Woman's Cure Promises Relief After Childbirth
Mrs Paxroy of Youngtown North Dakota testifies to the benefits of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after a difficult childbirth. She reports relief from leucorrhea bearing down pain and headaches after using three bottles and urges other women to try the remedy. The piece promotes Mrs Pinkham's advice for expectant mothers and provides Lynn Massachusetts address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Paxroy
Youngtown
North Dakota
Lydie E. Pinkham
Moore
Bullet-Proof Police Uniforms Proposed by Chicago
Casimer Seeglin presents a bullet-proof cloth in white silk that can be worn as an undervest weighing just over two ounces while promising complete protection. He estimates the city would pay about $6000 to outfit the police force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Casimer Seeglin
Seeglin
The Mindset Of Girls In A Jetset Hat
A Detroit Journal quip notes that a girl’s mind is occupied by fashion as much as by thoughts, with a playful line about a spring hat preoccupying the head long before it sits atop it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Journal
Rheumatism Aids in Damp Weather Claims by Plaindealer
The ad claims year round chronic rheumatism worsens in damp air but St Jacobs Oil can promptly cure it. A dealer quotes a customer recounting his carving skill and asks about specialties, joking about sausage and omelets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jacobs Oil
Quick Wit Escapes in a String of Jests Across Columns
A collage of humorous exchanges and one liners from multiple papers. It samples banter about larceny, sugar jars, ants, nonsense puns, stage talk, romance, and a gag about selling and canceling orders. The items blend quips from Punch style humor and everyday absurdities.
Aged Woman Rides Bicycle at 98 in Essex County
An elderly Essex County woman, claimed as the oldest living bicyclist at 98, remains an adept rider with notable sprightliness. The notice touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive aid against digestive diseases and as a quick relief for chronic dyspepsia indigestion biliousness and constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Essex
Woman Says Husband Is Worst Shopper Yet
Mrs Smarte criticizes her husband for bad purchases saying he is repeatedly swindled. She notes a recent example when he bought a flute that arrived with holes, illustrating his misguided shopping.
St Jacobs Oil Promises Nerve Pain Relief
The advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil for penetrating to the sciatic nerve and core of sciatica to soothe the nerve and wipe out pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jacobs
Medical humor and whiskey ad share memorable punchline
A quip about paying a doctor's bill ends with a wife joking she will marry the doctor if needed. The piece promotes Jesse Moore Whiskey as a staple, praised by physicians as a pure stimulant, urging households not to neglect its use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eixtremis
Jesse Moore
Her Maiden Aim Hoax in Philadelphia Record
A brief item notes a young woman married Goldrox under a hoax as her aim. The piece calls her an unusually good shot for a woman and asks for her maiden name Joax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldrox
Joax
Philadelphia Record
Allen's Foot-Ease Powder Ad
A vintage shoe comfort pitch offers Allen’s Foot-Ease to ease swollen feet nervousness and discomfort. Claims soothe smarting tight shoes corns bunions chilblains and sweating with over thirty thousand testimonials. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 25c Trial package free Olmsted Le Roy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen 8S
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Birds and music echo in Yonkers tale
A Yonkers Statesman item notes a singer musing I dearly love birds and the nest hunt begins as a character sings at an open piano. The piece references a cold cure ad, a canal idea for medieval Mediterranean routes, and a San Francisco hotel hint with room rates and meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers Statesman
Fits Permanently Cured by Dr Kline Nerve Restorer
Advertisement claims permanent cure for fits and nervousness after one day of use. The copy features a mock dialogue about a man in a wife’s intelligence office and promotes a free trial bottle and treatise from Dr R H Kline Ltd, 930 Arch St Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bosanko
Philada
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Other Remedies Promoted
This excerpt promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy that purports to treat catarrh by affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. It cites a Toledo company, testimonials, and a 75 cent price, with additional ad copy for Hall's Family Pills and Piso's Cure. Also included are eclectic notes on a Chinese back scratcher and a humorous exchange about a cracked tea cup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Men Only Medical Ad by Dr Foote in Chicago
An advertisement offers exclusive men’s specialty care by Dr Foote and staff at 161 Adams 8t Chicago. It claims confidential treatment for genito urinary and nervous disorders, promises remedies mailed in plain packages, and markets Syphala and Vigora la with prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Foote
Chicago
New York
Vigorala
The Danger of Disease and Public Health Misconceptions
The article warns that diphtheria poses greater year round danger than yellow fever in New York and that people ignore tuberculosis and typhoid risks. It notes health officials’ effort defeatist by public indifference and quack cures like St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism and related pains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alvah
M. D
The Better Drawer in a Robbery Exchange
A robber cries your money or your life while a laughing artist draws his pistol. Critics say the artist, poor in money and life, chuckles not from fear but from belonging to a bold, rapid drawing school, unlike the detailed laborious school, per the Detroit Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget
Willie
Dusty
Dusty Rhoads
Colorado Springs Gazette
Taters
Philadelphia Bulletin
Detroit Journal
Prostate Cure Claim From Dixie Arkansas Veteran
Perry County resident H L Trundle of Dixie aged eighty two reports relief after over fifteen years with chronic prostatic enlargement. He says sixty days of Solvent Alterans cured him and urges others to request the two free books from Empire Medica Company in Boston for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie
Ark
Perry County
Steen
H. L. Trundle
Arkansas
Trundle
Empire Medica Company
M, Smith Building
Boston
Mass
Bishop Legge and Canning on Sermon Shortness
Legge of Oxford invited Canning to hear his first episcopal sermon. After a dinner the conversation turned to the sermon. Canning quipped that it was short and Legge replied that being short is better than tedious, but Canning noted the sermon was indeed tedious.
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Washington Star
Miss Cutting
London
Legge
Oxford
Canning
New Battleship Maine Keel Laid in Philadelphia
The Cramp Shipbuilding company began work on a new Maine battleship at its Philadelphia yard with the keel just laid. A public crowd cheered as the first steel piece was set in place. Builders aim to launch February 15, 1900 and place her in service by the third anniversary of the Maine’s sinking.
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Rastus
Indianapolis Journal
Boston
Arthur
Anthur
Maria
Mary
New York Tribune
Juliet
Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia
Maine
Havana
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
Tempted porter pleads guilty to grand larceny
Frank Douglass a middle aged porter at the Westminster hotel pleaded guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced to two years in Folsom. The court noted his previously good service but said a guest’s ten dollar bank notes in a cleaned suit led to the crime.
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Frank Douglass
Folsom
Douglass
Westminster Hotel
William Howard
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Labor
The
National Patents Inventors’ Association
Ferrys
Ferry’s
D.m.ferry & CO
Detroit
Mich
Bazar
Algy
Clarence
Reggy
McTee
Perry
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hicks
Charley
Miss Baitwell
Wicks
Boston Transcript
Smith
Jones
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Suez Canal
San Francisco
Brooklyn Hotel
Bush Street
Chas. Montgomery
Chicago News
Lucy Wallace
Marquette, Kan
Wec
Hongkong
Mamma
Adams
Mr. H. L, Trundle
Crusher
Schilling
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
Cutler
H. Smith
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Williams
Vere
James Crocket
Wich
Montcalm St
Great Lakes
Mr. Crocket
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady, N.yo
California Fig Syrup CO
Eas
Trave Marx
Swanson Rheumatic Cure CO
Dearborn St
Cincinnati
Ree Renal
America
Japan
Keen Kutter
Association
Bneea Mae
Washburn
Drummond Branch
St. Louis, Mo
Nathan
New High Street
American Type Founders Co
Los Angeles
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