Lydia E Pinkham Remedies Advertise Health Cure
A Chicago reader reports relief from displacement and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. The letter claims renewed strength for housework and caregiving, endorsing Pinkham products for women's health and childbirth preparation. The ad invites other women to write for free confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Ham
W. Oakdarve
Chica
ATG Monte
E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
L Mass
Swamp Root touted as kidney aid for women Readers urged to sample
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder troubles and may not know it. Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root is advertised as restoring kidney health and easing related symptoms. Send ten cents for a sample bottle from Kilmer & Co and find it at drug stores.
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Kulmer
Paradise Key to Royal Palm State Park A Florida Everglades Treasure
Royal Palm State Park in Miami-Dade County preserves Paradise Key as a primeval subtropical ecosystem. The park, established 1915 by Florida lawmakers and the General Federation of Women's Clubs, showcases royal palms, strangling figs, diverse birds and fish, and Seminole and Tequesta history within a fragile Everglades landscape.
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Oya
Palm State Park
Florida
Paradise Key
Everglades
United States
Everglade Keys
Florida Coast
Paradise
Federated Club Women of Florida
W. 8. Jennings
State Federation
Royal Palm State Park
Flamestead
Florida City
East Cape
Nes Te Dade County
Miami
Antilles
West Indies
Moving Pole On Railway Route By Phone Crew
The local telephone company moved its entire pole system to clear a highway between two eastern cities. Six men in two gangs performed the feat without cutting circuits or interrupting service. Five pole jacks raised poles in sequence, and the first four then three, totaling four feet before sliding the first pole ten feet on an oak plank to a new hole.
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Popular
Burritt Honored as Learned Blacksmith by Reform Leader
Elihu Burritt, American reformer, author, and linguist, earned the nickname Learned Blacksmith for his practical craftsmanship and reformist work.
Elihu Gul't Lived 1810 to 1879 And Multilingual Blacksmith
The text notes Gul't born 1810 died 1879 began as a blacksmith about 1827 and developed fluency in many languages. It cites Mathews Getting On in the World describing Elihu Burritt mastering 18 languages and 22 dialects not by genius but by using fragments of time from his work as a blacksmith.
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United States
Heliconius Charitonius
West Indies
Florida
Ponce de Leon
Everglades
Jonathan Dickenson
Gul’t
Mathews
Elihu Burritt
Bayer aspirin and Cuticura promotions in old ad copy
An advertisement touts Bayer Aspirin with the genuine Bayer package and twelve tablets in a tin, plus instruction for usage and pricing. It also promotes Cuticura Ointment Soap and Talcum for clear skin, noting 25 cents per item and nationwide availability.
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Bayer
Deepest Truth and Love Passage
A reflective line quoting Nicholas Rowe on how truth deepens from the deepest love. The statement emphasizes love as the source of profound truth in human insight.
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Nicholas Rowe
Eatonic touted as hot weather stomach aid in Chicago ads
In Chicago advertisements promote Eatonic tablets as a quick remedy for stomach and bodily troubles during hot weather. The copy urges taking one tablet before meals and after eating to curb excess acids and gases, improve appetite, and reduce feverish, thirsty sensations.
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Chicago
Eatonic
Perfect Health by Blood Purity Promised by S. S. S.
An advertisement touts S. S. S. as a vegetable blood medicine to purify blood and boost vitality. It urges readers to buy bottles at dry goods stores and promises free medical advice from the Medical Director of Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Lyon
Swift Specific Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Bound to Deliver Speech at Banquet Turns Speech into Grace
A parishioner prepared a memorized speech for a banquet not in a church. Called to give grace at the meal, he faltered and then delivered his prepared speech as grace using practiced gestures, leaving his wife astonished.
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Indianapolis
Joyous Fire Drill at Portland Babies Home
Managers in Portland Oregon create a festive fire drill for children by installing a zinc lined chute that runs from the second story to the ground turning drills into a playful event.
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Portland
Ore
Shaw a vegetarian for 86 years, notes beggar meal tale
London Tit-Bits recounts George Bernard Shaw’s vegetarian stance lasting 86 years. He once helped a begging man by giving a meal at Frascati’s and paid the bill next day, with the manager joking the items were fight beers three whiskys port cigars and Virginia cigarettes.
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George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
London
Strand
Frascati
Conversation Sparks Questioning of Unity in Defense
Brown asserts he defended Smith amid a claim that Smith was foolish. Smith questions the defense and asks what was said. Brown replies that he said Smith “weren’t so very old,” implying a mild reframe of the criticism.
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Brown
Jimson
Smith
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