Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Offer Gentler Relief
Old fashioned pills are harsh and draining. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets provide a milder, thorough option that is small, cheap, and easy to take. One granule gently laxatives, three to four act as cathartic, easing sick headache constipation indigestion bilious attacks and liver stomach and bowel disturbances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Becham
Beecham
Thos. Beecham
St. Helens
Lancashire
England
F. Allen CO
Canal St
New York
Brecham
Shilohs Consumption Cure Promised Free Sample Distribution
Advertising circular touts Shilohs Consumption Cure as a historic cough remedy with a positive guarantee. Drugstores offer it with free sample bottles to households in the United States and Canada, claiming relief for coughs sore throats bronchitis croup and whooping cough and urging use for suspected consumption. Also hawks Shilohs Porous Plaster for lung or back pain.
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United States
Canada
Shilom
Shiloh
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lynn
Baby Tricks and Crying Causes Across Care and Comfort
A mix of anecdotes and guidance on infant care contrasts a father’s clever but flawed toy idea with lessons on why babies cry, the role of discomfort, and the need for attentive parenting. The piece shifts to orthopedic advances for bowed legs and notes charity for children’s treatments, then travels to Beyrout’s sightlines and street life, ending with a joke about hot whisky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keeley
Siply
New York News
Modest Posing Rates Highlight Women Artists Scene
A leading New York artist quotes a writer from Illustrated American on studio models who are mostly modest and slow. She notes typical pay is 1 dollar a morning or 33 1/34 cents an hour, with posing periods and rests. She praises form and heroic features while describing two Italian brothers supporting a large family through art modeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Illustrated American
Stomach Bitters Endorsed For Ailing Aged Vigor
Striving to rise with youth and vigor, the aged seek relief from lumbago stiffness and fatigue. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised as a reliable tonic to restore vitality, aid convalescence, and counter kidney and bladder issues, constipation, malaria, dyspepsia, and rheumatism.
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Hostetter
He Had the Glory
A colored man contracted with Captain F M McKinney to repair a house for 25 dollars. The next day the Captain learned the man employed two workers. When asked about their pay he replied that one man earned 10 dollars and the other 15, and that he was the boss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fvat
Dr. Burns
Minn
Pat
Bangor
F. M. McKinney
Various Remedies and Notices From Early 20th Century Ads
A collage of testimonial calls for Hall's Catarrh Cure and other products, including tobacco smoke as a disinfectant, Dr Bull's Worm Destroyers, and Brown's Bronchial Troches. It includes endorsements of J Cheney & Co Toledo and notices about funeral processions, myths about teeth, and a nerve restorer promising cures for fits.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
J. Cheney
Weat & Truax
C. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted as Spring Blood Purifier
Advert claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies blood boosts appetite and nerves. It cites cures for scrofula headaches biliousness dyspepsia and liver kidney issues. Readers share testimonials from Cleveland Baltimore Brooklyn and New York praising yearly spring use and general strength gains.
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Hood
Oxbler
West Cross Street
Baltimore
Piqua
O.K
H. E
Coxaxines
Wightman & Collins
Bolivar Street
Cleveland
Ohio
Odds and Ends Adverts and Humorous Snippets
A collage of old advertisements and brief anecdotes discusses products from Sarsaparilla Bold and Dobbins' Electric Soup to Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. It includes light humor about a London Wild West Show influence on British youth and a fish story from the Crescent City Record, plus miscellaneous lines on marriage, house care, and domestic products.
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London
America
John O’brien
Gravesend
England
Plains
New York
Broadway
Warren Street
Crescent City
Cal
Elk River
Boschee's German Syrup Praised as Wonder Remedy
Advertises Boschee's German Syrup as a unique throat and lung remedy for severe chronic issues. Claims to bring healing, easing, strength, and recovery when ordinary medicines fail and patients feel despair. Encourages use despite skeptical cases and portrays the product as a life-saving discovery.
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Boschee
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N.Y
DR. White
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Scott
Lenox
Beyrout
St. George’s Bay
Bay of
Naples
Lebanon
Bayrout
Morthens
Dr. Bull
John D. Park
Cincinnati
St. Joseph
Chosroes
Constantinople
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Kane
Kling
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ST. Jacobs
Chesebrough Mig. Co
State St. N
Tricycles
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Lynch
Luborg
Suburc Manufacturing CO
Philadelphia
Dept. A
North Sth
ISA
Price
Grugeists
Hazelyine
Warren
Chichester
Anthenr A
Jagnow
Douglaston, L.J
A. J. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mass
Ariel
Johnny
Harper's Bazar
Isang Thompson
Druggistasellit
C. J. Hood & CO
Masa.co
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Louisville
K Ye
N.W
Tutt
Park Place
Europe
the Holy Land
H.gaze & Son
H. Broadway
Bsr
W. L. Douglas
Congress
V. LI. Douglas
Brockton
Ulust
Paris
Cerman Sweet Chocolate
S. German
Dorchester
W. Baker & CO
WALL
Wall Paper Merchant
Alfred Peats
Madison St
Chicago
Popham
Thos
Yopham
Ridge Avenue
Philadm
E.snyder
McVicker’ N Theatre E Ride
Ension
Oln W. Morris
Washington, D
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Washington, D.C
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