Mrs Winn's Advice to Women
Kansas City Missouri reader reports relief from chronic pain and infertility after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with restoration of health and two healthy babies. Another testimonial from Cumming Georgia describes improved appetite sleep and stamina after two weeks of use and endorses the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E.pinkham
Kansas City
Lydia E. Pinkham
H. T. Winn
Freemont Ave
Kansas City, Mo
Cumming
Charlie Bagley
R. 3
Cumming, Ga
Unclear Classified Lines Mention Various Ads
Disjointed snippets advertise metal durable goods motor tires and commissions. Names Barold Somers Padidakre Vellore Canada agents earnings suggest miscellaneous offers without coherent context.
Mustache Cup Tea and Spiritual Bad Taste Talk
Miss Jeannette Gilder toys with a pink and gold mustache cup at the Bad Taste exhibition in New York. She quips the mustache cup outshines the hand-painted cuspidor and envisions a spiritual bad taste show led by a fortune hunter plotting marriage for money with a western heiress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeannette Gilder
New York
Miss Gilder
America
Marine Eye Remedy Ad Promises Quick Eye Relief
An advertisement from Marine Eye Remedy Co of Chicago claims their product eases red watery eyes and granulated eyelids. It touts a book of the eye by mail and urges readers to consult their druggist for this remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Eye
Book of the Eye
Bree
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
The Suitor Quips About Dowry in A Comical Dilemma
A young man asks for the daughter's hand and cites a yearly cost to maintain her lifestyle. The father declines, noting another suitor claims to manage for $8,000 annually. An ad for Red Cross Ball Blue follows, promising whiter clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
All Good Grocers
Adv
No Wonder Plays Wearied His Theatrical Taste
A tired businessman recalls abandoning theater after realizing the fatigue came from the plays themselves rather than the outings. He chose to stop attending as the plots and performances proved draining.
Can't Tell These Days Observing a Lamp Post Dancer
Two men discuss a silent onlooker clutching a lamp post and shuffling his feet. One jokes the man is drunk, the other suggests he may be practicing a new dance as a judge would note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
Crabshaw
Business Talk Delays Park Visit Ends in a Thousand Dollar Windfall
Withersly asks about the game while Plimson describes a disruptive business visitor who kept him at work in the park. Despite the interruption Plimson proclaims he earned $1,000 from the day’s efforts and bad luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plimson
Withersly
Two Centuries Old Cold Spring Church Plans 200th Anniversary
The Cold Spring Presbyterian church in Lower New Jersey Cape May will mark its two hundredth anniversary with July ceremonies and a rally week to raise a $10,000 endowment. Philadelphia historian Charles H. Edmunds will deliver the address. the graveyard holds two centuries of Cape May dead. The church traces back to 1714 under Philadelphia’s 1705 Presbytery, with earlier Baptist and Quaker beginnings nearby.
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Cape May
Cold Spring
Jonathan Edwards
Town Bank
Portsmouth
Delaware Bay
America
Philadelphia
Middletown
Cape May Court House
Seaville
John Bradner
Cape May Church Marks 175th Anniversary With Pastors and Histories
The article notes Cape May's old church observing its 175th anniversary. It recalls the 1818 pastor who endowed a 200 acre estate to the church with a long list of grantees, many of which persist in generations. Rev. Charles Henry Jones now leads the ministry. President Harrison and Mrs. Harrison worshiped there during their Cape May years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. H. Fletcher
Humphrey Hughes
George Hand
John Parsons
Joseph Whildin
James Spicer
Shamgar Hand
Joshua Gulickson
Samuel Johnson
Constant Hughes
Cornelius Schollinger
John Hand
Nathanial Hand
Barnabas Crowell
John Richardson
Charles Henry Jones
Now comes the season for gardening quips at Duluth toast
Jerome S. McWade opened an after dinner speech in Duluth with a gardening joke about wives in the country versus staying in town. A doctor tells a patient to try gardening after the man complains of being run down, and the patient asks which kind of gardening and the doctor says roof gardening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome S. McWade
Duluth
Little Francis Faces Storm Fear After Dentist Cue
A Chicago Sunday Examiner anecdote recalls a frightened child during a thunderstorm. His mother calmly explains nature’s blessing but the boy recalls her dentist visit when his fear was real.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis
Chicago Sunday Examiner
Lack of Self Assertion Noted in Puck Quip
The quip targets Abner Appledry-Jay Green for lacking pride and independence. It notes he avoids asserting rights on trains, instead remaining seated as if in church, a jab labeled by Puck as rabbit like behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abner Appledry
Jay Green
Ashton Allred
Puck
Fortunate is the woman whose dress maker gives her more worry
The saying notes a woman’s concern over a dress maker surpasses worries about her husband, reflecting humor about domestic priorities and social life.
Knight Renowned Artist Seeks Modern Animal Focus
Recognized artist Charles R Knight prefers to be known as a painter sculptor of modern animals. He travels to zoos to study living models and describes experiences at the Washington zoo. A story about a negro couple mistaking his deer sketch for a habitat landscape and the zoo’s extensive habitats is included. Sarah Shaffer, thirteen, aided her younger sister with a broken elbow by following Dr. Wiley’s instructions over the phone, earning admiration for her nurselike action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Knight
Washington
Dis
United States
Sarah Shaffer
Los Angeles
Cal
Edward G. Wiley
Sarah
Maybelle
Wiley
Shaffer
Minding the Doctor and a Dazzling Card
A Chicago critic recalls Bob Hilliard winning a millionairess and his striking style with a long gold amber cigarette tube. He quips that his doctor ordered him to avoid tobacco. The strip ends with a light aside about dressing on salad in warm weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hilliard
Bob
Chicago
Memory of Sickles Conflicts and Theater in Army Tale
On an Atlantic City pier a Civil War veteran reflects on General Sickles. He calls Sickles brave yet theatrical and recalls a dark youth and a wife’s death two years after reconciliation. He recalls Sickles rebuking a man who disparaged wives at an army reunion and notes a telling remark about a jewel of a wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Sickles
Jim
The Reason and A Toothpaste Jab Tangle
A light exchange about a slow payer prompts a quick joke about speed. A cartoonish panel shows a toothpaste hit delivering a jawline thump.
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Daisy Fly Killer
Express
Barold Somers
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
Padidakre So Ailver
Vellore
Ont
Canada
Wuem & CO
Dodge St
Buffalo
N.Y
Matthews Dawson
Washington, D.C
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
W.aird
Gianapoli, Ltd
J. H Quinn & Company
Chicago, Il
Rita
Mano
Sendstan Fisrah Agercy
Commercial Ave
Watsor E.coleman
Wash- Pak
D.C. Br A
Basy Living
Ginseng Company
Dept. A
Murphy
Ida
Aoe
Zachara
Saas Wees
Robert Adams Chandler
Guar
Pierce Bldg
Boston
Mass
Oakland
Maine
Vanity
G.C. Coffman
Lock
Huntingdon, Pa
the Rose CO
Jackson, Mich
ICAN
Internatio Peb. Co
Tucson
Carter
Carters
Bourbon Remedy Company
East Mele Street
Lexington
Indianapolis
Cold Spring Church
Lower
New Jersey
Cold Spring Presbyterian Church
Binenefeld Compas
Spring Grove Ave
Cincinnati
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