Discovery Plant Leaves Spur Rapid Growth Claim
A fragmentary note quotes a claim about a life plant whose vigorous growth follows pinning a leaf to warmth. It then references Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a booster for digestion and energy. A brief dialogue snippet about a guessing contest and a weather bureau connection appears among the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Stamp
Pilson
Dilson
Weather Bureau
Columbus (O
State Journal
All Intestinal Troubles Prevented by Cascarets Candy Cathartic
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a preventive health aid. It emphasizes ten cents prevents doctors bills and funeral expenses and notes druggists carry 10 and 25 and 50 cent boxes.
Boston paper notes licensed women preachers reach three hundred
A Boston paper reports about 300 women have been licensed to preach while the rest have not pursued licenses. The item uses light humour to contrast licensed and unlicensed preaching women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Boston
Allen's Foot Ease Promises Instant Comfort for Shoes
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease a powder to shake into shoes. It eases tight or new shoes, relieves coins and bunions, cures swollen feet and callous spots. Claims thousands of testimonials and available from druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents, with free trial by mail from Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Talking up goods in a phonograph era exchange
A dialogue snippet shows a chief asking a commercial traveler about selling goods and an applicant offering to use a phonograph for customer conversation. It includes a claim for Piso's Cure for Consumption by George W. Lotz and a promotion of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myeself
George W. Lotz
Fabucher, la
Mrs. Winslow
Proverbial Patents and Odduary Cures in One Page
A collage of patent medicine ads tout Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75c per bottle with testimonials and endorsements from Toledo druggists. Also promotes Dr Kline's nerve restorer with free trial bottle and treatise and includes brief, unrelated clipped prose about a cannibal chief and a nemesis quote. Pendulums note air density and a wry aphorism on borrowing trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney &Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Trouax
Deseret
O. Walding
Kinnan & Makvin
O. Hail
The Many Jests of Local Gossip and Wit
A collage of light jokes and quips from multiple papers, featuring short exchanges on manners, travel, romance, and social customs. Notable lines include Wife jokes about cooking, a heaven pun, a telephony quip, and a Rockefeller hobby note tied to carnations plus a quip about money and a cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Scarborough on-the-Hudson
France
Fishing For a Drink On Mooselook Lake
A guide claims a method to obtain drinking water by deep water fishing. He anchors on Mooselook Megantic Lake and sounds a clay bottom to ensure depth before dropping a weighted bottle with cork tied to a line. A sharp jerk releases the cork and fills the bottle with cold water for drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooselook Megantic Lake
Phillips Phonograph
Royal princelings and the foot farce at Osborne
A British anecdote from Mr. G. W. E. Russell recounts an English visitor with a deformed foot visiting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Osborne. To avoid embarrassment the royal children are not warned, the visitor departs, and the princess royal laments missing Bertie and her chance to see the foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
G. W. E. Russell
Osborne
Prince Albert
Prince of Wales
Princess Royal
London
Bertie
Lord Kelvin Lecturing Methods at Glasgow University
A anecdote recounts Lord Kelvin, as science professor at Glasgow, delivering lectures with grand phrases. During magnetism lessons he defined an ideal magnet as an infinitely long thin bar, prompting cheers from students until he once again ordered Silence as habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord
Lord Kelvin
French Court Punishes Wearing Red Ribbon Insignia in Paris
A Paris trial sentences Froment Adelot to two months in jail for wearing the red ribbon bow of the Legion of Honor in his coat buttonhole. The piece warns American visitors that donning such insignia is illegal in France and subject to penal penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Froment Adelot
Knights of the
French Legion of Honor
United States
Washington Post
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Sydney Town and Country Journal
Mbongwa
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New Orleans Picayune
PRP
Benecia
Gurpknia Fkc
Anc
Prikl Soc
Willie
Willie Todate
Philadelphia Bulletin
Polly
Chicago News
St. Peter
Shade
Detroit Free Press
Passee—Cholly
Blige
Philadelphia North American
Golfer
Canada
Bradley Biggs
Lucy
Miss Dreamier
Niagara
Mr. Tourier
New York Weekly
Congress
Senator Smallbore
Ohio State Journal
Johnny
Satan
Puck
Cynicus
Mrs. Gushington
Philadelphia Record
Kate
Harry
Maude
Emma
Boston Transcript
Uis
Funeral
Independent
Chas. Stedeford
Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co
Pittsburg
Ole
Sonny
Uncle Eben
Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
New York
Schilling
Royal Agricultural Society
Sydney
N. 8
Spear Street
San Francisco
Wathan Pension Bickford
Washington, D. C
5Th
N. H. Vols
Loomis & Nyman
Tiffin
Ohio
Philadelphia
California
B. Katchinski
Philadelphia Shoe CO
Third Street
Fairbanks, Morse &Co
Jon Anciensr
Los Angeles
Cal
Brsanko
Casa Dre
Bosanko
Philada
Abdominal
W. W. Sweeney CO
W. Fourth St
Los Angeles, Cal
Moore
R. Martel
Pearl St
Chicago Tribune
West Side
Brizinslatowiskiwicz
P.N. U
L. A
Grove
St. Louis
Mepronnn Co
City
Meyer Bros. Drug CO
Schall
Kepron
Sts
Paris Musician Co
Dave Woods
John T. Vinyard
Consumer
Wuirtesporo
Tex
Meorcrny Co
Ae Grove
James D. Roberts
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