Notre Dame widow offers home cure for female troubles
A postcard-style message from Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana promises free instructions for treating leucorrhoea ulceration displacements and other feminine ailments with a home method. It claims a cure can be guaranteed for about 12 cents a week and asks readers to share with others.
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Notre Dame Lady
Backing a Boss Through a Shop Window Joke
Spare Moments recalls a joke where Mike admits backing a horse and losing five pounds after the boss caused a shop window to be backed through. Pat questions if Mike ever bet before and he explains the sole bet ended with a £5 loss.
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Mike
Pat
Begorra
Very Low Colonist Rates via Nickel Plate Road Offered
Nickel Plate Road announces very low homeseeker rates to the West Northwest South and Southwest with long return limits and stopover privileges on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. One way colonist rates to the West and Northwest run Sept 15 to Oct 15 inclusive. For full information contact local agent or Asterlin Fort Wayne Indiana.
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Nickel Plate Road
A. Asterlin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Bargain Trade Quip Sparks Shopping Rivalry
In a playful exchange a wife questions why her husband shops at Slogo & Co. while he extols Fastime's faster checkout with a new contrivance that makes change come quickly. The banter highlights rival stores and consumer speed.
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Slogo & Co.’s
Fastime’s
Hall's Catarrh Cure Bold Cure Claim
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh and constitutional disease. It promises internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 to anyone not cured, with testimonials available by mail from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Fly Pills and warns about overcharging.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Special Worlds Fair Rates Through November 80th Inclusive
Nickel Plate line offers season 60 day and 15 day tickets with coach options valid seven days. On sale Sunday to Thursday weekly until November 24th. stop-over at Chicago. contact local agent or C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Indiana. Burton Las French Idaho congressman aged 29 dubbed Uncle Joe's baby. Rubber stamps and self-inking daters advertised. Princess of Wales noted as avid reader. Pancake flour promoted for easy breakfast. Sandwich Islanders weight bias noted.
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Chicago
C. A. Asterlin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Burton Las French
Idaho
Uncle Joe
Princess of Wales
Fibroid Tumors Cured Reported by Mrs Hayes
Letters from Mrs E F Hares of Roxbury Boston tell of fibroid tumor relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. First letter describes long treatment with no relief and severe symptoms. Second letter claims complete recovery and urges others to try the remedy.
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E. F. Harss
Dudley St
Roxbury
Boston
Mass
E. F. Hares
The Doorway to Love
A speaker wanders into a grim wood and confronts a desolate portal named Sorrow and Pain. Blood and Tears loom as two red lights guard the passage, yet the narrator breaks the bolts and passes through into Love in a dramatic, moody scene from Dla Heath in Lippincott's.
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Love Dla Heath
Lippincott’s
Cupid and the Mechanic Voice of a Swiss Courtship
In a quiet Swiss hotel Charles Barnard, a modestly successful composer, meets wealthy American Mrs Weston. Their evolving bond hinges on music, money, and honesty, culminating in a playful confession about a mechanical piano and a lighthearted vow to keep true to each other.
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Charlie Barnard
Switzerland
Charles Barnard
Srg
Uralite Test Shows Fire Resistant Hut Performance
At Fountain Hospital Buildings Tooting a practical fire test compared two huts. One with timber frame and corrugated iron exterior burned completely within thirty minutes. The second hut with timber frame and uralite interior with uralite facing remained intact, despite both being ignited simultaneously.
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Metropolitan Asylums Board
Fountain
Tooting
Aged Couple Celebrates Fifty Years Without Quarrel
An English book recalls an elderly couple found by a caller sitting by the fire. The husband boasted of fifty years of marriage without a quarrel. The wife added with a wink that their union was very conscientious yet very sad in its own way.
Engaged man advised to avoid club until marriage
A Chicago News blurb quotes a young man saying he must resign from his club after becoming engaged. The sage from Sageville counters that he only needs to keep away until he marries and settles down. The piece also notes the Philippine Islands cover about 140000 square miles, roughly the size of New York, New Jersey, and the six New England states.
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Sageville
Chicago News
Philippine Islands
New York
New Jersey
New England
Peruna Endorsed by Rear Admiral Hichborn in Washington
Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn, U S Navy, writes from Washington praising Peruna as a tonic and calling it the natural protection of the army and navy. He urges readers to obtain Dr Hartman’s free medical advice by writing to The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
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Philip Hichborn
United States Navy
Washington, D. C
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Faithful to the Host A Crusty Coachman Refuses to Leave
A lady dismisses her long time coachman for disobeying orders. He retorts with a grim pledge and recalls driving her to baptism and marriage and declares he will drive her to her funeral, mixing loyalty with defiant humor.
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John
Thought She Would Die Kidney Cure Story
Mrs Sarah Marine of Colorado Springs credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring her health after three years of backache and kidney illness. She reports rapid improvement within a week and full recovery after two boxes, with four months of good health since. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents, Foster Milburn Buffalo New York.
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S. W. Marine
Colorado Springs
Dean
Sarah Marine
Urain Street
Colo
Foster-Milburn
Buffalo
N. Y
Very Homelike Visit Transcript
Mrs Quiverful asks if the place was homelike during absence and Mr Quiverful confirms the children caused noise. Piso's Cure for Consumption is advertised as giving immediate relief for throat trouble at B Bierman in Leipsic Ohio in August.
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Quiverful
B. Bierman
Leipsic
Ohio
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