St Jacobs Oil Promotes Quick Muscle Relief and Strength
Claims vigorous rubbing for twenty minutes twice daily relieves pain stiffness and soreness from exertion heat or cold exposure. Endorsed for athletes with rapid lasting action and muscle hardening. Sample offered by St Jacobs Oil Co Baltimore with suggestion to try Vogeler's Curative Compound for complications.
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St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Oil
Vogeler
St. Jacobs Oil Co
Baltimore
Sulzer recounts being admonished for pipe use in New Willis
Representative Sulzer recalls being rubbed out for smoking a pipe in the New Wil lard and being told to put it away. He says he should have explained he was English, but the attendant who corrected him was Irish.
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New Willard
Representative Sulzer
Representative Fitzgerald
Sulzer
New York Times
Button on Brass Chain Saves Boy's Life
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes Briggs values a brass button on his watch chain for saving his life after he accidentally swallowed it as a boy. The joke highlights the unlikely childhood hero and Briggs’ humor about a lucky keepsake.
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Briggs
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ely’s Liquid Cream Balm Ad From Early 1900s
Ely’s Liquid Cream Balm prepares for nasal catarrh sufferers using an atomizer to spray diseased membranes. The preparation retains healing soothing properties and does not dry secretions. Price 75 cents including spraying tube. sold by Ely Bros at 56 Warren Street New York.
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Ely's
Druggista Er
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Lane's Family Medicine Moves the Bowels Daily
An 19th century remedy claims daily use promotes health by acting on the liver and kidneys. It is said to cure sick headaches with a price of 25 and 50 cents. The ad closes with a proverb about living in glass houses and removal of faults.
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W. Ll. Douglan
Lane
Wilmer
W. KK. Vanderbelt, Jr
Astor
Carolus Duran
Laca
Frank S&tt
Aimslee’s
Canada
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Western Canada
F. Pediey
Ottawa
Can
E. T. Holmes
Indianapolis
Ind
Government of Canada
Putnam Face Less Dye Colors Boil to Perfection
The ad claims each package of Putnam Face Less Dye colors works perfectly for Silk Wool or Cotton at one boiling. It promises guaranteed dyeing success with a bold assurance aimed at fabric makers and hobbyists.
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Putnam
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for All Stages
The advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It claims internal action targets the blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease’s foundation and strengthen the body. The firm offers one hundred dollars for any failure and promotes testimonials.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Potatoes and Pride Win A Farmer Son In Law
A quarrel turns to approval as the young man in overalls reveals he planted twenty acres to potatoes last spring. The elderly man, initially scornful, admits admiration and welcomes him as a son in law.
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Syracuse Herald
The Ethiopian Convert In The Deserts of Scripture
A Sunday school lesson recounts Philip guiding an Ethiopian nobleman reading Isaiah. Philip explains Jesus fulfillment, offers baptism upon confession, and the eunuch joyfully continues his journey, while Philip vanishes from sight and the Spirit rejoices.
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Ksaias
Jesus
Jesus Christ
God
Jerusalem
Gazay
I. Philip
Samaria
Angel of the Lord
Jesus of Nazareth
Phillips
Ptilip
Garden of Eden
Parlor Car Fare Sparks Hartford Courant Letter
A Hartford Courant reader chronicles a trip from New York to Hartford highlighting a $1 parlor car fare. He questions the policy benefiting Boston travelers and notes the clerk's evasive stance and ensuing exchanges. An additional anecdote from New Haven shows a parlor car conductor pressuring a passenger to switch to day coaches.
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Hartford Courant
New York
Grand Central Station
Hartford
Boston
Compulsory Conversion
A globe trotter questions a reformed cannibal about abandoning his former life. The cannibal cites providence after a bad indigestion from eating a man named Russia, joking that removing his bristles would have helped. The globe trotter leaves unsettled as the cannibal then eats him. Moral about over explaining.
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Globe-Trotter
Russia
Washington Evening Times
King Edward’s Distinction and Ecclesiastical Role
King Edward is the sole monarch in Christendom with an ecclesiastical post. He holds a prebend at St. David’s Cathedral, with funds routed to Jesus College, Oxford.
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Edward
Christendom
St. David's Cathedral
Peter
Paul
Jesus College, Oxford
Antidote for Blues Dramatic Tickets Offer
A comic miscue leads to two complimentary seats for a dramatic performance. Jinks debates if the show is tragedy or comedy, settling on tragedy amid lively banter and a quip filled banter.
Catholic Sisters Endorse Peruna Across the United States
A steady stream of letters from Catholic Sisters nationwide praise Dr. Hartman’s Peruna. Sisters report relief from influenza catarrh stomach ailments and bronchitis with several noting cures or major improvement after use. They describe Peruna as a universal remedy for catarrhal diseases and urge others to seek Dr. Hartman’s free medical advice.
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Sisters of Charity
Peruna
Hartman
Fo Ursuline Sisters of
Cleveland
Ohio
Ursuline Sisters
United States
Southwest
Colorado
Martman
Dr. Hartman
Te Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Catholic Institution in Central Ohio Receives Recommendation
From a Sisters Superior at a Central Ohio Catholic institution comes a formal recommendation. The document outlines governance and future directions for the order and campus.
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Central
Ohio
Life’s kitchen clash over a stern recommendation
Mrs Von Blumer complains of a disliked cook who impressed enough to deserve a glowing recommendation. Von Blumer admits the challenge of writing a favorable report, noting the tension between personal taste and professional praise.
Two Years Left In College Proves Worthless
A Yonkers Statesman item quotes a summer hotel proprietor's insult to a student waiter who says he has two years more in college. The exchange highlights pride in education amid a blunt critique of basic service skills.
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Elis
W. L. Douglas
Hide
Icorona Kid
Corona Colt
National Kangaroo
Coley
W.A. Beagine
Matt
Catateg E. Ww. L. Agine
Brockton, Maes
Yonkers Statesman
For Her Sisters' Sake Sheds Kidney Relief Endorsement
In Stendal Indiana on March 10 Mrs. Sarah A. Shrode testifies she recovered from kidney and bladder troubles after using Dodds Kidney Pills. She claims nine boxes cured her and urges other women to try the remedy.
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Stendal
Ind
Sarah A. Shrode
Dodd
Cough Remedy Ad and City Building Clash
An old advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a cough remedy with a free sample and 25 and 50 cent bottles. A quirky note contrasts Paris limiting buildings to four stories with Chicago's stance, claiming it will never be Paris.
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Kemp
Paris
Chicago
They Work While You Sleep Advertisement
An old advertisement promotes Cas carets candy cathartic tablets stamped C. C. C. claiming digestion and liver repair while you sleep. It notes genuine tablets, 10 cents, never sold in bulk, with a moral line about sorrow as a shadow of God drawing near.
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