Electric Bathrobe Aims to Cleanse Pores and Refresh Skin
Dr A Phillips of California promotes an electric bathrobe that heats a corded quilt blanket filled with German silver wire. When powered, the fabric becomes hot and induces profuse perspiration, claiming stronger bather and deeper pore cleansing than Turkish or Russian baths.
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A. Phillips
California
England
San
Heston
Cleveland
Detroit
Chinnii
Pittsburg
New York
Chicago
Phory
Siam
Peculiar shoe aids uphill walking by extending heel
John Fenne of Hoisington invents a shoe with a locally extensible heel to keep the sole horizontal on hills, promising easier ascent and less fatigue. The same article notes Kerr Kress’s airship prototype tested in Austria, which rose on water but capsized in a squall. Kress escaped with a life belt.
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John Fenne
Hoisington
Weins
Herr Kress
Holiday Amusement at Suelside Christmas Tree Party
A vivid description from The Designer outlines a Christmas tree party for all ages at Suelside. Evergreen branches bear numbered gift packages with whimsical clues, a guessing game, and prizes for couples, followed by gift reveals and lighthearted ritual. The piece also critiques the idea of a wife’s personal allowance as essential for independence within marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suelside
Noelside
Christmas Dinner Menu and Plum Pudding Recipe
A 1910s style guide outlines a modern American Christmas menu featuring oysters on the half shell to roast turkey with chestnut stuffing and cranberry sauce, plus sides and a plum pudding recipe with currants, raisins, suet, breadcrumbs, sugar, flour, lemon rind and candied orange peel. It also shares a savory cheese dish blending breadcrumbs milk eggs butter and grated cheese baked with breadcrumbs and butter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puritanus
New York
The Auto Mobile Plow and the Fence Side Pause
An old Cleveland Plain Dealer quote presents a farmer boasting of a self operating plow that works automatically while he relaxes with his weekly paper. The farmer imagines remote control stopping the device after it finishes. The humor centers on automation and a man’s lazy workaround.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Kidney Trouble Remedies Ad Across Aid for Women and Men
An 1899- era advertisement extols Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder troubles affecting both women and men. It touts immediate relief, sample offers, and endorsements, plus Ely Cream Balm for nasal catarrh and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St
N.Y
Second St
Albany
N. Y
Cora Willard
Early horses in America shape of wild Southwest herds
A London journal notes the import of horses to America with Columbus on his second voyage, later Merida hosts saw forty two creatures perish after arrival, De Soto left Spanish horses that contributed to the southwest wild herd, a French immigrant in Acadia may seed modern Canadian ponies, and Flemish horses reached New York in 125.
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Gur
America
Columbus
Hog
Merida
de Soto
New World
Louisiana
Southwestier
Acadia
Flanders
New York
Child’s Cry Baffles House, Doctor Claims Cure
A Chinese joke in a house of a crying baby ends with the physician declaring the child cured after a soothing remedy. The attendant says the child quieted but the mother began to mourn, illustrating a joke about unintended consequences. The text also includes fragments about honesty and discretion in unrelated quotes.
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Indianapolis
Newa
Elixir of Life claims cure all diseases for free
A Fort Wayne doctor promotes a free remedy named the Elixir of Life claiming to cure rheumatism neuralgia stomach heart liver kidney and many other ailments. He states the elixir is sent free to any sufferer with sufficient quantities to prove its power and invites requests by mail.
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James William Kidd
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M. A. Dormoy
la Nature
France
Nipwerns Pen Brerive
Wouit
Edward Buklu
Ladies’ Home Journal
Pleystes. Ee
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MUSE
Blegsing Reveny Company
Chmago
Kew York
Mra Winslow
Mr. Jones
Big Wife
Shiloh
C. Weis & Co
le Roy
Kari
Axminsters
Smyrna
W. D. Benedict
Core
Rome
Otra
Clinic Fharmacal Co
Toronto
Ohio
James W. Kidd
First National Bank
Fort Wayne
Ind
Philip Bidle
Elton
Navarre
Massillon
John Biddle
Bryant and Stratton College
Euclid Ave
S. Erie St
Chester
Edwina
Dwight
George
Johnson
Kent St
Akron St
Waechter
East Oak Street
Woodland Ave
Pear St
Tremont St
Center and
Superior St
James R. Dunn
8. Erie St
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