Letter praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs Laura Emmons of Walker shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian troubles. She reports long suffering and discharge, then relief within weeks, avoiding an operation and regaining health. She urges other women to try the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Laura Emmons
Walker
Laura Brerk Couesan
Commercial Hotel
Nashville
Tenn
Woather
Bright's disease victims age 45 and under
An old advertisement fragment notes only 16 in 100 Bright's disease victims are under 45 and promotes remedies including Hunt's Cure for eczema and Defiance Starch. It mentions farm seed catalogs from John A. Salter Seed Co. and various agricultural products. The text blends medical claims with vendor pitches and propagates several products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
Nothing More Dangerous Than a Neglected Cough
Dr J F Hammond of Eclectic Medical College warns a cough is dangerous and endorses Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein as preventive and curative. Sold by druggists at 25c 50c and 1.00 a bottle. The piece notes a Japanese belief that trees have souls to curb timber devastation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Hammond
Eclectic Medical College
Taylor
Editor Man's Woes Amid Illness At Home
The writer describes a house besieged by illness with a townwide cold and influenza outbreak. The account details caring for sick children, especially a three year old daughter named Viola, and the emotional toll, fevers, and repeated doses of medicine, ending with a reflection on parental duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola
Jay
The Hero in Blue Dedicated to Hibernian Speige
Poem extols Sammy as a heroic American soldier, praising his courage and fighting skill across battles from Arizona to Cuba. The piece, attributed to James B. Kinsella of Chicago, celebrates the National Guard, Roosevelt era rough riders, and the Stars and Stripes with vivid wartime imagery.
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Hibernian Speige Seventh National Guard
Chicago
Ilinois
Sammy
Arizona
Acress
Kentucky
Rudyard Kipling
Tommy Atkins
Sammy Starsandstripes
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt
Stout Dewey
Plains of Winoy
Sam
Alice
James B. Kinsella
Code Message Reveals Pancake Clue Across Atlantic
A Chicago brokerage firm puzzles over a cryptic cablegram from its senior partner abroad. After hours of ciphering, the junior partner deciphers a plain note about pancakes in Norway, revealing a summer in Europe and a planned visit to the best pancake stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wisconsin
Norway
Europe
Monks of Solovetski Monastery Lead Busy Self Sufficient Life
The Solovetski Monastery on a remote island near Archangel Russia runs its own dockyard roads and churches. Abbot wages a strict rule as monks, numbering two to three hundred, farm manufacture and sell goods in Archangel to aid the poor. Pilgrims travel twelve hours by steamer built and sailed by the monks who provide lodging and fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solovetski Monastery
Archangel
Russia
Solovetski
Generals Endorse Peruna as Tonic for Catarrh and Colds
A parade of military figures from Washington to Florida writes praise for Peruna the catarrh remedy. Generals King Smalls Abbott Schell Duffield O Beirne Chase Payne Talley Lomax Wright Hawley Urell and others vouch for its tonic strength and curative claims.
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King
J. Floyd King
Washington, D. C
General Abbott
Ira C. Abbott
Yarnell
Washington, D.C
W. G. Yarnell
Lincoln Street
N. E
James Longstreet
Gainesville, Ga
St. N. W
Washington, D
Schell
F. M. Schell
Duffield
Cairo
Powell
Hecker
W. H. Powell
Belleville, Ill
Sebring
W. H. Sebring
W. 4Th St
Jacksonville, Fla
General Lomax
L. L. Lomax
19Th St
Payne
Eugene B. Payne
4Th St
N. W
General Talley
Vol
U.S. A
Wm. Cooper Talley
C St
S. S. Yoder
Ohio
S. &. Yoder
Wright
Marcus Wright
Corcoran St
Hawley
A. F. Hawley
Urell
M. Emmet Urell
12Th St. N. W
Sports Afield March issue praised for nature and frontier life writing
The passage lauds Sports Afield March issue with a spring poem The Flight of the Cranes and a Dr H S Garfield frontier life sketch. It also advertises subscriptions and price 15 cents plus mentions other articles and notices.
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H. 8. Garfield
Oregon
Dearborn St
Chicago
Defiance Starch stock prompts selective selling claim
Some grocers refuse to reorder De fiance Starch after holding 12 16 oz Defiance Starch packs. They say customers who have used the 16 oz package won’t buy more at the same price. The piece opines that attractiveness reduces other men’s usefulness and defines optimism as bragging about bad luck.
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Nebraska Clothing CO
Kansas City
George E. Scott
Bothol
N. Mox
H. H. Green
GOD Box
Qower
Thera Boih
Garth Hanmstenstsae
N. P. Boyer & CO
Coatesville, Pa
Ww. N. U. Houston
Caldwell
Pepsin
Pepsin Syrup CO
Monticello
Til
P. C. Keever
Aberdeen
Miss
Hunt
George ‘Francis Train
Victoria
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Charm
Merit
Japan
Vale of Lotus
Anrest
Byron Williams
Hudson
Hudsonite
The
Hero In
Yazoura
County A
Wyoming
Plains
Bleeding
Kansas
Peake
Monterey
Nebraska
Georgia
Maine
Peruna
General Smalls
Beaufort, D. C
Robert Smalls
General McBride
J. D. McBride
Pennsylvania Ave
General Longstreet
General Noake
Erwin
John B. Erwin
General Butler
South Carolina
M. C. Butler
Kirby
D. T. Kirby
Bigelow
J. G. Bigelow
O’beirne
James R. O'Beirne
Broadway
Gen. Chase
Ass’t Adj
G. A. Rg
B. F Chase
Harrison St
Anacostia
D. C
General O'Connor
U. S
Dennis O'Connor
S2nd St
Washington
Cook
Sypher
Middleton
Hancock
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Southern Pacific
Louisiana
Texas
California
Pacific Coast
T. J. Anderson
Houston
F. EB. Batters
Gsiands
Earth
T. J. Brownlow
Livingston, Tenn
Defiance
United States
Stewart
Taro Street
Chicanes
Chienge Flexible Shaft Company
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
W.l.douglas
Brockton
Mass
Boston
B. Paxton CO
Pope Bldg
Laderson
W. Madison St
Alcer
Eatale
Ton Fingel
Lan Petis
Acre
Ty J
Mont. Co
Richard Bu
Peg
J Hambkm
Jesen Sebeisel
Ogeman
J. Wy Massey
Crockett Om
Armerice
Merle
Aste
Ontario Street
St. Jacobs Oil
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