Every Woman Should Write Dr Hartman on Peruna Cure
A Mrs Joseph Lacelle of Ottawa Ontario testifies Peruna cured her backache headaches and dragging pains after nine months of suffering. Dr Hartman offers free summer treatment to female patients who apply to The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio. A proverb notes the futility of starting nine nine tasks and failing to finish.
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Dr. S B. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Joseph Lacelle
Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
Peruna
Martman
Perunga Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Wife speaks against drunken husbands at meeting
A distressed speaker, describing her marriage to a drunkard, pleads with girls to avoid such a fate. She recalls misery, sorrow, and the whitening of her hair as proof of endured hardship, urging women to beware the crown of misfortune.
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Teuadrunkard
Tam
Marie Antonette
Electric Hitters touted as miracle cure for indigestion
Mrs H. Newson of Decatur Illinois recounts severe stomach and bowel pain for three years. After failed remedies she tried Electric Bitters, which she credits with rapid relief. Ad claims the medicine cures liver kidney and stomach troubles. Also promotes Laxative Bromo Quin ine Tablets for colds with no cure no pay.
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H. Newson
Decatuer
Alin
Chicken of Perfect Physique A Curious Exhibit At Greene County
Richmond News Leader reports a quip from a Quinque poet praising Mistress Jennings wife of Dr George B Greene County’s popular M D. The item mocks a specimen described as a chicken of perfect physique with four legs and four feet on display. The note queries how many appendages a man of perfect physique should have and comments that hotel keepers should heed the exhibit.
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Richmond News Leader
Bard
Quinque
Greene County
Jennings
George B
M. D
Norfolk
Botanic Blood Balm Ad Promises Cure For Blood Skin Diseases
An old advertisement for Botanic Blood Balm claims it cures ulcers eczema blood poisoning and skin diseases by killing poisons and purifying the blood. It offers free samples and medical advice with a sealed letter and states the product costs one dollar per large bottle.
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Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Funeral plans and missed calls in a terse exchange
Mrs Blank asks about her husband attending Mrs Jason's funeral. Mrs Cash responds sharply that she decidedly did not and never returned the caller's last message.
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Mrs. Blank
Jason
Cash
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve Ad Claims Scar Free Cure
DeWitt & Co. markets DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as the genuine remedy that leaves no scar. The product supposedly cures blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles burns and various skin diseases and is sold by W. B. Dillard Drug Co.
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DeWitt & Co
DeWitt's
DeWitt’s
Dillard Drug Co
Temperance Talk in Roanoke Denounces Saloons
Evangelist D B Strouse from Roanoke speaks at a Pentecostal meeting on saloon profits and moral decay. He asserts saloons fund vice, urges church members to act, and notes Roanoke’s thirty saloons pay about 12 000 annually. Audience pledges to aid in ending the whiskey trade.
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Roanoke
D. B. Strouse
Strouse
Satan
Dr Kings New Life Pills Promise Quick Relief
A vintage testimonial-style notice touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a cure for sick and nervous headaches. It claims they purify blood, boost health, and offer a money back guarantee if not cured. Sold for 259 at W T Younger's Drug Store.
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Dr. King
W.T. Younger
Moon Themed Marriage Tale Ends In Turmoil
A man named Moon marries and has a son, described as a new Moon. He drinks in town to celebrate, returning home with twenty cents, the last quarter. His mother-in-law confronts him with a rolling pin, eclipse of the Moon.
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Moon
Doans Ointment Sleep Aid Testimony in Salem
Burnett Neighbors, a farmer near Salem, reports years of persistent skin irritation that prevented rest. After using Doan's Ointment from W T Younger's drugstore, he slept through the night for the first time in two years and now shows no irritation. Sold everywhere for fifty cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Dean's.
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Dean
Salem
Burnett
Mountain View Road
Sears
Doan
W. T. Younger
Doane
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
United States
Dean’s
Woman of Fifty Refuses Youth as Aging Sailor Seeks Return
In a Richmond News Leader excerpt, a Woman of Fifty laments aging while her niece and aunt argue over fashion. The aunt longs for dignity and steadiness, resisting the youthful pull of hats and gowns as she recalls her mother’s serene aging and seeks a peaceful harbor away from social vanity.
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Ana Rlance
Pease
White
Richmond News Leader
Women urged to trust Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for fertility
A promotional message touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for “womanly ills” that can restore health, enable pregnancy, and produce healthy babies. Personal testimonial from Mrs Mary tre Phe ary of Dryden Va describes relief from female weakness and a later successful birth after using the remedy, with offer to publish letters and free access to medical adviser materials.
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Dr. Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Tion
Mary Tre Pheary
Dryden
Hand in Hand and By My Side Anthem
Poem fragment expresses enduring partnership through storms and blessings. Refrains of togetherness and support highlight unwavering companionship and spiritual overtones. The lines invoke unity and solace, framing love as a guiding, heavenward force.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Cure and Trial
One hundred dollar reward offered for an incurable case of catarrh. Endorsed by J. Cheney & Co and multiple Toledo druggists. Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed to work systemically by affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials available, price one dollar per bottle, sold by all druggists.
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Uall
Jore
Pr. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
I’. J. Cheney
Wrst & Truax
Warping
Saphan
Manvin
Hall
Wry Classified Ads Turn Dark Humor Into Daily Laughs
A collection of lighthearted and sharp witticisms from old classifieds reads like satire. Dentists seek patients while insurers chase late policies, and a moving piano with curved legs hides a brisk land of punchlines.
Little Early Risere claimEasy Pill laxative ad
An advertisement touts DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a gentle constipation remedy. It claims the pills do not purge the system, cause no griping, and suit women and children, with endorsements from W H Howell of Houston and Bob Moore of Lafayette. Sold by W B Dillard Drug Co.
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W. H. Howell
Houston
Texas
Bob Moore
Lafayette
Ind
DeWitt
W. B. Dillard Drug Co
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Promises Quick Stomach Relief
No appetite, loss of strength, nervousness, headache, and stomach troubles are claimed to be cured by Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. The ad asserts nourishment via the stomach as key to health and strength, urging use for indigestion and related ailments. Sold by W 8. Dillard Drug Co. Also advertises Dean's Ointment for skin itchiness at 50e in drugstores.
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Dillard Drug Co
W. B. Dillard Drug Co
Murder as Mob Pursues Man Over Insult Claim
Eugene Burk a black man employed at the English Hotel was killed in Indianapolis in June after a white girl aged thirteen reported insult. A mob of about two hundred chased him toward railroad tracks where a young man with a revolver fired, killing Burk. The shooter, named Anderson, fled arrest.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Eugene Burk
Gertrude Worth
Burk
Kingan
Anderson
Dixie Nerve and Bone Lotion Endorsed by Richmond Firm
A Richmond business letter commends the Dixie Nerve and Bone Lotion as highly effective and preferred, noting exclusive use in their operations. The advertisement cites a price of 25 cents for a large bottle at Younger's drug store.
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Richmond
M. B. Rows
Youngger's Drug Store
Lovd
Towns Power to License Soliciting Firms Questioned
In Fredericksburg Virginia a Black & Nedle representative was fined fifty dollars for soliciting business without a license. The ruling holds that under the new Constitution any Virginia town may impose a license on firms soliciting within its limits, a matter of great importance to wholesale and jobbing interests statewide.
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Richmond
Fredericksburg
Black & Nedle
Virginia
Dr King’s New Discovery Promoted for Coughs
A vintage testimonial advertises Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption bronchitis and other lung ailments. Mrs C B Van Metre of Shepherdstown West Virginia credits one bottle with curing a year long bronchitis. It claims effectiveness against croup whooping cough grip pneumonia and consumption with trial bottles free and regular sizes priced.
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Dr. King
C. B. van Metre
Shepherdstown
W.va
W. T. Younger
Woman seeks happy death by ice cream binge in Morristown
Miss Amelia Sternberg, a former State Hospital patient from Morris Plains, escaped and said she wished to die. Police found her consuming over a gallon of ice cream from a two gallon freezer, believing large quantities would frost her to death for a cheerful end.
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Morristown
N. J
Amelia Sternberg
State
Morris Plains
Emulsion Aids Fat Needs Across Classes
Renowned London authority Dr. Hughes Bennett links consumption mainly to butter prices and pastry intake, suggesting the poor lack fat while the wealthy overeat fats that resist absorption. The notice promotes Scott's Emulsion from Scott and Bowne as a digestible, pleasant fat source that purifies blood and supports fat formation.
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Hughes Bennett
London
Scott
Scott and Bowne
Tillman Links Ohio Platform to Antebellum Revival
In Augusta on June 22 Senator Tillman warned that adopting the Ohio platform into the National Republican platform could revive ante-bellum days and reduce national politics to a white man versus the negro issue. He predicted repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as inevitable, possibly addressed at the Democratic National Convention.
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Augusta
Tillman
Ohio
Digestive Tonic Claim and Church Scandal In One Report
A patent medicine ad touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as curing indigestion and stomach disorders. Separately a Kentucky reverend defends his embrace of a flock member, comparing himself to a shepherd caring for lambs amid church committee inquiry.
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Jim Johnson
Kentucky
Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry Promises Relief
Mothers abandon fear of the dreaded second summer as Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry is shown as a natural remedy. The advertisement claims it treats bowel complaints of all kinds and sits in households for immediate use.
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Dr. Fowler
Fresh testimony lauds Dr King’s New Discovery
A Benterville Virginia man reports three years of bronchitis ended after using Dr King’s New Discovery. Advertised as effective against lung and throat troubles, consumption, pneumonia and grip, with trial bottles free and regular sizes 50c and 1.00.
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Dr. King
T. J. McFarland
W. T. Younger
Charity Begins at Home Motive for Personal Growth
A reflective line argues that while charity begins at home, it does not justify remaining there and that the virtue requiring the most constant exercise is self discipline and personal development.
Freakish Lightning Visit Strikes Reichard Household
Washington county farmer John Reichard recalls a freak bolt during a storm. A pear tree near his door was struck, the lightning entered the house grazing his wooden cap, dislodging a tin cup and coffee pot, stunning his wife and three children, hitting a cat, and burying the bolt in a yard hole as Reichard braced himself.
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John Reichard
Washington County
Far-off Family Relies on Amnica Salve for Burns Care
A remote household, driven to desperation by an accident, uses Kucklen’s Amnica Salve for burns wounds and ulcers. The ad promotes the salve as the best on earth, selling for 25 cents at W. T. Yunger's Drug Store.
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Kucklen
W. T. Younger
Local Notes On Marriages Storms Whisky And Poetry
During the past week five marriages occurred and six thunderstorms unsettled the area while few snakes have been killed. A better whisky is in use and spring arrived yesterday shaking off snow to reveal a sealskin cloak on honeysuckle. The literary picnic drew crowds and a jumping contest for town’s best literary man ended in a tie. Our summer hotel opened with six board bill collectors a mill pond full of fish and ten alligators for shooting. Frank L. Stanton.
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Frank L. Stanton
Descriptive Stomach Remedy Promised by Local Advertiser
An advertisement hawks Lato American Nervine Tonio as a universal stomach cure, claiming rapid relief from weakness and indigestion with guaranteed results. It touts safety, effectiveness, and constant availability through Salem druggist M. Dillard. The piece also notes a Kansas governor vow about prudent savings before public office and satirical ideas on political pensions.
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Tonio
M. Dillard
Salem
Kentucky justice reform favors military jury protection
The passage notes a new wrinkle in Kentucky’s administration of justice that replaces prisoner oversight with military protection for the jury, and it requests opinion on babies while promoting Victor Infants Relief as a cure for cholera infantum colic and nervous unsettledness.
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Kentucky
Victor
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