Lydia E. Pinkham Remedy Endorsed By Minneapolis Woman
A Minneapolis resident shares a testimonial about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound easing monthly pains after two years of illness. The ad invites readers to write for confidential responses and asserts a woman will answer. Also includes light humor exchange about rheumatic pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Josefa Asml
Monroe St
N.E
Lydia F. Pinkham
Lydia F.pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn. Maas
Adview
Resinol Baby Skin Care Promises Safe Relief
Rested ointment and resinol soap are free from harsh ingredients and suitable for babies eczema teething rash and chafing. Doctors have prescribed it for nineteen years and the soap and ointment clear pimples blackheads and aid healing for sores burns boils and piles. Sold by every druggist.
Fowls Stolen by Anesthetic Drug Ring
Reports describe a pattern of fowl thefts where hens are rendered unconscious with a peculiar drug then sold at markets. Victims note birds appear anesthetized and roost quietly, with thieves operating overnight and targeting top poultry.
Microbian Cultures Respond to Gentle Agitation
Chemical News reports M Adrien Lucet of the Academy of Medicine showing that regular shaking of culture mediums boosts growth of microbes. He achieved up to eightfold increases for cholera typhus fever carbuncle diphtheria glanders dysentery and the microbe causing eye infections. M Chasvean conveyed Lucet's study to the academy.
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Chemical News
M Adrien Lucet
Academy of Medicine
M Chasvean
M Laecet
Academy
German Eating Habits According to Irving Cobb
Irving Cobb describes German dining as four large daily meals with interludes. He notes breakfast coffee and pastry, a late afternoon snack, and an 11 pm supper with Munich beer and sausages. Westphalia ham is overrated, pheasant, red cabbage, and cabbage dishes feature, with restaurant prices criticized.
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Tim
Irving Cobb
Saturday Evening Post
Gerliner
Bismarck
Acta
Munich
Westphalia
Bam
Germany
Fourteen Below in a Barroom Thermometer Tale
A fragment describes Deacon Denton in a Fotut Jef ersom tavern barroom squabbling over a thermometer reading. The exchange centers on whether it is fourteen below or above zero while the deacon jokes about cider and a possible divine sign before prayer meeting.
Dutchman Settles Poolroom Row With Bold Hint
Anderson runs a poolroom and his German friend Hans resolves a late night disturbance by removing the balls from the table after failing to stop two players. The Dutchman states the issue is settled as quiet returns to the back room.
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Anderson
Hana
Hans
Banns Read Amid Missing Paper In Quiet Service
A church gathering pauses as the old pastor searches for the banns notice. With the paper missing the officiant resolves to publish the banns from memory, prompting a hushed, awkward moment and a whispered correction from the verger about the location of the document.
Pearl of Great Price and earthly joys in a homely verse
The text extols valuing a homey pearl above sea treasures and a kind voice as joy for a man by the hearth. It suggests married men might prefer the other place if heaven allows marriage, tying folk sentiment to afterlife norms.
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Man
Elihe Narritt
E P
Prost
M Stlantic
The Servant Question Solved
Pollock La-Mra T. S. Blair shares a testimonial praising Cardul the woman's tonic. She reports severe health weakness improved after three bottles, gaining weight from 125 to 155 pounds and returning to full domestic work. The letter extols Cardul as a mild vegetable tonic without bad after effects.
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Cardus
Cardal
Wife learns biscuit making via correspondence course
The Saturday Journal notes a wife seeking home cooking lessons by correspondence. She writes asking how to measure and bake biscuits and receives a reply by return post about preventing burning. The item reflects domestic guidance via print exchange.
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Saturday Journal
Crimson Gulch Tourists Clash Over Auto Fees
A rambled recollection describes tensions in Crimson Gulch as tourists protest high car fees and a sheriff voices self defense. A cook a waitress and a boss are mentioned amid accusations of overwork and nervous strain with tire blowouts disrupting local life.
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Crimson Gulch
Sherif Joe
Landscape Painters Not Western Landscape Masters
A New Yorker notes that a gentleman with a soft bat and wide necktie is not a painter of western landscapes. The piece references casual remarks about western scenery and includes an advertisement snippet for Hanford's Balsam.
Witty Exchange and Social Quips from Early 20th Century Dialogues
A montage of humorous lines on age, marriage, money, and gender roles from various captions and quips. It riffs on age curiosity, bank humor, and marital quirks with a satirical tone, featuring playful exchanges about finance and relationships.
Cause and Effect Grape Nuts Feed Digestive Relief
A young woman recounts indigestion from rich foods and medicines failing. She uses Grape Nuts and reports relief plus strengthened digestion. The ad cites Postum Cereal Co Battle Creek Michigan and mentions The Road to Wellville and a letter about Grape Nuts.
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Postim Ce
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Supreme Court Reverses Labor Case Contempt Verdicts
The Supreme Court halts sentences for Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell, and Frank Morrison in a 1907 1909 injunction contempt against boycotting Buck Stove & Range. It grounds decision on statute of limitations and speedy action, rejecting ongoing conspiracy as counted. Justice Holmes writes for the majority with Justices Vandeventer and Pitney dissenting.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Aalie
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Samuel Gombers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Buck Stove & Range Company
Gompers
Mitchell
Worrison
Holmes
Vandeventer and Pitney
Justice Holmes
Women Rights Debate Splits At Southern Methodist Assembly
In Nowelian Address Oklahoma City the fifth day session led by Bishop E E HosS and Rev J W Maskell. A resolution by Dr W C Lovejoy urged publishing the episcopal address for up to 5000 copies to reach every member, claiming the church should read and study the religious needs of the people. Telegrams from fourteen Southern women urged the church to enact a law.
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Oklahoma City
Oklo
General Conference
E E. Hoss Im
J. W. Maskel, DD
South Carolina
W. C. Lovejoy
Georgia
Southern Methodist Church
South
Conference
Four Die in Wisconsin Storm and Fire Update
Dispatches report a southern Wisconsin cyclone storm causing over 1 million dollars in damage. Four people are dead and about a dozen injured across several counties amid downed telegraph lines. In Newark four residents, including Dr. A H Young, perish in a large apartment fire. Senator Sterne of Missouri files a declaration in Jefferson City.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Mouey
Dane County
Marion
Newark
N. J
A. H. Young
Maine and Nova Scotia lobster flood Boston port
Lobster arrivals totaling 160000 pounds from Maine and Nova Scotia marked the largest shipmeet in Boston harbor history as prices fell nearly four percent.
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Boston
Maine
Nova Scotia
Memory of a Grate and Open Fires Returns
A reflective man recalls evenings by a grate before a woman, describing joy from open fires and drafts. He speaks of a bygone room and the hygienic state of a place he frequented, ending with a faded memory of a loved gyrate.
Cuticura Advert To Cure Baby Rashes 1912
An Oct 11 1912 Cuticura Soap and Ointment testimonial from Mrs Bertha Sawyer describes curing a two month old baby’s red rough rash after using Cuticura products. The note notes quick improvement and full healing within three months. Also a brief humorous school moment about tares and wheat ends the snippet.
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Clarendon, N. C
Bertha Sawyer
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Adv
Tales from the railside: quick relief and wry exchanges
A collage of witty exchanges and brief vignettes. Characters discuss dinners and dates while banter about acting and diplomacy surfaces. One line notes a lobbyist encounter and a cynical remark on tears versus laughter.
Old Maids praised for virtue and sacrifice in harvest hymn
The Houston Transcript reflects on the moral worth of plain women who, through quiet courage and tenderness, contribute to the community and church. It notes these “old maids” endure sarcasm yet embody noble virtue guiding future harvests and spiritual life.
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Earth
Diane
Latte Story and Moral Echoes in McAdoo Repertoire
A collage of fractured anecdotes and ads from a 1910s newspaper page. It blends a secretary McAdoo tale about clerks and wealth with a bank scene at St Peter’s gate, a weighty moral about wages, a young wife seeking better butter, and city sights from Trinity Church to New York streets.
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McAdoo
Washington
Froet of St. Peter
Pat
New York
Trinity Church
Wall Street
Casey
Cured Tibbits MacGee Survives Turkish Bath Ordeal
Tibbits MacGee awoke in pain and sought relief with Turkish baths at McPlamperty and Cohen's. He endured a brutal sequence as Turks restrained him, applied cold and water, and spun him for 25 minutes until exhausted. Florals marked the funeral that followed.
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Tibbits MacGee
Tre
Sid MacGee
McPlamperty & Cohen
Controversy Over 5 Suits Bet In Atchison Tale
A man claimed a bet about Adv Ketcham having more suits of clothes than Taft owned when leaving the White House. Wilbur Hawk was asked at the Federal Penitentiary to decide the wager. Hawk replied that Taft had many salts of clothes upon resigning. Local history notes Andy Ketcham owned.
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Am AteRises
Adv Ketcham
Poe
Atchison
Taft
White House
Wilbur Hawk
Federal Penitentiary
Hawk
Wilson
Andy Ketcham
Something to Be Thankful For
Mrs Murphy meets Mrs Casey on the street and asks about Casey’s ill husband. The exchange turns to gratitude as Ripley Hitchcoch, noted essayist and editor, quips that a “tree literary bent” leaves one broke.
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Casey
Ripley Hitchcoch
New York
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