Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promotes Healthy Maternity
Many women long for a child yet face infertility due to female disorders. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is claimed to tone the body and reduce displacements, ulcers, and inflammation. Letters from users tout improved health and successful births after use, and Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to potential mothers.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mae P. Wharry
North Shore Oratorical Society
Norman
Milwaukee, Wis
Toronto as a Phoenix After City Fire
A year after a $12,000,000 blaze in Toronto's core business district, most burned sites have seen new, sturdier structures rise. Insurance covered losses and many firms rebuilt in other locations, showcasing Canadian resilience and enterprise.
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Toronto
Philadelphia Ledger
Oldest Love Letter Exhibition in British Museum
A 3500 year old marriage proposal to an Egyptian princess is displayed as an inscribed brick in a British Museum exhibition, touted as the world’s oldest known love letter.
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British Museum
Modern bullet power description from historical text
The passage details the modern bullet’s penetrating force, noting it could pierce three horse carcasses in succession at 550 yards, four at half that distance, or kill a man after passing through the trunk of a thick tree.
London electrician claims wireless setup at home
A London electrician has established the wireless in his house. The ad promotes Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer with a $2 trial bottle and free treatise from Dr Kure Ltd Philadelphia. The copy touts cure of nervousness after first day’s use.
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Kline
Kure, Ltd
Archst
Phila
London Electrician
Popular Cars and Pope Manufacturing Co Ad
Pope Hartford and Jane Tribune gasoline cars meet broad user demands. Simple in construction, efficient and reliable with prices from 500 to 1600 dollars. For illustrated catalogs write Wept A Pope Manufacturing Co Hartford Conn. The sheep without wool comes from Barbados.
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Pope-Hartford
Jane-Tribune
A. Pope Manufacturing Co
Hartford
Conn
Ad Advertisements and Odd Mentions From 1900
A collage of old notices includes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims of pain relief and wind colic, an remark about the British Admiralty scheduling its first dental appointment, a testimonial for Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and a note on modern Japanese money bearing English legends.
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British Admiralty
Debate on Japanese immigration mirrors Chinese exclusion era
An agitation in California over Japanese arrival in America grows in the past months. Lawmakers have memorialized Congress to act and recent Panama Canal labor decisions increase prejudice against the race seen as ready to supplant American workers.
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California
America
Congress
Panama Canal
Prevent Meningitis Through Fresh Air and Sunshine
A Chicago News note advises that a regimen of fresh air and sunshine taken before or after meals best prevents meningitis. The short guidance emphasizes outdoor exposure as the key protective measure against the meningitis germ.
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Chicago News
Advances in high speed photography and telephony in industry
Popular Science notes the U S Fish Commission estimates oyster bed damage at 250000 dollars annually. Reading Company aims to telephone from mines to Pottsville HQ and tests new inside mine telephones. High speed photography captures subsecond action, from speeding trains to plant growth. European textiles now employ wood pulp threads. Cold blooded animals retain heart activity after death due to ganglia, with a turtle heart reportedly beating up to forty eight hours on a glass surface.
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Pottsville
Reading Company
St. Nicholas
Dickens influence on language in London Express remarks
The London Express notes Dickens reshaped common speech with phrases like Barkis is willing and Waiting for something to turn up. It cites words entering the dictionary such as Podsnappery and Pickwickian, and mentions Dolly Varden as a hat name, along with Uriah Heep and Mrs Jarley becoming generic terms.
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Dickens
Barkis
Willin
Vidders
Oliver Twist
Codlin
Dolly Varden
Heroige
Barnaby Rudge
Leo Hunter
Artful Dodger
Uriah Heep
Mrs. Jarley
London Express
Silent Partner Echoes White Black Wealth View
A Kentucky traveler finds an old enslaved man hauling driftwood for his white partner. The darky explains they are partners, keeping half of what he gathers from the Ohio River farmyard, highlighting views on wealth and rights through a parable of shared labor.
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New York Times
Kentucky
Ohio River
Darky
Eighth-six year old New Yorker abstains from meat for 38 years
An eighty six year old man in New York has not eaten meat for thirty eight years according to a local report. He adheres to a strict diet and cites personal reasons for his long abstention.
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New York
London author touts living forever at Philadelphia lecture
Henry Gaze of London told a small Odd Fellows Temple audience that perpetual life is possible by applied mind power. He promotes practical psychology, rejuvenating diet, and regenerative life as keys to eternal youth, claiming old age can be avoided or reversed by shaping the body and destiny through thought.
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Henry Gaze
London
Odd Fellows
Temple
Philadelphia
Gaze
The Plague in India Raises Urgent Alarm
The Lancet warns that plague in India shows no progress in control and worsens yearly. It casts doubt on the welfare of the Indian empire from humane and political angles, calling the situation a major catastrophe of modern times.
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India
Indian
Costly Pearls Among Australian Syndicate Valued at 500000
The Southern Cross, described as the most extraordinary pearl or pearl cluster, is owned by an Australian gentlemen's syndicate and valued at $500,000.
Peruna Endorsed By Cavalry Officer In Lanham Message
Chas W Bowman 1st Lieut and Adjutant 4th M S M Cav Vols writes from Lanham Md praising Peruna for cold relief curing a severe attack in forty eight hours and serving as a preventive. He notes family use and recommends for free medical advice from Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio noting confidentiality.
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Chas. W. Bowman
M. S. M. Cav
Lanham
Peruna
C. W. Bowman
Hartman
Trartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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Winchester
Chas. H. Halpin
K. Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
N.Y
Corea
Barbados
Thomas Row- Erts
Maple St
Norwich, N.Y
Popular Science
The
Fish Commission of the
United States
Empire State Express
Cinematograph
Indianapolis News
Europe
Lieutenant Bowman
Peru
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Chia
Bane
Pope-Tribune
H.P
Pope Manufacturing Co
Hartford, Conn
Mother Gray
Nures
Wew York U
Gray
Olmsted
Old Virginia
Casselman & CO
Richmond
P. N. UL Vu
Wineweed Thompson's Eye Water
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