Miss Italia Garibaldi condemns Italian chivalry in Chicago
Miss Italia Garibaldi, granddaughter of a famed figure, criticizes how Italian women are treated in Chicago. She cites male employers flaunting chivalry as a reason women sneer at men. The anecdotes contrast a washerwoman’s sharp test of a suitor with a playful, food related humor involving a hosteler and a hungry guest.
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Italia Garibaldi
When Your Eyes Need Care Flscehe
A fragment describes eye care remedies including watery eyes and granulated eyelids with an illustrated piece and a Chicago company name. A four year old girl tries to charm her father for a nickel with a sweet line about love.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Papa
Paxton Toilet Co Paxtine Ads As Cheaper Toilet Aid
Advertises Paxtine as a cheaper substitute for squid antiseptics tablets and peroxide for toilet and medicinal use. Sold by mail order at 26 cents a box or sent postpaid on receipt of price by The Paxton Toilet Co Boston Mass.
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Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Promoter and Inventor Sell Health Product Promptly
Promoter asks for money from friends while inventor claims one ally exists yet won’t share funds. Garfield Tes promotes and ensures health, urging trial. Druggists stock the remedy as a Chinese proverb notes women’s silence and blushing as eloquence.
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Garfield Tes
Record of a Great Medicine from Hooper Nebraska
Mrs Susie Tex Pleton of Hooper Nebraska credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing years of female troubles After seven bottles her health returned she could work again and even cared for eighteen boarders She allows use of her name to help others
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Hooper
Nebraska
Lydia E. Pinkham
Toften
Susie Texpleton
Pinkham
Bordeaux mixture as the leading fungicide for orchards
The article explains Bordeaux mixture a copper sulfate and lime spray, noting its long-standing use, broad disease control from Apple Scab to Bit ter Rot, and relative cost. It discusses strengths like 4:4:50 and 2:3:50, leaf retention, potential leaf yellowing, russeting on apples, and cautions about timing and preparation equipment for mixing at scale.
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H. Chandler
Missouri College of Agriculture
Fish With False Teeth and a Catfish Lure Tale
A Sacramento River outing yields a comic misfire as Fish With False Teeth drops his teeth into a catfish. The fish allegedly grips the teeth and snacks on crabs, while the inventor muses on salvaging the spoons and teeth.
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Cap Wilson
Sacramento River
Saturday Evening Post
Cantons Tales and Titanic Echoes in Airship Quip
Poor Father, Mayor Turnbull of Canton jokes about a Titanic officer citing a harsh tale of a Canton boy who says he hates his nurse. The piece contrasts this with remarks on airship ventures, noting the idea that airship building always promises success and money flying.
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Turnbull
Canton
Tommy
Postum Eases Dyspepsia Claims from Coffee Switch
A farmer testifies after ten years of stomach trouble from coffee that switching to Postum cured him. He regained health, gained weight, and has not needed stomach medicine since starting Postum. Family members followed suit, and the ad from Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich supported his claims.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Cholly Gayburd proposes to Pear Miss Saintly
Cholly Gayburd asks Pear Miss Saintly to marry him. Intly confirms belief in the Jonah and the whale tale. The dialogue presents an intimate, humorous engagement scene.
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Cholly Gayburd
Pear Miss Saintly
Hard for the Housewife to Cope with Kidney Ailment
An early 20th century testimonial ad promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills as a remedy for back pain, swelling, and dizziness linked to kidney trouble. Mrs. John Robins of Modesto California credits relief to Doan’s after months of weakness. The ad urges readers to recall the Doan’s name when back pain appears and notes the product availability through Poster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, NY.
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Dean
John Robins
Burney
Modesto
Cal
Saya
Doan
Lavish New York Visitor Traces Family to Adam
A suddenly rich man visits a New York genealogist seeking to trace his lineage to Adam. The genealogist replies that with enough money they could prove by evolution that the family existed before Adam, highlighting a witty twist on ancestry and profit.
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Hive
New York
Adam
Air
Lippincott’s
Jail Barriers Leave Men In Asylum, Says Reform Leader
A reformer questions why so few men escape jail, with a guide replying that the main issue is inability to get out. The exchange highlights confinement as a key obstacle to freedom and reform.
No, Yah, sah A tale of a northern visitor and Steve the slave
A northern visitor asks Steve many questions about a plantation and Steve replies with the standard yes menacing tone. When pressed for a no the slave answers Tak a sah in a calm, indolent blink. The judge records this exchange as a humorous if dated illustration of southern speech.
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Steve
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