Omeseekers' Rates for Western Rail Routes
An 1890 era notice offers rail tour rates via Minneapolis and St Louis to Nebraska Kansas Missouri Indian Territory Texas New Mexico Colorado and other states. Stops allowed tickets valid twenty one days war rates and train times available through agents or A B Cutts G P and T A L Minneapolis.
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Omeseekers
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Avidusis
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis
Minis
Memorable Day and Dr King’s New Life Pills Ad
An old advertisement proclaims a memorable day when readers were introduced to Dr King’s New Life Pills described as cures for headaches bilgingness and to keep the bowels right. The offer notes a price of 3 cents at Olaen Drug Store.
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Hensure
Dr. King
Olaen Drag Store
Jell O and Ice Cream Powder Purity Guaranteed
A 1907 Washington DC notice proclaims Jell O and Jell O Ice Cream Powder as strictly pure under National Pure Food Law. The Department of Agriculture filed document serial IM backing wholesale and retail grocers, asserting unwavering product purity recognized by official circles.
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Washington,d. C
A Happy Man Is Amos P. King of Port Byron
Amos P. King of Port Byron aged 86 has a leg sore long troubling him healed by Backlew's Aruien Balves, touted as a world healer for sores and wounds. Advertises guaranteed by O M Olsen Draggiat and DeWitt's Carbonized Wiel Hazet Falve claims. Sold by Eugene A Plefferle.
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Amos P. King
Port Byron
N. A
Backlew
Aruien
O. M. Olsen Draggiat
DeWitt
Eugene A. Plefferle
Get What You Ask For In Advertising
The article urges readers to beware of counterfeit substitutes and insist on genuine advertised products. Advertisers' honesty is tied to their success, and readers should verify that what they obtain matches the claimed goods.
One Way Settlers Rates To Nebraska and Plains States
The Iowa Central Railway will place on sale on each Tuesday during March and April one way tickets to points in Nebraska Eastern Colorado Kansas Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma and Texas at half fare plus 2.00 for homeseekers. Call Minneapolis & St. Louis agents for details or address A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minn.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa Central Railway
Minneapolis & St. Louis
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis Minn
Long Live The King and New Discovery Adverts
An advertisement proclaims Long Live The King as the popular remedy in Europe while in Ametan the product is Long live Dr King s New Discovery King of Threat and Lung Remedies Mrs Julia Ryder Paine of Truro Massachusetts cites immediate cough relief and cure for coughs and colds The ad claims New Discovery cures weakened lungs and sore throats and offers 50c to 1 00 guarantees with trial bottle free and is attributed to O M Olsen druggist
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Ametan
Dr. King
Julia Ryder Paine
Truro
Mass
O. M. Olsen
No charge for sewing and laying carpets
An old newspaper ad promotes free sewing and carpet laying. It alsoMarkets a laxative cough syrup named Kendy’s Laxative Cough Syrup claiming superior relief for cold or cough by cleansing bowels and soothing throat. It touts Honey and Tar, child friendly, sold by Eugene A. Ptefferte.
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Kendy
Eugene A. Ptefferte
The Rubber Tree Methods of milk collection and rubber production
A New York American description explains tapping a sixty foot rubber tree and collecting sap in small clay cups. Milk is heated around a wooden mold to form rubber layers, with a skilled worker yielding five to six pounds in a session.
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New York American
Irreligious to wear trousers once common in halls and pulpits
In historic notes from London and Sheffield references show trousers once deemed irreligious. An 1812 college order banned trousers in hall or chapel, eight years later a Bethel deed barred pulpit use by any preacher wearing trousers. Praise for Clowes contrasts with this stance. Salt history then linked to daily life and sacred rites, noting Moses, Herodotus, and Hebrews using salt for health and ritual purposes.
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St. John's
Trinity Colleges
Bethel
Sheffield
Hugh Bourne
Primitive Methodist
London
Moses
Herodotus
Pearson
Queer Book Titles From an Antiquarian Shelf
An antiquarian notes old volumes with risqué titles from the 18th century. He points to a 1782 Salem printed sermon collection titled Sermons to Asses and a 1743 treatise Look to Stor Stable on polygamy. A spinster’s pamphlet condemns youth at tea tables, and a counterblast quips at proud women.
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Salem
The Influence of Trees in Public Thoroughfares
A Minnesota writer extols trees along streets and country roads as a public good. Planting trees benefits the planter’s physical, mental, and spiritual well being, offers contentment, and yields honor and happiness as rewards for altruistic civic care.
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Minnesota
The Best Man Divides Wedding Roles In Witty Quote
A humorous note from Home and Abroad on wedding duties. It playfully assigns roles to the best man, groom, maid of honor and others, highlighting how each observer views who shines as the key participant in a wedding.
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Unele
What He Deserved, Husband and the Samaritan Joke
A brief exchange between a husband and wife centers on handing money with humor and a quip about deserving applause. The wife notes how people often perform small acts of kindness without fanfare, echoing Sydney Smith.
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Sydney Smith
The First Coffee Accidental Discovery in Abyssinia
In the mid fifteenth century a weary Arab traveler in Abyssinia found fragrant berries on a tree. Crushing and boiling them for flavor led to purified water and restored strength. Upon reaching Aden he told the mufti, who praised the infusion and named the tree cahuih meaning force in Arabia.
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Abyssinia
Aden
Arabia
Chamois of Europe A Study of Mountain Hunters
From Outer's Book this account details chamois in Europe. It notes their high mountain habitats across Germany Austria Switzerland Transylvania the Carpathians and the Alps. Both buck and doe grow antlers knickeler horns and the doe bears one fawn yearly sometimes two, rarely three, protected by the mother.
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Europe
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Transylvanian
Carpathians
Alps
Male Blushers and Their Cure
A New Orleans Times-Democrat item notes that many men blush and seek cure. The doctor favors shedding heavy clothing like woolen socks, while others are urged to develop nerve through public speaking and social duties. Blushing reportedly fades by the Victio reaches his thirty fifth year.
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New Orleans Times- Democrat
The London Pit in Modern Theaters
Travel Magazine notes the traditional London pit has largely vanished from theaters except in music halls, replaced by expensive orchestra stalls that make the parquet resemble American seating. The shift brings rich and poor into closer view, blurring class distinctions.
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London
Travel Magazine
Rocks and Sunday tradition in Lancashire rocks build March
Country Life notes a tradition that rocks begin building on the first Sunday in March. Observers have frequently verified the claim, and the punctuality of the rocks may seem nearly coincident.
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Lancashire
Intended to Pay From Harper's Weekly
A kindly old lady in the country buys gloves in a department store. The saleslady demands cash and the grandmother frantically searches her valise for her pocketbook before paying. A humorous vignette from Harper's Weekly reflects the era's social satire.
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Harper’s Weekly
He Cinched It. A Denver Post Style Clause on an Arranged Union
A Denver Post excerpt shows a father testing a suitor with a dismissive question about speaking to the mother of his daughter. The suitor answers and the father declares his opposition to the match to cinch the arrangement.
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Denver Post
A Troublesome Future Nurse Bridget in Dublin Baby
A Punch fragment notes a French baby born in Dublin as a humorous perplexity for Nurse Bridget and the observer. The quip highlights language mixups and self-reflection on speech. The playful exchange centers on the baby's birth and cultural contrasts.
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Bridget
Dublin
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Claims Known Composition
A promotional piece extols Dr Pierce's Family Medicines noting they list all ingredients on wrappers and are made from native medicinal roots. It stresses alcohol-free formulas with glycerine, claims cures for indigestion catarrh coughs and chronic bronchial issues, and warns against unknown substitutes while urging insistence on known composition and forty years of cures.
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Dr. Pierce
Nature
Pierce
Sages
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