Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Minnesota Woman
Miss Alice M Surrn of South Minneapolis testifies the medicine cured two years of monthly pain with two bottles. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief and renewed energy and notes ongoing use during fatigue. The Minneapolis Study Club chair urges genuineness of letters published in paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice M. Smith
Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia
Dean Mus. Prixham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Motormen Veil Tradition Tied to Wives in New York
A fragment notes that many New York motormen and women wear veils similar to those worn by wives of workers. The passage suggests a shared cultural practice among the workers and their spouses, reflecting social signaling within the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
No, Your Teeth Look Yellow Yellowed Lines
The excerpt notes a strange line about yellow teeth and a starch product costing ten cents. It then mentions a Russian official organ in St Petersburg with a long name for newspapers, called Pranitelsvyini Viest nik.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reussian
St. Petersburg
Pranitelsvyini Viest. Nik
Defiance Starch and other patent remedies fill pages
A jumble of ads tout Defiance Starch 16 oz for same money 10 cents and 4 oz more, plus multiple cures and products. Mentions Defiance Starch as best, Pills, Pas Cherokee Remedy, Salzer seeds, McCane detectives, and various claims from 1900s commerce pages. Includes testimonials and rail/agricultural notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance
Alarm over power tapping by manufacturers
A local paper notes alarm at manufacturers tapping river falls for electric power. The article mixes short anecdotes on culture and travel, including a tale of a miserly will, a Russian farewell, and a Victorian cross holder in Massachusetts. It also references an encyclopedia in New York, health ads for Dodd's Kidney Pills, Icebergs, and a catarrh cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
New York
A.S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Waa
Beceny
Hall
F. J Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F.J. Cheney & CO
Tyler College lets you train for bank and civil service work
A collage of notices offers salaries from 65 to 125 dollars monthly for a year long business and shorthand course at Tyler College in Tyler Texas with pathways to bank mercantile railroad and Civil Service jobs. Also includes product ads on Defiance Starch and brief curiosities about lakes, banks and printing history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler College
Tyler
Texas
Civil Service
T J Hartwan
Peruna
Manalin
John O. Atkinson
Doan's Kidney Pills Parade Cure Claims
Eight years of kidney trouble and torture fade after using Doan's Kidney Pills, according to Henry Soule of Pultney, New York. He reports relief from gravel symptoms, sleep loss, and poor digestion, endorsing the product and its price of 60 cents. The ad promotes free trials from Foster Milburn Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Henry Soule
Pultney
Hammondsport
N. Y
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Vague Illusory Wishes From Tales of Mazing
Fragmentary dialogue shows Ted and Ned Lou imagining wishes and grand fates. Ted dreams of travel, marriage to wealth, and royal company while pursuing a singing career. The text reads like a whimsical, incomplete verse with garbled lines and missing context.
Lantern Light Echoes and Potpourri of Verse
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century miscellany features verses and vignettes. It includes lines about Diogenes and a moonlit veranda scene with a weather forecaster, comic poems like Little Miss Huffet, and moralistic rhymes on wealth and joy. The piece also mentions an old Boston paper noting frogs limbs and a lighthearted dialogue about clouds.
Servian Army Drummers Ride On Dog Drawn Carts
A curious method from Servia uses a two wheeled cart pulled by a trained dog to move the big drum. The drummer stands behind the cart and plays as the animal pulls it along through long marches. Also mentions a Chilean ichiyo sarus discovery and seventeen American mining engineers in the Himalayas, and notes on spaniel origins from Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Servia
Grape-Nuts Promoted by Doctors for Health Gains
A physician credits Grape-Nuts with restoring health and adding 36 pounds after a period of weight loss. He notes patients, relatives, and coworkers benefiting from the product, highlighting its sustaining power and the experience of a section hand who eats only Grape-Nuts before lunch. The ad urges a 10 day trial and references The Kellogg Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Valley
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Modern Jack and a Measure of Sympathy
A fragmented verse piece discusses Jack Horner in a corner with roast braten pie and a midnight metaphor of a hammock Hag. It muses on sympathy over success, poetry, Homer, and themes of virtue as blessing and curse within a fleeting, chaotic voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Horner
Jackson
Southern Pacific Low Cost One Way Tickets to California
The Southern Pacific offers daily low colonist one way tickets from Louisiana and Texas to California from March 1 to April 30 inclusive. The fare aims at men of limited means, with free reclining chair cars and Pullman tourist sleepers across the route. Inquiries to nearest agent or to T. J. Anderson Houston or F. E. Batters New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Pacific
Louisiana
Texas
California
Pacific Coast
T. J. Anderson
Houston
F. E. Batturs
True St Louis World's Fair Line promotion reaches Texas
I and GN to St Louis 1904 promotes the I and G N route saving miles minutes and money from Texas with the 4 to 8 hour quickest trip. Includes Allen's Foot Ease ad and a rural saying about strength and beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Texas
D. J. Price
L. Price
Gen’l Magr
Texas Road
Palestine
Central and Southern Railroad Colonist Tickets to California
Promote rail travel to California with round trip sleeper service and $25 tickets on sale March 1 to April 30. Information available from local agents M L Robbins G P A or Wm Doherty A G P A in Houston Texas.ads reflect era style and social commentary within the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
M. L. Robbins
Wm. Doherty
Houston
Texas
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Pepsin Syrup CO
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Ill
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Douglas
Corona Ame Wells
W.l.douglas
Brockton
Masa
John A.salzer
Cola Crosse
Cies
Box
Atlanta, Ga
France
England
Africa
United States
Joan F Bork
Trinity Springs
Ind
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Tex
Putnam
Switzerland
Crovur
Philippine Islands
McCane’s Detective Agency
Texas and Pacific Railway
E.P. Turner
Dallas
Oregon
Russia
Salzer
Corn
Victoria
Farmer
R Jobs A. Salzer Seed Co
India
Stoughton
Mass
William Seeley
Simoneski
Japan
New York City
West Pembroke
A. L. Smith
Dodd
Mrs
Arctic
Antarctic
Cameroons
West Africa
Museum
Hamburg
Ld Nile
Sugmer
British Museum
China
Guttenberg
Spain
Ted
Ned
Byron
Illiams
Diogenes
Miss Huffet
Miss
Warovitch
Aesop
Thomas
Boston
Universty
Chile
Himalayas
Wrg
Atkinson
Independence
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus, O
Waterlooe
Reliable
Saraptan CO
Jack
Burton
Hiawatha
George E. Scott
Bethel
N. Mox
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
R. S
A. B. Lacey
Washington, D. C
Bond
Boyer &Co
Jontenville
W. H. Anderson
W. Madison St
Bomicredith Thompson
Eye
W. N. A. Houston
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