Peruna praised in letters on catarrh cures from 1897
Letters from readers dating 1895 to 1900 describe Peruna as curing chronic constipation catarrh rheumatism and sleep issues. John O Atkinson and Alla Schwandt credit Peruna with long term relief and continued use. TheHartman Sanitarium offers free medical advice.
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Peruna
Manalin
John Wd. Atkinson
Atkinson
John O. Atkinson
Independence
Alla Schwandt
Sanborn
Minn
S. B. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Rain Tree of Colombia Reported in United States of Colombia
A tree growing near Moyobamba in Colombia is described as the rain tree. It absorbs vast moisture and releases it from leaves and branches, often soaking surrounding ground into a bog. The tree reaches about fifty feet tall and three feet in diameter, with the strongest effect in the dry season. Some suggest planting it in arid Peru to aid farmers.
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United States
Colombia
Moyobamba
Peru
Cravats of Wood Pulp In U S Market Pursuit
English capitalists push to introduce wood pulp silk cravats in the United States. The material, from South America with Paraguay supplying much, is used in upholstery filling and shows a silky finish from supercalendering. Local manufacturers await testing of artificial silk cravats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Paraguay
Bellows Falls Birds Show Season Split Club Records
The Bellows Falls Bird Club divided into two sides to name and count birds for 1904. One side listed 89 varieties, the other 83. Six varieties seen by the losing side but not the winner raise the club total to 95 named species.
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Bird Club
Bellows Falls
Dean's Kidney Pills Restore Strength, A North Carolina Farmer Testifies
J B Corton, a farmer from Depe, North Carolina, describes severe back pain and inability to walk or ride. After using Dean's Kidney Pills his back grew strong again and he regained energy, even lifting ten pounds and feeling twenty five years younger. He has shared pills with neighbors who saw benefits. Trial free from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Price fifty cents.
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Dean
J. B. Corton
Deppe
N. C
V. B. Corton
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
Dream Filling Recipe From Househeld
A vintage kitchen note describes heating two and a half cups of milk, whisking in a quarter cup flour and sugar, beating an egg, cooking seven minutes, then cooling to use as a filling. The instruction emphasizes flavoring and spreading as a dessert or pastry filling.
Indian Custard Fires Up A Sweet Bake
A historical recipe describes mixing seven eighths cup cornmeal with salt melted butter molasses ginger and hot milk then adding cold water and baking in a buttered dish for about two hours in a moderate oven. The method yields a dense sweet custard style pudding.
Meat filled pastry rounds and cream cake recipe
Chop meat or poultry and mix with highly seasoned gravy. Add two cups, plus one beaten egg. Roll rich paste thin, cut rounds, place meat on one half, seal edges, brush with egg, bake hot. Cream cake uses egg yolks and whites, sugar, flour, baking powder, bake, cool, split and fill.
Indian Pudding Recipe From Historic Household Text
Scald two quarts of wk and stir in one cup of cornmeal with enough cold milk to pour. Cook an hour in a double boiler, add one cup molasses a level teaspoon cinnamon a level teaspoon salt one cup sugar and four beaten eggs with two tablespoons melted butter. Bake slowly one hour in a buttered dish.
Potatoes and Peach Desserts From Simple Kitchen Dressings
A compact set of 1930s style kitchen steps. Boiled potatoes are to be pressed and dressed with dry mustard salt yolks of eggs onion juice olive oil and vinegar then molded into small cups and chilled. Peach sauce is made from drained peaches sugar and a light glaze. Bread rounds are fried with eggs milk and doughnut fat then topped with peach and cream and a hint of jelly garnish.
Household tips from an old notebook
A collection of practical household hints. Practical advice covers cooking, cleaning, fabric care, preserving lace color, starching, keeping ingredients from burning, and simple warming solutions for late meals. Includes salt and water uses, lace tinting, and warmers for supper.
Longest Pastorate on Record and Perplexing Pockets Note
The piece celebrates Rev. Laban Ainsworth’s seventy six and a half year pastorate across multiple churches starting in Spencerport New York and later Jaffrey New Hampshire. It also includes a quip about pockets in women’s clothing and a medical ad claiming deafness cures via constitutional remedies followed by an odd note about Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a blurb on the World’s Largest Hairpin Factory in England.
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Laban Ainsworth
Woodstock
Connecticut
Dartmouth College
Educational Institution of America
Spencerport
N. Y
Jaffrey, N. H
Hall
F.J. Cuznzx & Co
Toledo
Cure by Cuticura Told by Wisconsin Woman
Mrs Caroline Cable of Waupaca Wisconsin praises Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for curing her husband’s salt rheum on his hands after other remedies failed. The letter claims complete relief and smoother skin since treatment. The notice appears amid a collection of brief health goods and advertisements from early 1900s era papers.
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Caroline Cable
Waupoca
Wis
Seed Firm Promises Vast Vegetable Output
The editor reads about 10 000 plants priced at 16 cents each from John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin, a noted seed grower, claiming an extraordinary scale of vegetable production.
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Farra Sec
John A. Salzer
la Crosse
John A. Salzer Seed Co
Wis
Providence Grants Seventy-Year Span For Life’s Mission
The text argues Providence assigns each person at least seventy years to fulfill their purpose, and premature death is largely the individual’s fault. It frames life duration as a divinely allotted period and emphasizes personal accountability.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary L. Koehne
Garfield Avenue
Chicago
Ill
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