Favorite Prescription touted for women’s ailments cure
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for a range of female complaints including headaches backaches faint spells and irregular or painful periods. It claims to strengthen regulate and invigorate the pelvic organs and warns miracles or cures of tumors are unlikely yet may prevent surgery. Letters to Dr Pierce are confidential and a medical adviser volume is offered free with stamps.
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Doctor Pierce
Rh. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
RAPS FOR GREAT MEN AND AOXFORD ANTIPATHY
An old fashioned anecdote recalls MacKenzie asking what Paradise Lost proves and Buckland’s Rome vacation provoking a cranky Oxford elder. The tale contrasts learned men’s pride with new science and hints at the era’s scholastic tension.
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MacKenzie
Dean Buckland
Oxford
Buckland
Rome
Don
Italy
Quotable Wit Across Politics and Art in History
A compact collection of quips about Lamb Lamb is a flighty writer of silly papers with no politics. Paganini a poor fiddler drove the town mad with squeaks and scrapes. Henry Clay laments a pig farmer friend while Washington’s old portrait provokes Adams to call him an old humbug.
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James Russell Lowell
Henry Clay
Harry Clay
John Adams
Washington
Tea the Temperance Teaser Causes Surprise
A satirical tale from an East End temperance circle shows tea boosting spirits and prompting curiosity. John Isnot privately shares bitters in whisky, then disguises the remainder in an old teapot. Sons and daughters visit to learn how the remarkable tea was made, while wives boast of the brew’s surprising effect.
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Little
Temperance Society
East End
John H. Isnot
Mr. Isnot
Isnot Refuses Easy Cash Over Rumored Trade
A Cleveland Plain Dealer clipping records Isnot refusing money offered by a woman and a friend to buy pounds of an unspecified item despite talks of paying up to $3 a pound. The conscientious man stands firm against the temptation of quick profit.
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Fes Bualness
Isnot
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eccentric Author Vischer Remembered on Centenary
Revival of interest in German eccentric author Vischer follows the hundredth birth anniversary. A tale recalls his clash with a piano playing neighbor while studying esthetics. Another incident shows him grabbing a waiter by the coat tail in Italy over a word for scoundrel. A centenary gift prints his letter from Italy.
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Germany
Vischer
Italy
Notice of Sale for Heirs of Dirk Van Weelden Estate
Public auction to sell 19 acres in the SE quarter of Section 22 and a house and lot of 1 acre in the SW quarter of Section 10, Township 76, Range 18 west near Pella Iowa. Sale begins 2:30 pm November 30 1907 at Geo G Gaass office. 20 percent cash, balance March 15 1908 upon deed delivery.
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Dirk van Weelden
Pella
Iowa
Geo. G. Gaass
A GOOD DOCTOR OFFERS HOPE FOR HOPeless DISEASES
Positive proof that diseases deemed incurable such as consumption paralysis cancers fits rheumatism tumors appendicitis gall stones have been cured. After thirty years of study he leads in Special Pathology treatment. Free consultation at office or by mail. Write or call 1x22 6th Ave Des Moines Iowa.
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6Th Ave
Des Moines
Iowa
Youths Companion promotes family reading in 1908 ads
Advertisement card extols The Youths Companion as suitable for all ages of a family with adventure tales for fathers and sons and stories for girls. It promises free 1908 sample copies and a Four-Leaf Hanging Calendar with new subscriptions. Also includes local ads for Kodol and Hollister Tea products.
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The
Companion
Religious Services Directory For Local Churches
A compact list of regular worship times for Second and Third Reformed First Christian Reformed Second Christian Reformed M E Church Baptist Church and Epworth League groups with Sunday School morning and afternoon services, evening services, prayer meetings, and youth organizations.
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Second Reformed Church
Christian Endeavor
Third Reformed Church
First Christian Reformed Church
Second Christian Reformed Church
M. W.s.riddle
T.j.edmond
Epworth League
Baptist Church
First Reformed Church
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