Cure For The Blues and the Lydia Pinkham advertisement
An old Kansas City Journal clipping blends a health ad for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with stock offerings and a brief cultural note on Native American beliefs. The letter from Mrs Rosa Adams claims restored health and buoyancy after female troubles and despondency. Nearby are investment pitches for close corporations and a short paragraph quoting Kansas City lore about Indians and hunting rituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Rosa Adams
12Th Street
Louisville
Roger Hanson
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Natural History in Africa and a German catechism
A satirical dialogue on colonial foes titled Natural History in Africa presents a grim catechism. The Q and A lampoon ancestors and cannibalism with a final punchline about sympathy found in a cyclopedia under letter 5S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natural History
Africa
Cyclopedia
Postum Foods Coffee Helps Rome Woman Rebound
A Rome New York matron details coffee’s ill effects on her health and how Postum Food Coffee restored her appetite, stabilized her blood, and ended dizziness and irritability. She credits improved health to Postum and cites the company and its advertising book The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
N. Y
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
The Pulpit Sermon on Morally Healthful Amusements
The Rev. Dr. M. B. Harlan at First Church of Christ in Brooklyn discusses Problems of Power for Plain People focusing on The Problem of Morally Healthful Amusements. He argues the church must balance pleasure with duty and warns against excess in theatres dances and seas of amusement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
N. Y
M. B. Harlan
First Church of Christ
Church
Marcel
Rome
Corinth
Ephesus
Trajan
Gibbon
Jay
Spain
A Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson for a Family
The text presents a family prayer seeking unity, peace, forgiveness, courage, and perseverance. It asks for grace to endure trials, strength to forgive others, and loyalty to loved ones, ending with a plea for mercy through Christ. The passage reflects devotional language from Stevens works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Stevens
The Gracious Invitation to All People
A Sunday School commentary on Isaiah 55 conveys an inviting message: God calls the thirsty to come receive free nourishment and life through the covenant. It contrasts earthly bread with the bread of life, explains repentance, mercy, and pardon, and notes God’s thoughts and ways are higher than human. The passage ends with a vision of universal joy, renewal, and the gospel’s spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Abraham
David
Chist
Messiah
Jehovan
Reheval
Israel
British Cotton Growth Drive Aims Abroad
A well organized effort by British cotton manufacturers seeks to grow cotton in colonies and other nations with favorable conditions, excluding the United States. The movement is led by the British Cotton Growing association and reported by Consul Halstead in Birmingham Magland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cotton Manufacturers of
Great Britain
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Halstead
Birmingham
Magland
British Cotton Growing Association
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Kline
B. H. Kurve, Ltd
Arch St
Phila
Vienna
Peatrees
Russell Gray
Bridge & Garden Sts
Bridesburg
Philadelphia
Bridge & Garden Stu
Kansas City Journal
Feosa Adams
Wellville
M. E. Harlan
Coney Island
Jacob
Ruth
Catgenies
Rockefellers
Eliot
Harvard
Clement Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson's Prayer
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
Lord Beaconsfield
America
New York Central Lines
Montreal
New Orleans
Chicago
St. Louis
Great Central Railway System of America
Messrs. Beardmore
Glasgow
Allen
Shos
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Savings Banks of Canada
Pisa
Jozx P. Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Girarfe
Dean
5I Burn Co
Vario
Jeannette Rochester
Candy Gatharth
Iace
Cascarets
C.C.C
Sterling Remedy Company
New
LION
Lion Raat Lae
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo, Ohi
McNeill & Libby
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