Court vindicates Dr. Pierce against Ladies' Home Journal
The libel suit filed by Dr. Pierce's company over a 1904 Ladies' Home Journal article ended with a $16,000 verdict for Pierce. Dr. Smith testified the Favorite Prescription uses root extracts and has medical endorsements. The case highlights ingredient transparency and professional support for the product amidst industry criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Journal
Dr. Pierce
Bok
Dr. R. V. Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Dr. Lee U. Smith
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
United States
Grover Gove
Finley E. Ingwood
Ennett Medical College
Chicago
Edwin M. Hare
Povart A. Hare
Univ. of Penn
Laurence Johnson
University of New York
John King
John M. Scudder
Horatio GC. Wood
J. D
Robert Bartholow
A. M
Materia Medica
Jefferson Medical College of
Phila
Pierce
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Promises Purity and Value
An old advertisement urges purchase of Red Cross Ball Blue with a 2 oz package priced at five cents. A quirky exchange references Mrs Stravem inviting a boarder and Mr Huntingbeard remarking about refined guests, echoing Philadelphia Press style.
All Ready for Repairs Motor Car Exchange Ad
An old ad-like exchange touts a car that claims easy maintenance with no crawling under the chassis. A customer counters that any minor problem causes the car to instantly flip upside down.
Items of Interest from a Dated Telegraphic Column
A collection of short notes mentions a Tesla wireless torpedo and its destructive potential, Siam divorce customs including sale of wives, French navy submarines with white mice aboard for gasoline leak detection, a Brittany widow’s epigraph for her 99 year old husband, Yale professor Irving Fiser’s meatless dieting benefits, and a study on endurance tests by 49 volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikola Tesla
Siam
Brittany
Mathurin Bezuquet
Vale of Tears
Irving Fiser
Yale
Fourth in Old Times Parades and Toasts Mark Early U S Celebrations
The article recalls 18th and early 19th century Fourth of July customs with parades at Battery and Broadway, cannon salutes, church reading of the Declaration, and universal tavern dinners. It highlights New York ledgers, Brooklyn celebrations in 1804, Potts Grove rural joy, and lingering toasts praising liberty and unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Merchants of
Tontine
Broadway
City Hall
Wall Street
St. Paul’s
Brooklyn
Kings County
Republican Riflemen
Washington Fusiliers
Rising Sun
Brooklyn Heights
Sands Street
Main Street
Front Street
Old Ferry Street
Potts Grove
Montgomery County
James Kinkead
New York Times
Sky Rocket Philosophy and Fourth of July Reflections
A nostalgic reflection on Fourth of July celebrations. It muses on memory, childhood, and patriotism with playful lines about boys, girls, bells, and the British defeat, noting a shared joy of the holiday and its musical echoes.
There Goes a Girl Refuses Fourth of July Accessories
An observer notes a girl’s shyness about patriotism as she rejects powder and bangs on the Fourth of July. A bystander explains the motive behind the choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. P
Golden Medical Discovery by Dr Pierce Promised to Aid Digestion
The article outlines Dr. Pierce of Buffalo promoting Golden Medical Discovery made from glycerine and plant ingredients without alcohol. It claims benefits for weak stomach indigestion biliousness and related disorders and cites endorsements from medical books urging timely use to prevent consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
A Misused Figure of Speech From a Novel
A quotation from Transatlantic Tales notes a character rebuking his son as an immoderate spendthrift and, in contrast, criticizing the son’s newly bought automobile the hundred horsepower touring machine as a target of scorn.
Cuban Cuticura Remedies Save Baby From Severe Sores
Mrs. Zana Miller of Union City Michigan recalls her three month old infant suffering Cuban Itech sores from head to toe. After trying doctors with no relief she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the child slept and improved after three applications, fully recovered in two weeks, costing 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zana Miller
Union City
Branch County
Mich
A Natural Mistake and a Pie Comment
A Baltimore humorous remark notes a sharp expert in pyrography with a qualifier on mince pieg. The quip showcases playful banter and a local newspaper voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Red Cross Ball Blue for All Up-To-Date Housekeepers
An advertisement urges housekeepers to use Red Cross Ball Blue to keep clothes clean and sweet like new, with distribution through grocers.
Oldest US church edifice in Hingham dates to 1682
The First Unitarian Church of Hingham Massachusetts is identified as the oldest church building in the United States having been erected in 1682. John B. Lewis has served as sexton and bell-ringer there for more than fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
First Unitarian Church
Hingham
Mass
John B. Lewis
Lydia NH. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lynn
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy
A vintage advertisement notes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children. It promises gum relief and reduced inflammation, claims to ease wind colic, and lists a price of 25 cents per bottle.
True merit waits for opening like a pearl in an oyster
The quote from Punch compares true merit to a pearl that stays hidden inside an oyster until a subtle opening appears. It suggests patience and quiet persistence precede opportunity.
Remarkable Women in Blacksmithing and Oddities Abroad
A Nebraska woman Mrs Philip T Wilcox masters smithing duties learned assisting her husband and plans to teach her three daughters. Also notes curious sea dust, Grenada mongooses plundering farms, China ducks huge population, a man’s nose fire on Boulevard St Michel revealing a celluloid artificial nose.
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Philip T. Wilcox
College View
Neb
Grenada
China
Boulevard St. Michel
Paris
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Hyree
P. C. Lavey
Muskogee
Indian Territory
Mutual Ea. Co
Central Park West
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Dekalb Ave
Guare
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Allens
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