Prices rise fast and fall slow says dealers
Dealers warn prices climb rapidly while declines lag, noting Defiance Starch remains dominant as a cold water starch. Some say work is hard but not as tough as loai ng. Catarrh of the Bladder and Kidney reportedly treated by Dr David janeau's syrup, famed nationwide for years. Ireland's lunatics under control reach 22 000, up 1 000 in two years. Postage stamps once 15 cents per 1 000 in 1840 now cheaper. Maiden fancies turn to love yet many feel weary and want to lie down. Simmons Sarsaparilla touted as a lifter ending weary feelings. Society women not always brave enough to dive in.
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Simmons’ Sarsaparila
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Advertises Health Cure
An old style ad claims disobeying orders of General Health when sick but offers Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle, permanent cure. It touts superiority to pills and waters, selling at 50c and 1.00 with money back if it fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
St. Petersburg
Hunt
Dr J H Hunter Promotes Home Inhalation Treatment
Dr J H Hunter at 310 Main St Houston offers a new system of scientific specialist treatment for ailments such as catarrh bronchitis asthma and consumption by inhalation to use at home. Champion prize fighters are naturally stunning men.
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Hunter
J. H. Hunter
Main St
Houston
Palmetto Berry Wine Trial Offer Promises Quick Cure
Vernal Remedy Company of Le Roy New York offers a free trial bottle of Ve Palmettona Palmetto Berry Wine claimed as the best specific for quick permanent relief of stomach liver bowel and urinary diseases. One dose a day. Sold by druggists. An old bachelor quips no marriages in heaven.
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Vernal Remedy Company
le Roy
N. Y
Mother Gray
New York
A.S. Olmsted
N.Y
Flunkies in Gaudy Dress at New York Society Events
A New York Press report notes a trend toward extravagant liveries for servants among fashionable families. It cites Silent Smith and Mrs. Jack Astor as leading examples, with footmen in full scarlet dress and blue knee breeches. The Astor household may push attire to British-evoking splendor for events at 840 Fifth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Manhattan
Smith
Fifth Avenue
New York Press
Lawyers in the Hereafter and Local Epitaphs
A collection of witty epitaphs about lawyers including lines claiming an honest lawyer may reach heaven while others question the profession. Anecdotes recount a Boston area character nicknamed Leather Dipper who corrects a boy misnaming him and explains his nickname.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly
Mass
Thomas Thissall
Leather Dipper
Tommy
Essex Street
Romantic seashore rescue led to marriage, Houston Post tale
A couple’s courtship began with a dramatic sea rescue after the wife became stranded on a rock. He noticed her sobbing from his boat and silently approached to offer aid, a risky act that sparked their eventual marriage.
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Houston Post
Uncle in Rogers Park Shares Foraging and Stealing Parable
An antebellum Negro known as Uncle, now in Rogers Park, recalls a Tennessee arrest over stolen chickens. He argues that wartime foraging differed from peacetime theft, recounting how he aided the army by foraging and questions why that is labeled stealing today according to a Chicago Chronicle item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers Park
Illinois
Tennesee
Tennessee
Chicago Chronicle
Burnt-up Keepsakes and a Giant Loving Cup
Orville Sisson laments a fire destroying a rare collection and a friend who wishes, at times, to burn out his own labor of creation. Meanwhile Denver friends gift a western railroad president a seventy five pint silver loving-cup as a grand social token.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Sisson
Denver
Western Railroad
West
Everybody’s Magazine
To Truly Live and the Call to Higher Life
A reflective meditation on living beyond base appetite and wealth. It contrasts living for pleasure and money with being alive to goodness, mind, purity, love, history, poetry, music, nature, God, and eternal hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maltbie D. Babcock
Believed smallest Shetland pony in Britain owned by Blackburn man
A Blackburn man owns a four year old jet black Shetland pony believed to be the smallest in the United Kingdom. The pony stands twenty seven and a half inches high, about half an inch short of seven hands, with a long shaggy coat.
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Blackburn
England
United Kingdom
Save the Bulbs For Outdoor Bloom
A Garden Magazine note advises not discarding bulbs after flowering in windows. Let them ripen thoroughly and store until they can be planted outdoors, then they will bloom again in the garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Garden Magazine
Wildcat Caught in Rosshire to Be Stuffed and Preserved
The Westminster Gazette notes a wildcat trapped in Rosshire, Scotland, will be carefully stuffed. It calls the animal beautifully remarked and stresses the wildcat is more dangerous for game or man than the fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosshire
Scotland
The
Westminster Gazette
Seriousness of Bridge Whist
A reader notes the dramatic atmosphere at a bridge whist club with silent players hunched over cards, claiming the game is a matter of life or death for all participants. The vivid scene underscores the intense concentration and high stakes of the card game.
Perpetual Sabbaths Globally and a Medieval Horned Duke
A Success Magazine note claims Sundays are observed differently worldwide with each nation marking a different weekday as Sunday. It then recounts Robert the Horned, a William Rufus era figure who wore pointed shoes stuffed with tow. London’s Southwark Eel Market is highlighted as a long standing local curiosity over 300 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Success Magazine
London
Southwark
Peruna Called World’s Standard Catarrh Remedy
An advertisement extols Peruna as a universal catarrh remedy praised worldwide from Africa to Greenland. It claims the product cures catarrh by eradicating it and offers permanent care, with testimonials from a user describing full health improvement after two weeks to a month of use.
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Africa
Greenland
Manchuria
Patagonia
Prom
Hawaii
Prince Jonah Kalanianaole
Congress
Washington, D.C
Senor Quesada
United States
Gonzalo de Quesada
Globe
Hartman
Peruna
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women's ailments
A testimonial and advertisement extolling Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a expert remedy for female nervous disorders and general debility. It highlights testimonials from patients and doctors, praises its tonic properties, and urges expectant mothers to use it for health and safer childbirth. Included is a patient letter from Mrs. T B Howden praising the products and a note promoting The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Old Cure for Cold Involves Silk Handkerchief and Mustard Water
A traditional remedy described uses a silk handkerchief wrapped over the head after soaking the feet in mustard water. The method reflects historical folk practices for alleviating cold symptoms.
Oil and humor mix in a stray adv for Hunt's Lightning Oil
A terse ad style piece touts Hunt's Lightning Oil as a remedy for Burns Bruises Sprains Cuts and pains and jokes that a married man has more to pack than a bachelor due to his fewer possessions in a light humorous tone.
Engineering In Montana Ex-City Engineer Praises Remedy
Henry I. McDaniel formerly Atlanta City Engineer now oversees Montana government engineering. He says a terrible cough plagued him until Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein cured it. Advertises 26c, 60c, and 1.00 per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Henry I. McDaniel
Atlanta
Taylor
Coins in Korea Include Many Nickels and Silver Dollars
The currency in Korea consists of nickels and copper coins and silver dollars. At one time twenty six different kinds of nickels were in circulation, most of them spurious.
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Korea
Cure quick for itch and piles fanned by cures and claims
An assortment of ad copy and quotations claiming cures for piles and itch with money back offers. Mentions PAZO OINTMENT and Mother Gray’s Powders with testimonials, plus a note on crime spending in England and a potato proverb.
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Cremo
Salzer
Ohio
Dakota
Acre
Eseda
John A
Res Sed CO
U.S
Standard Ailed Clothing Company
East 152d Street
Cai Tee
David Naneau
Ireland
Bears
Astoria
Lion Coffee
Woolson Spice .O
Toledo, Ohio
John Shaw
William Rufus
Robert the Horned
Gatarah
Australia
Walter H. Woodward
Bomadier
Royal Australian Artillery
Hobart
Tasmania
Earth
BV. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Sam
Doctor Pierce
T. B. Howden
Windsor Avenue
Elmira
Oil and Oil
Argentina
Far East
Fiji
Wales
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Defiance
Defiance Starch CO
Omaha, Neb
Hawaiian Islands
Tower
A. J. Tower CO
Boston
Tower Canadian Co., Limited
Toronto
Canada
Wtery
Southwestern Artists’ Association
Dallas
Texas
McCane
Bryan Mawr Nursery
Waco Conservatory of Music
W. B. Schimmelpfennig
Waco, Tex
Texas Optical Co. i. KF
Cohren
Optical Specialist
R. S
A. B. Lacey
Washington, D. C
Voor
Thompson
W.N. U. Houston
Baars
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