Open Letter Claims Exclusive Use of Castoria Trade Mark
Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannis Massachusetts asserts in court the exclusive right to use Pitchers Castoria and the Castoria name. He states the original product bears the CNASEL FLETCHER signature and warns no one else is authorized to use the name besides The Centaur Company with Charles H Fletcher as president. March 8 1897.
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Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Cnasel Fletcher
Mothers of America
Chas
Fletcher
Centaur Company
Chas. H. Fletcher
Samuel Pitch. M.D
Great canal to connect Baltic and Black Sea planned
A vast canal project spanning about 1000 miles will link the Baltic to the Black Sea. Surveys nearly complete, spring commencement planned. Width 217 feet at water level, 117 feet at bottom, depth 28 to 14 feet. About 875 miles will use canalized rivers, leaving 125 miles to be excavated. Estimated cost 100 million dollars.
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Baltic
Black Sea
Ayer Calendar 1893 Edition Arrives In Philadelphia
The 1893 N. W. Ayer calendar from Philadelphia has arrived and is ready for distribution. Noted for clear figures readable from across a room, the handsome printer’s piece has seen its edition doubled in recent years. Priced at 25 cents, mail delivery is included in perfect condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. W. Ayer & Son
Philadelphia
Wise to Defer Action
Report on a legal dispute touching a will where Gummey hints at a claim under Mr. Tiff’s late wife’s will. Gargoyle notes the risk of pursuing such a challenge while the testatrix remained alive.
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Gummey
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Nurse Mother Gray of the Children's Home in New York promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders to ease feverishness teething disorders and digestive troubles. It claims over 10,000 testimonials and lists druggists selling the 24 cent remedy with free samples.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Dr Kay's Long Balm Advert Leniency and Claims
An old clipping promotes Dr Kay's Long Balm and Renovat or, claiming relief for coughs lung and throat trouble. It includes patient testimonials from a Rev J D Dear and a Mrs McBride and offers free advice a medical booklet and samples from Dr B J Kay Medical Co Omaha Nebraska.
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J.D. Dear
M.E. Church
Bpring Hill
Jown
Dr. Kay
Tean
Phive Sidan
Kay
Kiv
Medical company touts Thyroin V.V. cures at Kansas City labs
A Jackson County medical society discussion prompts a reporter to visit Van Vleck Minter Co. in Kansas City. The firm claims thyroid derived remedies cure goitre idiocy nervous diseases insanity stunted growth indigestion rheumatism and chronic malnutrition. They showcase samples and a blue book New Life and invite private confidential inquiries from sufferers nationwide.
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Jackson County Medical Society
Missouri
Thyroin V. V
van Vleck- Minter Co
Kansas City
van Vieck
The Lost Louisiana Mine Believed Found Near Arkansas
Stock trader Martin Lowery claims possession of land 17 miles southwest of Flat Springs Arkansas tied to the lost Louisiana gold mine. He envisions shafts and wealth once enriching Spaniards, Indians, and pirates, with a 1850 New Orleans Mining Company reward spur to searchers.
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Louisiana
Martin Lowery
Flat Springs
Ark
Captain Kidd
Lowery
New Orleans Mining Company
Arkansas
New Orleans
Lost Louisiana mine claim draws interest and doubt
The piece reports on A J Perns and later prospectors seeking the Lost Louisiana mine in the Ozarks near Rockport and Hot Springs, Arkansas, with claims of rich ore and 6 percent gold value found nearby, plus a New York glove invention touted as perspiration proof using oil silk lining. The account notes financier Lowery’s assertions of ownership and public attention.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
Doctor’s Pink Pills Said to Cure Daughter’s Illness
The Tucker family of Versailles Indiana credit Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing their 15 year old daughter Lucy after months of weakness and nervous illness. The testimony notes rapid improvement after starting the pills and asserts sustained health thereafter.
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Veranilles
Tuckers
Versailles
Ind
Lucy
Tucker
Dr. Williams
An Unlawful Jest Dialogue on Marble Will Tampering
A humorous exchange recalls breaking legacies in eras when wills were carved on marble slabs. The dialogue contrasts easy manipulation with marble era constraints, highlighting skepticism about testament integrity.
Cascarets Promote Clean Blood and Beauty
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a beauty aid by purging impurities and purifying the blood. It claims improved skin and a healthy liver, urging readers to begin today with ten cent, twenty five cent, or fifty cent options.
Mother's-in-Law Turn Dialogue Sparks Domestic Feud
A brief exchange reveals tension as inquiries about a son-in-law’s behavior surface. The daughter’s husband is described as punctual barely home before midnight and consistently in the same condition upon arrival, hinting at underlying family conflict.
Coughing Leads to Consumption Warns of Dangers
An old advertisement warns that coughing can lead to consumption and promotes Kemp's Balsam as a quick cough remedy. It offers a sample bottle free and lists 25 and 50 cent bottle sizes while noting dangers from delays.
French Tax on Betting Revenue Declares $1.5 Million
The French government imposes a tax on race course betting. Last year this levy raised about 1.5 million dollars in revenue for the state.
No-Lo-Bac Promise Ads From Sterling Remedy Co
Early 1900s advertisement urges quitting tobacco with No-lo-Bac a claimed wonder worker to make weak men strong. Reads like a patent medicine pitch offering a free booklet and sample from Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or New York with exhortations and moral platitudes.
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Addreasy Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Sterling Remedy Co
Montreal
Spencer Alderman Claims Hair Vigor Restored Color
Alderman S. J. Green of Spencer Iowa recounts four months of rapid hair loss stopped after using Ayer’s Hair Vigor for three months. He reports hair cessation of shedding and restoration of gray hair to its natural dark brown, and he recommends the product. Ayer’s Curebook offering a 100 page story of cures is advertised free by the J G Ayer Co.
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S. J. Green
Spencer
Iowa
Corn Solvent Returns After Quarter Century
A chemist recalls a remedy from about 25 years ago said to cure every corn in the neighborhood and now prepares to reintroduce it for the next generation.
Fragment from dialogue about a young person’s clear head
Conversation reveals Maud praises Blank as having a clear head while Clara notes there is nothing in it implying dullness or emptiness.
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Maud
Young Blank
Clara
Letters From The Restored Cures For Os Drops
Advertorial letters praise Os drops a remedy claimed to ease rheumatism neuralgia asthma and related ailments. Sample letters show a SpringfieldMass user walking without a crutch and a Chicago firm offering 5 drops samples prepaid for 25 cents with discounts on larger bottles over a 30 day period.
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Main &J
Springfield
Mass
A. Spring
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Manners in Congress Read by Mr Snaggs
Mrs Snaggs asks for reading aloud while Mr Snaggs agrees to read a speculative article from the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph about manners in Congress, preferring practical discussion over purely speculative disquisitions.
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Mrs. Snaggs
Mr. Snaggs
Congress
Pittsburg
Spraying Outfits Catalog Offers Fruit Crop Guidance
The article urges readers to write Wm. Stahl, B I C H St. Quincy IN, to obtain his catalogue describing twenty one styles of Spraying Outfits and a full treatise on spraying different fruit and vegetable crops. It promises valuable information and is framed as a practical necessity for pest and disease prevention.
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Wm. Stahl Bich
Quincy
Photography and art in the era of cheap reproduction
The Contemporary Review criticizes photography for cheapening art by appealing to a public that favors machine made and shallow images. It argues photography aids illustration but harms original artistic effort and questions whether mass photos of historic events or buildings replace costly, crafted engravings and etchings.
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Contemporary Review
England
Strand Magazine
Sketch
Empire
Carpaccio
Piranesi
Old London Bridge in a Century of Change and Water Works
Three hundred years ago London bridge looked strikingly different with side houses chapels and signs on each shopfront. In 1582 Dutchman Peter Morris built a Thames water engine beneath the bridge earning a 500 year lease and profits that grew the family wealth until 1701. About 1710 Mr Sorvcold then figures in the tale.
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London Bridge
Thames
Peter Morris
Considerabe Beneft
Morris
Sorvcold
Water Wheel Invention Powered By Tidal River Flow
The article describes a water wheel system with four wheels about sixty feet in circumference and nineteen foot axles. They rise and lower with river fullness, driven by tidal movement. Water is lifted through cylinders, reaching up to 120 feet high, moving over 2,000 gallons per minute and nearly 3,000,000 gallons daily.
Moving Appeal At Suburban Culture Event
A suburban city entertainment drew attention for a dress code item on admission cards urging ladies to remove hats as far as possible, noted by the Boston Transcript.
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Boston Transcript
Cure for Female Sterility Promoted by Vegetable Compound
An article touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a treatment for female sterility caused by general debility and uterine displacements. It cites a Jersey City testimonial from Mrs Lucy Lynn praising the medicine, claiming it cured pains and infertility after doctors failed, and mentions the remedy’s nerve-toning properties and advice to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass for guidance.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Jersey City
Belvin Hospital
Quack Remedies and Advertisements Notice
A fragmented page lists various patent medicines and tonics such as Athlophoros cures rheumatism and Cee to cough balsam, plus bowel and liver tonics. It also includes tobacco cures, digestion aids, teething syrups, and a smoke product with pricing. a local farm sale and unrelated moral snippets are mentioned.
Discharge and Medical Ads Include Quinine Cold Cure
The notice mix mentions a discharge, walking papers, and a medical ad for Dr. H H Green's Sons of Atlanta claiming free dropsy treatment. It also promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee and a caution about poor luck at potlucks with strangers.
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H. H. Green
Atlanta
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Western Hemisphere
Saline County
Frank Tucker
Mars
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Beauty
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A. Salzer Seed CO
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Wise
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C. J. Broughton
Monadnock Building
Wall Street
Charles Krughes
Chi
Sample Free, Jr
Trank May
Bloomington, IL
Bates BE. Coleman
Washington
South
W.h.crawford & Co
Southern Colonisers
Nashville
Tenn
Thompson
Hop
Boston
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Old London Bridge
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J. Mulhall
Sioux City
Athlophoros Co
New Timeen
Conn
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John W. Morris
Washington, D.C
U. S. Pension Bureau
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Hallet & Davis
Hallet & Davis CO
Wabash Ave
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Express
Alaska
Ant
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