Cardui advertisement urges women to try the tonic
An Arkansas notice advocates Cardui as a remedy for womanly troubles, claiming success after one bottle and quoting a testimonial by Miss Gertrude Houst on. It promotes the medicine as a tonic for women and urges immediate use, noting many women have benefited over 50 years. Also includes a brief ad blurb and a joke about courting an heiress with jealous duke.
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Cardui
Houston
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Advertisement Claim
An advertisement promotes Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy for darkening gray hair to any shade with a dampened sponge or brush. It claims gray roots disappear by morning and with repeated use hair darkens, becomes glossy, dandruff vanishes and shedding stops, implying a youthful appearance.
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Wryeth
Wyeth
Adv
Blaming the Woman and the Four Queens Beaten
A brief column notes McGrouch’s mounting bitterness toward women after a night where four queens were beaten, signaling a sharp shift in his public stance and style.
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McGrouch
Castoria Ad Display Urges Safe Bottle Checks
The notice emphasizes mothers should inspect each Castoria bottle, labeling it as a safe remedy for infants and children. It mentions a long history of use and carries a signature claim, noting continued recommendation for children’s ailments.
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Fletcher
An Old Hymn Remembers Mother’s Love in Song
The speaker recalls a simple old-fashioned hymn that stirs memory and shows a mother’s love. He contrasts grand poetic and philosophical lines with the priceless warmth of a familiar tune that brings a tender face to mind and soothes with unselfish care.
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Philander Johnson
Kansas City Star
Two Kinds of Curiosity Opinion Quote
Dr Talcott Williams head of Columbia School of Journalism says sensational newspapers are fading. He cites editors defending scandal as curiosity and urges restraint, noting two kinds of curiosity: one uses the brain, the other the nose.
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Talcott Williams
Columbia School of Journalism
Marriage Wrecks Cited By Sailor Proverb
A wry proverb notes many sailors meet failure in matrimony. The saying implies frequent ill fortune in marriage compared to life at sea.
Truth About Grape-Nuts Food Digestive Claim
A New York man reports indigestion before trying Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum. Within a week stomach acidity eased and by two weeks indigestion vanished, restoring appetite for lunch and overall health. He cites personal experience as evidence alongside the product’s purported benefits.
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N. Y
Bankers Across Ocean See Rural Credit Need In U S
An American observer reports on European farm lending, noting Germany's cooperative and land mortgage systems. He condemns U S bankers for short term terms, urging long term real estate mortgages and banker scrutiny of farmer earnings, not mere speeches.
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Europe
America
United States
Germany
Landschaften
Prus
Prussia
Frederick II
Reiffeson
Schulze-Delitzsch
Cassel
Extraordinary Central African Dishes At Lecture
Mrs. Dan Crawford spoke of Central African cuisine including stewed elephant trunk roast rhinoceros foot boiled hippo tongue and thousands of white ants fried in their fat. She described a grass dish, Central African knots and a bridegroom necklace of elephant teeth and tail hairs with a fur boa and borrowed European skirt.
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Dan Crawford
West End
Who Was Daffy-Down-Dilly in Century Verse
The passage ponders Daffy-Down-Dilly and Jumping Joan Banbury Cross Margery Daw in Century essays on Mother Goose and Kipling. It questions identity and meaning of these nursery figures and their significance in unfinished poetic insight.
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Daffy-Down-Dilly
Mother Goose
Dickens
Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Delib
Erately
Daffy -down-Dilly
Joan
Banbury Cross
Margery Dawell
Blue Laws Sparked in Town by Police Warning
An officer warns of several blue laws in town. A crook quips blue as his favorite color, highlighting tensions between enforcement and crime in a quippy exchange.
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Underworld Assurance
Swiss Woman Seems Buried Alive Then Dies in Coffin
An elderly Swiss widow was allegedly returned to life after burial in Hochwald cemetery Soleure. Grave diggers heard knocking from the coffin and fled to fetch a doctor and priest. The coffin was opened to reveal the woman had died after turning over in the grave.
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Hochwald
Soleure
Pape's Diapepsin Claims Fast Stomach Relief
Advertises Pape's Diapepsin as a quick harmless regulator for indigestion gas and sour stomach. Claims five minutes to relieve dyspepsia head pills and promises a hundred dollars’ worth of relief per fifty cent case.
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Pape
Retort Sparks Spiteful Exchange Over Family Record
A sharp exchange between two women centers on family reputation with barbed jabs about an ancestor’s work. The remark about a grandmother being a laundress adds a pointed personal edge to the confrontation.
Back Hurts Clean Kidneys With Salts
An old remedy claims meat forms uric acid overworking kidneys and urges a daily dose of four ounces Jad Salts or Rad Salts mixed in water before breakfast to flush acids and relieve kidney and bladder issues. Advert placeholder notes thousands use this inexpensive effervescent lithia drink to prevent kidney and urinary problems.
Appetite troubles prompt hunger discussion
The Minneapolis Journal notes a humorous exchange where a speaker admits trying many health foods yet still faces a persistent appetite. The brief quip highlights personal dietary challenges in a light tone.
Liver and Kidney Pills Replace Calomel in South
Advert shows Dr. G. B. Williams' Liver and Kidney Pills promoted as a gentler alternative to calomel, claiming liver and bowels stimulation without weakening after effects. Sold by dealers 26 cents per bottle with free sample on request from The G. B. Williams Co. Quitman Georgia.
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South
G. B. Williams
G. B. Williams Co
Quitman
Adv
Teeth impression helps nab alleged crook at lunch
A suspect was arrested after a dental imprint from a sandwich shop lunch matched an outstanding warrant. The unusual lead highlights forensics at a casual crime scene and underscores how everyday items can reveal identities.
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Bill
Jill
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Advertised
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a remedy to regulate and invigorate the stomach liver and bowels. It emphasizes sugar coated tiny granules easy to take and claims the product does not gripe.
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Dr. Pierce
Fool-killer Exists Only In Walls of Tomorrow’s Flowers
The remark implies a hypothetical figure the speaker denies as real yet folds into a poetic image of fragile tomorrow. It critiques fatalism and hints at a mindset that erodes hope in future generations.
Cures a Cold in One Day Ad Promotes Laxa tive Brom o Quinine
Advertisement for a cold cure claiming one day relief. Calls for full name LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE with signature of E W GROVE. Price 25 cents.
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E.w.grove
Woman on Horseback Criticized For Streetcar Exit
A remark notes a woman riding a horse clothing style should not alight from a streetcar backwards. The comment reflects social norms and public decorum of the era.
STELLA VITAE Promotes Health For Girls And Women
An advertising notice urges fathers and mothers to rear daughters with Stella Vitae a natural remedy for girls moving from adolescence to womanhood. It claims guaranteed benefits with money back if unsatisfied and promotes $1 bottles sold by Thacher Medicine Company Tennessee.
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Thacher Medicine Company
Tennessee
Triumph of Geno Sir Christopher Wren Stair at St Pauls
Visitors to St Pauls Cathedral in London are shown the geometrical staircase in the South tower, a Wren masterpiece. The circular 25 foot diameter stair features broad outer steps and internal support by a progressively linked wall stack. Lincoln's Inn Fields later echoes this design.
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Sir Christopher Wren
St. Paul’s Cathedral
London
New York
St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Popular Mechanics
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
St. Paul's
Bell Rattling Rodent Captures City Store Rats
In St Louis John Wattawa of Belleville boasts a big gray rat lured other rats into a trap in his store within 24 hours. He tamed the animal and fitted a silver bell to its neck to trigger a rat herd into a cage where the bell rat spins a whirling device. He believes the system will rid the store of rats.
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St. Louis
Hamelin
John Wattawa
Belleville
Wattawa
Thought carp was a log in East Orwell tale
Charles Williams of East Orwell sank into the river after stepping on a log he mistook for ice. He poked the ice toward shore when the log swung and disappeared. The "log" proved to be a carp seven feet long weighing about 88 pounds, later recovered.
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Ashtabula
Charles Williams
East Orwell Way
D. M. Clapp
East Orwell
Mr. Williams
Arcamoxp
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. D. Tyxer
West Clopton &J
South Richmond
Mendota Mayor Refuses Work Over Pay Increase
Mendota Illinois mayor Charles Rogers with a salary of 60 dollars a year blocks municipal business until he is voted a 300 dollar yearly raise. The standstill affects city operations as residents await council action.
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Mendota, Ill
Charles Rogers
Five-Birth Birth Noted Near Taylorsville Ky
Mrs Bertha Drury of a local farmer near Taylorsville gave birth to five children at one time. Two girls died, while the three boys survived and showed good chances of survival according to local reports.
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Taylorsville
Bertha Drury
Here
Girls Become Internes Do Cornell Medical Students
New York report says Miss Helen Palliser and Miss Anna Tiohnlands, Cornell medical students, passed the examination that makes them full fledged internes at the hospital.
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New York
Helen Palliser
Anna Tiohnlands
Cornell Medical
Thirteenth Baby Arrives in St. Louis
Mrs. Jacob Voellinger has a thirteenth child, a healthy baby boy born Friday February 13 in St. Louis, with a note the infant appears healthy.
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St. Louis
Jacob Voellinger
Yale Student Confesses Lack of Signature in Math Exam
A Yale student tells a mathematics professor he forgot to sign an examination statement denying cheating. The professor replies that signing was not necessary, stating he has already reviewed the paper.
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Yale
Always a Hardy Weapon Dawn O Har e quote on humor
A worn quote from Dawn O H are references a father saying humor is a hard weapon. The note likens humor to a shillalah and recalls jokes turning on the reader.
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Dawn O'Hare
Cascarets for Liver and Bowels
Advertises Cascarets a 10 cent box promising cleansing of the stomach and liver, removal of foul gases, and relief from headaches and indigestion. Claims the product works while you sleep with no griping and cites widespread use by millions of men and women.
Woman Seeks Plain Butter Prices in Busy Store
A young wife aims to become a model housekeeper and questions a grocer about butter quality. The clerk lists plain churned butter as the cheapest option and other varieties with rising prices, prompting the woman to plead for plain churnery butter.
Cuticura Heals Severe Eczema in Three Months
Frank Vastine of Falmouth Kentucky details a year of facial and scalp eczema and hair loss. After three weeks with Cuticura Soap and Ointment the condition improved, and eight cakes of soap plus five boxes of ointment fully cured him within three months. Cuticura sold worldwide with free samples and Skin Book offer.
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Falmouth
Frank Vastine
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Teacher And Tommie Remembering Faces From Yesterday
A dialogue recalls memory and a boy named Muggs who made a face yesterday. The speaker notes that good deeds endure though many slip into a trance.
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Tommie
Muggs Boy
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