Notable Figures who Endured Poverty Across History
Early hardships shaped famous leaders and writers. Napoleon and Soult lived penniless in youth, Ney wore a private’s uniform before glory, Columbus faced possible poverty, Dickens suffered as a boy, and Dumas died poor. The piece notes hard times among great men.
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Hardensh
Napoleon
Marshal Soult
Duke of Dalmatia
London
Ney
Columbus
Dickens
Dumas
Wedding of Jenny and Homer Stack Hearts Pentville
Pentville watches with interest as Jenny Taylor and Homer Stack wed after a long engagement. Financial struggles and family tension shape their first years, but Jenny wins approval by proposing frank talks and shared planning with Mrs Stack. The event hints at resilience in a small town.
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Pentville
Bomer Stack
Fanny Taylor
Jenny
Steiner Stick
John Stack
Homer Stack
Jenny Taylor
Young Stack
Homer
Teaching Girls to Farm Program Aims to Train Thousands
The National League for Wolman's Service announces joint arrangements with New York high schools to train thousands of girls in farming and dairy work. Gardens will be planted on vacant city lots, and trained girls will be sent to farms to work eight hours daily in practical uniforms.
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New York
National League For Wolman
League
Green's August Flower Popular Family Remedy Ad
An advertisement extols Green's August Flower as the most successful family remedy for fifty one years addressing biliousness stomach troubles and related symptoms. The copy notes widespread American use and claims relief from sick headache nervous indigestion sour stomach and low mood with a 25 cent Tic Ad.
Grove's Old Standard Tonic Mentioned For General Use
An ad touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as valuable as a general tonic due to quinine and iron. It claims liver action, malaria relief, blood enrichment, and system-wide strength with a 50 cent price. A political cartoon caption shows an congressman delaying homecoming over safety concerns.
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Yager’s Winiment Gilbert Bros. & CO
Baltimore
Grove
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad and Garden Joke
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for daily facial care with a free sample offer. It includes a humorous exchange about gardening and a separate pitch for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as spring laxative and tonic.
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Dept. L
Boston
Wright
Physical Trains Collide In Head-On Crash
A newspaper note quotes officials saying the engineers were not careless but that the incident was a head-on collision between two trains. No further details on location or casualties are provided in the fragment.
Pinkham remedies praised by women in letters
In Lowell Massachusetts Mrs Margaret Quillin reports relief from change of life symptoms and headaches after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. In North Haven Connecticut Mrs Florence Shella notes improvement after taking the compound and Sanative Wash and recommends Pinkham remedies to others with female troubles.
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Lowell, Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margaret Quiiin
Worthen &St
North Haven
Conn
iMirs
Islorence Ssiella
Box 197
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
Advertisement claims the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. product relieves female suffering and offers free confidential advice from women in Lynn Massachusetts. Biblical humor exchanges conclude with a Judge joke about divorce.
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Lydia E. Pinkhams
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root praised by local druggist
Druggist Herbert Maxwell of Plymouth Massachusetts endorses Dr Kilmer and Co Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. He reports eight years of use with no complaints and cites customer praise. Offers sample bottle for ten cents and mentions available regular sizes at drug stores.
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Plymouth
Mass
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Ady
Plague Strains India Amid War Taxes and Monsoon
Reports from The Christian Herald describe a severe outbreak across India worsened by war taxes and defenses. Pastor Ramiah buried 138 in one night while Pastor Simon visits for medicine. Fleeing villagers camp in jungle huts under the monsoon, quarantined and without relief, facing high mortality. He is allowed out briefly to fetch medicine.
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India
Pastor Ramiah
Pastor Simon
The
Christian Herald
Talk and Sleep
Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht, active in preaching and charitable work, attended a recent meeting. He joked about talking in one’s sleep, recalling a friend’s question and noting his own habit of speaking while others sleep.
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M. M. Feuerlicht
Indianapolis
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National Fertilizer Co
Resist
Pittsburgh
Penna
Oh. Butts
U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Bidg
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National Printing & Developing Ca
Dept. C
Covington
Allen
Pacers
Olmsted
le Ruy
Adyvy
Willis
Bump
Gillis
Illis
Felix Oswald
Oo Ee
W.g. Chapman
Father
Mother
Rook
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Woman's Rifle Club
Lakewood
N. J
Mr. Crosslets
Lydia FE
Pinknam
Exodus
Genesis
Eden
Blackman’s
Blackman Stock Remedy Company
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Iacasun
Sanya
Express
Harold Somers
DE Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
N. V
Bethlehem Steel Co
Sparrow's Point
Watson B.coleman
Washington DC
Buffalo
N.Y
Castor
Ode Sahul
Tae Gentam Company
WEW
York
Ana
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