Mrs. Laura L. Barnes Endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
Washington D C woman and member of the Ladies Auxiliary to Burnside Post No 4 G A R tests Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments. She cites relief from headaches backaches irregular periods and nervous attacks and calls it a household reliance with years of experience.
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Laura L. Barnes
Washington, D. C
Burnside Post
No. 4
Lydia E. Piskham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Laura TL. Barnes
Second St
N. EL. Washington
Never Again. W. S. Gilbert on early playwriting
Mr. W. S. Gilbert recalls his youth as a playwright after finishing a short work titled Dulcamara for T. W. Robertson's associate. Emden offers a higher price in pounds for the manuscript and warns against selling such quality for thirty guineas, a lesson Gilbert says he heeded.
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W. S. Gilbert
Emden
Mr. Gilbert
Mr. Emden
Woman Recovers After Four Months Bedridden in Kentucky
Mrs J J Monson of Powersville Kentucky, age 36, says she suffered eight years of acute kidney trouble with bedridden winter, smothering spells and weakness. After trying many remedies she used Dodd's Kidney Pills and improved, becoming able to work again and free from pain. She praises the pills and recommends them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powersville
J. J. Monson
Dodd
Santos Dumont Reveals Air Ship Plan
Santos Dumont discusses his new air ship from Champs Elysees apartment. The craft will carry fourteen passengers with a forty horsepower petroleum motor and central ballast design. Machines are scattered in factories. he expects public availability in about a month and plans short excursions with fourteen aboard.
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Santos Dumont
Champs Filesees
Weyet
Paris
Pittsburg Dispatch
Oriental Cream Claim Promises Perfected Complexion
An ad endorses Gou Rasul's Oriental Dream as a harmless spring water based cream that purportedly removes blemishes and leaves a pearly skin. The pitch asserts chemists failed to create such beauty elixirs until this product was introduced and urges ladies to use it to achieve nature’s intended beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tandoor
Gourasul
No Opportunities Lost Voice Exposé Mocked by Chicago Post
The Chicago Post mocks a vocal coach who trained a voice to emit a dreadful noise between football and baseball games. The piece presents the jab as a critique of training methods and public performances.
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Chicago Post
Predestination in Love and a Kool Kitchen Ad
Brindley claims destined marriage to Miss ilyvans but she rejects predestination. The Philadelphia Press notes the dialogue. The piece also mentions The Klean Kool Kitchen Kind stoves promising comfort with a cool kitchen.
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Brindley
Do you believe there’s nothing new under the sun
A clipped quotation from the Detroit Free Press shows a quip about novelty and a wife’s unpaid dollar for an old bonnet, reflecting a light anecdote or joke item in the newspaper.
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Detroit Free Press
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething Details
An old advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims the syrup softens gums, soothes pain, relieves wind colic, and calms restlessness, priced at a certain amount per bottle.
Get Rich Quick Schemes and Public Notices
A clipped collection of satirical lines and promotional hints on mining schemes and breakfast flour. It includes references to Mrs. Austin's pancake products and notes about Adelina Pattl, interspersed with scheduled colonist tickets to California and the Southwest. The fragment mentions dates and travel tickets for settlers and conveys wartime or period-appropriate promotional tone.
Windsor Castle and the Vandals
Story reports consternation at Windsor Castle over vandalism of three royal paintings with some hint of staff involvement. Private royal library and British Museum abuses are linked to a broader wave of daring thefts and cuts in old sermons as detectives pursue clerical suspects.
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Windsor Castle
Edwards
Royal Library
British Museum
Beecher
Spurgeon
Stepford
Rocke
Parker
Dermand
Color and style ignite London as summer fashion rises
London society awaits a chiffon millennium as travelers return from the Grosvenor Square voyage. Mortimer Menpes touts color as England’s cure for gray streets, predicting vibrant trunks and a glittering season that challenges London’s monochrome mood and sorely missing hue.
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Grosvenor Square
Arabia
London
Mortimer Menpes
England
Apollo
Elizabeth
Alfred Austin
Miss Corelli
Llord Lansdowne
Germany
Worth
Paquin
Redfern
New York Commercial
Noah’s Ark Financier Parable Recalls The Times
The Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler once posed why Noah was the greatest financier of his time at a Monroe Society dinner. He later sent the answer by telegraph: Noah could float a stock company while contemporaries faced involuntary liquidation. It appeared in the New York Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore L. Cuyler
Monroe Society
Noah
New York Times
Noiseless Refreshments at Princeton Seminary Lecture
During a ethics lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary Dr Patton asked students to stop cracking nuts and save tea time snacks for after the talk. He urged restraint and suggested sponge cake for future meetings to maintain quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Ledger
Snow angels and a fussy mistress in Brooklyn
A woman recalls a Brooklyn scene where a boy asks if angels send the snow. A maid for Mrs S. cleans the steps as the boy watches, and the boy jokes that angels would fear Mrs S. catching them in the act. The aunt answers simply that angels do send the snow.
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Little Jack
Jack
New York Times
Two Characters Debate Modern Life In Folk Dialect
Mean dering Mike and Plodding Fete discuss luck in the enlightened age. They compare their current ease with a bygone era of danger and hunger, imagining a time of night riders and price of a sandwich.
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Mike
Lost Proclamation Sparks Fiance Frantic Search
In a Philadelphia Press exchange a worried fiancée Mrs Gusch fears harm to Clarence who left for Boston two days earlier. Mr Brutle suggests a public notice advertising a missing fiancé with description of his high collar and the name Clarence to help locate him.
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Gusch
Clarence
Boston
Mr. Brutle
Count De Montesquiou Lectures Draw Interest
New York audiences responded well to Count Robert De Montesquiou's lectures with a major theatrical firm proposing a nationwide lecturing tour. The count declined the offer, preferring to pursue other plans.
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Robert de Montesquiou
New York
Child’s clever reply challenges weekday lesson
A Sunday school scene features a pupil challenging the idea that man is the noblest work of God. When asked what proved it, the child cites his mother’s claim that she made him, prompting the teacher to seek clarification.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Politeness Sparks Witty Exchange on Train Car
Boorisch argues politeness never harms. Miss Sharpe counters with a quip about a past crowded car moment where politeness might have caused him to lose his seat. The exchange appears in a Philadelphia Press quotation.
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Boorisch
Miss Sharpe
Philadelphia Press
Not Prepared for It
A Chicago Post quotation describes a rough start and a failed venture, with a speaker lamenting how a promising plan hitched to a star but collapsed suddenly, leaving him dumped out. The remark captures a tone of rueful regret and misfortune.
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Chicago Post
Dean's Kidney Pills Proclaimed Best Kidney Cure
A Kentucky city official narrates severe back and kidney pains eased by Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad claims relief from bladder issues dropsy diabetes and Bright's disease and offers a free trial by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. The product is sold nationwide for 50 cents.
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Dean
Bright
J. W. Walls
Lebanon
Kentucky
East Main Street
Hugh Murrey Drug Co
Mr. Walls
United States
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Frice
Peruna praised by doctors in early 20th century ads
Washington physician Robert R. Roberts endorses Hartman Peruna as a universal catarrh remedy. Dr. F. H. Brand and Dr. M. C. Gee share positive experiences, claiming cures across organs from nose to kidneys. The ad touts Peruna as an internal, systemic catarrh cure and invites readers to request literature or consult Dr. Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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Robert. R. Roberts
M. D
Washington, D. C
Robert R. Roberts
United States
F. H. Brand, M. D
Mokena
R. Robbins
Muskogee
I. T
Maine
California
sPeruna
San Francisco
Hartman
Indiana Special for AMA Meeting Exceeds Travel Plans
The Indiana Special provides through sleeping cars via Pennsylvania Lines for the American Medical Association annual meeting in New Orleans from May 5 to 8. Departing Indianapolis at 3 55 p m Sunday May 3, the line is the official route for delegates and friends. Excursion tickets will also be sold on May 1, 2 and 3 with sleeping car reservations through W W Richardson Indianapolis District Passenger Agent.
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American Medical Association
New Orleans
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Indiana
Medical Association
W. W. Richardson
Ind
Progressive Euchre Arrest Sparks Mississippi Debate
In Mississippi a court case centers on a game of euchre labeled progressive, prompting questions about legality of progressive activities. officials argue the action violates state law while supporters claim it is harmless recreation.
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Mississippi
Sky Scene After Rain Shower Brings Bright Skies
A vivid line captures how the heavens glow after a cleansing shower. The sentiment celebrates refreshed light and clearer air following rainfall.
Automobile maker criticizes new salesman hustling ads
A Baltimore American quote describes a salesman promising free use of any model in personal crisis cases, calling the tactic a bold advertising ploy by the auto maker. The remark highlights aggressive sales methods and public reaction to promotional stunts.
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Baltimore American
Patriotic Confidence From Senator Sorghum Dialogue
A Washington Star excerpt quotes Senator Sorghum declaring confidence in the nation's future. He asserts that he and the trusts have too much money invested to allow anything serious to occur, countering concerns about the country’s prospects.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Little Chronicle child explains family ties
A mother tells her daughter Lillian that a new baby makes the mother the aunt, the father the baby's uncle, and Lillian the baby's cousin. Lillian marvels at how quickly the arrangement happened.
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Mamma
Lillian
Lilian
Papa
Little Chronicle
Milliner jokes on dentist and hat prices in Yonkers
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes a milliner boasting she visited a dentist to have a nerve killed, joking that given her hat prices the dentist must have killed the wrong one.
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Yonkers
Putnam Faceless Dyes Leave No Hand Stains
Faceless dyes from Putnam claim to avoid staining hands or kettle surfaces except for green and purple shades. The statement highlights product safety and consumer use concerns amid limited color leakage reports.
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Putnam
Coal strike hearing to cost $750000 to public
The estimated expense for the coal strike hearing is $750,000, a cost that the public is expected to bear.
New Banks Planned in Brazil for Agriculture Loans
Brazil faces a need for new banks to finance crops and real estate, with Bahia state passing legislation granting special privileges to establish such financial concerns, boosting agricultural credit in farming states.
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Brazil
Bahia
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An exchange in a business office highlights a book agent praising a volume aimed at businessmen. A skeptical man questions who has benefited, prompting the agent to claim a personal commission as evidence.
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Philadelphia Press
A Strange Case of a Married Woman and a Louver
Dialog from a humorous society page about Miss Gaussip questioning if a woman has a louver and is married. Miss Tees confirms the marriage, noting five years, while Miss Gaussip calls it scandalous though Miss Tees calls it merely unusual with the husband present.
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Miss Gaussip
Miss Tees
Straight character from crooked living proves hard to emerge
A terse proverb notes that straight character rarely surfaces from a life of crooked dealings. It emphasizes the persistence of habit and the challenge of personal reform.
Home-seekers' excursion dates listed for three regions
In the West Northwest and South the schedule shows April 21 May 5 May 19 June 2 and June 16 as the dates for home-seekers to visit locations. The item lists the months and dates for planned excursions.
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Hicom & Big Four
Tochamapolis
Agen
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Libby, McNeill & Libby
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ELY
ELY Bros
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Presbyterian
Kerwin
Adelina Pattl
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W.L. Douglas
Durbar
Dr. Cuyler
Dr. Patton
Angelis
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M. C. Gee
Robert R
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Peruna
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American Medical Association Meeting
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Malvern
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