Judge Thayer rules against Bruggeman in Hostetter case
United States Circuit Court Judge Thayer in St Louis grants a perpetual injunction in Hostetter Company versus Bruggeman Reinert Distilling Company alias Gold Spring Distilling Company. The ruling bars advertising or selling stomach bitters under any form using the Hostetter name except for genuine bottled bitters, and bans bulk sales or misleading use of empty Hostetter bottles. The decision upholds Hostetter’s ownership of the trade name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayer
United States Circuit Court At
St. Louis
Hostetter Company
Bruggeman Reinert Distilling Company
Gold Spring Instilling Company
Hostetter
Topeka Wink Tale and Panacea Ads Echo Late Night Clubbing
A Topeka crowd recalls a wink joke at a club with a Nausas City visitor, then shifts to health and tonics. An early 20th century stream of promotional lines tout Dr White's Dandelion and Lydia E Pinkham's Compound, plus Piso's Cure for Consumption, with terse moral quips about religion and understanding.
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Topeka
Kan
Nausas City
Apollinaris
Journey Through the Bank of England Vaults Described
An English tour inside the Bank of England vaults reveals vast sums of notes and gold, with 77 745 000 notes amounting to £1 750 000 000 in value, stored in iron safe-lined rooms. Guards patrol nightly, while the narrator laments the overwhelming wealth and atmosphere, describing corridors of stacked notes and the impressive scale of the vaults.
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London
New York Herald
Latern
Fawkes
Hyde Park
Bank of England
The Farm in Finland: An Inside Look at Rural Life
The piece surveys Finnish farms from Satskunta to Ostrobothnia, detailing one storybook home with outbuildings and drying bread, the hard, stone-strewn fields, and the Finns enduring solitude. It notes simple diets, bath practices, and a culture favoring quiet, religion, and self-reliance shaped by history of famine and war.
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Finland
Satskunta
Savolaks
Ostrobothnia
Lapps
Iceland
Thoreau
Chicago
Parker
Elliott
St. Lewis Globe-Democrat
Sail in a Gulf cyclone tests Saratoga crew resolve
Prof John Sewall recounts the Saratoga fighting a cyclone off Tonquin near the Paracels reef lane. The ship hoes to sea on port tack then swirls to starboard as crew brace under bare poles. Men form a windward mass in rigging while the vessel rights before a safe departure and the storm ebbs.
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John 8. Sewall
Gulf of Tonquin
Paracels
Waring
Saratoga
Turkish Dinner On Washington Street Described In New York Recorder
A Turkish restaurant on Washington Street offers an exotic dining experience with Arabic Turkish speaking staff and ornate decor. The meal features a raki welcome, varied sweet meats, pilau with rich gravy and rice, lentil dishes, strong tea or coffee, and narghili pipes, ending with wine in a setting described as fattening and lazy yet culturally immersive.
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Washington Street
New York Recorder
Rahat Jakhoom
Foz Helva
Family Remedy Syrup of Figs Promoted for Gentle Relief
The ad extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting laxative with gentle action and soothing effects. It claims it provides gratifying results for constipated fathers or mothers and asserts it is the best family remedy and that every family should own a bottle.
Debating Dueling Law in Mexican Journals
A fragment survey shows Mexican journals debating legalizing dueling with judge mediated challenges and default judgments. The piece mocks extreme measures and shifts to various assorted health ads and quack remedies including Bitters, a grafted skin story, Lydia Pinkham, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and Dr Kline remedies.
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Tr. White
Great Britain
Tuhar
Lydia E. Pinkham
Peorle
Hood
C. J. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mass
Tutt
Fordals
Draggiste & Fancy Goods
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury, Mass
Kennedy
U. S
Canada
Lenox
the Bank OF England
Salis
Grandisa
New York City
Mexico
Constantinople
Hoatetter
Lydia Pinknam
A. M. Priest
Pruggist
Shelbyville
Ind
Enya
Dr. Sage
Price
Radway & CO
Warren Street
New York
OUIS
Basger
EES 1
Y Toman
P.O
Phila
O.w.f.sxyper
McVicker’s Theatre
Pat
DR. AM
le. Middleton Drus Co
East Cortland Stret
National
Cuiiaco
Ill
C. E. Himes CO
Philad
Wales
Bridgeport
Com
Wwe
Lawborn
Land Com
N. P
St. Paul
Mica
Dosutl
Minnesota
Orth Dakota
Wash‘an
Oreree Govad Cheap Clein
G.G.G
Madison St
Manila
Boston
G Splendid
A.J. Smith
G.P
T. A
C. K. Wilber
W. Pat Cleveland
EWIS
Tims
Bert
Gen. N. Agts
C.n.y
Sapolio
Piso
Pitts
Matalis Deseret
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