Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Ad Claims Safe Plant Cure
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as alcohol free and non narcotic. It highlights glycerine as a safer solvent and credits multiple medical authorities for its use against bronchial throat and lung ailments including chronic catarrh, asserting the product uses vegetable roots from American forests and supports healing with Golden Seal Stoneroot Black Cherrybark and Bloodroot.
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Dr. Pierce
Grover Coe
New York
Bartholow
Jefferson Medical College
Phila
Scudder
Cincinnati
Ellingwood
Chicago
Hale
Pierce
Wabash Time Card at Howell Going West and East
Time-table list shows trains at Howell with westward No 3 passenger at 7 30 P M and freight at 11 45 A M, eastward No 2 passenger at 8 10 A M and No 4 passenger at 9 35 P M. Local freight trains carry passengers. Contacts include C S Crane G P T A St Louis and others in Des Moines Memiran D P F A.
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Howell
Ato
St. Louis
F. C
Memiran D. P
F. A. Des
Aunt Cynthia's intrusion tests Crane marriage and patience
Reginald Crane invites his aunt Cynthia to live with him and Martha, sparking family strife. Aunt Cynthia airs grievances, the Van Winkles condemn the wife, and the couple's nerves fray, leading to relapse into quarrels and eventual strain on their health and bond.
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Crane
Prank
Cynthia
Frank
Reginald
Martha Crane
van Winkle
Martha
Reynald
Martha Grant
Peter van Winkle
Cynthis
Reggie
Mrs. Crane
van ‘Winklea
van Wickies
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar Cough Syrup Ad
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as effective for coughs and colds. It claims no opiates and credits H. M. Langerak as the seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
H. M. Langerak
Summer Vacation in Colorado Low Rates via Rock Island Lines
Rock Island Lines offers summer tourist tickets from Pella Iowa to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo for 2175 with returns by October 31. Special July rates 1925 for July 10 to 15 and Elks meeting in Denver. Also cheap travel to Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden Yellowstone and the Pacific Coast with side trips. Train service upgraded. details available from Pella, Iowa ticket agent.
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Rock Island Lines
Pella
Iowa
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Elks
Glenwood Springs
Col
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Utah
Yellowstone National Park
Pacific Coast
Rock Island
Colorado
Largest business college offers 1400 students
The ad touts the largest business college in America with twenty teachers, 1400 students, and a single building. It promises quick placement for graduates in bookkeeping, shorthand, typing, penmanship, and banking, inviting readers to request a 64 page illustrated catalogue for free to learn how to qualify for stenographer or bookkeeper roles.
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America
D. L. Musselman
Pres
Quincy
Hminois
Very Low Rates Tuesdays in Chicago Rail Era
A fragmentary notice notes very low rates on Tuesdays through the year in Chicago and Western rail contexts. The excerpt references a state and party alignment but lacks clear dates or full details.
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Chicago
Great ‘Western’ Rails
Lightbody's fall from grace in a Central American caper
A clever banking house protege named Lightbody rose to trusted status then spiraled into embezzlement. He vanished, resurfaced in a Central American capital courting a prominent heiress, and agreed to flee to New York aboard a steamer to dodge extradition. The narrator reveals the crime involved multiple accomplices, but Lightbody bore the sole blame while others escaped.
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Lightbody
New York
Central America
Mr. Lightbody
Lancee
Bes
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Nadoe
Umwa
L. M. Allen
Missouri River
E. W. Tompson
Ill
T. Mann
California
el Paso
Scenic
Jr. M Cox
F. S. Boyd
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Gem City Business College
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Castile
Miabley
Wheeler
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R. J. Fleener
Lippincotts
Monthly Magazine
Timely
Home
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Little Washtella
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Drs. Payne & Frént Office
Citizens ‘National Bank
Tel ‘Eephosie
Parlara
North
Dako
Manitoba
W. L. van Haan
J. C. Mitten
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Geo. J. Thomassen
Eheve
C. E. Martin
Osteopathic
S.S. Still College of Osteopathy
Des Moines, Iowa
Vanderpol
Peta, Iowa
Weimhoudt
Atier
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