Mrs Haven Praises Pinkham Remedies in Heartfelt Letter
A Council Bluffs Iowa woman writes gratitude for Lydia E Pinkham products. She suffered four years with heavy monthly flow and debilitating illness. After using Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier Sonative Wash and Liver Pills she reports renewed health. Dated February 1 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lewis
M. H. Laws
Valentine Ave
Tremont
New York
N. Y
Sam
Emma Haven
South Ave
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Exam Haven
Be Wise in Nineteenth Century Ads and Sayings
A collage of old ad phrases and sayings touts patent cures, tonics, and household goods. It features health claims for nerve restorers, stomach aids, grain coffee substitutes, starch brands, and vetting advice, interspersed with quips on ambition, beauty, and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jrame and Garden
Wonderful Northwest
North America
Home and Garden
Newspaper Row
St. Paul, Minn
The Cinque Ports Defenders of the Channel Coast
The Cinque Ports trio of Sandwich Hythe Dover Romney Hastings formed a medieval defense line against invaders. The article recalls sieges and sacking, including 1337 raids on Rye and Winchelsea, and notes the hardy Channel fishermen who endure storms aboard small boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
Sussex
Walmer Castle
Deal
Sandwich
Hythe
Dover
Romney
Hastings
Channel
Rye
Cinque Ports
Boulogne
Hague
Winchelsen
Goodwin Saints
Pall Mall Magazine
Reading for Boys and a Philadelphia Photo Lesson
A Harper's Bazar piece advises gentle guidance as boys seek realistic heroes, suggesting gradual exposure to history and travel writing. A Philadelphia girl returning from abroad discovers 1000 photographs were ruined because she never removed the camera cap, leaving all films blank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilm Vn Blank
Philadelphia
Ganges
Nile
Jerusalem
Ulank
Woman Sees Husband in London Moving Picture Show
A group of South African officers recently attended a London exhibition of moving pictures. The wife of Oliver, informed of the event, asked that a certain evening be set for her to travel from Glasgow. After more than a year apart she finally spotted her husband in a cinematograph screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
London
Oliver
Ulenagser
Glasgow
Ear Cure Claims and Odd Medical Ads in 19th Century
A fragmented column compiles medical cure claims for deafness and kidney pills, bogus Iceland address details, and an odd steam story. It cites Hall's Catarrh Cure, Dodd's Kidney Pills, and Schmoller Mueller catalogs, with a sour milk incident aboard a New York line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigridur Jonsdottir
Klymarstodum
Reykholasveit
Bardastrandatsyslu
Iceland
Europe
Dodd
Dodd’s Medicine Company of Buffalo
New York
Tondon
Eng
Greenland
Lonely Island
Arctic Circle
United States
America
Cincinnatus
Drie
New York Road
Mammoth Walnut Tree Sells for Four Thousand Dollars
An 84,000 Walnut Tree on the P. Gans farm in Williams County Ohio sold for 4000 dollars. The eight foot diameter tree stood forty feet above the stump and stretched seventy three feet from the butt to the first limb. Lumber dealers call it the finest walnut specimen seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Gans
Williams County
Ohio
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the Maiden
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Garfield Oa
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Brooklyn
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The
New York Mail and Express
National City Bank
Lynn
Mass
Lycia E. Pinkuam Mepicing Co
W. L. Douglas
Sant Odor Eyalats
W. T
Touglas
Hinterston
Douglas Shoes
Eneloshus
New
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Friedmeint Spermtlation
J. K. Comstock
Blue
Standard Oil Company
the Cinque Ports
Kaste
Professor Morse
Harper's Bazar
Purvkman
Marvelius
Vitzsimmong
Childress
Mars
Hall
V. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tac
Schmoller & Mueller
Farnam Street
Omaha
Abraham Lincoll
Joseph Choate
Great Britain
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Lfe
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
I. A. Miller
Chicago
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Klown
Comanche
Frid i. Weiner
Gurnite
Okla
DKA
Fia
Sawyer
Theoughout
M, Sawyer & Son
Salo Mies
Cambridge
Security
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Pisa
Tower CO
Boston
Bhulder
Blond Medicina
Ste Louis
O. Phelps Brown
Brown
Newburgh
N.Y
Western Canada
Land of Plenty
Department of Interior
Obbawe
China
Orto Wo OV
Lennell
Yeuiquartey Fenmy & Company
Wethoud
Ca Broneh Olives, Ghiekgo, Gloveland
Dutroit
Sozopont
Hall & Ruckel
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