a debt-day clock.
Brain rebuilding with mineral salts and food choices
An exposé on nourishing the brain through diet. It argues the brain rebuilds daily from nutrients, emphasizing Phosphate of Potash and Potassium Phosphate from minerals in foods like grains, fruits, and vegetables. It links mind health to digestion and suggests choosing foods rich in key mineral salts to sustain brain function.
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Geoghegan
Beavats
Totel
Geo. W. Carey
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