Dr. Pierce’s Medical Discovery and All Healing Salve Ad
An advertisement extols Dr. R V Pierce Buffalo for a tonic claimed to purify blood and cure stomach and liver disorders. It highlights native root extracts, triple-refined glycerine, and recommends All Healing Salve for old sores. Includes order details and references to Pierce’s Institute and Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Queen's Root
R.V. Pierce
Buffalo
Bartholowing
Scudder
Coe
Ellingwood
Sock
St. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Sipsical Institute
A King Whom All Sweden Mourns
A portrait of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, his lineage from Napoleon’s marshal Jean Bernadotte, and the royal family’s history. The article highlights Oscar II’s reign, personality, and efforts toward a peaceful legacy, plus notes on Gustave V’s popularity and leadership, with anecdotes of royal life and public perception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robertus Love
Ean Baptiste Jules Bernadotteh
Napoleon
Oscar II
Sweden
Stockholm
Bernadotte
Norway
Charles XIV
Oscar
Young Oscar
Prince Oscar
University of
Upsala
France
Gustave
Victoria
Baden
Gustave IV
Guavis
Heeatme
Charles
Sophia of
Nassan Inys
Charles XV
Oscar III
Berndotte
Thes Bernadotte
Oxear
St ix Bald
Hunter
William
Germany
Spider Airships Rise as Baby Spiders Sail the Wind
London Standard describes tiny spiders releasing eight to ten feet of silk and rising on their own threads on warm autumn mornings. The infantile fleet climbs, scatters across bushes and trees, and descends by rolling up their lines, filling the air with gossamer threads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Standard
A Latin Lesson Angers Wellington in Pronunciation Debate
A Liverpool Post item recalls 1844 when the Duke of Wellington read the honor list in Latin. He mispronounced names like Carolus and Jacobus until a don advised proper Latin forms. Wellington urged sticking to one rule, quipping about changing pronunciations. Time Works Wonders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Wellington
Liverpool Post
Wellington
Carolus
Oxford
Jacobus
Hone
Obus
Concert That Failed and a Hundred Pounds Yarn
The excerpt describes a dubious scene of claiming a hundred pounds in sovereigns and a failed concert by Hans Pfitzner in Cologne. It notes the poor ticket sale and empty room, with friends as purchasers unable to attend and the composer facing a solitary exit after the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson’s Weekly
Hans Pfitzner
Musichener Neuesten Nachrichten
Cologne
Lopes
Stiff Hiring Interview and Diet Advice Quips
A quirky Harper's Weekly quote shows a rosy Trish girl seeking work for a Germantown mistress and being interrogated about her cooking. The exchange turns to a doctor asking about diet for a chronically ill patient, with the punchline about paying the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora
Harper’s Weekly
Epitaph of Dentist Jones Noted in Irish Tombstone
A local verse on an old Irish tombstone laments Dr Henry Jones the dentist. The couplet mocks mortality and vanity with lines about filling his last cavity and human frailty as Browne records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manish Chin
Ake
Joo
Shin Craeer
Momade Creauys
Mimi
Addison-Jones
Lake Ave
Chicago
Drexel State Bank
Henry Jones
Dentist Jones
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sunset Magazine
California
Far West
Ar‘atic
San Francisco
Addison
Jones
Hp Pradutis Louse
New Ctm
Minn
Europe
Sparre
Roosevelt
Gustave V
Neverthele
Nimrod
Marshal Baron
George
King
Dixon
Thompson
Lotis Republic
Ireland
Browne
the Home Bakery
D. Eisner
Eibner
John H. Forster
New Ulm
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