Miracle Cure for Eczema Promises Relief for Infants
A six month old boy with severe eczema improved rapidly after using Cuticura Soap, Treatment, and Resolvent. Within ten weeks his skin cleared completely, as claimed by F. Hohrath of the C. L. Hohrath Company in South Bethlehem Pennsylvania in a June 5 1905 statement. The clipping also reflects various brief notes on society and medicine.
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Ane
Grove
F. Hohrath
C. L. Hohrath Company
Rink Alley
Bethlehem
Glasgow to Install Record Substantial Wire Rope
The city to lay a seven mile long single length of patent crucible steel wire rope for a Glasgow traction project. It will measure four and five eighths inches in circumference and weigh about sixty tons. The rope will circle a district, cross the Clyde and operate at about sixty miles per hour.
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Glasgow
Lasgow
Clyde
Doans Kidney Pills Promoted In Midwestern Ad
An old advertisement promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills claiming cures for back pain and kidney issues. A Minnesota reader from Stillwater testifies to lasting relief since 1899, with exaggerated health revival claims. The copy mentions price, distributor, and other unrelated product claims.
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Minnesota
Doan
A. Heiman
Stillwater
Minn
Oster Milburn Co
Buffalo
Catarrh Cure Touted as Internal Remedy
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming to cure catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It asserts the medicine is a standard prescription from leading physicians and offers testimonials. Also mentions Hall's Pills for constipation and a note about memorial monuments.
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Hall
Cheney & ‘Co
Props
Toledo
Kefall
Revelations at Mordred and a Shadowed Past
Isabel Sleaford enjoys a restored peace at Warncliffe as Sigismund Smith arrives with tales of Roland Lansdell. A gray shadow from the prior affair lingers, with Lansdell unseen until amid the forest break the moment reveals him looming by the great oak.
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Graybridge
Mr. Lansdell
Mordred
Priory
Thurston’s
Isabel
Warncliffe
George Gilbert
Sigismund Smith
Isabel Sleaford
Mr. Smith
Sigismund
George
Warncliffe Meads
Roland Lansdella
Izzie
Eugene Aram
Roland Lansdell
Fersoy
Thurston's Crag
Chapter XIII Fainting Fears and Quiet Recovery
Mrs. Gilbert recovers swiftly after a fainting spell caused by Mr. Lansdell's tale and heat. She sits upright in the drawing room flanked by orphans as Brown Molly is harnessed. Gwendoline leaves with her father, disapproving of the incident. Roland pleads with Mr. Gilbert.
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Mrs. Gilbert
Picnic Plans Between Sigismund and Graybridge Host
Mr. Lansdell evinces ardent interest in Sigismund and arranges a rustic week at Graybridge. He invites Mrs. Gilbert and two amiable nieces to a Saturday bachelor picnic at Waverly, with a dangerous tower dining plan, and also invites to Mordred for Sunday dinner. Sigismund accepts, confirming the weekend social agenda.
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Lansdell
Sigismund
Graybridge
Gilbert
Isabel
Mordred
Roland Lansdell Plans a Waverly Picnic For Gwendoline
Roland Lansdell contemplates a planned bachelor picnic at Waverly avoiding Gwendoline and her father. He frets Gwendoline would object to Smith and the rustic gathering. Charles Raymond assists Isabel into the residence as the scene opens to Thurston’s oaken setting.
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Roland Lansdell
Gwendoline
Waverly
General Muysdale
Smith
Roland
Mr. Lansdell
Mr. Smith
Thurston’s Oak
Graybridge
Isabel
Parrot Ranch Profits and Linguist Holts Beats the Birds
Martin Holts of Victoria Mexico built a parrot ranch that houses several thousand birds in wire enclosures. He teaches parrots to speak English Spanish French and German and claims hundreds of educated birds after year one. The flock includes multilingual conversations among birds and a noted wealth from selling parrots to Americans and others.
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Martin Holts
Victoria
Mexico
San Francisco Call
Holts
Monterey and
Mexican Gulf
Mexican Central System
Tampico
Gulf Coast
Disguised Compliment on the Piazza Twilight
In autumnal twilight on the piazza, George compares a woman to a Chinese girl noting her small feet. She protests, but he reframes it as a compliment. She then embraces him, declaring him the sweetest man.
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United Stock Bank
Adam
Thomas Moore
Jack the Scribe
Jack the
Izzie
George Gilbert
Mr. Lansdell
Isabel
Sigismund
Thurston’s
George
Unfortunate Timing and Heist Report From Davenport
A Davenport, Iowa, man stole a diamond ring and swallowed it after his arrest. A photograph captured the position and the thief, using an emetic, coughed it up. Authorities discuss street dress restrictions in Nordhausen with a 30 mark penalty for sweeping garments.
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Eh Ale Lal
Peer Zire
Davenport
Narrow neckties guide fashion in white blouses and cuffs
A fashion note notes women pairing narrow colored neckties with white lingerie blouses and matching cuff buttons. It cites velvet or satin ties in colors, suggesting a bow in front and coordinated cuffs. The piece further comments on fashion tips from periodicals and contrasts ambition with character, ending with praise for reliable voting machines used in several New York cities.
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Rochester
Buffalo
Syracuse
Utica
New York
No Man Is Stronger Than His Stomach
A health advertisement extols stomach strength as the body’s source of power. It cites dyspepsia and malnutrition causing overall weakness and lists symptoms such as biliousness, dizziness, and nervous fatigue. A Quebec man’s testimonial claims Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cured his stomach woes and improved digestion. It ends with a sales pitch for the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser and ordering details.
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George F. Butler
Alma Springs Sanitarium
Alma
Mich
California
Louis Pare
Quebec
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Common Sense
RB. V. Pierce
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Powdered hair origins in sixteenth century convents
A quirky note traces hair powder fashion to mid sixteenth century French convents where leaving nuns used powder to gray hair for a venerable look. It follows fashion spread to Europe and contrasts with old adages about happiness and love.
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Italy
Curly Hair Challenge and Teething Syrup Mentioned
An old newspaper fragment notes Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for teething pains and gum inflammation. It also advertises LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets with a money back guarantee and in passes a remark about a singing girl not discouraged easily. It mentions a baby crying at 3 am.
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E. W. Grove
Outrage as Coughing Roils Congregation Sparks Remedy Claim
A local notice denounces disruption from persistent coughing during services and promotes Anti-Gripine as a guaranteed cure. Sold for 25 cents by F W Diemer M D, maker in Springfield Missouri.
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F. W. Diemer
M. D
Springfield
Woman Receives Help from Lydia Pinkham Remedy
Two letters from Mrs. Mary Dimmick of Washington D C praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing ovarian and womb trouble without surgery. The writer claims drastic monthly pains vanished and regained health after following the doctor and remedy advice.
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Benning P.C
Washington
Iac
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Mi’ Dinmick
50Th
E. Capitol Streets
P. O
Washington, D. C
Vegets
Pi.ham
Mass
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Kingdom of Heaven
William Cowan
Ottawa
Ont
Willie
Nordhausen
Saxony
Success Magazine
Gulf Stream
Boston
George A. Marden
Lowell
Marden
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