David Meekison and the Peruna banner years
The article lauds Mon. David Meekison as a prominent Ohio politician and congressman, famed for founding the Meekison Bank in Napoleon. It notes a lifelong battle with catarrh, claims Peruna brought relief after thirty years, and cites testimonials from actors like Carrie Thomas praising Peruna. Dr. Hartman offers free advice to readers.
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Mon
David Meekison
America
Meekison
Napoleon
Ohio
Hartman
David Meekigan
Pe-ru-na
Carrie Thomas
Peruna
Dr. Hartman
Eve Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Home Seekers Excursions From Chicago to the West
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers round trip excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays to many points in South Dakota North Dakota and other Western states at about one fare. See crops and affordable land. contact J A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago for rates routes and land prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee & Straul Railway
Chicago
Waukee
South Dakota
Orth Dakota
J. A. Miller
Divorced Women's Club Formed in Vienna
A club for divorced women has been established in the Austrian capital. Its aim is to provide home comforts for women who have divorced their husbands, offer legal aid to those seeking freedom from unhappy marriages, and push for reform of current marriage laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Divorced Women's Club
Allen's Foot Ease Ad Card From Utica Globe
Foot Ease powder marketed for swollen smarting feet corns bunions and chilblains. Claims cure for foot bites and fosters relief. Sample offered by mail in N Y. Ad includes address and price 25 cents. World’s injustice quote from Utica Globe notes nobler lives than noble deaths.
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Allen
Allen 5
Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Utica Globe
Wor Stomach Liver and Bowels Remedy Advised
An herbal GARFIELD TEA cure claims to restore normal digestion through stimulating stomach, liver and bowel action and ending indigestion. The promotion emphasizes natural action of digestive organs with herbal preparations.
Dropsy treatment ad and rambling quotes mix in column
The fragmentary text contains an advertisement note about Dr H H Greens Gone offering free dropsy treatment in Atlanta, ga, with a boast of a world renowned specialist and a general call to readers to try Hamlin’s Wizard oil for rhealgia and pain. It includes miscellaneous musings about men dying to become Angela and a quip about running a sewing machine.
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H. H. Green
Atlanta
Editor Mistake In Banquet Report Causes Gaffe
A witty exchange between a great statesman and a reporter centers on a banquet misread. The statesman notes the reporter’s inebriated report, and the reporter recalls the editor’s defense, saying the editor blamed no one yet deemed the speaker drunk.
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Great Statesman
Ball's Catarrh Cure Oath and Toledo Firm Notice
Frank J. Cheney senior partner of F. J. Cheney declares in Toledo that his firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn before A. W. Gleason, Notary, December 6. Ball's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Send for details. HENey & CO., Toledo, sold by druggists.
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Strata Ae Orid Curo
Toledo
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason Notary
Ee Heney & CO
Zinc Export Contracts Sealed for Europe Trade
Contracts have been made to export 50,000 tons of high grade zinc ore from the Missouri and Kansas mining district to Europe. European demand has risen as zinc ore grows scarce there, while U S smelters faced a surplus locally. The move is expected to sustain prices by absorbing excess supply.
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Europe
Missouri
Kansas
Remedy for the Grippe and Cape Horn Mentioned
Physicians recommend KHMP S BALSAM for grippe affecting throat and lungs. Get a bottle now to prevent pneumonia by keeping the cough loose and lungs clear. Also notes Cape Horn as the world’s greatest cape, a towering 8 000 foot mountain.
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Cape Horn
Maple City Self Washing Soap Promises Easy Laundry
An advertisement touts Makes Washing Easy Maple City Self Washing Soap as saving time and effort while protecting fabrics. The appeal centers on convenience and neighborly guidance to try the product once. The slogan emphasizes communal value and practical laundry benefits.
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Maple City
Law gives reward to barking dog owner in Basutoland case
In Basutoland a leopard hunt ended with a hunter spearing the animal only after a man held it, warned by a barking dog. Basuto law awarded the reward to the dog’s owner, since the dog’s bark first alerted villagers and unlocked the sequence leading to the kill.
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Basutoland
English and American views on women education compared
A London Daily Mail writer praises American college opportunities for poor and rich girls, noting affordable tuition and broad access. The piece argues American social trust for coed students contrasts with English norms and questions England's need for the American model to raise English womanhood and discipline of mind amid economic struggles.
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London Daily Mail
America
England
Army Surgeon Wasp Woman Murray Hall Case Echo
The New York Press recalls Dr James Barry as a British Army inspector general of hospitals and notes Murray Hall’s case, describing a slight beardless man with feminine voice who lived as a woman, and left orders to be buried standing. The piece highlights gender disguise in medical history and questions fulfillment of burial wishes.
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Murray Hall
James Barry
New York Press
German Death Illusion Sparks Fresh Burial Fears
The Chicago Record reports on Parisian doctors testing life absence by a candle flame on a corpse cuticle to reveal vital spark. The method distinguishes living serum from nonliving matter. Meanwhile in Japan an anti vice crusade allows inmates of legalized houses to leave by choice, with Christian reformers freeing around 40 in the past two years.
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Germany
Emil Henzel
Chicago
Japan
Ancient Spring Health Gain Promoted as Nervura Remedy
The piece extols spring as the moment for renewal and endorses Dr Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy as the premier spring tonic. It quotes Stoughton L. Burnham of Manchester praising its energizing effects and notes physicians recommend the remedy. It closes with a census citing paupers in England Scotland and Ireland and a related public cost.
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Greene
Green
Dr. Greene
W. 14Th St
New York City
England
Scotland
Ireland
Quack Remedies and Random Sayings From 1900s Ads
A collage of old time remedies and advice including Maple City Soap for yellowed clothes, Bart’s Caps for Colds, Piso’s Cure, and Laxative Quinine. Mentions advertising jobs, Niagara Falls water, and Lady Flake, linking throat cures, dyes, and teas with generic guarantees and age of gold pens.
Stamp collecting quip echoes in domestic joke
A wife questions a husband about buying many stamps. He replies that the bulk ensures there will be some that won’t stick together, delivering a dry, humorous domestic line typical of light newspaper humor.
Should Be in Every Household Jar of Rubefacient
An advertisement urges keeping a rubefacient jar in every home claiming it helps internal inflammation and rapidly counters pneumonia diphtheria la grippe. It prompts readers to write to the Rubefacient Co. in Newton Upper Falls Massachusetts for a free booklet.
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Rubefacient Co
Newton Upper Falla
Mass
Montana
Mentans Co-Operative Wanch Co
Great Falls
Newtans
Deep Sea Communings and a Foot Ease Advertisement
A humorously odd exchange quotes a starfish and barna cle on marine architecture from the Chicago Tribune. The ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease free sample offer for curing foot sweat swelling and pain with a 25 cent price at druggists and shoe stores.
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Starfish
Chicago Tribune
Can't Follow the Game Cartoon Exchange
A humorous exchange features Uncle Geehaw from Hay Corners and a city nephew as they discuss a score. Uncle Geehaw misreads the idea of a score, asking who is ahead, adding a comic regional flavor to the cartoon panel.
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Uncle Geehaw
Hay Corners
Grand Opera
Puck
Fragmented Ad Fragments Mix Quotes and Remedies
A garbled old notice practitioners a mix of aphorisms and product claims. It mentions Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Bee Balsam style remedies and invokes a vague moral line about law. The text hints at advertising and cautionary lines about enforcement without clear context.
The Duty of Mothers Instructing Daughters
The piece argues mothers cause or contribute to women’s suffering through neglect or ignorance and urges mothers to seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It emphasizes mothers should not hesitate to obtain medical guidance for their daughters and highlights free advice from Mrs. Pinkham.
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Niss
Angela
Hamiln
Bagute
Brooklyn Citiz_s
Gro
W. Bowels
Baird
Mias
Gome
MR. Stoughton L. Farnham
Dyapepsia
Dr. Shoop
Racine, Vic
Bart
Daniel Webster
Piso
WM. O
Espscay
Vanburen
Ind
City of
New York
Monarch Manufacturing Co
Springfeld
Niagara
Grove
Ehc
Putnam
Great Britain
Flake
London
Thackeray
Jenny Lind
Dickens
Kemp
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Ovid
White
Soe
Miss
Pialzgras
August Pfalzgraf
South Byron
Wis
Mrs. Pinkham
Oklarom Orrence
Morgan
Lettler
Dick T. Morgan
Perry
C. T
Stam Eureka Myc. Co
Dept. P. East &J. Louis
ENS Si
John W. Morris
Washington, D. C
U.S
Atty
Sluce
Roy
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed CO
Lacrosse, Wis
Canada
Sealiveyon
Orgament of Interior
Ottawa
C. Broughton
Monadnock Block
E. T. Holmes
Ouy Four
Indianapolis
Inc
Southern Farms
Southern
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
J. F. Olsen
L. & I. Dept
Southern Railway
Dearborn St
M. W. Richards
Washington,d.c
Co. C. Hamilton
Hampton
Repubiie Co
Kan
Elstern
Enaytering
J. EE. Caswell, Agt
Belleville
Kaw
Jacob Kozarth
Knox
Great Palouse
Miles
Miller
Colton
Washington
United States
Thomas County
Kay
Colby
Dakin
Wisconsin
Wittenberg Land
Wittenberg
HI A. m. Grees
Bex KR Atinsta. Ge
Thompson
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