Sounded Better and Costiveness Cures Mentioned
Dialogue notes music room repositioning in a Washington Star excerpt. A medical claim touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a cure for costiveness, asserting ingredients act on the bowels. Immigration returns for nine months end March report 122,667 arrivals.
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Camrocks
Washington Star
Burglar Alarm Tale From Flynn Interview
William J. Flynn, famed secret service agent, recounted a burglar alarm anecdote to a New York reporter. A thick set man approached a hardware dealer offering to sell 400 alarms, claiming to be a burglar and denying being a manufacturer.
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William J. Flynn
Secret Service
New York
Worm Exterminator and Spavin Remedy Claims
An 19th century style advert claims ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT removes horse blemishes and ailments with a $50 saving per bottle. It also touts Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator as safe and effective. European reports note wheat yields with France as an exception. The piece includes miscellaneous opinions on vested rights and privileges.
Irish driver Pat and a hydropathic gate joke
A limerick style Tatler tale tells Pat the Irish cab driver to Delhi riot report. It cites Pat’s wit and a two shillings fare while a hydropathic guest offers a extra shilling for breaking records. Serious race riots have broken out at Delhi, India.
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Blackpool
Pat
Tatler
Delhi
India
Debutante and maid trade lines on romance in Chicago News
In a Chicago News column a playful exchange unfolds between a young debutante and a witty maid. The maid celebrates weight and age while the debutante hints at the thrill of romantic choices.
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Chicago News
Lawyer Brag About Bribing For Special Sessions Case
A criminal court practitioner boasts of steering a defendant to acquittal in a Special Sessions case with a supposed bribe. He claims a friend tipped him off about an easy win and accepts payment, recounting a two dimes exchange as illustrative proof of the corrupt setup.
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New York Sun
Dangerous purgatives and the claim for pink pills
An advertisement denounces purgatives as weakening to the bowels and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a cure for anaemia and related ailments. It cites Miss Annie Beaudreau of Amherst Magdalen Islands describing improved health after using the pills and lists selling points and price from the Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams
Annie Beaudreau
Amherst
Magdalene Islands
Miss Beaudreau
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Howells Lent dinner quip and other 19th century notices
William Dean Howells recalled a Lent dinner remark about a pear selling the line juicy as my old pipe. An advertisement promotes Holloway's Corn Cure for corns. Madame Fromkina, a Moscow female terrorist, is exiled to Siberia for attempting Gen. Novitsky's life.
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William Dean Howells
New York
Madame Fromkina
Moscow
Siberia
Gen. Novitsky
Doctor's Kidney Liver Pills Credibly Promoted Cure Claim
A Toronto advertisement touts Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as a cure for kidney disease. A testimonial from Captain William Smith of Revelstoke British Columbia credits the medicine with removing kidney illness after physicians failed, noting improved urea elimination and overall health. The ad claims benefits for Bright's disease lumbago backache and rheumatism, describes the pill's liver kidney and bowel cleansing action, and lists price and distributor Fdmanson Bates Co Toronto with Dr A W Chase signature on each box.
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Wm. Smith
Revelstoke
B.C
Dr. Chase
Bright
Fdmanson, Bates & Co
Toronto
A. W. Chase
A Humorous Quote About Har vard Men and Stage Mishap
A travelling man recalls a comedian meeting with a Har vard man and a Hamlet mishap. A Chicago Tribune joke notes the awkward escape from Ophelia’s grave while the audience sighs at the exit. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills claim broad public endorsement and success.
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Ophelia
New Woman Footprints on Sands of Time
A brief London Tit-Bits quip contrasts a compliment about the New Woman with the image of her leaving large footprints on the sands of time. The exchange is spoken by Jack and Bob in a casual street talk frame.
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Jack
Bob
London
Women Embalmers Fail in Demonstration Report
The New Jersey State Board of Embalmers labels women as failures after they faint during a required demonstration. The report highlights a perceived lack of composure under testing conditions and critiques the preparedness of female practitioners.
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New Jersey State Board of Embalmers
Itch and mange cure advertised by Wolford's Lotion
A pastoral joke ad claims Wolford's Sanitary Lotion cures all forms of contagious itch on humans and animals in 20 minutes. The dialogue between Herbert and Gladys echoes a comic tone about writing talent.
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Wolford
Memorial to William Penn to rise in Westminster Abbey
A Pennsylvania society plans a memorial to William Penn to be erected within Westminster Abbey, honoring the founder of Pennsylvania and his colonial legacy.
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William Penn
Westminster Abbey
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