A Sermon in Rhyme About Friendship and Kindness
A vintage verse urges loving friends to speak kind words and share joy and sorrow. It encourages praising songs, joining prayers, supporting kin, and offering encouragement to uplift others in both good times and trials. The poem extols generosity of spirit as a path to lasting friendship.
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Adam
Senator Jones
Nevada
San Francisco
West
United States
J. P. Jones
Utah
Jones
Territory of
Congress
Chicago
Inler Ocean
Whew and Wonder: Vast Numbers Through Puzzles
A Danish translated essay explores enormous counts from powers to chess grains and infusoria, illustrating how quickly numbers explode. It compares chessboard grains, planetary scales, and light years, using vivid examples and a Nevada Senator joke to show public appetite for math marvels.
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India
Human Frailty and a Bitter Pill of Health Reform
A pair of era style snippets discuss human frailty linking illness to social burden. It extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for liver spleen and bowel disturbance while warning neglect leads to decline. A police desk scene mocks an officer failing to keep peace as constant street quarrels block passersby.
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Hostetter
United
Leopenr
Leonore
Kemp's Balsam and other remedies quoted
An 1870s advertising collage touts Kemp's Balsam with testimonials and price notes. It contrasts light through bottles, promotes free sample bottles, and mentions Dobbins Electric Soap claims. The piece also cites letters and opinions from readers in Clarion and Armstrong counties and includes assorted aphorisms.
Fragmented quotes mix inads and ads from old paper
A garbled OCR slice includes references to Fido the dog, a piano habit, and people named Billy Bliven and Eimiy. It also contains old advertisements for Dr Bull’s Worm Destroyers, Dobbins’ Electric Soap, Burrenam’s Pinus cure Sick Headache, SAPOLIO, and Piso’s Cure for Consumption, with tangential notes about grip and health pitches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eimiy
Fido
Billy Bliven
Billy
Washington Post
Patent medicine claim for Golden Medical Discovery
A 19th century advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a superior patent remedy for general debility. It promises blood purification, liver vigor, appetite stimulation, and prevention of bilious typhoid and malarial fevers when taken at the first signs of weariness, urging action now.
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Dr. Pierce
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Workiann Lear
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Euler
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Armstrong County
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Europe
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Kehisen Globe
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Miopolis
N.B
C. L. Hood & CO
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New York
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Family
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East Mth St
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J. B. Dobbins
Philadelphia
Burrenam
Ant
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N. Ogden
Mich
St. Jacobs Oil
J.M.L. Porth
Hagerstown, Md
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E.ely Brothers
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Warren, Pa
J. A. Lawrence
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Johnson &Co
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Sapolio
W. Dudley
Pensions
Washington, DC
Crane & CO
Washington, D.C
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Sciiffnan
St. Paul, Minn
Green & Sons
Isaac Thompson
Gale
John L. Thompson, Sons & CO
Troy, N.Y
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New York City
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America
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Chicago Ledger
Chicago, Il
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Amsterdam
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