Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Proves Restorative
A Baltimore mother reports her fifteen year old daughter Alice was cured after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The letter praises the remedy for female troubles and urges others to seek guidance from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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Haltimore
Alice
Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia E
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Urgent Need and Strange Exchanges in Uneasy Household
A fragmentary dialogue shows a manipulative dialogue where a woman flirts with Arthur to recruit thugs for household mischief while she insists on a new hat. The Washington Herald notes a wary sign about a person named Wombat behind with his board and a joke about a neck of a chicken observed over three Sundays.
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Arthur
Harper’s Bazar
Wombat
Washington Herald
How Skin Troubles Have Been Cured
Testimonies from patients across North America describe rapid relief from eczema and scalp eruptions using Cuticura Remedies. Cases include severe infant eczema, widespread bodily sores, ringworm, and raw skin, with improvements noted after using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills within days to weeks.
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W. H. White
E. Cabot St
Philadelphia
M. C. Maitland
Jasper
Tam
Wm. Hunt
Fairmount Ave
Newark
N. J
Mme. J. _B. Renaud
Montana St
Montreal
Nora Emmett
Lena
Frank Gridley
43Rd St
New York
Kate B.m
Dewey St. Bennington
G. J. Dance
New Road
Breer
Legend of the Ugly Elves in Catskill Mountains
The Catskill legend tells of dwarfish gnomes who forged metals and brewed a powerful liquor. Hendrick Hudson and his men allegedly drank the wine and became misshapen, wandering the Catskills. The tale says they appear only every twenty years, last seen in 1900 and due in 1929 for anyone who climbs Grand Hotel station area.
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Hendrick Hadeen
Catselli Mountains
Grand Hotel
Hendrick Hudson
Hudson
Catskill Mountains
Alice Phebe Eldridge
New York
Which Body Part Feels Pain Most Intense
The text argues that irritation differs from pain and notes that the fingertip and tongue are highly sensitive, with the tongue at the top for pain. It discusses how neuralgia of the fifth cranial nerve causes severe head and facial pain and mentions dental nerve injury during tooth extraction as excruciating.
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Pearson's Weekly
The Joy of Pockets in Old Fashioned Dress
A London Chronicle piece recalls a pocketless fancy dress costume and the sudden need to improvise storage for handkerchief tokens coins and tickets. The anecdote highlights the simple relief of having a pocket and the urge to insert a hand for comfort.
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London Chronicle
The Canned Green Pea Bomb Tale From Paris
An expert chemist calls the canned green pea device the most hellish invention. A Paris hotel keeper sent a sample to the government lab finding a powerful explosive labeled bombe a renversement. The device uses acids in vials with cotton as a fuse, linked by glass tubes, and is linked to a St. Petersburg police station tragedy.
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St. Petersburg
Chicago Tribune
Understanding as a cognitive power and its breadth
The quote defines understanding as the capacity to perceive and conceive beyond sense, to deal with impressions, compose them into wholes, and, in its broadest sense, include even simple apprehension as Coleridge notes.
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Coleridge
Farm tensions rise over autos near meetings
A dialogue notes a fountain in the next room as an afternoon tea continues while a farmer mob discussion hints at arming against autos failing to slow for teams. Townspeople fear a fatal clash could draw legal action, leaving widows and children bereaved.
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Wy *Ife
Father
Baby's Own Tablets touted for summer relief
An old advertisement promotes Baby's Own Tablets as essential for homes with babies, claiming rapid relief from summer complaints and citing a testimonial from Mrs. Desire Martin of St. Denis Quebec. It notes the product costs 25 cents per box and is sold by dealers or mail from The Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario. A joked exchange about a mountain trip follows.
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Desire Martin
St. Denis
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria In Claim
A YonkersStatesman fragment notes a claim that Minard's Liniment cures diphtheria. It also includes a domestic dialogue about hair getting loose as a maid responds that she will fetch it upstairs.
Journalists Explore North With Outfit For 3 Mile Journey
Hulbert Footner of Hamilton a Canadian novelist and companion C A Eager leave Edmonton with 409 pounds for a three mile trek through the north country. Eager from Baltimore has written extensively. They learn from J K Cornwall MPP of Alberta that no white men have penetrated the Hay river headwaters, their objective. Robert Service is also in the north. Footner says they will likely dislike their new home once settled.
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Hulbert Footner
Hamilton
C. A Eager
Edmonton
Footner
Eager
Baltimore
J. K. Cornwall
M.P.P
Alberta
Hay River
Robert Service
North Country
If There is a Weak Spot If There is a Weak Spot
A brief note warns that vigor and energy can run low in spring unless you use strategies to boost motivation. It suggests practical steps to maintain momentum during seasonal slowdown.
Dr Chase's Nerve Food Promises Strength and Vitality
An advertisement touts Dr Chase's Nerve Food as a spring tonic for weak blood and nerve energy. It claims to improve digestion appetite and overall vigor by forming new red blood cells and nourishing organs. Available in 50 cent boxes or six for $2.50 from Edmanson Pates Co Toronto.
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Chase
Dr. Chase
Edmanson, Pates & Co., Limited
Toronto
Canada Faces Unequal Labor Competition Under Reciprocity
Senator Stone of Missouri argued in Washington that Canadian farm labor costs are higher than those in the United States. He cited official figures showing Canada would face cheaper Yankee labor under reciprocity, reversing the expected advantage for Canadian farmers and threatening Canadian competition rather than American farms.
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United States
Canada
Seater Stone
Missouri
Washington
States
The
Brooklyn Times
Stone
Canada’s Butter Trade Faces Tariff Debate
Canada’s butter trade struggles with tariff risks that could worsen imports. The year ending 1910 saw exports of 4,615,380 pounds worth 1,010,274 dollars, while imports reached 687,454 pounds valued at 104,301 dollars. Also notes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil contains no alcohol and claims strong healing power. A Behring Sea incident reports 102 passengers from the Corwin landed on ice seven miles from shore. Boston opens a new theatre, the Purtan, billed as to laugh.
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Canada
Thomas
Corwin
Behring Sea
Derby sweepstake yields record £66,666 prize pool
The Calcutta Turf Club Derby sweepstake reached £66,666 this year, surpassing last year’s best by £16,664. Captain H. T. Raban of the Indian army drew ticket No 92,211 for 14 shillings and, after a London syndicate bought half a share for £7,500, won £33,000 in total. Tickets cost 14s and about a quarter of a million are sold annually, with prizes distributed among winners, runners up, non starters, and expenses.
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Calcutta
H. T. Raban
Lemberg
London
Raban
India
Madras
S Guorinetta
Orby
Minoru
Ontario to Erect Royal Route Decoration in Whitehall
A London exchange notes Ontario plans a Canadian decoration along the royal route for the corona ton. Two granite pylons with Corinthian columns will bear the arms of Ontario and feature sculpted groups of a farmer and a female figure symbolizing agricultural wealth and mines at Cobalt Sudbury and Porcupine. Architect H H Smot Willet is designing the arch.
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London
Whitehall
Downing Street
Ontaro
Dominion
Ontario
Polon
HH. Smot
Willey
A.R.I.B.A
Cobalt
Porcupine
Sudbury
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills and a Dog Weather Warning
A public notice touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia, claiming they restore regular stomach action. The piece adds a remark about many mad dogs in cities during hot weather and venting frustration at urban heat.
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds and More
A Detroit Free Press snippet claims Minard's Liniment cures colds and similar ailments. A reader exchange references a fishing trip joke about not rowing the boat, scoring light mention of remedies and everyday humor.
Millionaire rides farmer’s hay chair then vanishes in tale
A misfit tale from Success Magazine features a millionaire sharing a hay ride with a farmer. The pampered passenger proclaims he seeks Mother Nature and recovery, but vanishes before the farmer questions his destination. The fragment also notes a gender quip about women and a Carthage man’s joke on a harem skirt.
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Morpheus
Success Magazine
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