Cure For The Blues Promises Relief For Nervous Women
An article promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female distress. It recounts a Louisville woman's recovery from dyspepsia anxiety and melancholy and urges others to write Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Rosa Adams
12Th Street
Louisville
Genberal Roger Hanson
C.S.A
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Etiology of stuttering and early 1900s medical ads
The excerpt discusses stuttering causes including rare direct inheritance, imitation, neurotic family history, and adenoid vegetations. It notes external shocks and illness, and mentions a stuttering nursemaid and a groom as sources of imitation, with a 1906 Lancet citation. The text also includes an ad for Ward’s Kidney Pills and a crude regional anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Put
Charecot
The Woman as Nourisher of the Human Race
A reflective piece on women's fatigue from daily meal preparation. It argues feeding men is the central, heroic labor of women, linking domestic duty to broader cultural roles and urging acknowledgment of women's endless kitchen toil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Pendenys
Household Hints on Cooking and Care from a Past Era
Practical tips cover bacon fat usage for pastry, lamp clearing with camphor, reviving crushed velvet by steaming, cleaning cake tins by boiling, and laundry steps for a new blanket to remove bleaching sulfur.
Miss Lillian Russell’s Celebrated Between Meal Delicacy
Miss Lillian Russell is credited with a unique and tasty between meal delicacy. The dish mixes equal portions of cold boiled chicken and tongue with olives and hard boiled eggs, chopped fine and blended with mayonnaise to form a paste for spreading on buttered bread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Russell
Tenderizing steak with oil and quick broil method
The method instructs rubbing a steak with olive oil to avoid bruising, letting it rest about an hour, then broiling quickly for thorough searing. After broiling, raise the broiler to slow the heat so juices stay inside, and finish with a butter and vinegar gravy poured over the hot steak. Lemon juice can replace vinegar if preferred.
Carpet remnants into beautiful rugs in home crafts
After a house cleaning a wife confronts a heap of old carpeting in various grades. The article notes these materials can be transformed into attractive rugs. It describes mixing different types to create surprising, pleasing results.
Postmen as Debt Collectors in Austria
A debt collecting agency run by the postal system has been introduced in Austria. The scheme, though new, operates effectively with postmen collecting thousands of debts annually across the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office of
Austria
Austrian Empire
McCane’s Detective Agency
Houston
Texas
South
Australia Holds Vast Unexplored Territory
Australia remains the continent with the highest proportion of unexplored land relative to its size, suggesting extensive areas yet to be charted or studied compared with other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Doan's Kidney Pills Cited By Suffolk Publisher
J D Daughtrey of Suffolk Virginia credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing years of kidney trouble and gravel passing about 2 percent pounds of gravel and sediment in urine. He keeps a box of 14 stones as proof and calls the pills a fine kidney tonic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Daughtrey
Suffolk
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
The House That Baker Built Chapter L
The Spaniards found chocolate in use among Mexicans in 1519 after Cortez and it spread to Spain and England. Chocolate first made in the United States in 1765 with a Dorchester plant later owned by the Baker family from 1780. Baker Company uses more crude pine in its products than any other firm and has held the market for 126 years with high quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortez
Spain
England
Dorchester
Mass
Baker
Baker Company
Water as a germ habitat in epidemics, Dr Malmejac notes
The article summarizes experiments from 1885 to today on Eberth's bacillus typhus and its survival in sterilized water. It concludes water acts as a true environment for germs, not just a conduit, with pathogens potentially persisting long enough to spark epidemics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revue Scientifique
Malmejac
Eberth
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Pauperism Trend
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a reward offer and endorsements from Toledo druggists. The piece also notes British Isles indoor pauperism rising since 1900 with costs per head up from 65 to 90 dollars and higher workhouse maintenance costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
British Isles
England
Wales
Demand for Hunt's Lightning Oil Surges in Michigan
A Lenawee Junction resident G. H. Jones appeals for two dozen Hunt's Lightning Oil in 25 cent size by express, claiming it essential to keep house in September 1906. A Liverpool surgeon Robert Jones recounts a cocaine influenced poaching tale from a patient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunt
G. H. Jones
Lenawee Junction
Mich
Robert Jones
Liverpool
Do You Itch and Other Odd Notices From The Paper
An assortment of short items references imitative Swann dyes for clothing, religious giving linked to dollars, and a medical claim about a cure for itching. It also notes Chinese workers sending home an estimated 50 million dollars annually.
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Mrs
Garden City
J.L. Ward Medicine Co
Biz Springs
Evere
A. C. Walker
P. S
Ward
J.L
Ward Medicine CO
Big Springs
Bunkum
Puck
Sciatica
ST. Jacobs Oil
Bayman
Edward
Bebo
Imitaty Swann
Iit
Naan
H.& KR
Harrington & Richardson Arms CO
Park Ave
Worcester
California Fig Syrup Co
United States
Agetylene
Imperial Wind Mills
Necco & Esemann CO
Thompson
Kamalapuram
India
W. M. Christian
Rutherford, Tenn
Schopenhauer
Leduc 2
W. L. Douglas
W.l.douglas
Brockton
W.L. Douglas
Dept. 12
Mase
Cardusoman
J. F. W. Metzler
Rosehill, Tex
Tanoogaedicine Co
Ghatsansognenn
Colby
State Pharmaceutical Association
The
Texas Retail Druggists Association
Houston Laboratories
P. S. Tilson
Main
R. I Walker
Texas State Pharmaceutical Association
Gonzales
Tilson
Main Street
R. H. Walker
Lady Minto
Countess of Minto
Victorian Order of Nurses
Canada
Lord Curzon
Success
Woman's Home Companion
Success Magazine
Washington Sq. ER
New York City
A. H. Hess & CO
Buchan
Uchan
Keene
Carbolic Soap’ CO
K. 24Th St. N
Wintersmith
Arthur Peter & CO
Louleville
Lifievurait
Tel Ita
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