What Sick Kidneys Cause and Cure Claim
A vintage ad lists ailments linked to faulty kidney action such as diabetes Brights disease inflammation of the kidneys dropsy back pain bladder inflammation incontinence and nerve disorders. It promotes Deans Kidney Pills as a cure backed by testimonials and asks readers to mail for pricing and order details from Foster Burn Co Buffalo NY.
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Bright
Dean
Fosterburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
State Street, New Yor
First Kidney Pill Made Original Discovery Genuine
A Wytheville jeweler Nesaupons recalls back pain from grip four years earlier and credits two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills with relieving the dull ache. An Oregon freight car inspector, I B McCanvern, reports using Doan's for kidney trouble and notes no recurrence after several months.
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Nesaupons
West Main Street
Wytheville
Dean
I. B. McCanvern
Cherry Street
Portland
Oregon
Colny
Doan
Sidney
Mrs Geonce Wattncr Endorses Deans Kidney Pills
Mrs Geonce Wattncr of Elmira New York wife of George Wallace a broker recounts kidney and bladder illness in March 1897. Doctors said surgery was needed yet after taking Dean s Kidney Pills she recovered fully and has had no relapse nearly seven years later.
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Geonce Wattncr, Jr
Elmim
N. Y
George Wallace
West Water Street
Haldwin Street
Dean
Defiance Brand Starch Ad Teases Savings and Cigar Chat
An assorted 1890s style collage advertises Defiance Cold Water Brand starch 16 oz for 10 cents and features light gossip about a marriage, a mule, and a stewarts dog. It includes medical claims for Matt’s Cure and Cheney’s Catarrh Cure, with notices about a World’s Fair info bureau in Denver and a London glimpse of city life.
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Defiance
Colorado
Colorado Bureau of Immigration
Zeph Chas
Felt
Majestic Building
Denver
de Banco
Miss Manning Encounters Boy Over Cider For Colds
In the Catskills, author Marie Manning heard a boy say his family of four planned to make twelve barrels of hard cider for winter use only to treat colds. She questioned if that would suffice for the season, and the boy replied with earnest certainty that it would.
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Marie Manning
Harpers
Catskill Mountains
Just Run Across Some People Are Lucky
A Philadelphia woman suffered nervous indigestion until a store demonstration of Postum Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts changed her diet. She reports restored health and full appetite after using the products, with her physician calling Grape-Nuts an excellent food. The ad urges readers to look for The Road to Wellville booklet included with Postum and Grape-Nuts packages.
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Phila
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
The Little Old Woman on Two Bills in Paris
Julius Chambers recounts in 1887 editing a Paris paper when he created a feature staffing it with a legless old woman. Paid a salary, she starred in interviews under a signature, drawing money and fame. English and American visitors lauded her while she could not read English. The piece became a farce as vanity and applause spoiled the subject, who then demanded higher wages.
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Besgar
Julius Chambers
Paris
Maiden’s Dream Crushed by Cashier’s Betrayal
Maisie, daughter of a wealthy merchant, wooed a cashier she deemed a poet. She laments his distant look, unaware he has fled with much of her father’s money, leaving her romance dashed and her hopes in ashes.
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Maisie
Papa Spillkins
Papa
Old Spillking
Reform a Failure at the Uptown Magistrate Hearing
An old man charged with drunkenness at an uptown magistrate's hearing seeks clemency and promises reform. He asks the judge to sponsor a final drink, crossing to a nearby saloon where a bartender is questioned for approval as the magistrate signals support.
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Philadelphia Ledger
John
Mike
The Rich Man's Envy
A rich man admires a poor man and feels envy as wealth contrasts with toil. The affluent possessor wears jewels and commands many, while the poor man bears calloused hands, evidence of hard labor, prompting reflection on power and sharing.
Cooking by Electricity Battery Offered for Home Use
A Harper's Weekly writer reports Mr Edi son’s new charging machine, a perfected battery priced at 450 dollars with a future reduction promised. The device is claimed to power an automobile, light a house, cook meals, and handle other odd jobs, with fourteen by five by three and a half inch oblong cells weighing about fourteen pounds each, three cells forming a bore?se and connected by insulators.
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Edison
Harper's Wreekly
Butler case fuels town talk in Friars Point
In Friars Point Mississippi on November 30 the Butler case remains the town topic. Mr G L Butler claims his son was misdiagnosed and cured after using Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The clipping also notes remedies, ads, and various miscellaneous items from the era, including farming pitches and jokes.
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Friars Point
Miss
Butler
G. L. Butler
Dodd
Grateful Woman Endorses Peruna Cure for Ailments
Miss Muriel Armitage of Detroit reports lasting health gains after six months on Peruna claiming twelve to fifteen bottles cured her five year battle with uterine irregularities and hysteria. The letter promotes Veruna as a remedy for catarrh of pelvic organs and general female ailments caused by catarrh.
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Muriel Armitage
Greenwood Ave
Detroit
Mich
Royal Templars of Temperance
Peruna
Ay Coopeke
Veruna
Peruna Patent Remedy for Female Weakness Pelvic Catarrh
The advertisement promotes Peruna as a permanent cure for pelvic catarrh and related nervous symptoms in women. It claims catarrh progresses harms the whole body, urges sufferers to seek Dr. Hartman for free advice, and provides Columbus Ohio contact details for The Hartman Sanitarium.
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Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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