Blood Poison Described as Desperate Disease and Cure
A user recounts severe suffering from blood poison contracted via a nurse infant infection. After six years of sores and failed treatments including mercury and potash, Swift’s Specific 8.8.8 is claimed to restore health. Testimonial from Mrs. T. W. Lee of Montgomery, Alabama asserts the remedy cures deep seated cases.
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Swift Specific Company
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Proverbial Philosophy and Quaker Hats Featured Essays
A West Virginia hotel anecdote uses proverbs to explain caution learned from a drummer’s clocked misadventure. Notes on Quakers and hats recount Fox era persecutions and a later council intervention in England. Also an advertisement for Electric Bitters touts health benefits and a 50 cent price.
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Cromwell
Fox
England
Exeter
Henry Lawrence
English Skits on Wit and Weathered Manners
A collage of humorous vignettes from Harper's Round Table and Washington Post style pieces lampooning English seriousness and American travelers. The anecdotes feature a sign reading to Somerset and Gloucester with a cooks tale of a blacksmith, ribbing of a Celtic brogue pupil, busy domestic quirks, and brief ads for patent remedies and farm papers.
Enterprising Druggist Promotes Cough and Lung Remedies
D.C. Prader & Co. advertises Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with trial bottles and guarantees. The notice touts Saw yer s Akatine and Sawyer s Wild Cherry and Tar as cures for throat chest and lung ailments. Also offers Green s Warranted Syrup of Tar refunds if coughs or colds persist.
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Dr. King
Above Drug Store
Travel Offers For A Grand Mexico Tour In A "Hotel On Wheels"
Readers are invited to write from Dubuque Iowa for an itinerary to Mexico described as the Egypt of the New World. The voyage promises vast mountains Tec Popocatepetl, ancient cities and Toltec Aztec art, a National Museum in Mexico City, and pyramids. Travel is via a deluxe train service on a schedule tailored for this extended tour, visiting both famed routes and lesser known sites, with luxury accommodation aboard.
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Iowa
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Mexico
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America
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Pyramids
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