Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed in Sufferer's Letter
A Gardiner Maine woman reports relief from organic troubles and female weakness after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for three months. She cautions against surgical operation and cites Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts inviting sick women to seek free advice.
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Gardiner
Maine
Lydia E. Pinkham
United States
Two Women Chats and Vintage Ads
A collection of quick dialogue snippets and ad blurbs from a bygone issue. It includes playful exchanges about catching fast young men, a tip for headaches with Hicks Capuchine, and a promotion for WRIGLEY’S SPEARMINT gum. It also notes Prussia employing nearly 20 000 brick women workers and ends with a proverb on gendered conflicts.
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Prussia
Cowboy in Cabinet: Ballinger’s Frontier Cowboy Days
Richard A Ballinger, later secretary of the interior, recalls his Kansas plains years as a cowboy 1873 1876. He describes near fatal spill from a bronco at Spring Creek and studies Latin Greek while riding seven miles weekly to Fort Larned.
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Washington
Richard A. Ballinger
General Land Office
Seattle
Taft
Judge Ballinger
Kansas
James R. Garfield
Virden
Ill
Larned
Kan
Board of Commissioners
Fort Larned
State University of Kansas
Washington College
Topeka
Washburn
Young Ballinger
John J. Ingalls
Williams College
Young Garfield
Ballinger
Corning Judd
Chicago
Kankakee
Decatur
Ala
An Interesting Paint Test and White Lead Purity
A simple chemical test detects impurity in paint materials and guards against adulterated white lead. Nationwide use prompts readers to request National Lead Company’s House Owner's Painting Outfit No 49 from the 1902 Trinity Building New York, guaranteeing purity with the Dutch Roy Painter trademark.
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National Lead Company
Trinity
New York
Rational Lead Company
Trinity Building
Doctor Demands Payment After Curing Mrs Tooter
In a sharp exchange a character vows to bill Mrs Tooter after claiming to cure her, while the other retorts that such treatment would end a lucrative income source and provoke nervous prostration.
Cure of Eczema After Cuticura Regimen Prompts 1908 Testimony
Seventy seven year old man from Mount Kisco New York describes six months of intense itching and sleepless nights. After twenty four hours with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept soundly and claims cure in a month. Also features a Shiloh battlefield memorial church plan and a Grape Nuts testimonial.
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W. Harrison Smith
Mt. Kisco
N. Y
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Public Statement on Doan's Kidney Pills by County Treasurer
A. A. Perkins of Granbury Hood County Texas testified that a fall injured his kidneys caused chronic back and kidney troubles. After using Doan's Kidney Pills he reports lasting relief and confirms his earlier public recommendation. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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A. A. Perkins
Granbury
Hood Co
Texas
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
In Praise of the Country
The Columbia State urges rural households to view farming and small-town enterprise as steady paths to independence. It argues steady work builds capital, improves living conditions, and creates a lasting inheritance for children while offering cultural and artistic pleasures similar to city life.
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Connemara
Ireland
Columbia
Conversational Exchange on Money and Kissing
Hewitt confesses trouble with money while Jewitt suggests women use different methods to obtain funds. He mentions his wife kisses him when she wants any.
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Hewitt
Jewitt
Eye Salve and Foot Ease Advertisements and Witty Quote
A historical clippings bundle advertises Mitchells Eye Salve as harmless with relief for eyelids priced at 25 cents and Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for swollen feet and bunions available at druggists and shoe stores. It ends with a joke about punishing love with marriage and a brief author quote.
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Mitchell
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
A Cure for Fits and Various Health Advertisements
Page compiles multiple short items: testimonials for a cure claiming cure of fits and nervousness with mail offers from Dr. May Laboratory New York. a city railway incident report. eye remedy claims for Murine and marine eye drops. a Paris fat recruit note. Hall's Catarrh Cure sponsorship. a claim of the world’s oldest man from 1770 birth. various Rough on products pest remedies. and a coal company tip.
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Dr. May
Pearl Street
New York City
Murine Ceomedy Co
Chicago
Hicks Capudine promoted for colds and grippe relief
Hicks Capudine advertised as the best remedy for Gripp and Colds. Claims to relieve aching feverishness and headaches and to cure the cold with liquid effects. Sold at drug stores in bottles from 10, 2 percent and 50 cents.
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Cardus
Marwell Johnson
Tampa
Fla
Cardui
Wrigley’s Spearmint and Sore Eyes Advertisements
A collage of early 20th century ad copy and quotes selling WRIGLEY’S SPEARMINT gum and SPEAR MINT claims plus health and household products. Includes mock dialogues on coal prices and digestion remedies, Garfield Tea promotion, Pettit’s Salve, and generic proverbs.
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Wrigley’s Spearmint
Wrigley
Ridney
Carters
LODCC
Houston Typewriter Exchange
Prairie Avenue
Houston
Texee
McIntosh
Etrical
Canada
Hastings & McIntosh Truss CO
Walnut St
Philadelphia
Khown the
McCane’s Detective Agency
Int
Consumers Lumber Co
Cowboy
Garfield
Eczema
Elzena
Shiloh
Wellville
City Railway
Helfer
Third and
Jersey Streets
Edward Howell
Dayton
Columbus Dispatch
Paris
Corbell
M. Laverdit
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cuzary & Co
Hall
A. L
A. W. Gleason
F. J. Cheney &O
Toledo
Jose Gaadaloupe Abud
Jalestitlan
Jalisco
Mexico
Wells
Chesion Tersey
Ag Rt
Samuel Pitcher
Bears
The
Centaur Company
Fooda
Castoria
Wrigley’s
Thompson
Blood BA Co
Atlanta
Houston Optical CO
Houston, Texas
Hooper
Hooper Medicine CO
Dallas
Jersey City
N. J
Swift
Nature
Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
Pettit
Race Bros
Buffalo, I
Wrigley's Spear
Cascarets
Spohn
Spahn Medical Co
Goshen
Ind
U.S.A