Fruit-e-tives Miracle Cure Promises Life Return
An advertisement touts Fruit-e-tives as a cure for severe ailments once requiring morphia. Mrs. James Fenwick claims the product cured her water tumor pain and revived her health, describing the relief as miraculous and decisive after her trial box. The exotic claim is paired with a discussion of sacred Chinese writing waste disposal practices and a Mon War lodge furnace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Fenwick
James Penwick
Asc
Ottawa
Confucius
United States
Humorous Recipes and Gossip from a Bygone Kitchen
A collage of humorous vignettes and old time advice recounts household antics, clothing woes, and a coachman’s tale. Brief jokes about weddings, neckties, stepmothers, and a canal of social pretenses, ending with horse feeding tips and egg-based nourishment.
Horse Stallion Feeding Basics and Grazing Advice
The article outlines stallion nutrition emphasizing oats with bran, bran mash pros and cons, grazing as essential, and safe feeding practices. It stresses roomy grassy lots, grazing in the evening, Timothy bay as preferred feed, and adjusting grain by weight with small hay as needed.
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Timothy Bay
How to Pick a Brood Mare
A practical guide for selecting a brood mare emphasizes overall conformation and temperament over pedigree. It stresses a strong constitution and balanced build with a long low body, well sprung ribs, ample heart and lung room, wide chest, and broad hips as key traits for a successful breeding animal.
Murine Eye Remedy Ad Boasts Toronto Company
An old advertisement proclaims Murine as relief for watery eyes with a promotional prompt to visit druggists and write for eye books. It highlights Marine Eye Remedy Co based in Toronto and urges readers to obtain the remedy for eye troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned
Boothes
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Toronto
How to Judge a Mare’s Conformation and Size
The guide emphasizes feet and legs as core in judging, noting round coronets free from defects, strong hoof, and proper hoof angle. It warns against upright or flat fetlocks, prefers dense knee bone, broad hocks, and strong forearm and thigh muscles. It also covers the significance of hind leg curve, cowhocks avoidance, feather length, head and eye traits, and tail alignment. It concludes no perfect horse exists, suggests a 16 hand mare as ample, and color choice favors brown or bay.
Zam Buk Balm For Skin Irritations And Burns
Zam Buk soothes blisters from paddling and sunburn, insect stings, and chafed skin. It acts as an antiseptic, eases pain, and protects delicate skin, with uses for infants’ irritation, piles, ulcers, and festering sores. Sold in 50 cent boxes. beware imitations.
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Zamak
Zay Bak
Zam Buk
The Ferryman Harry Tries to Buy Freedom
An enslaved ferryman named Harry earns half his master’s take on the Chattahoochee River. He saves to buy freedom for $800, paying half upfront. After a dangerous freshet capsizes his skiff, Harry returns to his master and requests to trade back, but the master questions the risk and money already spent.
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Arry
Alabama
Chattahoochee River
Harry
Marse John
Druggist Endorses Marine Eye Remedy Claims
An advertisement touts Marine Eye Remedy as a cure for sore eyes and weak vision, promising it strengthens, soothes pain, and does not sting. It also markets additional products including drops for eye irritation and treatments for eyelids and granulation.
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Marine Eye Remedy
Sic
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Mr. A
Matty
Georget
Eaven
Mississippi
Iowa
Ec Clay
Pete
Abbey
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Femple
Dr. Martel
Bone Spavin
Rich Valley
Alta
Ole Carlson
Kendall
Kendall CO
Recsburg
Ogilvie
Royal Household
the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Limited
Winnipeg
Fort William
Montreal
Vol
Psyche
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