Pinkham Medicine letters praise and religious tract fragment
A flood of grateful letters praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, with testimonies of relief from female distress. The piece shifts to a religious tract arguing the Bible’s divine inspiration, distinguishing Scripture from other sacred books and urging faithful biblical study.
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Berne
Adams St
Pinkham Medicine
Lynn
Lydia
Pinkhar
Rae
Woras
Ile
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Page Feature
An old advertisement promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills with claims of aiding digestion and liver function after meals. The prose mimics historic patent medicine styling, noting small pills, small dose, and small price.
Wideawake Hat Logic in Post Theater Chat
George Adele argues hats are tied to logic and reason after a Chicago supper. The exchange includes a note on the wideawake hat as a symbol, with a father explaining its meaning as a cap lacking a “sap.”
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George Adele
Chicago
Weber
Pat
Fragmented Wit and Oddities From a Village Paper
A garbled snippet from a village paper mocks linotype quirks and a late editor's death. The text includes satire about the deceased and a scatter of period commentary on science and human physiology.
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Kondly
Piait
Charitabe
Soress
Hornbeak
Habsack
Puck
New nickelware gains in three in one tray accessory
A compact three in one tray combines tea or coffee pot cream and sugar bowl in stacked design to save space. A nickel plated gas percolator attaches to a gas jet for chafing dish use and travel, avoiding alcohol lamps. Nickel plated vegetable dishes offer affordable service with insulated inserts to keep vegetables hot.
Faith and future hope in Christian faith for democracy
The piece urges Christians to look upward and forward, not backward, and to trust in God’s promises. It argues faith expands outlooks, fosters goodwill, and makes individuals both laborers and less driven by envy of wealth, aiding democracy.
Women's Buddhist College to Found Institute for Women
A proposed university for women's higher education by Buddhists was announced with a meeting at Nishi Hopganji temple Kroto. The plan, backed by the Women's Association of the Buddhist sect, estimates project cost at 280000 sen and aims to advance female education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nishi-Hopganji
Kroto
Women's Association of the Buddhist Eect
Fourd imitation Circuit and oddball classroom scenes
A jumble of humorous vignettes shows Bert, a freshman, finishing a letter to cousin Joe about Esther while Joe, five, mimics pages and a canary anecdote prompts a cheerfully puzzled reply. A southern girl teases, and a minstrel act recalls a street-bill handout mishap where one boy ends up crying after a man takes his paper.
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Bert
Joe
Esther
Robert
Rob
al G Prelit
Iowa
Thanksgiving Psalm A Anythmical and Grateful Chant
A Terre Haute teacher credits Grape-Nuts and cream with reversing fatigue from teaching. After years of exhaustion and illness, she reports improved appetite, renewed energy, and 15 pounds gained in three months, finishing the school year strong without tonics.
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Terre Haute
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Bn Abou Esa
Ingenious ice box racks use meltwater for cooling
A clever design forms the food racks inside a refrigerator from a continuous piping line that receives drip from the ice compartment and uses the melting water as an extra cooling element. Shelves install easily and can be cleaned by placing them under a water faucet.
Poke weed as a common edible plant in gardens
A short guide notes poke weed grows in many places including gardens and can be cooked like spinach after soaking and trimming the tough stem. It suggests picking early morning before sun strengthens the plant and gathering before it reaches a foot high for best flavor and regrowth if cut.
Tea table treats with rock candy sugar and roll overs
A noted businesswoman favors rock candy crystals as sugar in tea cups, praised by Good Housekeeping. She serves indescribably good roll overs made from biscuit dough cutouts filled with jelly, mincemeat, or sandwich fillings, then baked and enjoyed hot or cold.
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Good Housekeeping
Preparing Roe with Pork Crackling and Bake Muffins
Wash the roe and dry it thoroughly season with salt and pepper and fry with four. Slice salt pork and render fat in a hot pan then cook the roe in the fat adding butter. Top with pork crackling parsley and lemon. Broil roe covered with fat pork basted often. Make a milk batter with salt sugar flour butter baking powder beat and bake muffins in a top oven.
Sauted Eggplant With Gravy And Club House Fish Balls
Instructions describe making a gravy by dissolving four in t in milk and water then pouring over nearly cooked eggplant. Also explains fish balls from cod, mashed potatoes butter milk and a breading of flour to form balls fried until golden brown.
One Good Thing From the Auto to the Farm
An old farmer notes the automobile teaches thrift and pest control lessons. Dust from cars replaces costly powders, as turpice peas and cabbages show disappearance of aphids and pests, proving the vehicle protects crops without extra expense.
Cuticura Remedies Heal Severe Eczema Case
An elderly woman describes years of failed treatments for a persistent ankle eczema before trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After three days she sleeps through the night and three months of use restore her health, with a testimonial from Mrs Julia Finnegan of St. Louis.
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Hale and Heartr
Julia Finnegan
Hebert St. St. Louis
Cuticora
Dept. L. Boston
Correction on government form dialogue
A misers remark about drifting toward a paternal form of government is challenged by a suffragette who reframes it as a material form of government. The exchange highlights tensions over governance language and gendered power.
Fragmentary OCR Leads to Vague Notice
A damaged OCR fragment references a potter with Sane enor ke FNS S paisiy printed on every pot, and mentions china orcu with Fi context. No clear event, date, or full names are identifiable.
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Ae Ae
Rae Steren
China
Orcu
Lee
Fragmented verse and garbled dialogue excerpt
A garbled quotation features phrases about breakfast food, sawdust on ice, and fixing sails. Attributed to Samuel Rutherford, the text reads like a disrupted dialogue with unclear context and no discernible event or clear participants.
Health through regular digestion not cosmetics says doctor
The article urges women to seek health through regular bowels and digestion rather than cosmetics. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild effective laxative that strengthens stomach and bowel muscles and offers samples by mail from Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
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Caldwell
Unclear Homestead Tales and Court Case Prompt Odd Replies
A jumble of anecdotes and quotes follows, including Jacob and Joseph remarking on a bride, a New York real estate broker Sam Markowicz facing a marriage annulment, Nellie McCoy recounting an advance showman, and Uncle Josh’s misheard exchanges. The text weaves humor with a Supreme Court remark about an annulment and aging, deaf, or toothless characters.
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Supreme Court
Mareau
Brooklyn
Sameel Markoutz
New York
Real Es
Mildred Markowicz
Markowits
Invention of wine properties teased by Dr. Wiley
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was asked about a new wine with old wine properties. He joked about attending a musical comedy that seemed treated with that invention. A brief bridge remark and a quip about a writer of farces follow, ending with a note on how a man may think highly of a woman but should remember others in the world.
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Harvey W. Wiley
Doctor Wiley
Castoria Safe Remedy Endorsed for Infants and Children
An old advertorial fragment asserts Castoria’s safety for infants and children, urging readers to verify the “Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years.” It notes Fletcher's Castoria is preferred by children and includes unrelated quips about manners, toothpaste, and health claims.
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Fletcher
Greatest Lesson of Life for Women Courage and Perseverance
The piece extols a woman's strength health and ambition to learn and seize opportunities. It stresses wholehearted effort optimism in the face of repeated failures and faith that others’ successes can be matched. It notes that trouble is common but the wise keep it in the back of their minds.
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Earth
Bible Theft Case Before Grand Jury Recalled
A grand jury reviewed a Bible theft case tied to a money stash found inside a family Bible. George W. Seibert recounted discovering two thirty six dollar bills his mother placed there when presenting the Bible to him. He retains the Bible today in Indianapolis.
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Grand Jury
George W. Seibert
Seibert
Sethe
Hilde. When Such Thoughts Were Occupying His Mind Mr Seibert
Indianapolla News
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