Potato Poison and Simple Health Remedies
The piece warns that unripe or spoiled potatoes contain solanine and are dangerous to eat. It offers various home remedies including charcoal for headaches and stomach gas, wormwood vinegar poultice for bruises, egg white gargle for hoarseness, sugar vinegar for hiccups, a paper over the chest for car sickness, camphor oil and chlorate mix for sore throat, tying a wrap around the temples for headaches, salt to stop bleeding, and vinegar with baking soda to treat warts or corns.
Half Dollar Trial Prompts Pain Relief Story
Mr Ernest King editor of the Fall River Sun discusses his trial of St Jacobs Oil. He suffered rheumatic pains and decided on a half dollar experiment. After using a bottle, the wrenching pain ceased before the bottle was half used, leaving him free from trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest King
Fall River
Mass
Sun
Great saint or myth in the life of a great teacher
The article contrasts revered views of a religious founder with critical, myth-shrouded details. It cites Marco Polo era praise and Bartholomew Saint-Hilaire while asserting that legendary fables illuminate as much as facts about the teacher’s life. It notes a forty year ministry, messages of grace and universal love, and debates over historical accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marco Polo
Jesus Christ
M. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire
Christ
Nairanjara
Ganges
Plato
Convalescent Persons Need Strength After Illness
After a long illness with low fever such as typhoid or malaria a patient feels weak even as health returns. A tonic like Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla can aid recovery. Ask your druggist to obtain it.
Well-Preserved Royalty Across Historic Burials
An Atlantic Constitution excerpt recounts royal corpses preserved in tombs. Napoleon’s remains showed lasting preservation in 1861. Turenne’s body was exhibited after 1793 open tomb. Henry IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Marie de Medicis and others were exhumed with varying states. Dagobert’s tomb revealed a severed head and missing queen’s head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Church of
St. Denis
Paris
Turenne
Henry IV
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
Marie de Medicis
Anne of Austria
Marie Therese
Louis the Dauphin
Louis XVI
Charles VI
Isabella
Bavaria
Dagobert
Nanthilde
Atlania
The Wise Father advises his son on courtship
A worldly father in the Lord Chesterfield style warns his son about flirtations and love. He says to choose a pretty woman if flirting is inevitable, for another man may steal the chance before harm occurs. Also notes that fourteen oysters have as much digestible albumen as one hen's egg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Chesterfield
Seciety
London Post
Money Made on Small Investments by Flemming Merriam
A notice highlights profits and monthly customer payments from Fund W over nineteen months, via Flemming Merriam Commission House. It touts small to medium investments, steady market activity, especially wheat, and offers services for speculative trading and shippers. Offices listed at Market street warehouses and LaSalle street near the Board of Trade. A book agent broke his leg at a Butler camp meeting yet sold three books amid the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fund W
Commission House of Flemming & Merriam
General Commission
Market Street
Board of Trade
LaSalle Street
BOOKE
Butler
Funda
Voice Restored After Tar Syrup Declares Cure
Wisconsin reader reports severe cold and hoarseness cured within a day after using Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup. A Chicago and Northwestern conductor credits the remedy with restoring his voice. the letter praises the product and its rapid, safe relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisona
Minn
C. W. Warren
Chicago and
Northwestern
R. R
Burdock remedies and tonics touted in 19th century ad clutter
A scanned page lists various patent medicines and household products. Burdock decoctions give way to modern tonics like Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya, with other remedies for indigestion, toothache, fever, and rheumatic pain. It also notes fashion, livestock care, and local business ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calisaya
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
Pension and Bounty Claims Service Ad
Notices urge Union soldiers listed as deserters under the Act of August 7 1882 to send stai blanks to Stroppanr Co Washington D C for pension and bounty claims. A quip about age and medicine reflects period humor and推广 for a hair product Carboline is praised as a genuine renovator amid imitators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stai
Stroppanr & Co
G Street
N. W
Washington, D.C
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Chicago
Juppy Tourger
Texan
Texas
Vorratchez Co
Mall, Mich
Missouri
Austin
Mas. A. N. Faang
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Buffalo
Thomas Ecurerarc Om
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
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H. B. Bryant
Chicago Business College
Leanver
Helespont
Howe
Lorden, Selleck & Co
Agente
Spring Tobacco
John Kuhn
Lafayette
Ind
DM. Dewitt C. Kellinger
Ana
PRICE
Geene Ifoster
Milburn & CO
Prop's
N.Y
K. FL. Pond
Aurora
Kone Co
Cian
Gpoders
H. G. Root
Pearl St
New Loris
Dr. Sykes
Catarth
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FR. Sykes
Madison SV
Chicago, Ill
Charleston
Hares Cp Stoam
Power
Oadaress Loomis
RYMAN
Tiffin
Ohio
William C. Digces
Bowling Green
Lane Ballsan
Consumpton
Winstam A. Graham & Co
Drugeiata
Zanesvile
Maratha Freeman
Innuan
Hostetter
Denguiste
W. W. Lawford
Balimore, Md
Chicch
Best Commercial College
J. Baynes
Dubuque, Ia
J. A. Bronnon
Detroit
Mich
Zih' Ponth
Mil & P
Aultman & Taylor CO
Mansfield
St. Cn
K. A. K. Hackett
Wayne, Ind
Muti
Chas, Tabrecht
Empire Novelty House
Vesey St
Mantinez
Aviruloger
Feycbolkigiet
Buekender
Wil
L. Martines
Siwannes Teices
Bendetama
Richardros & Co
Washington St
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Bangor
Paney Aticles
Whitney Court CO
Market St
Ciud
E. Kendall & Co
la Salle St
Curcana
Sunlight
Nettleton & CO
Clark
BES Family
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Meni
of Smal
Sietiary Stucke
Giese
Reece
Lasalle T
Mason & Hamlin
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Wevatny
GHEA
Usthlal
Tanal Atany
Alea
Shyieite
Chalet
Enor
Uhlonia
Moses
Mose Fuhrman
A. Wao
Shaw Vs. Barney
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Smith
Great Britain
Scoland
England
Ireland
Wales
St’d
HULL
Monte Chicuze
T. W. Kennedy
Valentine Brgs
Jancaville, Wis
Natronan Pusisanme Co
R.S
A. P. Lacey
Washington,d.c
Fred
Jera
Aller
N.W. Frizceraup & Co
Washington,dc
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A.reed & Sons
Nica
P. O
T. A. Slocum
Peart
Monarch & Young America Corn & Cob Mills
Aliso Cornewellers
Whitman Agriculturalco
Louis
Cerman Remedy
Jacon
Ita
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
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Omming & Merriam
LaSalle St
Np Cara
W. Firat Week
Flemming & Merriam
Til
Aarita
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