Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Advertised For Women's Ailments
A vintage medical ad promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for fatigue weakness and gynecological complaints in women. It alleges cures from a half million cases and cites Miss Gertrude Mitchell and Detroit as endorsements, noting the use of plant roots and glycerine instead of alcohol. It also mentions Dr Pierce's Pellets for cleansing impurities.
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Oman
R. V. Pierce
Pierce
W.C.C.U. Officers Named for 1927-28 Session
The department announces its officers with Mrs. Geo. Van der Zyl as president and Mrs. A. E. Hart as vice president. Mrs. Ezra Temple will serve as secretary and Mrs. Henry Rhynsburger as treasurer. Department editor is Miss Hattie Harmsen.
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Geo. van der Zyl
A. E. Hart
Ezra Temple
Henry Rhynsburger
Hattie Harmsen
Temperance Alliance Seeks Unity of Local Women
The organization aims to unite local women in temperance work, reform intemperance, educate public sentiment toward total abstinence, and, united in Christ, save children and homes from alcohol. It cordially invites cooperation of all like-minded individuals.
The Lid and the Sunday Law Reform Mood
The piece discusses a rising enforcement of Sunday closing laws in cities like St. Louis Kansas City Minneapolis and many Illinois towns. It warns reformers to distinguish real law enforcement from prohibition zeal and notes officials act from duty not affection. It urges prohibitionists to use observed reform spasms as facts in arguments, not as praise of concessions.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Illinois
Jay Chapman
The id movement and reform rhetoric in old Defender note
The Defender cites the id movement as a symbol of reform dissatisfaction, urging persistent hammering of prohibition. It argues the public will yield when the rock reads, calling to drive the wedge harder and to extinguish the ild.
I saved my life says Pennsylvania naval officer
A Pennsylvania constituent recounted a tale from Harper's Weekly about a man from a Keystone State town who became naval officer at the state’s chief port, moved to the state capital, served four years, then returned home to his mother. She asked what he saved and he replied he saved his life, not a penny.
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Pennsylvania
Keystone
Commonwealth
Harper
Dutch Roots of Nautical Terms Sailors Widely Adopt Word Origins
The article traces nautical terms to Dutch origins including yacht skipper smack sloop reef boom taffrail and ahoy with ship ahoy. It notes Trafalgar’s orlop deck and Nelson’s death as Dutch derived terms, and cites Gloucester Massachusetts 1718 as the origin for schooner a name first uttered as scoon.
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Netherlands
Lord Nelson
Orlop
Trafalgar
Gloucester
Mass
Andrew Robinson
Robinson
Why Women Are Pretty Says English Expert Theory
An English specialist argues women appear more beautiful because they are more indolent and less required to use brains. He cites the Zaro in British India where women run state affairs and business while men cook and care for children, concluding Zaro men are handsome and women plain.
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British India
Black Bottles For Wine History 150 Years Old
Black wine bottles originated about 150 years ago when Lord Delaval of Sutton Blake in Northumberland brought Hanoverian glass blowers to start works. The aim was to use a coal seam on his estate. Initially color came from the glass material, then the practice continued as producers kept the familiar black appearance with added coloring matter.
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Lord Delaval
Sutton Blake
Northumberland
Castaway Tale on Pacific Coast Ends in Mystery
A Danish emigrant was left ashore during a storm off the California coast near Point Conception and Todos Santos. The stranded woman survived many years on a primitive isle with a weasel as an unlikely companion, a tale echoing Crusoe's solitude amid rough seas and isolation.
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Point Conception
California
Bay of Todos Santos
Crusoe
Bau
Nicholas
Premiers and Queens in Parlors Bold Dialogues
Victoria once wrote to Lord Palmerston about speaking in the house of commons. Palmerston replied with a witty note on her majesty’s absence and the opposing or supporting voices. Disraeli, facing a woman seeker of information, simply said, Oh, you darling.
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Victoria
Lord Palmerston
England
House of Commons
Palmerston
Viscount Palmerston
Disraeli
His Serious Offense In Chinese Mission School
In a missionary school in China boys aged nine to thirty five attend with families. A pupil was absent after his father thrashed him for laughing when the father was caned yesterday, revealing a surprising act of family rivalry and mischief.
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China
Li Ho Wack
Kaiser Wilhelm II Teases General Over Youthful Temperament
A Berlin review scene shows Kaiser Wilhelm II chiding General von Meerscheldt for aging, insisting he is too young to resign. At a court ball later that day the emperor suggests marriage to calm the general’s volatile temper, while Meerscheldt quips a young emperor and wife would be more than he could endure.
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Berlin
von Meerscheldt
Meerscheldt
Why the Bears Fought A Western Painter Recalls Bear Encounter
M Russell, a western painter, recounts a funny bear fight tale seen while out with a guide. They spied two unaware bears, hid in a thicket, and the shot fired at close range, timing the encounter as an amusing scene unlike vaudeville.
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M. Russell
Oie Russell
Jet Fyani
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