Renowned Doctor’s Backache Remedy Promises Cures
A prewar advertisement touts a rheumatism and backache cure using syrup of sarsaparilla, Toris compound, and whiskey. It claims wholesale access to ingredients, wide sales, and cures after a few doses, framing the mix as a system builder restoring strength and vitality.
An Educational Problem From a Kindergarten Tale
A child ponders her knowledge after kindergarten lessons in a brown study. Plus an advertisement requests readers to write for the Klondike Incubator Co catalogue, Des Moines Iowa, touting reliable brooder goods with no galvanized iron and an average Klondike hatch rate of 82 percent.
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Margery
Klondike Incubator Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Encouraging Signs of Life in Foreign Mission Giving
The Missionary Review of the World notes US and Canada offerings to foreign missions rose last year by 602000, foreign-field income up 1360000, total foreign gifts reaching 4844000 or 48 percent of North American Protestant giving. Native converts added 164674, about 450 daily, with global membership up 12 percent while American missions abroad rise. Two members per ordained American minister overall, 0.41 per ordained foreign missionary.
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United States
Canada
North America
America
Missionary Review of the World
Yame After Her and The Line Between Love and Money
A compact fragment set features a wry dialogue about descendants and work as a remedy for human ills, with a Carlyle quote on honest labor. It also ponders whether love can endure without money, suggesting paradoxes of affection and material need.
Hard to Drop But Many Drop It
A California wife recalls switching from coffee to Postum after nervous breakdowns and insomnia. Her household notices improved sleep and weight gain, and her husband’s insomnia vanished after abandoning coffee. She credits Postum with healthier nerves and better well being.
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Calif
Postum
Wellville
Pligs
Tempest's Cravenford Visit Drops a Mysterious Visitor
American visitor Lucy Carew arrives at Craven, seeking an audience with reclusive author Tempest. He entertains her with guarded politeness as she reveals she seeks work: an essay on his personality and a synopsis of his poems. The meeting tilts between curiosity and tension as Tempest weighs his own fame against a possible career shift for a stranger.
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Tempest
Craven
London
Shire
All
England
Mrs. Heary
Lucy Carew
America
Merle Blanche
Square Hole Boring by Rolling Cutter Across Square Guide
A method to bore square holes uses a cylindrical shank with a central cutter rolling along a square guide. As the circle rolls, the cutter traces a straight center path and shapes the blank into an equal square. Corner rounding is minor and can be minimized to a small, acceptable radius.
Calendar lesson on how days divide into weeks
A teacher asks little girls to name how days divide into time units. A board ing house girl, slightly older, answers with a humorous list of days paired with foods like beef and corned beef and beans. The scene reflects a classroom moment from a youth publication.
Reward for Catarrh Cure Promotes Honest Dealers
A historical ad and a church anecdote are summarized. The ad offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable case of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio. It includes endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin and wholesale druggists and notes internal use and blood mucous action.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Allen's Lung Balsam Promises Cure for Cold and Cough
An advertisement touts Allen's Lung Balsam as a cure for fresh colds and stubborn coughs that linger for months. It offers trial at prices of 250.00 and 81.00, urging readers to try and prove its worth, and includes a quotation about giving better homes books tools and a brighter outlook attributed to Emerson.
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Allen
Pettit's Eye Salve Ad and Misc Quotation Fragments
A compact, era style ad fragment urges use of Pettit's Eye Salve at 25c with Howard Bros. Buffalo NY. The text also strings a series of miscellaneous quotes and product mentions including Wrigley’s Spearmint and Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, ending with a note about kind deeds remaining in a grateful heart.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
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Manchester Guardian
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Ingersoll
Mia
Winslow
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Des Moines Directory
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George Washington
Martha Washington
F. Mayer Boot
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