Royal Baking Powder Ad Claims Purity and Strength
An advertisement extols Royal Baking Powder as the purest and strongest available. It asserts the powder produces finest, sweetest, lightest, and most digestible foods and cites the San Francisco Board of Health endorsing its purity and strength.
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San Francisco Board of Health
Skin Diseases and Patent Remedies Featured in Wartime Ad
A wartime newspaper ad extols patent remedies for skin ailments and chronic eczema. It cites George Chapman of Pincening, Michigan, praising Baxoreri's Putte after a three month course, and warns that impure blood causes pimples and blotches. The piece also promotes Brown's Bronchial Trachea and Tar Grumea with sensational claims.
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Daanonweri
George Chapman
Pincening
Mich
Mounted Infantry
United States Army
Texas
Baaxoreri
German Syrup touted as lifesaving remedy in 19th century tale
A Hudson North Carolina man with pneumonia reportedly recovered after taking German Syrup. His brother had just died from the illness. A Texas druggist, S B Gardiner of Aurora, credited Boschee’s German Syrup with preventing a serious lung infection after using the remedy himself.
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Hudson
N. C
S. B. Gardiner
J. I. Barr
Aurora
Texas
Amonia
Boschee
Two Good Stories About Dr Parr and Ben Jonson
Reading from an old inclusion of tales, the piece recounts Dr Parr chatting with farmhand John about the word felicity and its meaning. It also recalls Lord Craven’s humorous reception of Ben Jonson disguised in shabby clothes.
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Parr
Jonson
Parry
John
Lord Craven
Ben Jonson
Ben
Don Jonson
Hal
Noisy Talk of Shooting Across the Land
A merchant traveler recalls a conversation about hunting and shooting in the region. A white man asks an old Black man about good shooting, and the exchange covers lines of shot, game, and an incident where a distant shot broke an arm across ten acres.
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Merchant Traveler
Cholly Litewaite Seeks Help for Arm Concern
A comic strip scene shows Cholly Litewaite mispronouncing medical terms while describing a long forearm irritation. the doctor assays the possibility of the ailment being a little cause for alarm, ending with a grave remark about the patient’s condition.
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Cholly
Itightone Athletic Association
De Smythe and De Johnes Debate Dumley Courage
De Smythe questions Dumley as De Johnes defends him highlighting Dumley’s courage. The exchange notes his harmless appearance yet bold actions as they discuss his character and deeds.
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de Smythe
de Johnes
Dumley
Texas Sift Inges
Awful Suspicion In Pike County Hotel Incident
A fragment from Lath describes a lodging house scene with a suggestion of harming a man by firing through a window. The terse dialogue frames a tense, unclear crime setup with local voices and threats.
Bet on Promong Promocia Sparks Banter in Office Jest
In a humorous exchange, a lecturer questions a participant about interest while a bet about using the first personal promocia every minute is declared. Harper's Weekly notes Cumsee mentioning a bonnet bill that won’t fit and will arrive separately with pay later, described in a light social vignette from the New York Sun.
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Harper's Weekly
Cumsee
Cumse
New York Sun
The City Child's Idea of Tt Teacher
A fragmentary New York Press passage discusses a child’s idea of a teacher and a horse that is cautious around a wheat cue. The dialogue includes garbled lines about telling facts, keeping off a topic, and a horse that stops or bears resistance.
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Morse
New York Press
Fragmentary dialogue about a canvas duck mislabeling
A garbled exchange shows Dumley questioning Mrs Hendricks about a canvas duck and a dealer. The dialogue indicates confusion over a provided item and a possible mix up in labeling.
Belief in Its Malignant Influence Across Ancient Folklore
An overview tracing the evil eye belief through ancient cultures, linking hypnotic gaze to demoniac power. It notes glittering eyes as signs of possession, contrasts of benevolent and malevolent gaze, and common defenses like red color, fire, and talismans such as the rowan and horseshoe across Europe.
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Nod
Coleridge
Italy
Chicago Times
Men Living Beyond Their Means in Luxury Era
Joseph Howard in the New York Recorder notes the vast capital required to manage 14 000 accounts, with funds diverted to luxury across dry pools palaces and diverse trades. He argues men overextend finances to sustain past luxuries, a trend shocking to earlier generations.
Questions on the rattlesnake rattle purpose
The rattle’s function remains debated as a deterrent warning or lure. The Quarterly Review notes no conclusive evidence for theories claiming scent, curiosity elicitation, mate finding, or defense while exhausted, urging further study.
Freshmen Etiquette at Oxford and Cambridge Varsities
The piece notes that freshmen at Oxford and Cambridge must not hand a card to a senior fan and should call on him when in. It states upperclassmen entertain during the first term and invitations are returned after, while older traditions fade and the Verdant Green stereotype wanes.
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Oxford
Cambridge
Ile
London
Horeshoe superstition leads to tailor’s injury says letter
A reader laments luck from a horseshoe on the doorstep and recounts a tale of a tailor stumbling as he left, breaking his leg. The exchange includes slang by Loastige Blatter and Harper’s Monthly chatter about a prank with sand, plus a query on a snake’s old skin in forest lore. The piece blends superstition, humor, and natural history commentary from Forest and Stream.
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Menin
Wedding of Mies Scrapings Reported in Tea Trade Circle
An account of the marriage describes Angelina presenting the bride to be given away by the father, with a playful note about Kalin-Alan and a pound of tea as part of the ceremony. The fragmentary text reflects a tea-dealer social milieu and a celebratory mood.
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Angelina
Mies Scrapings
Kalin
Alan
Modern Learning Pageant At Buffalo Courier
The piece depicts students presenting varied topics on a stage with humorous debates about a woman of the glacial age, Roman history, Carlyle, and literary figures. It questions attire and romance alongside scholastic performance, ending with the narrator choosing to proceed despite potential fashion missteps.
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Rome
Carlyle
Honor
River Styx
Mrs Ballington Booths Salvation Army Uniform
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes Mrs Ballington Booth of the Salvation Army, praised for her proper attire. Her uniform features a dark blue skirt with a plaited waist and white silk cord, a black straw poke bonnet trimmed with navy satin, a scarlet ribbon badge, and an American silk flag regalia sash. Myrtle Booth is described with a sweet, smooth face and hazel eyes.
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Marshal Booth
New York Commercial Advertiser
Women in Charge: When Teachers Choose Principals
A New York Work piece argues male principals are favored. it portrays female principals as tyrannical and prone to humiliating subordinates. The column recalls a teacher’s crusade against linen collars and bangs and notes many women in leadership treat assistants as slaves.
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New York
Romanian Por tia Mile Bibescu seeks Paris law entry
Mile Bibescu, famed as the Romanian prodigy, read her 700 page thesis on the position of women under Roman law to seek entry as a doctoresse of laws in Paris. She already holds top prizes in science literature and music in Bucharest and plans to apply for Bucharest bar admission on principle.
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Mile Bibescu
Roumanian Portia
Paris
Bucharest
Mre
Bibcescu
Louisiana Lottery denies Hawaii move and pledges to stay
President Paul Conrad replies to San Francisco rumors claiming the Louisiana Lottery Company plans to relocate to the Sandwich Islands. He says the company remains a chartered Louisiana entity answerable to state law and will operate for its allotted time under existing rights, while denying any negotiations without consent.
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Ortlans
Paul Conrad
Louisiana Lottery Company
Sandwich Islands
United States
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Morris
San Francisco
Loviviana Lottery Company
New York Times
Angus
Isve
Interviews claim Warner's Safe Cure halts public life strain deaths
A correspondent reports prominent public figures endorse Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy for the wear and strain of modern public life. Officials recount personal illness recoveries, stressing its exceptional strength, with case notes from a Washington attorney, government aides, and others. The piece cites Bright's disease and extensive testimony by lawmakers and civic leaders.
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2. C
Daniel Lockwood
Warner
Greenleaf
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Death's
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Judge Tarbel
Dr. Rankin
Robert M. Douglas
Wilkinson
Blackburn
Washington
W. C. Squire
H.C. Clark
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J. G. Ball
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Hahn
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Il. McNeil
Stomach Bitters Preferred for Liver and Digestive Ailments
The text extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as the top remedy for liver trouble, constipation, dyspepsia, and grippe, contrasting it with drastic past cures. It urges reason based on experience and notes long-running public endorsement for over thirty years. The piece includes dated political rhetoric and casual gender remarks.
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Hostetter
Exposition Portfolio Promises Practical Yet Aesthetic Guides
The piece promotes a new portfolio titled The American Portal or The Worts of Exposition, illustrated from water color drawings by Charles Graham. It features fourteen architectural views of the Chicago Exposition and a Bird’s-eye ground plan. Available by mail for 10 cents postage from The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
America
Charles Graham
Charles A. Vogeler Co
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Cure Deafness and Ear Diseases By Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement promises cure for deafness including ruptures piles and other diseases with no cure no pay. It cites Drs Porterfield Losey of San Francisco and Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney Toledo. Emphasizes local applications for ear disease and catarrh as inflammatory. Offers 100 dollars for any case not cured.
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Market Street
San Francisco
Hall
F. J. Cheney &O
Toledo
Shiloh
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