Size and Surprises Across Vintage Texts
A collage of era notes and tips spans jokes about stage characters and giraffes to home laundering starching advice. It notes the old tablet memorial at a New York church, a patent starch claim, the oldest living person Mary Wood, a 64 foot eight inch sausage, and submarine cable work by fifty vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harper's Weekly
Mary Wood
Zilleboro
Ore
Portland
Wood
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Jacob Ackerman
Limeport
Nervous Collapse and Dr Williams Pink Pills Claim
Nervous collapse warning signs listed with advice to avoid permanent damage. Omits a few words but notes rest helps, while Dr Williams Pink Pills allegedly prevent breakdown by purifying blood. Testimonial from O Bradley of Rochester recounts recovery after using the pills. The ad claims same pills aid rheumatism neuritis and other conditions and are sold by druggists or mail order from Schenectady NY.
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Williams
Mn O. Bradley
Parsells Avenue
Rochester
N. Y
Dr. Williams
Sir Doves
Dr. William
Moduaine Company
Sohenectady
N.Y
Two Fourth of July Stories
Gen William R Shafter praises Fourth of July enthusiasm as a force for courage and valor. Another tale by Gen Charles A Woodruff recalls an amusing 1898 celebration in Cuba after Santiago and a Montana Indian country assignment with a comic misadventure.
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William R. Shafter
Santiago
Shafter
Gen
Toral
Fle
Charlies A. Woodruff
Mill River
Montana
Indiana
War Medicine Prank Amazes Sioux Camp
An explorer recounts deceiving a Sioux camp with a so called war medicine. He gives a chief ammonia to simulate a fatal dose, causing tears and dramatic reaction. Soon every Indian in the camp repeats the act, spreading the secret with silent humor.
Battle tales and island auctions in a clipped-era column
Anecdotes of a chill in the ranks and a cartoonish hospital mix with notices about Raasay Island in Scotland for sale at $225,000. The snippet recalls Johnson and military rations for Alaska, along with a Milwau kee humor note and Napoleon’s Marengo the famed war horse.
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Raasay Island
Hebrides
Scotland
Isle of Skye
Brochel Castle
Raasay
England
Samuel Johnson
Napoleon
Marengo
Mount St. Jean
Child Recovers After Cuban Itch With Cuticura Remedies
A mother recalls her three month old son suffering severe itching from Cuban Itch. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the child slept and healed in two weeks at a cost of 75 cents. Now five years old, she credits the treatment with saving his life. May 17 1906 Union City Michigan.
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Zana Miller
Union City
Branch Co
Mich
Language of Mules and Wit in Humorous Anecdotes
A collection of brief humor from National Magazine and Illustrated Bits. Notes on knute Nelsons logging camp talk about expletives guiding mule work. A seedy diner tale ends with a quip about stomach pumps. A teacher lesson prompts a student’s witty reply about returning good for evil with further apples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knute Nelson
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National Magazine
Doctor's Food Talk promotes Grape-Nuts for health and longevity
A Massachusetts physician extols Grape-Nuts as highly digestible and nutritionally powerful. He claims four heaping teaspoons suffice for the cereal portion of a meal and suggests the food suits babies and adults, serving cold with cream or hot with milk. He urges reading The Road to Wellsville and There's a Reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Wellsille
Banana Peel Fall Breaks One Commandment
A man slips on a banana peel but suffers no injuries beyond a minor breach of a commandment, with luck on his side as he avoids serious harm.
Knotty Point to Decide Goat or Sheep Question
County commissioners face a zoological ruling on whether Angora goats are sheep for reimbursement of losses. A R Harvard of Minn township filed a $50 claim for goats killed by dogs under a state law. A Pittsburg Dispatch Columbus correspondence notes Defiance Starch value for money with extra starch per package.
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A. R. Harvard
Minn Township
Columbus
Pittsburg Dispatch
Boiling Points Vary with Altitude and Voyage Anecdote
Temperature at sea level waters boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. At 10 000 feet altitude it boils around 190 degrees Fahrenheit. The note recalls Darwin crossing the Andes in 1835 when he boiled potatoes for three hours without softening them.
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Darwin
Andes
Suffragette Talks in Cardiff on Bride’s Blushes
Miss Gawthorpe speaking in Cardiff, Wales, says a bride’s blushes come from the knowledge of the kind of man she will marry. Her remark reflects suffrage era commentary on marriage and female emotion.
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Cardiff
Wales
Miss Gawthorpe
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Liew
A. W.gleason
Alaska
Hiram
Gsmay
Egypt
IDNEY
Eels
Guar
Allen
THE
Daily Fly
Defiance Starcr
Smidtoa
Thompson
Denver
Maas
Alea Leltey
Ateas Ie
Jaques Mig
Cas
Chicago
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