Farm and Garden Tips From an 19th Century Ledger
Agricultural notes urge ash preservation for eggs and worm diets for chickens, advise protecting young pear trees, promote mulching and composting, and report Ohio maple production. Warn about stumps, old fowls, butter storage, and family fruit growing. Include bee wintering, Cleveland Bay horses, wheat variety testing, and butter temperature guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Cleveland Bay
England
Orkshire
A. E. Blount
Colorado Agricultural College
France
Italy
Wolff
Drugs Used in Prescriptions in a Boston Drug Store
Examination of 3,726 prescriptions revealed 504 different drugs. Morphine appeared in 172 prescriptions, bromide of potassium in 171, iodide of potassium in 155, muriate of iron in 154. The pharmacopeia lists 994 articles, with Boston using more than half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Fort Worth Laughs and Catarrh Jokes From Odd Page
Odd clippings sketch two humorous vignettes from Fort Worth and Boston. A tale about Sam Harrishwes and a burglar ends with the home left looted after a comic exchange. Another joke contrasts Miss Jones’s catarrh with Dr Sage’s remedy and ends with a funeral pallbearers fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Jones
Liberty and Liberty Promised in Public Health and Art
An advertisement discusses Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty as a symbol of personal liberty and extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a lasting remedy for consumption and lung ailments. It notes Grace Greenwood on literary women, claims cures for nervous debility, and promotes Works Dispensary in Buffalo along with Ella Wheeler Wilcox and a hotel pitch for the Metropolitan Hotel in Omaha offering two dollars per day with no style charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartholdi
Liberty
Dr. Pierce
Metropolitan
Omaha
Color Your Butter Color Ad Pressure and Market Shifts
Farmers who sell white butter may miss higher prices. Wells Richardson Co. offers Improved Butter Color used by leading creameries. Color boosts quality perception and prices. In Paris 150 tradesmen deal solely in old postage stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Cau
Fonds
Ocecucuuer
Chicago Post and Courier
Morrison Bid
G. Cor
Clark St
Calhoun Place
Chicago
Burpee Catalog Offers Free Gift to Readers
Free distribution offer for a 120 page handsome book with illustrations and colored plates. Farmers and planters urged to send their address to W A Burpee Co Philadelphia PA. Mention of L A Loomis dealer in farm tools from McPherson Kansas and his improved wife after a visit to Drs Dickerson Stark Surgical Institute Kansas City. A Dr Johnson quote on friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Loomis
McPherson
Kan
Drs. Dickerson & Stark’s Surgical Institute
Kansas City
Hartford
H. Babcock & CO
Centerbroom
Conn
Market Notes On Patent Medicines Include Tricks
The article contends there is no guesswork in certain tonics claiming cures for kidney and liver ailments. It argues a pharmacist’s blend uses proven ingredients with known powers and virtues, presenting confidence in safety for even the frailest patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunt
Unpleasant symptoms and cures from old advertisements
A collage of health cures and trivia from a late 19th century ad page mentions purgatives, tonics like Prickly Asa Brr Tens, and remedies such as Rough on Coughs, Wells' Health Renewer, and Brown's Bronchitis Treatments. It also notes fashion bouquet trends, voting trivia, dog guides, and hotel ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tradies, Inc
Isaac Ie
Grand Union Hotel and City Transport Promises
Visited New York City's Grand Union Hotel opposite the depot offers six hundred rooms at about one million dollars cost and daily rates from $1. Elevator Restaurant serves the best. City transport includes horse cars stages and elevated rail to all depots. The Presbyterian ministers of Pittsburg protest skating rinks.
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New York City
Grand Union H
Jesa Toney
Grand Union Hotel
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Indy
Brown
L. B. Edgerly
Dexter
H. 8. McLaughlin
Scarborough
Sam V. Harrishwes
Fort Worth
Sam
Fido
Texas
Grace Greenwood
Works Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oets
Dr. Johnson
New York
Louis
Chandler
Sir W. Temple
Caswicl , Harlan & Co
State of
South America
Joseph T. Inman
South Eighth Street
Philadelphia
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Missouri
Arthur
Ferici
Prickly Ash Bitters CO
St Louis
Mostetter Celesrated
Bittrer
Mottetter
St Drugaiste
Mall
ELY Brothers
Drugeists
Owego
N.Y
Terras
Ltc
Liquid Inc
Allen
J. P. Allen
St. Paul, Minn
Presbyterian Ministers
Pittsburg
Hood
H. T. Barcos
Riley
J. V. A. Peouproot
Ietter Carrier
Chicago, NL
C.I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Iran
Euler
Brown Chemical CO
Baltinore
Reo Star
Are
Represa
Ae Ae Nee Company
Itimera
Maryland
U.S
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Widden
Bnow &Coo
Yalesville
de. J. Stepurns
Ebanon
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
S. Richardson
P. O. Addrsa
BR. T. A. Slocum
Pearl St
Happy Days
15 Illustrated
Business College
Ards
Oweec
Davenport Business College
Davenport
Iowa
Jones
Eet Mens
H.W. Buckbee Rock
Galuen & Smiths
Tess & T
Cardco
Cpseduete
Detroit
Mich
Cowing & CO
Worthington Stean
14Th & Dodge Sts
Neb
J.B. French & Co
Owaha
New Orleans
J French & Co
Oma
R. U
Lorillard
Lorillard Navy
Jiamden Card CO
Hamded
Con
Auong Me
U. S
Keller
United States
Canada
Aso
Wreatlen
Chimgs Peat
Rey Atom
Tru Aircany
Burpee
Iusrationi
Lovelties
A. Burpee & CO
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