Lydia Pinkham remedy praised by Kasota farmer's wife
Kasota Minnesota report extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weak nerves and chronic pain. A Kasota farmer's wife testifies it made her feel like a different person and urges others to try the medicine. Also notes a domestic science school in Stavanger and a Jewish world population figure of nearly 14 million.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Kasota, Minn
Cuara Franks
D. No
Maplecrest Farm
Kasota
Minn
Lydia E.pinkham
Sea Serpent Photo Mystery Ends With Thrasher Shark
Officials at the American Museum of Natural History reviewed a letter and a photograph claimed to show a sea serpent at Long Island. The image proved to depict a thrashing thrasher shark, not a sea serpent, resolving the hoax-like sighting as a misidentified marine animal.
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American Museum of Natural History
I. A. Lucas
Long Island
Kodak
Mall
Lucas
What Did She Mean
Two young ladies Angeline and Emmeline bickered while passengers grew tired of their squabbling on the tram. Before parting Angeline gives Emmie a stamp and a penny, with Emmie planning to give it later, but fearing a long separation.
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Angeline
Emmeline
Emme
Angie
Emmie
Pearson’s Weekly
Face Bathing and Skin Care Ad From Cuticura
An advertisement extols Cuticura Ointment for red rough itchy pimply skin and hair and hands. It invites free samples by mail with a postcard address, mentions miscellaneous quotes and jokes, and notes the U S census estimate of population surpassing 100 million on April 2.
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Dept
Boston
The
Census Bureau
United States
Gathered Smiles and Snappy Jests in One Page Card
A collage of witty exchanges and social quips from a bygone era. Bits of dialogue touch on optimism, aging, finance, manners, and everyday foibles. The humor hinges on character, social roles, and ironic observations, with playful misreads and gentle jabs at wealth and vanity.
Pretty Girl and Quiver of Cupid in Old Comedy Bits
Brief comedy fragments capture a playful exchange about love and marriage. A mother’s tooth mishap contrasts with upstairs hair, while a widow reflects on a daughter’s chances of marriage for money and a six year salary tale sparks a lingering smile.
Humorous Bits and Banter From Unseen Columns
A collage of quips and cartoons lampooning manners and society. Jokes touch on fashion, dating, operatic ancestry, silly ordinances, and everyday encounters. Names and places are playful, with punchlines about husbands, wives, and a sharp dentist as the lone arbiter.
Mark Graves with Maples Canada marks fallen soldiers graves
A Canadian suggestion to plant maple trees over isolated graves from Flanders to France. The sugar maple seed program aims to create a living memorial to the fallen, with millions of seeds already sent and more on the way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flanders
France
Dominion
Canada
Ile
Franco
A Natural Consequence and Oddball Snippets
A fragmented collection from a newspaper page features a quoted line about being a “perfect baby” and gloom, a reflection on childhood diets, and a note about a fence the police caught. It includes a joke about whitewashing and a quip on batting averages in the Radiator league amid a stray mob violence remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mrs. Bight
Old German Mansion Said to Be World’s Oldest Home
A mansion in Germany built around 700 is believed to be the oldest inhabited residence. The note opens with a comment on claims of superiority and remarks on ocean salinity decreasing with distance from the equator, plus a generalization that aviators tend to have few accidents.
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Hudson Maxim
Maxim
Mr. Maxim
Max Droves Derbg
Germany
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