Peruna and Sudan Developments Highlighted
An advertisement boosts Peruna as a household remedy while a separate report discusses England’s interest in Sudan resource development. The piece notes exploration plans along the Nile, forests near Maher Ghazal, potential rubber from the White Nile area, and gold findings in some mountains, plus fuel search efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sudan
England
Foresta
Saubat
White Nile
India
Maher Ghazal
Cure for Infant Eczema Claim by Cuticura Remedies
Mr and Mrs Frank Abbott of Fulton Oswego Co New York report an eight month old daughter's eczema improving after using Cuticura Remedies. They describe multiple doctors and ineffective treatments before trying Cuticura, which led to disappearance of all sores in about a week. They claim the eye damage could have been prevented with earlier use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Abbott
BR. F. D. No. & Fulton, Oswego Co
Home
Jarzer
Tavares
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. I’. Walsh
36Th St
New York City
Priscilla's Revenge and the Bold Knight's Humble Defeat
In a medieval tone Priscilla tasks George with help while he boasts in armor. He returns from battle battered and asks for patches on his dress suit. She refuses saying he lacks a blacksmith and mocks his pride. He ends in shame at Ye Frozen Heart tavern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Priscilla
Desrest
Proper Glove Cleaning With Care and Judgment
A guide explains cleaning leather gloves using careful technique. Light gloves require gentle handling and drying between cleanings, with a home paste of alum and pine clay or Fuller's earth. Rub gently, wipe with flannel, then apply French chalk and a soft cloth. Store away from heat to preserve elasticity and condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hehely
Practical Household Tricks From An Old Magazine
A long, multipart Home Magazine style feature offers kitchen hints and craft tips. It covers fuel efficient stove use for a two person family, plant care with hanging baskets, apple pie with raisins, cherry salad, cleaning kitchen walls with kerosene, cleaning mats, making pop corn with taffy, and mending pans using solder from rosin-filled wire.
New York Medical Societies Count 62 in City
New York City hosts sixty two medical societies totaling a dense professional network. The figure reflects a thriving medical community with varied specialties and formal associations.
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New York
New York City
Pink Pills Claim to Cure Deficiency Blood
A patient from West Bay City credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring health after a severe cold and grip left her weak. The testimony says the pills build the system, cure anemia and rheumatism, and protect against fevers after-effects, with sales through druggists or mail order from Schenectady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alout
Nemaleta
William Aa
Dr. Wiliams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Versailles baker tried for polygamy in leap year quirk
A French baker at Versailles faced polygamy charges for allegedly marrying two women who lived with him. The pentagynist defense argued they married him. witnesses said the women proposed, not him. He was acquitted, with reasoning not disclosed in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versailles
France
Harkis
White Bread a Wis woman heals with Grape Nuts
A Wisconsin woman, overworked and bedridden since 1887, recovered after a doctor prescribed Grape-Nuts and no white bread for two years. She credits Grape-Nuts with restoring strength, easing cerebro spinal congestion, and aiding digestion, and urges others to try the cereal.
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Wis
Priyat
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Io Pigs
Meat Rounds with Parsley and Tomato Glaze Recipe
A step by step meat loaf style dish uses two pounds round beef mixed with onion, parsley, onion juice, bread crumbs, melted butter, lemon zest, salt, pepper, celery salt, and egg yolks rolled into eight portions. Bake with hot water, baste with butter, and finish with a tomato glaze and parsley garnish.
Shortbread In A New Style And Onion Carrot Soup
A recipe describes making a pale golden shortbread with two pounds of butter and crushed leaf sugar, plus lemon peel milk and a sifted dough cut into flat rounds. It also covers a soup with browned onions carrots simmered in water and bay leaf, strained and served with egg soaked bread and grated cheese.
Jeulekage Holiday Cake From Scandinavian Tradition
A traditional Scandinavian holiday cake recipe describes melting butter, sugar, and eggs, then mixing with yeast, milk, flour, raisins, cardamom, and citron. The dough rises, is shaped into a round loaf, sugared, proofed again, and baked for about an hour in a hot oven.
Closet with poles offers more room than hooks
A closet is more convenient and roomy when fitted with one or two poles for hangers. Hangers spare space and keep gowns from creasing. Use padded cotton sachet powder and silk covering for inexpensive, scented hanger padding.
Salad Cheese Balls and Pudding Recipe Fragments
A collection of kitchen notes describes cheese balls made with cream cheese and olives or nuts, served with salad or on a plate. Also included is a fruit pudding method with milk eggs fruit sauce and baked custard. The text ends with a dyeing tip for chenille draperies using a dark dye.
First English Angling Book and New York River Names
The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, printed in 1440, marks the first English angling book. In colonial times New York rivers were called kills, with Kill von Kull remaining as the last named channel in the region.
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Fysshynge
New York City
Kill von Kull
Aborigines Rated as Soil Fertilizer in Cynic Verse
A quoted line from Ambrose Blerecses Cynic Word remarks that aborigines are initially seen as of little worth but soon cease to cumber the soil of a newly found country and instead fertilize it, reflecting a harsh historical stereotype.
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Ambrose Blerce
Terrible to Recall Five Weeks In Bed With Kidney Trouble
Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut endured five weeks in bed with severe kidney disease and painful symptoms. She reports rapid improvement after using Down's Kidney Pills, with five boxes leading to a final cure. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo New York. Youthful Astronomer Robert Vt Baker formerly of Amherst faculty serves as assistant astronomer at Allegheny Observatory at age 25.
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Mary Wagner
Kossuth Avenue
Bridgeport
Conn
Down
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Robert Vt. Baker
Amherot
Allegheny Observatory
Unreadable 19th Century Patent Notice
The fragmentary text appears to be a late 19th or early 20th century patent or business notice. It mentions J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and references medical claims for a remedy, with testimonials and pricing, but the wording is garbled and incomplete.
New Use for Roentgen Bay Photo Reveals Car Machinery
An innovative use of Roentgen rays captures a photograph showing an automobile’s internal machinery without removing the hood. The technique leverages radiance first discovered by Roentgen to image concealed components. The development suggests new inspection possibilities for mechanical systems.
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Roentgen Bay
Roentgen
Big Bargain for 12 Cents Postpaid
John A. Salzer Seed Co offers 12 cent postpaid sale to introduce seeds with a free mammoth plant nursery stock and a free catalog. Early ripe vegetables including cauliflower, emerald cucumber, lettuce and radish are advertised plus a promise of large yields to attract 200000 new customers. The letter-like ad urges immediate response with an address in LaCrosse Wisconsin.
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Garden City
Neuss
Aoral Scesses
Henderson
Victoria Anters
Boston
Peter Henderson & CO. Ae
Allcock's porous plasters touted for relief and purity
An advertisement extols Allcock's porous plasters as the original safe pain reliever. It claims sixty years of use and global availability, promising simple ingredients and suitability for children, while urging reliability and high standards in manufacturing.
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Allcock
Drugeists
They Went Off and Laughed at Their Own Jokes
Nonsensical quip from a Chicago Daily News joke fragment followed by a jumble of classified style lines. Includes a wartime US Army able bodied men notice and stray ads offering tonics and self help claims. Multiple unrelated items appear as a scattered snippet.
Indigestion From Forcing Words Cited as No Cure Found
A witty remark notes there is no remedy for the discomfort of being forced to eat one’s own words. The quip highlights the irony of self-contradiction and public hypocrisy.
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Emerson
Cutiura
Dodds
Chase Tettrens
Sverden
Dr. Williams
Esrtens
Ely
Cowes
Dre i
Aldrey Stores
DGOLD
Verdeweter Street
Ake
Cameron
Catarra
Hell
J. Cheney & Or
Toledo
Cheney
Btn
Tranewotone
Waterse
Riswas & Magri
Helle
Hall
Putnam
ST. Jacobs Oil
Julie Florence Wall
Astoria
Inbanis
Rildren
Bears
Castoria
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
State Street
U. S
W. Adama Street
Chicago
Sparta Iron Works Company
Sparta, Wis
U.S. A
Foureau
Pacific Coast Borax Co
Ill
Cardus
Annie Hamilton
Stetsonville
Ovary Wepre
Chattanooga
Fon A
Chicago Daily News
U. S. Army
United States
N. Courts
Tenn
Main
Jones Bese
Ark
Corinth
Miss
Hickman
George Sand
St. Vitun
I H. Kline
Arch St
Philadelphia
Martineau
Washington
John
Sloan
Sentneg
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Dr. Earl A Ae
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