Peruna Praise Letter From Mrs Milner
A grateful testimonial from Earher M. Milner of DeGraff Ohio praising Peruna for curing pelvic weakness and headaches after four bottles. The letter to Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio highlights reluctance of women to share testimonials and urges awareness among women seeking relief.
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DeGraff
Ohio
B. Hartman
Columbus
Earher M. Milner
Peruna
Mrs. Milner
DR. Hartman
The World's Richest Woman Mrs Sage and Her Charity
The article profiles Mrs. Sage widow of Russell Sage now 76 directing his fortune for philanthropy while avoiding high society. It notes her charitable scrutiny, ties to Helen Gould, and preference for quiet giving over public prominence. It then recounts a city bus scene where a stern woman counts tickets for children and scolds a boy.
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Misa Helen Gould
Eve
Washington Street
Indianapolis Star
Sammy
Like a Gun for a Boy Alarm Clock
A Yonkers Statesman humorous line depicts a customer bargaining over alarm clocks. The clerk offers silver plate for 10, nickel for 5, and gun metal for 2. The customer wants a clock that sounds like a gun in the morning for his 12 year old, approving the gun metal model.
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Yonkers Statesman
After a Fashion Pastor Jokes About Roles
An elderly preacher quips with his friend that with a young assistant pastor he splits duties, noting he handles the burying while the younger man performs marriages. The humor plays on traditional parish tasks and aging roles.
Vicar Reserved Seats for Boaters in Thames Ditton Church
The Thames Ditton vicar announces special seats in the parish church Sunday morning for those in boating costumes in the southwest gallery. The note jokingly hopes bathing-costume attendees are also accommodated and kept dry.
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Patrice
Thames Ditton
England
Patrick
Costly eye removal ends real estate deal
A quip from the Chiraen Tribune recounts a patient asking a doctor about removing a grain of sand from the eye. The oculist says five dollars, the other man walks out claiming a cheaper option, and thus their greed ruins another real estate deal.
How to Escape If Ye Neglect So Great a Salvation
A Harper's Weekly quotation relays Dr. Rice of Springfield on a clerkly joke about a Methodist speaker from Wilbraham Academy. The preacher’s trial sermon text was How shall ye escape if ye neglect so great a salvation, and the delivery contrasted showing the salvation with the escape.
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Harper's Weekly
Rice
Springfield
Ruggles Refuses Bet After Lost Wager
A local exchange depicts a quick bargaining moment where one man asks Ruggles to test a fountain pen to win a bet. Ruggles agrees but the proposer admits defeat before any calculation, admitting he has already lost the wager.
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Ruggles
One Kind Teacher Miss Badger Explains Privileged Classes
A teacher character named Miss Badger discusses the concept of privileged classes in the context of botany classes. Students are allowed occasional outdoor nature study in the woods.
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Miss Badger
Unlucky Crape on Doors Sparks Superstitious Talk
Dialogue centers on whether crape hung on doors is unlucky with Burke arguing it affects the subject of the decoration and others doubting the superstition.
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Burke
Degenerate Dares and Language in Chicago Tribune Snippet
A brief passage mocks degenerate dares and ponders the etymology of tetanus. It features fragmented phrases like Watte and O’Prowdly-Imalature patriotism with a Chicago Tribune voice, suggesting a satirical column fragment from a historical page.
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Chicago Tribune
Landlady and a Poet Discuss Quirks of Poets
An elderly Irishwoman praises a local Gaelic poet who can compose verses about the earth from any doorstep. A mountain farm visit recalls a famed American poet, noting poets are peculiar and hard to feed yet best to listen to, with an offer of dry toast for a poet's moods.
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Siten
Indy
Farrin
The Yankee in England Tells of Rapid Building
A Yankee aboard a train boasts of a 22 story building started and finished in one month across the water. Fellow passengers grow tired as a Yorkshire man interjects with a dry remark about typical English construction.
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England
Balloonists Plan Aerial Verse Adaptation
A proposal called Suggestion for Balloontats adapts the poem Song of Marion's Men. It notes balloonists risk entanglements with mundane objects and suggests a line about a farmer's barn and an ascent to the trackless ether before dawn. The Rostan Transcript attributes the idea.
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Rostan Transcript
Man seeks cousin Jennie at station in odd encounter
A West End man, hoping to meet his unknown cousin Jennie Blake at a station on a Tuesday, misidentifies a blue clad woman. A brown clad tall girl reveals she is Jennie, ending the awkward scene with the man admitting his mistake.
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West End Avenue
Miss Blake
Blake
Kate
Jennie
Blue
New York Sun
A Levantine Log-Book and a Hat in the Waves
In Jerusalem the guide Uriel and the traveler discuss a club where members refuse to hold or perform duties. A sudden shriek follows as a woman’s hat, worth $2.08, falls from the ship’s hurricane deck into the sea, leaving the owner hatless and distressed.
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Jerusalem
Uriel
Criel
Traveler
Grattude
Vincent’s School Report Red Ink Remark
A boy Vincent's excessive talking prompts teachers to note faults on his monthly report. The headmaster adds a warning that the father should bear his mother, scribbled in red ink beneath the comment.
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Vincent
Rheumatism the blood and its cure by S S S
The article explains rheumatism as a systemic disease caused by uric acid in the blood and argues warm weather aids cure. It promotes S. S. S. as a vegetable remedy that cleanses the blood, strengthens organs, and cures muscular inflammatory articular and sciatic rheumatism. A testimonial from Chas E Gilder Pleeve Newport News Va supports success after three bottles.
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Swift Specific Company
Atlanta, GA
Chas, E. Gilder
32Nd Street
Newport News
Br Kline’s Cure Mentioned Amid Odd Table Chat
A corner table scene notes a waiter’s quip about biscuits possibly made of Portland cement as a discussion touches on Br Vitus Dance nervous diseases and a Dr Kline trial bottle offer. The passage includes a boast of proving an alibi and a playful aside on spelling involving a chicken soup item from Matt-Supe.
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Dr. Kline
Br. Kline
Arch Bt
Phila
Scott
Matt
Boston Transcript
Weather Bureaus Clash Over Imminent Frost and Rain
A folkloric exchange between Natere's Prophets and a katydid foretells frost within six weeks while a tree frog bets rain within forty eight hours. The rival weather bureaus resume their noisy forecasts as the playful dispute unfolds.
Fence Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Greek Slave Scene
An old advertisement offers 100 dollars for any case of coteges cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad declares Hall's Catarrh Cure promises cure internally with a 75 cent bottle and free testimonials. A Chicago Tribune note then describes Hiram Powers finishing touches on a Greek slave sculpture and Comstock fears, adding a humorous aside.
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Hall
Maavin
Leaale
Hiram Powers
Snc
Pygmalion
Anthony Comstock
Chicago Tribune
Impressions from a journey abroad by Upgardson and Atom
Upgardson recalls the trip with Atom noting the pervasive touches and small details that left the strongest impression during their travels.
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Upgardson
Gasolene Engines 5 Catalog Ad from Reieron Machinery
Gasolene Engines 5 advertised with powerful warranted units in all sizes at low prices. Catalog available from Reierson Machinery Company in Portland Oregon for further details and ordering.
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Reierson Machinery Company
Portland
Oregon
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She Was
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Castoria
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Natere
Prussian Remedy CO
ST. Paul
Minn Chas
H. Lilly CO
Seattle
Dea
Arold Somers
Deave
Brooklyo
Leseboe
BORAX
Cal
Pacifil Coast Borax
Oakland
Portland Trade Directory
Bofum & Pendleton
Alfred Benjamin , Co
Morrison and Blath
Pos
Pianus & Organs
Wilbert Uo
Wils
Portland OF
Dr. G. Gee Wo
Clankr
Cireatara
C. Gee WO Chinese Medicine CO
Morrison
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Msp
W. Ll
W.k Douglas
Breckton
WaEs
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