Peruna testimonials and hotel mixup case
A Kernersville reader credits Peruna and Dr. Hartman with curing stomach catarrh after suffering indigestion and nerves. The letter praises testimonials and urges others to try Peruna, noting many similar letters in the files. A separate hotel anecdote describes a guest confusing a pitcher of ice water for a drink, mistaking its size for alcohol and explaining a perceived heavy-handed hotel service.
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Lenora Bodenhamer
R.F.D
Box
Kernersville
N.C
Hartman
Heaven Waits For Boy Who Loves His Mother
A Sunday school class starts a heaven pledge drill but one boy stays seated. He answers he wants to go to heaven but his mother does not want him to go yet, revealing a child’s loyalty. The anecdote reflects family influence on spiritual choices.
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Chicago Tribune
Baby's Own Tablets touted as safe for infants
An advertisement claims soothing syrups and powders for children contain opiates and warns of overdose risk. It endorses Baby's Own Tablets as safe for newborns with government analyst approval, says they cure indigestion constipation colic diarrhoea and minor ailments. Mrs G Collins of Kirkella Man endorses them and they are sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Johnny's Cry When No One to Cry To
A Chicago Tribune tale where a child falls and avoids crying until realizing there was no one to cry to. The mother notes the incident while Johnny glosses over the pain, confessing no one was available to hear his tears.
Warrant Issued for Nikolia Lenin in Treason Case
In St Petersburg a warrant is issued for Nikolia Lenin a leader of the majority faction who attended the Social Democrat congress in London on charges of high treason.
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St. Petersburg
Nikolia Lenin
Social Democrat Congress
London
An Old Time Alderman and the Broadway Bend
Patrons at a Broadway and Tenth street restaurant recall a bend in Broadway designed to spare a tree. The bend would have cut into Hendrik Brevoort’s tavern, and in 1849 it also blocked Eleventh street from Fourth Avenue to Broadway to avoid demolishing the tavern.
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Broadway
Tenth Street
Hendrik Brevoort
The Madrigal Defined and Its Origins
The madrigal is an elaborate three to six part vocal work sung in chorus. It disperses melody across voices in a conversational sixteenth to seventeenth century style without accompaniment, origins linked to Dutch beginnings and English use.
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Netherlands
Practical Christianity on a Farm in Iowa
An old Iowa farmer, famed for sheltering all travelers, defends his policy as practical Christianity. Friends worry that unscrupulous hoboes may rob him, but he replies that his faith is proved by locking up their pants at night to keep his visitors safe.
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Iowa
Poll Parrot as a Game Bird
A Field and Stream note by Arthur D. Temple warns that parrot meat is not a good table delicacy. He recalls a failed attempt where a young parrot required hours of boiling and still left an impression like a rubber boat on the sole, illustrating the dish’s poor quality.
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Arthur D. Temple
No Accent Needed in Telephone Operator Tests
A Cassell's Saturday Journal writer notes questions to operator applicants often spark funny replies. One test asks if the candidate has a local accent since clear speech is required, with a girl replying No though one candid ate wrote No, but I could acquire one.
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Cassell
Saturday Journal
Iecuids
Energy the Motive Power
Quote by Buxton on energy as the difference between people, claiming invincible determination and a formed purpose decides death or victory in any endeavor. It asserts that no human can become a true man without energy and resolve.
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Buxton
Y.M.C.A. Camp Attendee Endorses Minard's Liniment
A visitor at the Yarmouth Y M C A Boys Camp at Tusket Falls in August notes MINARD S LINIMENT provides sunburn relief and helps with colic and tooth ache.
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Yarmouth Y.M.C
Tusket Falls
Minard
Four Pounds Tea Bargain Sparks A Scottish Quip
A Lowland school scene shows a boy answering a mental arithmetic question about four pounds of tea at one shilling sixpence a pound. The pupil explains his mother would give nothing and would have him ask the shopkeeper to lower the price, prompting a humorous remark about never meeting his mother.
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills Featured Against Dyspepsia Demon
An old time belief described demons of the air and now dyspepsia as a similar peril. The remedy urged is Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a ready ally in fighting the unseen foe and aiding relief.
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Parmelee
Argument Won’t End Appeal Admits Stubborn Jim
A parent asks if the dispute is over and the boy says no. He explains he is simply presenting the facts in the case to Jim, who remains obstinately unpersuaded.
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Jimmie
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Relief for Pain
In health and happiness we need no friends but in pain we seek aid from sympathetic hands. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil provides relief when pain is present and has helped thousands who would otherwise be friendless.
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Thomas
Rockefeller Wealth Clock Joke
Two men discuss John D Rockefeller's wealth. One says Rockefeller earns a thousand dollars each time the grandfather clock in the room ticks. The other asks to stop the clock, prompting the punchline that it is a fact and the clock should be stopped.
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Rockefeller
Philadelphia Record
Dr Chase Kidney Liver Pills Restore Sight and Health
A Calgary letter testifies that Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills cured torpid liver constipation and kidney troubles. The husband's eyesight recovered after two boxes and the family now relays high praise for the remedy. The pills invigorate liver kidneys and bowels and cost 25 cents a box at dealers.
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A. R. Price
Nose Creek
Calgary
Alta
Dr Chase
Dr. Chase
Berlin bans checkreins and blinkers on public cab horses
In 1905 Kaiser abolishes the use of the checkrein in the imperial stables and Berlin enforces police regulations prohibiting blinkers or checkreins on public cab horses. Public streets show few such gear now, except on some private teams.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Courtship Ends as Husband Sees True Cost of Wife
A Chicago News item notes a man learns the value of his wife only after marriage when he starts paying her bills, a humorous warning about money and affection in married life.
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Chicago News
Minard's Liniment and Laughing Men in Bits
Cartoon dialogue features Mr Shapp claiming men need women to laugh at and Mrs Shapp retorts that without women men would have nothing to laugh at. Illustration appears in a humor page titled Illustrated Bits.
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Mr. Shapp
Mrs. Shapp
Rheumatism Cured by Kidney Health Claim
The article attributes rheumatic pain to kidney weakness that fails to filter uric acid from the blood. It asserts uric acid poisoning inflames nerves and causes pains in hands shoulders back knees and feet. Stopping uric acid poisoning is said to cure rheumatism.
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