Old Fighting Ship Yesse Fought In Wars and Sailed World
New York paper recalls the St Marys, a former school ship for New York youths training for merchant marine. Built 1844, she served in the Mexican and Civil wars, circled the globe 15 times, and taught 1000 cadets. After 34 years as a school ship, she’s been retired to the Navy and likely will be broken up for junk.
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New York
Aca
St. Mary's
New York City
Education
Merchant Marine Service
Washington Navy
Pacific
Congress
Merchant Marine
St. Macy's War
State of New York
City of New York
St V'S
St May's
Honolulu
St Mary's
St. Mairy's
Maryland
Naval Academy
Nautical School
St. Mary’s
Navy Department
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offer Promises Cure
An advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease needing internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, is promoted as a blood action remedy with a $100 guarantee and testimonials, urging readers to mail for circulars.
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Hall
F.1. Cheney Co
Toledo
Ohio
Fr. Cheney & CO
Draggiats
Pauly
The Contrary Child
Mrs Popley Little George refuses milk now. He used to drink it. Mr Popley scolds that the change stems from her imprudence for saying milk was good for him.
Don’t Delay Cleanse to Prevent Fever with Sarsaparilia
A dated advertisement touts Simmon’s Sarsaparilia as a cleansing remedy to purge impurities, claiming it improves blood quality and appetite, boosts strength, and enhances ambition to avert future fever.
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Simmon
Doubtful exchange about gulf between people and autocrat
An imperial ruler questions a subject about the gap between ordinary humanity and autocratic power. The reply downplays the gulf, calling it perhaps a proposition or a dilemma, with playful mishearing of terms.
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Russias
Castoria Reminder for Mothers on Safe Baby Bottles
Important notice urging mothers to examine each bottle of Castoria for safety. Emphasizes the signature phrase now in use for over 30 years and notes it is the kind readers have always bought.
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Multiwanger Taylor Drug CO
Atlanta
Age of Wonders Inventions and Finances Cited
The inventor proclaims we live in an age of wonders while his spouse laments money troubles, wondering where the funds came from and where they will go. The exchange hints at a tension between innovation and financial strain.
Hunt's Cure Promises Skin Relief For Fifteen Years
For over fifteen years Hunt's Cure has pursued a mission to cure skin troubles, especially those of anteh ing character. The product asserts its success comes from actual work, not advertising, with a guarantee that one box will cure any case.
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Hunt
A Good Cook Disguises Lamb in Eight Ways
A Detroit Free Press quip notes a wife who is a good cook, boasting she knows eight different ways of disguising cold lamb. The joke highlights culinary knack and humorous domestic banter.
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Detroit Free Press
Allen's Foot-Bace Cure Ad and Misc Notes
Advertisement fragment promises immediate relief for hot sweaty feet with Allen's Foot-Ba ce. Mentions trial offer and a Philadelphia address for Dr Klines Great Nerve Restorer. Includes miscellaneous quotes and product pitches with short aphorisms and medicine names.
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Allen
Olmsted
Roy
Satirical satire by Prof Zueblin on saving and advertising
Prof. Charles Zueblin of the University of Chicago laments immoderate saving and cites a comical want ad. A Seminary avenue youth replies with a tongue in cheek offer of services and a premium, questioning Sundays and attire as job details.
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Charles Zueblin
University of Chicago
League of Political Education
New York
Zueblin
Seminary Avenue
Theg
Hunt's Lightning Oil Promises Quick Pain Relief
An elderly narrator touts Hunt's Lightning Oil as a universal remedy. The speaker claims Grand Pop used it for rheumatism Dad for cuts sprains and bruises Mammy for burns scalds and aches and Bis for catarrh and chilblains, and the speaker uses it for everything, asserting it never disappoints and quickly eases pain.
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Grand Pop
Dad
Mammy
Bis
Hunt
Eccentricities of Genius and Cure Ad Claims
A Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt notes Dr Johnson touched posts and friends, illustrating eccentric genius. The piece shifts to a Hunt's Cure advertisement claiming fifteen years of guaranteed success for itching skin troubles with less than one percent refund requests.
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Dr. Johnson
Louisville Courier-Journal
A Logical Conclusion About Debt and Travel
Mr Pursington argues a man should pay as he goes while a critic quips that his frequent debt suggests he is accustomed to traveling backward, reflecting a Washington Star columnist style.
Groves Tasteless Formula Bottle Identity Quinine Iron
Fragmentary quotation reflects a moralizing note on the value of taste and health tonics. It mentions a bottle with a plain formula listing quinine and iron and echoes Sydney Smith about life stages and progress.
Hicks Capuchine Cure Ad Claim Nervous Relief
An old advertisement promotes Hicks Capuchine as a tonic curing nervousness fatigue sleeplessness and worry. It touts a refreshing liquid formula sold by druggists in regular and larger sizes and ends with a moral line about dedication from Chas Buxton.
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Tria
Advice to women on private illness letters from Mrs Pinkham
Promotes sending private illness details to Mrs Kate Bushnell Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts to receive confidential guidance. Claims decades of correspondence with sick women yields practical knowledge for relief. Includes reader testimonies and promises of personal insight through letters.
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Ad
Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen town Pa shares that after suffering since age sixteen with organic derangement and female weakness she avoided surgery by using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims the product has cured thousands of women fears menstrual pains backache and related conditions for over thirty years by using roots and herbal ingredients.
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Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dan
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Kline
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Vince
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Chas, Buxton
Dodds
Paxton
Boston
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Defiance
Brereton Rote
H. H. Green
Atlanta, Ga
K—I
Blood Balm Co
Utiura
Uae
Uty
Western
Canada
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Alberta
Crawford
Ninth Street
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Cambridge City
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Suas
Eames
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