Postum Ad Claims Health Benefit For Bookkeeper
A long text recounts a chief bookkeeper in a western city praising Postum coffee substitute after stomach and nervous issues. The letter describes his two-year switch from tea and coffee, improved health and productivity, and cites a booklet The Road to Wellville. It also includes a humorous domestic sketch about Mrs Merriwid and Mrs Buttyn in a salon.
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Warag
Tam
Postum’Co
Battle
Micha
Wellville
Dean's Kidney Pills Ad Claims Cure for Back and Kidney Ailments
An old advertisement urges immediate treatment for back pain and kidney issues. It features a testimonial from H. R. Hatch of Everett Washington praising Dean's Kidney Pills as a quick, harmless cure after doctors gave up, and urges readers to demand the same remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duan
Dean
H. R. Hatch
Cedar St
Everett
Wash
Nervous Young Man Seeks Hand of Daughter
A comic scene shows a nervous applicant entering a president's office and stammering about the hand of the daughter, while a druggist jokes about fleas on dogs and the worker’s exaggerated nerves.
Court hears gaggle of odds and ends on a St Leger day
A muddled police cell tale follows Sam Slope who seeks the St Leger winner and learns in court that the race is four years old. The dialogue mixes a jail visit, a magistrate and a guard as the hour passes. A second exchange concerns a new maid asking for Tuesday off, with hints of her staying on briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Slope
London Times
Remarkable Kidney Cure by Dodd's Pills
Otterbein Indiana resident R M Fleener suffered 25 years from kidney trouble and bladder inflammation. After failing to help from doctors he used Dodd's Kidney Pills and recovered after two boxes. Ad offers free Household Hints music and recipes from Dodd's Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
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Tir
R. M. Fleener
F. D
Otternein
Ind
R. M. Fleenor
Dodd
Buffalo
N. Y
Disagreeable Man Demands Repayment of Borrowed Money
A reader recalls an unpleasant man who allegedly spoke in clipped phrases and insisted on repayment, noting he had to ask three times for five dollars borrowed. The fragment hints at general reluctance to engage in guesswork from some men.
Spring Clipping of Horses and Cattle Practices
The essay argues spring clipping keeps horses healthier by removing winter coats as animals resume work. Clipping speeds by gear like ball bearing enclosed machines mean half hour full body clips. Dairymen clip cows several times a year, especially flanks and udders, to ease cleaning before milking and reduce dirt contamination.
Rubber Atrocities And The Rubber Trade
A fragment discusses sympathy for victims of atrocities in rubber regions. It notes the speaker’s business involves transporting rubber trees in and out of a house guided by weather conditions, illustrating a practical, if cryptic, connection to the industry.
Nearest She Could Get and the Widow’s Marriage Note
A clipped commentary notes Betty did not marry a lord but a man who acts as drunkenly as one. The Boston Transcript laments bachelor baby talk and remarks on the impracticality of a noiseless flat wheel in a wry society sketch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aunt Jane
Ms. Merriwich
DePachman
Chopin
Holison
Betty
piNoy Butt
Boston “Transcript
Virginia Farmer Tries to Direct Refractory Cow
A Virginia farmer steering a difficult cow along a road loses control at a crossroad where a passing Black man is prompted to help. The farmer uses a racial slur, while the helper responds with politeness. the cow is guided by the man’s signals. Also notes the Patent Information Bureau opening in Washington DC offering free invention guidance.
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Washington
Barrister
Washington, D. C
Adv
Promoting Mining Firm Blobs Skinnunr Network
A terse exchange sketches a push to promote a new mining company named Blobbs-Skinnunr. One party warns of a possible promotional trap while the other confesses being drawn in.
Prison sentence claims refund for uncured itching
Unclear ad copy promises a refund if PAZOOINTS MENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding plow within set days. Gossips claim the notice repeats rumors and gossip.
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Len
Ss Olmsted
Roy
Balge
Ida
Ures
Col Dave Pe
Fiyérot
Jones
Melissa
Mearie
Mrs. Merriwid
Lady Watson
Mrs. Merriwidh
Seems
Buttyn
Jyho
Jane
W. G. Chapman
Foster-Milburn-Co
Gions
Dr.Pierée’s
Salt Lake City
Putnam
Becklet
Monroe
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