Remedies and cures touted for back pain kidneys and skin
An assortment of old advertisements extoll remedies for kidney pains back ailments and health issues. Claims include Dean's Kidney Pills curing gravel stones and improving overall health from Texas to Buffalo New York. Cuticura cures long term skin humor. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claim relief from constipation feverishness and teething distress with testimonials and free samples offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Davis
Texas
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Mother Cray
Mother Gray
New York
LeRoy N.Y
Fragmented OCR Summary of Local Court Docket
Local text fragment describes a court docket with unclear names and dates. It mentions Maude and Connie Bel with references to comfort and eating crackers. Details are illegible and no definitive actions or outcomes can be established from the fragment.
Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery touted for chronic coughs
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and glycerine tonics as remedies for lingering coughs bronchial throat and laryngeal issues along with general symptoms of consumption. It promises cures for long standing disorders, offers a free booklet and confidential correspondence, and urges readers to send stamps for copies of Dr. Pierce’s medical advice.
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Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Alo
N.Y
KR. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Vietco
Rich Man's Hobby Horses at Belmont Park Fall
F Ambrose Clark the New Yorker and steeplechase patron endures a rough season with multiple falls. After a bad tumble at Belmont Park from The Bowery he remounted despite a lame horse and a bruised shoulder. A week earlier at Morris Park he broke a collarbone yet kept attending races with unchanged zeal.
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New Yorker
F. Ambrose Clark
Bishop Potter
New York
Clark
Belmont Park
Bowery
Jock
Morris Park
Why He Didn't Know Patient After Appendicitis Operation
A healthy young matron confronts Dr. Henry Russell outside a patient’s door. She reminds him he operated for appendicitis and asked daily after her, yet he cannot recognize her, explaining that a doctor who has seen a patient only briefly sees only a shadow of the real person.
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Henry Russell
Hiness
New York Press
The Only Explanation and Mother Love excerpts
A New York woman questions a Scotsman servant about her late husband’s choice describing a blunt truth. The second piece recalls a mother’s reflections on her deformed child and the enduring love that follows, as the family endures hardship and loss in New Orleans.
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New York
William
Col
Not too old at Forty Still Young at Eighty veg eaters
An account of a London Memorial hall gathering of eighty plus vegetarians led by Mr C P Newcombe. Speakers like Dr Mayer and Mr Hanson extol longevity from meatless living, noting strong health, lively bones, and quick recovery from injuries at advanced ages.
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London
Memorial Hall
C. P. Newcombe
Mayer
Cambridge University
T. A. Hanson
Dodd's Kidney Pills Praised by Dayton Resident
Dayton Tennessee special report notes N R Roberts credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing his kidney trouble. He describes severe back pain and difficulty rising, saying his back is now like a new one and he can stoop freely. He intends to keep the pills on hand for any future trouble.
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Dodd
Girl Champion Corn Husker Makes Iowa Title Speechless
Mixa Alice Iseminger of Webster City won Iowa cornhusking champion by husking 120 bushels in nine hours. The eighteen year old earned a new plane and a Chicago education promise after beating her brothers. Her father challenged her, then offered a piano if she prevailed.
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Mixa Alice Iseminger
Webster City
Iowa
Chicago
They Came From Missouri
A Nogales Oasis note recalls a Missouri man with wife and six children who sold all in Missouri and set out for Sinaloa lacking any knowledge of the land or Spanish. He was advised against the move and urged to consider California, underscoring the folly of wandering into a foreign country without preparation.
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Nogales
Miscouri
Missouri
Sinaloa
California
Arizona
Secretary Taft's Global Travels Highlight Vast Seas
Secretary Taft has logged about 100000 miles since May 24 1900 when he became governor general of the Philippines. In five and a half years since his call from the federal bench he has spent 360 days on the ocean, nearly a year.
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Taft
Philippines
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad and Salvation Army Remark
A Card advert praises Allen's Foot-Ease for soothing burning feet with a customer testimonial from Mrs. W. J. Walker of Camden New Jersey. The piece also recalls a 30 year old remark to William Booth founder of the Salvation Army about retirement and hunting and fishing.
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Allen
W. J. Walker
Camden
N. J
William Booth
Insimo
The
Salvation Army
Booth
Fragmented OCR notes mix cures and ads with stray dialogue
A garbled OCR page includes medical cure claims and a Mexico travel pitch. It also contains stray dialogue about a boy and a teacher, plus 19th century style oath language and mock speech.
Bread Upon the Water Wedding Hope
A cooking-school graduate hopes her bread will return as a wedding cake. The line reads like a figurative reflection on culinary skill and future marriage.
A Great Monarch and Household Defiance in Market Ads
The piece riffs on the Czar and empire while promoting Defiance Cold Water Starch as superior value with 16 oz per package. It intermingles humor about a provisional government by the cook with boastful claims and casual travel notes about Galveston beaches and southern life.
Grape Nuts Food Praised by Brainy Writer
A literary man extols Grape Nuts for cognitive clarity and sustained work. He notes bulk foods slow thinking, praises Grape Nuts for easy digestion and brain nourishment, and credits continued use with higher output. The advertisement ends with a product cue and reference to The Road to Wellville book.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Hat Gag Ends In Cold Math Lesson
A humorous exchange reveals a man bought a hat for five dollars and tagged it at fifteen to mislead his wife. Mrs Cleverly laments the deception while Harold considers buying his own hats, noting a similar hat sold with a high price tag in the window.
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Mr. Cleverly
Tea and tales in a jumble of odd musings
A garbled mix of stray lines references tea and stereotypes, a college graduate’s vague elevation dream, a grocer’s starch stock note, a dubious Twain claim, fake marketing snippets, and scattered advice about asking pioneers and divorced women.
Tea Taste and Letters A Reminder on Careful Writing
A short reflection compares tea as weightless flavor to the weight of words in correspondence. It notes personal advice: when writing to a man read once then mail, when writing to a woman read three times then burn.
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Cuthurn
P. Keyes
Congress Street
Boston
Mass
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Cr. BK. A
Cooper Other
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Turd Ave
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Aide & Southern
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