Kansas Labor Law Proposal and Farm Product Seeds Ad
A Kansas bill proposes convict labor split into three classes for digging ditches road work and farming for state institutions with the most vicious kept at the state prison for rock breaking. An ad offers John A Salter Seed Co French Artichokes at four dollars for three barrels to plant one acre, with a late planting date and expected first year harvest. Additional snippets promote health and moral cautions, rent notices, and various consumer products amid a mix of public notices and promotional copy.
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Kansas
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosce
Wis
Misjudged Youth on a Train to Town
Charley Marshall, an eighteen year old from a village, travels to the city in new clothes as a first extended trip. An old man with humble dress befriends him, then exposes Charley as a credulous country youth when he offers to carry the stranger’s bag to the Phoenix Hotel. The elder warns him that confidence men loom in the big world and Charley’s naivety stands out.
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Charley Marshall
Wes
Dickey
Charley
Chirney
Geareman
Trn
St Jacobs Oil Promises Lumbago Relief and Health Claims
An old advertisement claims St Jacobs Oil cures lumbago by warming and loosening contracted muscles, saying the condition hams back pain since Noah and that the remedy lets a person resume business quickly. It is paired with notes on Bank of England forgery and No-to-Bac appetite remedy claims. A separate brief reports Ruth Hollar of Allegheny City gaining 280 pounds in three years and dying after severe obesity.
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Noah
Nature
Ruth Hollar
Allegheny City
Pitcher
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Mothers of America
Centaur Company
Chas
Fletcher
Murray
Tiew Voms Eyre
Picked Up On Broadway A True Incident
A woman found unconscious in the street was rushed to a hospital where sores from morphine injections were discovered. Once a respected editor at a large New York publishing house, she turned to morphine after health declined. Doctors attributed her womb condition to a polyp that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound could have cured early. A letter from Mrs. Berran Lienxman of Pittsburgh praises the remedy and urges others to seek Mrs Pinkham's help in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Mme
New York
Lydia E. Pinkham
Berran Liexrman
Erie St
27Th Ward
Pittsburg
Lydia E Pinkham
Household Sewing and Kitchen Tips From Old Texts
Practical manual notes on sorting laundry into five grades, washing with borax and starch, and drying with minimal creases. Also includes apron designs, coffee preparation, rice as food and medicine, a curious milk milking anecdote, honey cakes, Texas bread, and baking hints from a vintage column.
Open Letter Promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
A Sauk Centre Herald letter from a 37 year old farm wife in Germany recounts severe illness and long doctoring ending in full recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She credits the pills for renewed strength and health, urging other sufferers to try them. The letter is endorsed by a notary in Minnesota and notes the product sold in boxes for 60 cents each or six for 2.50.
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Prom the Herald
Sauk Centre
Sint
Dr. Willams
Lars
Germany
Dar
Sauk Center
Dr. Wiliams
Hanson & Emerson
Tam
Williams
Tony
Mil
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
Minnesota
Warning on handling pet dogs from New York Weekly
The piece notes a cautionary line about dog handling, warning readers that treating a dog like a child may provoke a bite. It cites Mrs De Stile and references experience in attending pet dogs, suggesting practical skepticism about naive care approaches.
Decimal time proposal and global clock standard discussed
The French Chamber is to hear deputies propose applying the decimal system to time division and clocks. It explains a day of 10 hours, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute, totaling 1,000 minutes or 109,000 seconds daily, aiming for a global time standard. Items from Billville note local humor and whimsical comments about pensions for a mule and political jests.
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Philadelphia
Why They Don’t Fight Over Debt Held by German Investors
European powers avoid a Greece Turkey war because the Ottoman debts are dominated by French English and Austrian holders while Greek liabilities rest largely with German investors. A war would worsen debt strains and threaten bondholder interests, prompting foreign powers to block such a confrontation.
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Greece
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Toas
Sin's Tonic Promises Cure All Ailments
A fragmented 19th century ad boasts Hastetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for fever, ague, liver issues, and indeterminate illnesses. It touts physicians and the press support, while condemning selfish living as wasted time.
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Hastetter
Sin
Hall's Cararrh Core and Hair Remedies Ad Blurred Ad Text
Mixed ad copy promotes Hall's Cararrh Core for internal use and Hall's Hair Renewer for scalp health. Claims include fashion love and death as conquerors, urges honesty, and cites a testimonial from C. L. Baker of Philadelphia. Also mentions Buds efsir and Sulphur Soap, and references Piso's Cure for Consumption and Carets products.
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Syben
Landen Sieon
Hall
Piso
C. L. Baker
Regent Sq
Philadelphia
Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures Boils Says Testimony
Mrs. Milton Beemsdéerfer of Lancaster Pennsylvania reports her daughter’s boils and sore eyelids improved after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for a year, three bottles curing marks on the face. Another user, Mise A E Thoman of Roxborough, Pennsylvania, says it helped her and her father with stomach catarrh.
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Hood
Milton Beemsdéerfer
Hase St
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Mise
A. E. Thoman
Lyceum Avenue
Roxborough
Pennsy Pasia
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Halsco
Nashua
Charles E-Bizet Co
Western Wheeled Works
Corenage
Kings
J. Mulhall
Waukegay
London
Bank of England
Mikman
Érenin Wits
Texas Bread
Billville
Washington
Lee
McKinley
Atlanta Constitution
Hoon
Hood’s Pills
Saan
A.J. Tower
Boston
Mass
Los
Ad. Steeling Remedy CO
Neeser Sena
Cascarefs
Montreal
Can
YNE CO
Grand Rapids
Mich
Sapolio
Unio
JAS
Ric Rey Uitas
Pearl Street
John A. Salzer Seed CO
la Crosse
Cho
Ines
South Dakota
Onc
Brilroad Fur
J R. Buchanan
Omaha, Neb
Watzy
Omncay
S.C.N.U
Braggiste
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