Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Letter of Thanks
A woman reports relief from ovarian pain and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the medicine with a weight lifting effect and urges young women to try it instead of doctor bills, signing as Adelaide Fran of New York City.
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Recs
Lydia E. Pinkham
Adelaide
St. Ann's Ave
New York City
F. Wright
Oelwein
Iowa
New York
Not a Success Chafing Dish Party Satirized
A playful exchange about a chafing dish gathering is quoted with humor on nerves and tea. The Yonkers Statesman cites lighter dialogue from Seema Not and Philadelphia Dress, reflecting witty banter about social meals.
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al Way Seaton
Philadelphia
Lipton
Yonkers Statesman
Rough Estimate How Twenty Pounds Reshaped A Judge
A famed witty judge sought to gauge twenty pound loss after a spa cure. Returning home leaner he visited a butcher and jokingly asked to weigh a pork portion to see the change, saying he had fallen by exactly twenty pounds. The butcher offered to deliver meat, but the judge declined.
How He Got It Jones Easy Way of Laying Up Money
A Buchanan county former representative told a Kansas City Journal tale from Jefferson City about his rise from poverty to wealth. He claimed his secret was doing his washing at home during his 40 day tenure with five dollars a day, saving $500 in greens.
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Jones
Jefferson City
Buchanan County
Kansas City Journal
Wouldn't Be Necessary Spelling Lesson Scene
A Yonker's Statesman snippet shows a mother urging her daughter to spell correctly. The child resists, declaring she will become a typewriter, indicating pride in spelling and literacy as future work.
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Bessie
Mamma
Yonker’s Statesman
Time Clarified as Three O'Clock in Stray Stories
In the Stray Stories vignette the footman notes it is nearly three o'clock while the Misses Wee Cat makes her fifth costume change, highlighting a playful domestic moment.
Doan's Kidney Pills End Kidney and Bladder Woes
Veteran Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his kidney trouble and back pain after using them in 1899 and again at later warnings of attacks. Free trials and medical advice offered by Foster Milburn Company Buffalo NY. price 50 cents per box.
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Bright
Doan
Joshua Heller
South
Walnut Street
Urbana
Ill
Cunningham Bros
Champaign
Dean
Heller
United States
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Experimental steel roadway laid in Murray Street NY
The Automobile Club of America aided a trial of a steel road in Murray Street between Broadway and Church, funded by Charles M Schwab. Gen Roy Stone leads tests with dynamometers to compare tractive effort on steel versus granite pavement, with plans for more sections and country road trials.
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Murray Street
Broadway
Church Street
New York
Automobile Club of America
Charles M.schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Roy Stone
Bureau of Road Inquiry
Department of Agriculture
North River
Seventh Avenue
Stone
Bureau
Spain
Valencia
Grau
N. Y. Tribune
Roving anecdotes and political quips from hall and home
A roundup of tidbits about Nathan Ballinger of Newcastle who is getting a new set of teeth, a striking portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by Chartran, and various political tales. Senator Elkins recalls boyhood races over a coal test, Congressman Cannon’s metaphorical style, Judge Eppa Hunton’s whisky tale, and other light anecdotes from public life.
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Nathan Ballinger
Newcastle
Ind
Chartran
Roosevelt
Elkins
West Virginia
Chum
Cannon
House
Senate
Uncle Joe
Eppa Hunton
Virginia
Quick Witty Exchange From Newspaper Snips
A compendium of retorts from readers and columnists. Mrs Kingsley complains about servants while Mrs Bingo jokes on departure times. Other brief quips include Miss Gabble and Miss Sharpe trading barbs about gossip and wholesaling.
Isolated buttes praised in Baltimore Guide-Vee note
Miss Gushton-Oh praises isolated mountains describing them as gloomily grand apart from their fellows and noting they are buttes in a Baltimore American column.
Boston clergyman sparingly dines with expected guests
A Boston missionary clergyman invited colored southern clergymen to dine but they failed to arrive. His maid Mary explains she spent the evening entertaining herself by turning men into minstrels, a misheard remark that reveals the odd situation.
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Boston
South
Mary
May wedding talk and a penny pin money request
A dialogue hints at an upcoming May marriage with a request for pin money. The piece blends romantic dialogue with regional notes, then shifts to a local health notice about Frank Newton of New Berlin Illinois praising Dodd's Kidney Pills after months of back pain and weakness. It closes with assorted advertisements and quotes.
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St. New Berlin
Ill
Frank Newton
Dodd
Grip remedy Peruna promoted by citizens across the nation
An advertisement extols Peruna as a cure for the grip and catarrh, citing testimonials from public figures and average users. It claims widespread pneumonia like illness, urges official health endorsement, and invites readers to seek advice from Dr. Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
George SI. White
Startman
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus,q
Mrs Wiggs quotation and ossified opinions cited
A collage of quotes includes Mrs Wiggs on keeping worries inside and smiling, a testimonial for Piso's Cure from J W O'Brien of Minneapolis dated January 6, 1900, and a remark from Puck about citizens desiring government that protects their interests.
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Piso
J. W. O’brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Puck
Cure a Cold in One Day Claim with Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old ad copy promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee. It also includes a jab about Ram's Horn and a Chicago Daily News remark on a girl who cannot cook.
Cutiura Remedies Singled Out By Mother's Testimony
In a Newark era column a mother Helena Rath recalls caring for six children at No 821 Tenth Ave New York City while a nursemaid cared for the baby Charlie whose eczema rash worsened until Cuticura Soap and Ointment provided relief. She credits gradual healing and sleeping through the night after using Cuticura Remedies and urges other mothers to publish her story.
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Helena Rath
Hans
Charlie
Ehores
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