The Churn Metaphor in a Cure All Patent Remedy
The ad links stomach digestion to churn and claims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery sweetens a foul stomach to purify the blood. It asserts relief for biliousness dyspepsia and related ailments and offers a booklet on ingredients by mail from Buffalo New York.
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Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Ll. A
United States
Canada
Europe
T. Hopkins
Great Jones Street
New York
Wrestling in Scotland at Grasmere sports ground
The London Standard describes Grasmere’s sports ground used for wrestling and guides races with spectators around the lawn, noting Graeco-Monial catch-as-catch-wrestling and local attire. The scene includes coaches, picnics, and varied ages of wrestlers, with women’s embroidery and a vivid crowd atmosphere.
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Scotland
London Standard
Grasmere
Lords Cricket Ground
Siz
Cumberland
Graus
Orlindos
Charleses
Personal column note hints at advantage after wife’s death
A London daily personal column prints a doubtful notice: If B in C contacts his friends at home, he will hear of something to his advantage. It adds that his wife is dead, implying a potential benefit or leverage from the information. The American Advertiser cites this as a curious and troubling snippet.
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Buea Wisses
W. L. Douglas
Iarze
Actories
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
L. Douglas
Dept
Fulton Monument Movement Plans Marble and Bronze Shrine
The Fulton monument project aims to place a marble and bronze sculpture on the Hudson bank in Manhattan. Cornelius Vanderbilt and leaders including Mark Twain Samuel Clemens guide fundraising to a $606,000 goal with bronze tablets for subscribers of $10 or more. Dollar gifts are welcomed from the public.
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New York Special
Bank of the Hudson
Manhattan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Hugh Gordon Miller
H. O. S. Fleinstand
Richard Delafield
R. N. Cutting
W. H. Pletcher
Carnegie made ten young men millionaires
Pittsburg report recalls Andrew Carnegie declaring that his "young partners" would share in wealth. It details the rise and later fates of several partners like Schwab Frick Leishman Phipps and Peacock, including Ben Tyler's disappearance, Schwab's armor line trouble and Leishman's stock dealings, plus Peacock's bluff winnings and Lovejoy's telegraph start and Denver mining ties.
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Pittsburg
Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
Andy
Carnegie
Steel Haven
Rick
Corey
Schwahb
Leishman
Phipps
Lovejoy
Dinkey
Tyler
Ben C. Tyler
Rochester
N. Y
Kelaire
United States Steel Corporation
General C. Dyier
Lillion Collar Trust
Perry
N.Y
Wyler
Frick
Pinacles
Henry Clay Frick
Mr. Carnegie
Schwab
Charles M. Schwab
Barddock
Bill” Jones
Gainesie
Jones
Home- Stems Steel Works
Gamegsios Vounge
United States
Homestead Works
Hewudt
Billion Dolor Steel Trust
Cleveland
Carnegie Steel Company
Nersspaper
Admarin
Sampson
Hoverhamenvs
Homestead
Charles
Seluvab
Sehwaab
Momestead
Sehwab
St. Carnésie
Steel Corporation
Garnesie
Sii
Tritet
Han
William Dills Corey
Garnes
William Jilis Cortes
Car Nes
Carnesie
John W. Gates Coestly
Gates
Palmer
Europe
Leishman and Palmer
Lawrence C. Phipps
Lawrence
Henry Phipps
Denver
Lawrence Phipps
New York
Start
Tevis McKee
J. Hart McKee
America
Morese
Alexander R. Peacock
Peacock
Dru Igoods
Pigivan
Cerinegie Steel Company
Bratzer
Carnegie Company
Canadian Pacific Railroad
PT. E. Lovejoy
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Philippines
Pittsburgh
Thomas Pync Hh
H. Frick Coke Company
Weaving Cotton in Africa A Slow Skilled Labor
Weaving cotton in Africa is slow and difficult work. A skilled workman can weave about three yards a day.
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Africa
Bird Criminals From Country Life
A writer questions which bird with a small bill plunders nests and drains eggs. He notes blackbird and thrush nests emptied in a hedge and suspects misel thrush or other songbirds, considering which parent might be the thief and pondering unlikely culprits.
Cure for Gravel Claim by J D Diughtrey Publisher
J D Diughtrey of Snitolkky Via reports relief after using Doan’s Kidney Pills claiming no gravel stones have formed for three years. He describes past gravel attacks with severe pain and general kidney trouble symptoms and notes 264 pounds of gravel passed over years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Yester Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Donan
J.D. Diughtrey
Snitolkky Via
Dean
Doan
Yester-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
A Boy's Epigram From a Lesson in Skate Perseverance
Mrs. Russell Sage recalled in youth in Philadelphia. A pupil described Miss Slocum as intelligent and cheerful. She used an anecdote of a boy who skates well and learns by getting up after every fall, concluding perseverance matters.
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Russell Sage
Philadelphia
Slocum
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted With Reward Claim
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It states the remedy is taken internally, works on blood and mucous surfaces, and offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. Includes testimonial list request and Toledo address.
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Ben
Fall
Chisney &O
Toledo
Hall
Desperate Girl Renounces Life For Mission to Africa
A girl in a small town proclaims she will abandon vanity and frivolity to become a missionary in Equatorial Africa. She delivers the declaration in a low voice after discarding her ice cream spoon, humorously noting her father would not gift an automobile for her birthday.
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Equatorial Africa
Terrible scalp humor cured with Cuticura remedies
H M S Weiss of Rosemond Christian Co Illinois describes a decade long scalp eczema that spread behind the ears and caused hair loss. After using various remedies with no relief he tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment following an October November 1904 eruption and was cured within two months under a doctor’s care.
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Weiss, Rosemond, Christian Co
Ill
Narrow Escape and Teething Syrup Mentioned in Stilted Dialogue
In a clipped exchange, Ethel recalls a near runaway horse incident while Mavei replies about a donkey attempting an elopement. The notice ends with an advertisement for Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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Ethel
Winslow
Mouse Kills a Cat in Cape May Hotel
A Cape May hotel reports a black cat died after mouthing a mouse that became lodged in its throat. The mouse, still alive, escaped after the cat collapsed, giving an odd twist to a rare predator incident.
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Cape May
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Cornelius “Vanderbilt
T. Felix Gouraud
Rashan
R. Paxton CO
Boston
Carter
Odl
Carter L
Sioux City
P’t’g CO
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