Practical Kindness From The American Tobacco Co To Soldiers
During wartime, The American Tobacco Co. provided tobacco free of charge to U S soldiers and sailors. They distributed over one hundred thousand pounds of Battle Ax Plug and Dukes Mixture and bought fifty thousand briar pipes at a total cost of fifty to sixty thousand dollars. Headquarters were set up in camps and hospitals nationwide, and thirty U S ships in Cuban waters shared the rations. The act is cited as corporate goodness in grim times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Tobacco Co
U.S
United States ‘Army
United States
Cuban
Fragmented OCR Advice Turns Into Erratic Pastiche
The text combines scattered phrases about accusing someone of blowing up a ship a scolding husband a health tonic and a youth who scratches for living. It reads as a garbled collage of 19th or early 20th century ad and news fragments lacking coherent narrative or identifiable events.
Handsome plaques offered with Elastic Starch sales
The J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co. promote free collectible plaques showing American wild ducks pheasants quail and English snipe to customers buying three ten cent packs of Elastic Starch. The offer ends October 10 and plaques are given in grocers not by mail.
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J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co
Messra
Briggs and Indianaplis Journal quip about air supply costs
Briggs complains about air liquefying efforts and monthly advance charges to a trust before breathing. The Indianapolis Journal quotes a sharp exchange questioning the need to pay upfront rates for air, highlighting frustration with the proposal.
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Briggs
Indianapolis Journal
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy
Classic Teething remedy promoted for infants claiming to relieve crying and pain. Advertising notes it cures diarrhea regulates stomach and bowels relieves wind colic softens gums and adds energy. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty two cents a bottle per claims in the ad.
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Mrs. Winslow
WiNsLow
Canary Exhibition Opens in Vienna Club Pushes Canary Raising
The Canary Club of Vienna opens a canary exhibition to aid working people by raising canaries for income. About 1,500 native canaries and over 500 Dutch variety birds are displayed.
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The
Canary Club of
Vienna
Chats With Mothers Free Book Offer
An offer to obtain a free book that teaches mothers how to manage common illnesses and throat troubles, including croup measles scarlet fever diphtheria quinsy and dyspepsia with simple guidance. Write to Muco-Solvent Co Chicago Illinois.
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Muco-Solvent Co
Chicago
Hard Times in Havana Stir Tableside Debate on Mule Dishes
A Philadelphia Times remark mocks Havana cuisine by asking if mule meat is served table d hôte or a la carte, illustrating a harsh jab at local hardship and food scarcity.
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Havana
Philadelphia Times
No-Tos Tobacco Quit Aid Ad
An old advertisement promotes No-Tos Bac as a magnetic life enhancer for quitting tobacco. It claims to make weak men strong and offers a booklet and sample free from Sterling Remedy Co. with Chicago or New York addresses.
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Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Fell From a Scaffold Paralyzed Man Recovers With Pills
John Young of LeRoy New York, 72, fell twenty two feet while placing weather boards on a barn. He sustained paralysis on one side, doctors gave him up, but after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People he regained movement and strength in weeks. The article touts the pills as a universal remedy.
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John Young
LeRoy
N. Y
Ferald
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Testimonials
A historical catalog-style note promotes Hull's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy. It claims internal dosing, blood and mucous tissue action, and a $100 cure promise with druggist availability through Hall's Family Pills.
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Hull
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Cheney & CO
Crook Seeks Safe Maker Amid Burglary Satire
In a North American cartoon caption a burglar rests in a banker’s chair and asks for the safe maker’s name after failing to breach the lock. The burglar muses about selling a recommendation to the makers, boasting seven hours of work.
Profit From A Large Whales Capture Described
A single captured whale yields substantial profit with a 59 foot specimen weighing 140000 pounds. It provides 60000 pounds of blubber from which 48000 pounds of train oil are produced and 3000 pounds of whale bone.
Cascarets Candy Cleanse for Pimples and Complexion
Advertises Cascarets candy as a blood cleanser that stirs the liver and drives impurities from the body. Claims to banish pimples boils blotches blackheads and a bilious complexion. Available at druggists for 10 25 or 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
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Kay
No Hobson Says Brutal Man Slights Woman’s Help
In Atchison Globe style a brutal young man is defined as someone who would tell a girl offering to mend his gloves that there is a hole in her father's coat. The remark illustrates harsh social attitudes of the era.
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Atchison Globe
Home in Texas land sale ad and odd notes
An 1898 advertisement promotes 80 000 acres for sale in Texas in connection with Southern Texas Colonization Co. It urges readers to request full particulars from Chicago offices and includes assorted asides on longevity of carp and a drug capsule product.
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Texas
Chesterville
Colorado Co
Tex
Southern Texas Colonization CO
Rialto Bidg
Chicago, Ill
Blind Tom Alive We Live an Almost Tomblike Life at Navesink
The article portrays Blind Tom living a secluded life at Navesink with no visitors allowed. It notes he has long been the subject of lawsuits and maintains a reclusive, almost tomblike existence.
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Navesink
Blind Tom the famed pianist seen by New Jersey cabman
A New York Letter recounts an attempted visit to Blind Tom in 1893 at the Lerche household in Navesink Highlands New Jersey. Locals describe his shy, ritual singing and piano-like finger motion on the platform at a train stop, his hymn-only Sundays, and his guarded life amid legal talk about his fate.
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New York
Blind Tom
Inquirer
Tom
East Twenty-first Street
Albert J. Lerche
Navesink Highlands
Shay’s
Hay
Shay
Blin
Ler-shay
Navesink
Nehtlands
End of the road at the North Shrewsbury River cottage
A traveler visits a large riverside house once owned by O Rourke and now inhabited by Ler shay and Blin' Tom. The scene includes barking dogs, a driver, and a distant window glimpse of a muscular man named Bling Tom, with a fragmented vignette of a minstrel-era attraction and a separate note on a curious Port Delaware tree growing from Civil War caissons.
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Shrewsbury
O'Rourke
New York
Lershay
Jersey
Bim
Tom
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