Homeless Boy Tom Browne Seeks Work and a Home
A hungry, barefoot boy pleads for work in a newspaper office, recounting six weeks of cold nights and meager pay. He hopes to learn printing, dreams of becoming a newspaper man, and, after help from a reporter, is sent to Edmonson’s printing shop with lodging and meals arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell
Ter
Owever
Onder
Erc
Truli Thomas Downe
Journal
Pers
Miny
Tom
Tom ‘Owne
American Boys College
P. Road
Edmonson
Browne
C. E. Edmonson
Tom Browne
Impe tuous youth and remedies cited by Dr Pierce
The article notes folly from impetuous youth leads to nervous and mental decline and advises writing to Dr. Pierce of Buffalo for at home cures and mailed particulars. It also reviews M Ernest Juegle translating The Artillery of the Future, praising horse artillery and its role with cavalry, with London Telegraph citation. It ends by praising Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a balm for cold s, coughs and chronic lung and liver diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ry, Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
M. Ernest Juegle
Military School of
St. Cyr
Vte
London Telegraph
Gilead
Pierce
Many A. McClure
Columbus
Kana
Parmolia Brundage
Lock Street
Lockport
James L. Coby
Yucatan
Houston Co
Minn
Pelicia
Treresa A. Cass
Springfold
H. E. Mosley
Montmorenci, S. C
Democrat and News
Cambridge
Maryland
Eviza Ann Poole
Leonard Poole
Fa Il- Wamsburg
Dorchester Co
Poole
T. A. Aynes
East New Market
Dorchester County
Golden Medical Discovery
Epward Newton
Harrowsmith Ont
Wheer
Isaac FE. Downs
Spring Valley, Rockland Co
M. Y
Downs
DR. Pardee
Pardee Medicine CO
Rochester
New York
Geo. W. Penfield
Pardee Medicine Coo
Rochester, N. Y
Sioux City
Iowa
Ood
Chicago
Expensive Brag Ends With Soap and Basin Demand
A St. Petersburg scene features six Imperial Horse Guards drinking champagne while a shabby man is mocked. He orders six bottles, a basin, soap, and a towel, then washes in the champagne, leaves a £10 tip, and departs with contempt. Also notes on Harvey Meyer in pink shirt and Red Star Cough Cure endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Imperial Horse Guards
London Standard
Whisky Aids Haircut And Circumstances In Odd Tale
A North Stonington man drank whisky to endure a hair cutting after twenty years without a barber. He later claimed he did not recognize himself. A Tar Sultan of Morocco supposedly increased wives from 3100 to 6000. A Tacoma verdict cleared Barker of boat theft as a liberty search. Health advice notes Tron Tonic benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Stonington
Norwich Bulletin
Tacoma
Barker
McNeal's Island
San Francisco
Self care guide and railroad tale from Harper's Magazine
An excerpt notes Dr. Pierce's treatise on self care offered for ten cents and details a historical clash over a Baltimore & Ohio railroad plan from Wheeling to Baltimore. It mocks rural opposition, rail fears for horses and livestock, and ends with a country-store indignation anecdote from Harper's Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Wheeling
Baltimore
Pennsylvania
England
Virginia
Harper's Magazine
Moxie Nerve Food Promises Medical Breakthrough
Doctors claim Moxie Nerve Food can replace drugs and stimulants. After thirteen or fourteen months on the market its sales are described as the largest ever, especially in large cities where nervous workers and stressed women cite it as the ultimate remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atay
Ghosts and Winds Drive Out White House Servants
Report from the Washington Car in the Baltimore American says March winds and rumors of a ghost at Red Top forced the President and his wife to leave. The domestic staff quit after fear of supernatural visitation, leaving only a mounted officer on guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redtop
White House
Red Top
Washington
Baltimore American
Anarchists Negotiate Living Arrangements and Stomach Bitters
A collage of quotes shows a landlord mocking a bathroomless apartment for anarchists, a dour old man sleeping in church, and a medical ad touting Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a diuretic and tonic. The piece cites other satirical lines about conductors and stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
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Larry Linnet
Tom Teasall
Bud
Mexico
the Times
Committee On Entertainment
Browné
Timex
Malabar Hill
Ma‘ Millan
R. T. Leonard
Hamburg
St. Jacobs
Harvey Meyer
Cotton Exchange
Lord Lonsdale
Violet Cameron
Mr. Meyer
Meyer
New York Sun
Mark A. A. Miller
Trav
Eric R. R
Tar Sultan
Morocco
Hood
C.I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
I. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
RLS
A. P. Laory
Patent Attorneyn
Washington, D.C
World's Dispensary Medical Association
N.Y
Harper's Bazar
Piso
I. V. Wenner
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus Co
D. Lazanng
Decatur Street
New Orleans
F. Aspury Howe
M. E. Church
Silverton
N. J
Enya
M. Stnona
Ainaworth
Ind
Don
Mr. Downs
Lunes
Josefh F. McFarland
Athens
Ical Association
Main Street
Singer
NPAT
C.G. Akame
Chicagolll
Joeland
Bors” Advertiser
Tanaill's
G.b.conwix &Co
Cal
R. W. Tansill & CO
Chichester
Jetter
Returm Mail
Rad Parsk
Chichester Chemical Co
Madison Square
Philads
Drugeists
D. Fitsgerald & Powell
Indianapolis
Brewster
Holly
Ap.cine
Ely
ELY Brothers
Owego, NX
de Harter
Rter
Harter Medicine
ST. Louis
Pomsiel
Nous Brand
Minuatratved
A. J
Gore
Jefferson, Wisconsin
Warrers
Atherrine Copany
Harbert IE. Co
LaSalle St
Benjamin
Wis
Con
Milwaukee
Eware Machine CO
Hamlin
Wizard Oil
Treading Ageneys
Lord & Thomas
Ponte
Avinia
W. Va
N.S. J. Striper
A. Ste
OAH
France
Rosa Bonteus
M. W. Dunham
Wayne
DuPage Cos
Iilinolee
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