Strange Children and the Blessing of Lincoln Street
Historian George Bancroft enjoyed a joke from a Massachusetts country road tale relayed by Percy H. Epler in Master Minds at the Commonwealth's Heart. Levi Lincoln, nearly blind, was driving geese along Lincoln street when he tossed pennies to a flock, shouting God bless you, my children.
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George Bancroft
Massachusetts
Levi Lincoln
Percy H. Epler
Commonwealth
Lincoln Street
Three Cured Of Eczema By Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Violet Cole of Philadelphia recounts eight years of eczema before using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. She reports cures for herself and her children including ringworm and scalp symptoms. She praises the remedies and notes availability worldwide with a free treatment book from Potter Drug & Chem Corp.
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Violet Cole
S. Redfield St
Philadelphia
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Vintage ads and maxims mix in early 20th century catalog
A collage of product pitches and quotes from period advertisements and sayings. Highlights include Allen’s Foot-Ease claim for shoe comfort, Hicks cold remedy, eye salve in aseptic tubes, Garfield tea laxative, Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup, and moral proverbs.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Reader
A Chicago reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female health issues. The letter warns against substitutions and urges persistence with the remedy, claiming it has helped many women over thirty years and remains the standard treatment for women’s ailments.
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Chicago
Tll
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Janetzxi
Arch St
Ill
Better Roads by Stronger County Supervision and Bonds
A critique of wasteful hit or miss road work across the nation urges abandoning the labor tax skid and adopting a county level road district with a paid engineer and multiple gangs. It argues for a five year program of grading and drainage, state aided funding, and bond financing to build first class roads, starting with main routes and expanding mileage to lower costs and raise quality.
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Illinois
Department of Administration
Nity
Frank H. Hall
Aurora
Central West
Pittsburg
Denver
Minnesota
Florida
Why BattleShip Was Sent To Havana
Marine dispatch reveals how a misread cipher fueled panic in Havana as the Maine was ordered toward Cuba after a telegram mix up. John R. Caldwell of the Havana bureau learned the story from cryptogram errors and agent reports, and General Fitzhugh Lee doubted any warship would be sent without his request.
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Maine
Havana
John R. Caldwell
Caldwell
Olivette
Tampa
New York
Fitzhugh Lee
Washington
Herald
United States
Lee
Walter Scott Meriwether
Harper's Weekly
Jiggs Dream Ends Behind Bars in Hilltop Penitentiary
A humorous quip contrasts Jiggs dream of a big hilltop house with the reality that he is in the state penitentiary. The joke notes the irony of a grand residence becoming his confinement, framing the consequence as a punchline about fate and place.
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Jiggs
State Penitentiary
Appalling Excuse and Credit of 30 Days
A judge scolds a prisoner noting fifth appearance this term and grants a 30 day credit after remarking on the company he keeps. The passage ends with an advertisement for Elixir Babek claiming malaria cures and preventive uses backed by a Washington D C endorsement.
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Harper's Weekly
P. A. Simpson
W. A. Tel. Co
Washington, D. C
Kloczewski & Co
Washington D. C
Capudine and Garfield Tea Advertisements Mentioned
The fragment cites Capudine as a liquid headache remedy with prices 10c 2c and 50c and Garfield Tea claimed to regulate a lazy liver. It also includes casual lines about hypnotism and a quip on popularity, plus a note on city farmers sowing wild oats.
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Capudine
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Puck
Garfield
Turner & Cornwell Feather Dealers
Charlotte, N.C
Charleston
G.Q. Branning
U. S
Manta Barber College
Mitchell St
Atlante
Thompson
Barbee College
Richmond
Virginia
N. Y
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Southern Cotton Oil Co
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New Orleans
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