Advert for Peruna cures long illness and promises free advice
A reader from Indianapolis shares a testimonial about recovery from a months long run down constitution after using Peruna following a physician and druggist recommendations. The letter highlights appetite recovery sleep improvement and full restoration within a couple of months. It invites readers to write Dr Hartman for free medical advice and ends with a poetic reflection from The Spectator on life and fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella
Linden St
Indianapolis
Ind
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Women Health
Thousands of American women report restoration of health and vigor after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts ster ling worth, claims cures for menstrual and uterine ailments, and urges letters and advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Strawberry cocktails and frozen orange sauce recipe
Cut strawberries into halves or quarters and chill. Mix with fruit juices and a little sugar, then pour over berries in cocktail glasses and serve very cold. Frozen orange sauce combines sugar syrup with eggs and orange juice, lemon juice, cream, and stiffly beaten egg whites, then chilled or frozen.
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Boston
Magaazine
Scotch Scones Recipe From Old Kitchen Note
Lift together three cups of Scotch oatmeal, one of wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add a teaspoonful of salt. Scald two cups of sweet milk and stir into it two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of sugar. Make a hollow in the flour and oatmeal, and when the butter is melted stir into the meal. Roll into a sheet and bake on a hot griddle until brown, then serve hot with butter.
Fruit Salad with Pineapple and Cream Decoration
Select small pineapples and scoop cores. Chop peeled nectarines and grapes. Mix orange juice with sugar and ice. Fill pineapples, top with mixed fruit dressing, and decorate with kept grapes. Whip cream with sugar and maraschino, fold lightly. Arrange moss garnish on tray and serve cold.
Household hints from old time and a Lords note
A collection of domestic tips including lemon juice to remove rust and cure a cold, kerosene in starch for ironing, clover as a deodorant filling, oilcloth under doilies, lemon juice to gel fruit juices, grease stain removal by hot water and soap, and a method to bleach almonds. Also notes on flies repelled by kerosene and jelly remoulding, plus an aside about seven British Lords with combined ages totaling 625 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Lords
Coded medal tale and odd notes from bygone era
An 1874 Dudley poultry show prize medal reappears when a fish swallows the winner's gold disc, later found in a cod’s stomach near Wansbeck. The tale involves Drysdale’s son and a Blyth reader, with a digression on Chinese New York population estimates and a Thibet mineral report. Advertisements for cure-all tonics and Blood Balm conclude the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Drysdale
Dudley
Staffordshire
England
Blyth
Man to Build Shanty in Family Graveyard
Israel M. Barnes of North Scituate Massachusetts plans to give up his eight room Scituate road house to construct and inhabit a three room shanty in his family's private graveyard beside the tombs of his great grandparents and parents. Relatives oppose the plan and seek legal action to block construction. Barnes cites lack of affordable land nearby and says he will live in the cemetery with his 19 year old son and 14 year old daughter while a rental market remains favorable for his house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel M. Barnes
North Scituate
Mass
Scituate Road
Barnes
Gave His Life for Bride in Belgian Deathbed Wedding
Vansevern, a young man, married his bride on his deathbed in Courtrai Belgium after a fatal quarrel with his father who fired a gun during the dispute. He had sought his father's consent, which was withheld, and the wedding occurred as his condition deteriorated. The bride fainted at the ceremony and the groom died minutes later.
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Vansevern
Courtrai
Belgium
Coffee Causes Vomiting and Health Restored by Postum
A Iowa clergyman recounts his wife’s violent vomiting linked to coffee from 1896 and a second attack the following July. After stopping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee, the symptoms disappeared and they credit Postum for their renewed health. The testimonial is attributed to the Postum Company of Battle Creek, Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Postum Company
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellyilie
Odette Tyler Praises Dean’s Kidney Pills in Note
Odette Tyler, famed American stage star and playwright, endorses Dean’s Kidney Pills in a grateful note. The letter, signed O Dhith Tyler, is printed by Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York, with a price of 60 cents per box and notes availability from all dealers. Rome has seminaries i Pig mg representing eighty-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odette Tyler
Doan
America
Miss Tyler
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Odhith Tyler
Cure After Fifteen Years of Torture with Cuticura
A user with fifteen years of scalp and body sores reports severe itching and pain. After three days of Cuticura soap and ointment, the scalp clears. one cake of soap and one box of ointment complete the cure in a week. Signed H. B. Franklin, Allegheny, Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Franklin
Washington St
Allegheny, Pa
Gotham trolley birth noted in city paper item
A baby was born recently on a Gotham trolley car. The snippet mentions remedies like Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup and Piso s Cure for Consumption and cites N W Samoza of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900. Cromwell boards of trade idea is noted as origin.
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N. W Samoza
Ocean Grove
N.J
Gotham
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Ella Off
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Selca
Sancan
New York
Thibet
Kline
R. H. Kurz, Ltd
Phila
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Rome
Perse
Stan Gaal
Business College
Macon
Mozizy
Mozley
Model Shirt CO
Nathan Bickford
Washington, D. C
I. A. Madden
Atlanta,Ga
Druggista
Grocers Everywhere Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Candy Cathartig
Ima
Chae
Orchard Wlaten
P Mark
Crab Orchard Water CO
Louisville, Ky
R. Paxton
Mas
H. H. Green
Pratt,Eagle, Smith Winship
Munger
Berge
Continental Gin Co
Llette
N. Avante
Uae
Birmingham
Shis
Tenn
Dallas, Tex
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