Woman Claims Cure by Peruna in Testimonial
An American widow from Watsonville California reports her own cure after taking nineteen bottles of Peruna. She mentions a prior illness and a belief in Peruna’s remedy. The letter is part of a Vienna correpondence note about Austrian bureaucracy and tax rulings after the death of a bricklayer named Stephan Schmidt.
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Mrs. Jamison
Marchant St
Watsonne
Cal
Lower Austria
Steph Schmidt
Stephan Schmidt
Vienna
Pali
Advertising snippets from a late 19th or early 20th century paper
The fragment lists various patent medicines and consumer products with brief claims. Items include Allen’s Foot-Ease for corn relief, Hammons Wizard Oil for jam, Burma oil wells yielding 3 million in 2007, Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup, Gardiein Tea laxative, Bromo Quinine, Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion, and notes on druggists, sugar use in jam, and a remark about a mixed population in British Guiana.
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Burma
India
Cure of Kidney Trouble by Dean's Kidney Pills
Miss Emma Shirley suffers general debility stomach trouble and nervous pain with backache and kidney disruption. After doctors and specialists failed she used Dean's Kidney Pills and rapidly improved then recovered fully. Sold by dealers nationwide at 60 cents a box Foster Miles Burn Co Buffalo NY.
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Emma Shirley
Hill Buck
Dean
Foster-Misburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Rats as Destroyers and Bacteri a Measure of Stress
A magazine writer estimates rats cause $100 million in annual U S losses and delay $6 million worth of New York property. He also notes a gram of mud with stress bacteria could line up to cover 259.74 feet.
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United States
New York
Express
Meade
Boston
Harnden
New York American
Cyrus McCormick the Inventor and Industrial Knight
The article traces Cyrus Hall McCormick born in Rock Ridge County to Robert McCormick and Mary Hall. It outlines his early tinkering and patents from age 15 to 21, his move to Illinois, and his vision of vast industrial growth. It notes recognitions including the Grand Council Medal at the 1851 London Exhibition and the 700,000 harvesting machines produced yearly by a merged harvester company with $120 million capital and 70,000 employees.
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Yrus Hall M'Cormick
Robert McCormick
Mary Audrie Hall
Waleut Grove
Rock Ridge County
F Ya
Pennsylvania
McCormick
McCormicks
Royal Agricultural Society of Great Britain
Obed Hussey
Nantucket
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Virginia
AfcCormick
West
Illinois
Old World
Land of Plenty
Chicago
Record- Herald
London
London Times
Beauty of New Social Cabinet in Taft Era
The piece notes Mrs. Albert Akin, daughter of Attorney General Wickersham, as a leading social figure in Washington society assisting the Wickersham household and Mrs Taft in receptions. It also mentions Mrs. Taft seeking Akin’s services for social activities. A humorous aside recounts a naval form anecdote about a father with a quiet, young son.
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Taft
Albert Akin
Wickersham
Akin
New York City
Plant Guardians Ants Defend South American Tree
Ant defenders of plants protect the cecropia adenopus in Brazil from leaf cutter ants. The arboreal ants live in Mueller's corpuscles and attack intruders through a groove above the leaf insertion, a result of natural selection shaping a thin diaphragm entrance.
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Brazil
Tropics
Mueller
W. Schimper
What She Wanted to See in London
The speaker lists St Pauls and Westminster Abbey as must sees, then shifts to a desire to visit the Church of England. A playful tone contrasts American wit with long-standing travel yearnings, highlighting iconic religious sites in London.
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London
St. Paul's
Westminster Abbey
Church of England
England
Punch
Jacob Sckowicz and the public school pitch
A brief, humorous excerpt from the New York Herald features seven year old Jacob Sckowicz pleading with his sister to attend public school. He touts free books vaccines pencils and education while denying any cost to her. The snippet ends with a commentator noting a call for action.
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Jacob Sckowicz
Jakie
New York Herald
Cure of Eczema With Cuticura Remedies Reported
A patient describes a long battle with eczema spreading from the hand to arms legs and face. After trials of various treatments a doctor confirmed eczema. Relief came with Cuticura Remedies, with the user claiming complete cure and no recurrence since 1908.
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Flo
Hig
O. Bu Ae W. Market &J
Chambersburg
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sele
Reston
Mass
Lane's Fanny Medicine and Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisements
An 19th century style block highlights Lane's Fanny Medicine as a remedy for weak women and headaches and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional solution with a $100 reward offer. The text references the express system history and a humorous anecdote about a hymn used to boil eggs, ending with a note about a large sum from Texas onion crop profits.
Memoirs of Dan Rice Clown of Our Dadds
Publisher promotes a 500 page illustrated memoir of Dan Rice the Clown of Our Daddies. Dr Maria Ward Brown promises a collection of jokes anecdotes and adventures from a half century of show life with national celebrity touches. Postpaid price is $1.50 from Book Publishing House 134 Leonard Street New York City.
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Dan Rice
Maria Ward ‘Brown
Ufe
Artemus Ward
Address Book Publishing House
Leonard Street
New York City
Mexico Coal Fields Put Under Study
Mexico's coal fields cover about 300,000 acres and yield roughly 3,000 tons per acre annually, according to early reports.
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Mexico
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