Hoofland Remedies Promoted as German Bitters and Tonics
Extensive advertisement details Dr Hooflands German Bitters Pedophyllia and Tonic claiming alcohol free formula with plant extracts. Praises liver digestion benefits and blood purification, promotes two pills per dose and external Greek Oil for pains. Ends with distribution info through Arch Street Philadelphia and agents nationwide.
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United States
Canadas
South America
Weat Indica
Helmbold Catawba Grape Pills advertised remedy
An 19th century advertisement touts H. T. Helmbold s Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills as a pure vegetable laxative for liver complaints jaundice bilious affections and headaches. Claims include no mercury minerals or deleterious drugs and notes the pills are not sugar coated and pass through the stomach without dissolving yet provide tonic energizing effects.
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H. T. Helmbold
Helmbold Will Aims to Expel All Diseases From Body
Henry T. Helmbold declares a will that promises radical cures, claiming to eradicate scrofula, syphilis, fever sores, ulcers, sore eyes, bronchitis, skin diseases, salt rheum, cankers, runnels from the ear, white swellings, tumors, cancerous affections, glandular swellings, night sweats, rashes, tetter, humors, chronic rheumatism, and many long standing maladies.
Blood Purifying Remedy Claims Superior Purity and Healing
The preparation boasts blood purifying properties surpassing all others and promises a clear complexion and restored health. It is presented as capable of curing chronic constitutional diseases from impurities in the blood and claims to be an effective remedy for pains and swelling of bones, throat and leg ulcers, blotches, pimples, erysipelas, and all skin eruptions while beautifying the skin.
Helmbold's Extract Buchu Promises Cure for Urinary Ailments
A vintage medical advertisement asserts Helmbold's Extract Buchu cures numerous urinary and prostate conditions including diabetes related issues, bladder and kidney inflammation, stone, and discharges. It markets broad efficacy for both sexes, claiming safety, low cost, minimal diet changes, and no exposure while boosting urine flow and relieving pain. It targets broadly aged patients and cites physician use.
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HH. T. Helmbold
Helmbold Rosewash Promises Skin Purity and Health
H. T. Helmbold declares his improved Rosewash cannot be surpassed as a face wash and claims it cures pimples spots scorbutic dryness inflamed cutaneous membranes and hives rash moth patches dry scalp or skin frost bites and other uses of salves or ointments, restoring purity and softness and promoting healthy tissue action for clear complexion.
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H. T. Helmbold
Helmbold’s Genuine Preparations advertised nationwide
Henry T. Helmbold announces full and explicit directions for his medicines delivered to any address. The notice asserts over twenty years of established practice and warns to beware of counterfeits. Address details include No 594 Broadway New York and 104 South Tenth Street Philadelphia.
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Henry T. Helmbold
H. T. Helmbold
Drug and Chemical
Broadway
New York
South Tenth Street
Philadelphia
Rates and rules and fruit tree notes in The Register
The Register lists subscription prices in advance and changes for delayed payment, plus advertising rates for various column lengths and durations. It then offers practical fruit tree tips, pruning cautions, and remarks on plum curculio, pear blight, and tree care before praising a traveling circus and Hyatt Frost's enterprise as a forward force in the country.
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R.sseer Seerertve
Van Amburghs Circus Comes to the West
The note proclaims Van Amburghs a comin with Frosts Circus and a French act in one tent. It promises a grand show led by Ravel Zanfretta and infant acts, featuring clowns Foster and Gibbs, music, procession, and a large troupe of women, children, and men on their first West visit, with enthusiastic signs like Red hot and Stand from under.
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Ravel Zanfretta
Foster
Gibbs
Sheep-herder's delight and boy vaulter hailed in Colorado
A Colorado saloon keeper recalls poisoning joke drink named sheep-herder's delight used to quiet rowdy patrons. Willie O'Dale, son of the famed vaulter Wm. O'Dale, is showcased as the arena's youngest great bareback performer in Frost's American Circus, making his public debut.
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Gee
Willie O'Dale
Wm. O'Dale
Young O’dale
Frost
Modest for a Beginner in Titusville Oil Field
The Titusville Herald reports a young oil operator new to the field asked whether to drill a large or small well and the veteran boss driller advised a hundred-barrel well as the current standard. Charles It. Lowry, the Great American Bare-Back Hurdle Rider, is linked with Frost's American Circus and noted for fearless yet successful performances.
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Penn
Herald
Rouseville
Sae
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Frost
Lowry
Mr. L
Salt and Chills Remedy Promoted in Cleveland Herald
The Cleveland Herald runs a brief editorial praising a simple salt remedy for chills. A teaspoonful in water and another in each stocking near the foot allegedly cures chills, claimed as a proven, humbug-free remedy. The piece also notes the Van Amburgh Company’s fiftieth anniversary as animal exhibitors since 1821 with European tours, urging readers not to miss this season’s show.
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Cleveland Herald
van Amburgh Company
Europe
Marital debt rights proposed in New Hampshire draft
The Select Committee reports a draft denying husbands liability for wives pre marriage debts and enforcing wives and their property to pay all debts, whether before or after marriage. The bill is on its second reading. The report also notes the arrival of the French Circus of Mons Seigrist in the United States in 1870, describing its acts and dog troupe.
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New Hampshire
Select Committee
Oddities and Endorsements From A Louisiana Dispatch
A Lou isiana correspondent describes Chinese coolies as cleaner than negro laborers, noting daily scalding wash routines and slower work rate. The report praises Van Amburgh & Co. endorsements, Horace W. Nichols as director, and highlights acts including Trick Mule Mungo Park and the Shetland pony January in a 1871 campaign show.
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Louisiana
Horace W. Nichols
van Amburgh
Mungo Park
Husbands and Nabits and Home Discipline Reflections
A dated essay contrasts affectionate and distant husband behaviors, noting how morning farewells and kindness shape a happy home. It cites Dr. Spooner on the value of kindness, attention, and politeness by husbands, then shifts to a child’s view of a show scene describing a barber shop misidentified as a zoo.
Invention at the South and a Portable Hotel Scene
The South adapts farming implements after emancipation with patent office records rising to about 30 percent of filings from former slave states. Cotton yields improve under new methods. Van Amburgh & Co. promote a Portable Hotel named Hotel de Frost and groom 140 of 150 horses amid a Canvas City setup. Seigrist's Great French Circus showcases Arilla the fairy on horseback with high grace. If visitor trends hold, over 650000 spectators will have seen the season by now. Subscribe for the Register.
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Baltimore Sum
South
Patent Office
Gas van Amburgh & Co
van Amburgh & Co
A Plea for Those Who Sleep in the Morning
The article argues that modern life demands longer waking hours and shorter sleep, noting six hours suffices for manual laborers but harms those with mental labor. It recommends later bedtimes and extended morning rest, asserting the brain tired from mental work needs delayed and longer sleep to recover.
Executions in Cuba Rise to 5908 by 1871
A New York refugee who traced Havana archives lists 1828 Cuban executions from October 10 1868 to January 1 1871 and 2730 sentenced or captured with death risk, totaling 4258 by 1871. Havana papers add 1350 more this year, claiming 5908 executed in Cuba for freedom efforts.
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Cuba
New York
Havana
Spain
A Fine Field for Yachting
A seaworthy steamer can depart Chicago and sail 30 hours without land. After passing the Straits of Mackinaw and entering Lake Superior, two more days may pass before reaching Superior City or Duluth. The Buffalo to Chicago lake voyage is 1000 miles and Buffalo to Duluth 1100 miles, about three fifths of Newfoundland to Ireland.
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Chicago
Straits of Mackinaw
Lake Superior
Superior City
Duluth
Buffalo
Newfoundland
Ireland
Pudding theft on steamer sparks a desert dinner remark
A gentleman aboard a steamer was seen taking a large pudding at dinner. When told it was dessert he replied it matters not to him, he would eat it even in a wilderness. The exchange echoes comments about battered thunder and greased lightning.
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Sar
Population of Utah Doubled Since January
The population of Utah has nearly doubled since January first, due to discoveries in districts near Salt Lake of rich silver quartz veins. Some veins yield as high as $1,000 per ton, attracting mining activity and expansion.
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Utah
Salt Lake
Tiny Manchester birth stuns with two ounce infant
A severely underweight baby born in Manchester VI weighed only two ounces yet was described as perfectly formed and expected to survive. The child’s face could be hidden by a cent and a ring could be worn on its arm as hopes for life remain. Meanwhile the Earl of Elenborough has drawn forty thousand dollars annually for seventy one years in a clerical role he did not perform.
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Snow Forks
van Amburgh
Eldorado
Charlie Stroffer
Eddie Nelson
Eddie
Charlie
Osburn
Manchester
Sax
Earl of Elenborough
Court of the Queen's Bench
England
Marriage Question Sparks Family Dispute In Old Kentucky Text
Fragment from a 19th century Kentucky item shows a wedding scene where a groom’s choice clashes with family wishes. A remark about a pipe from an Indian mound in Maysville is noted, alongside a tale of a horse named Leviathan that died after a high price offer was refused.
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Maysville
Kentucky
Connecticut
Leviathan
Fred Douglas signals retirement from public life
The remark notes Fred Douglas following Colfax in plans to retire from public life. It states only one coagulation remains and clarifies that Douglas does not threaten to engage in any manufacturing activity.
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Fred Douglas
Mr. Colfax
Fred
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