Lydia E Pinkham remedy praised in women’s health appeal
A testimonial praised Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for common female ailments. The letter from Miss Exizanera Davey of Chicago recounts recovery after ovarian trouble and urges others to try the medicine, claiming it stronger than doctors for cures. Barmaid Tate Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Chicago
Exizanera Davey
Loomis St
Ill
St. Ruth’s Court
Order of Forgesters
America
Lydia Binkham
Thacher Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
Doan's Kidney Pills Back Aid Reported in Letter
A reader from Aurora New Mexico describes rapid improvement in a nine year old girl with bed wetting after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The letter claims direct bladder effect and relief from aching backs swelling limb fluids dropsy and urine issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
New Mexico
Doan
J. C. Lucero
Deanz
Czar’s Easter Gift Acknowledges Siberian Convict Chess Board
A Siberian convict sent as an Easter gift to the Czar attracted special attention. The hollow hazel nut held a carved bone chessboard, with each piece meticulously crafted by the convict who had spent months on the work.
Pears in Syrup Preserve Recipe Note
A household instruction describes preparing peaches on toast with half peaches, then making a lemon custard sauce over eggs, and boiling pears in a cinnamon flavored vinegar sugar syrup before sealing in jars for long storage.
Preserve Cherry Jelly With Sugar and Egg White
Weigh fruit and sugar with 1.5 pounds of leaf sugar per pound of fruit, add half a pint water and one egg white. Stone cherries, heat gently in a preserving kettle until juice starts, then press through a jelly bag. Boil sugar mixture with water and whites, skim to rich and transparent, add juice, freeze as for ice cream.
Mutton Cutlets Sautéed With Ham Breadcrumbs and Tomato Sauce
An old kitchen method describes simmering neck of mutton cutlets with vegetables then chilling trimming scraping bones and topping with potted ham. The cutlets are breaded fried in hot fat until pale gold, dried, and served on mashed potato with tomato sauce.
Household Hints From Practical Cleaning and Preservation
This note lists simple care tips for kitchen ware and table items. It covers preserving fruit flavors by avoiding hot water on onions, cleaning decanters with rice, ammonia, and hot water, and maintaining brass bowls, chafing dishes, reed bound plant holders, glass salt spoons, and ice boxes with weekly hot suds and ammonia. It also describes repurposing a brass woodbox for magazines and papers and outlining weekly ice box sanitation steps.
Peruna touted by U S Treasury official for summer catarrh
Letter from Washington cited Judson W. Lyons praising Peruna as an excellent remedy for catarrhal affections in spring and summer. Women writers share relief from dyspepsia and headaches after using Peruna, with claims of weight gain and improved health. Also notes enforcement against New Orleans ticket scalpers David Pike and J T Smith, fined and imprisoned for violating an injunction on Reunion tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Lyons, Este
United States Treasury
Washington, D. C
Judson W. Lyons
Augusta
United States
Camilla Chartier
West Lexington St
Baltimore
Cummer Catarrh
Kate Bohn
Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
New Orleans
David Pike
J. T. Smith
Boarman
Smith
Nerve Restorer Claims Quick Relief and Other Ads
An assortment of old time ads and notes claims Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer cures fits after one day’s use. Also promotes Allen’s Foot Ease to ease tight shoes and foot ailments. Includes praise for Piso’s Cure, dye products, and a light social note about a New York wedding and President Roosevelt with Seth Bullock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kline
R. H. Kursu
Allen
Allen, Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Roosevelt
Seth Bullock
White House
Seth
Deadwood
Estate of Jacob S. Rogers Valued at Eight Million
The Rogers estate, built by locomotive maker Jacob S. Rogers of Paterson New Jersey, is inventoried at just over eight million dollars. Most of the estate goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Trenton. Executors' fees total two hundred fourteen thousand dollars, the largest such fee recorded in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob S. Rogers
Paterson, N. J
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Trenton
New Jersey
Cuticura skin cures promised for eczema and humours
An ad extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent as cures for eczema scales psoriasis acne and other skin and blood humours. It claims instant relief and permanent improvement with a full treatment method and worldwide availability, listing prices and the vendors in London Paris Boston and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charterhouse
Rue de la Paix
Boston
Columbus Ary
Otter Prk, & Chem. Corp
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Easant OM
JER Medicine Company
Atlanta, Ga
Grippe
Battie Creer
Mic
Dean
Grand Trunk R. R
Gro. Grrrorp
Pury
W. Va
Hooff
Point Pleasant
Jas
A. Larkaz
Adaeyne Police
Post-office
Wasp
Belt
Nicaragua
Register OF the U. S. Treasury
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Russia
J. W. O’brien
Third Avenue
Minneapolis
Minn
The
Amazon
Grace Seeley Henop
Robbie Peyster Tytus
New York
Grace Church
Broadway
10Th Street
Dolly Madison
Ayer
F. A. Soule
Billings, Mont
J.C. Ayer CO
Lowell, Mass
Lass With & Glass Af
Rootbeer
Chas. B. Hires Co
Malvern
Cuticura
H. Hattox
Ecra
Miss
Ohio
Cima
H.H
Ment
Rairel
Ita, Ga
D. Ad
Theis Ant
Iad
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Wilson
Thompson
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