Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People Ad
An advertisement urges teen and young women to watch for blood deficiency and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a safe effective tonic. It cites Emma A Vickery of Winfield Kansas as a user and offers free booklets and mail order details for 50 cents per box or six boxes for 2 50.
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Emma A. Vickery
Winfield, Kans
Dr. Williams
Pr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Advice to the Lovelorn in Beatrice Fairfax Style
A 28 year old woman asks how to win back a man who dated others. Geraldine urges pride and humor over despair, noting he rarely keeps promises and may be unreliably busy. Dorothy counsels showing justified anger and avoiding further contact, suggesting ending the relationship may be best if he remains unpromising.
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Miss Fairfax
Geraldine
Dorothy
Dear Miss Fairfax letter hints at young romance and ages
A person writes to Miss Fairfax stating she is 23 and has known a young man for some time. She seeks guidance on their relationship and future steps. The brief missive reflects early 20th century advice columns addressing courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Fairfax
Wisconsin Craft Produces World’s Largest Cheese for Exhibition
Wisconsin dairy makers unveil a cheese over twelve thousand pounds created for display. The massive dairy product aims to showcase regional craftsmanship and attract visitors to the exhibit.
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Wisconsin
Coffee stalls of London a nightly open air tavern of contrasts
A vivid portrait of London coffee stalls run by the poor for the poor. Night markets along curbs offer warmth, light, and cheap food as vagrants and workers mingle with soldiers, cabmen, and clerks. The scene in Piccadilly’s Junior Turf Club stall epitomizes the city’s curbside social divide.
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London
Piccadilly
Junior Turf Club
Underworld
Curbstone Hotel
Monarchs' Wealth From Embellished Enterprises
The piece notes that rulers and royals profit from private businesses. The Kaiser oversees a gifted pottery bequest, yielding rising yearly profits. The King of Würtemberg reportedly earns about 8000 pounds annually from Black Forest hotels. The Regent of Lippe-Detmold grows wealth as a farmer selling eggs, milk, and butter.
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Servia
Wurtemburge
Black Forest
Trippe-Detmold
London Chronicle
Old Kansas farmer sails to Europe fearing death
Henry Sacks, an 82 year old farmer near Oak Mills, disappeared from his farm and sailed from New York for Europe. His son John received a letter saying he reached Atheline in Prussia and expects to return in a month. Relatives had objected to his travel due to age.
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Henry Sack
Oak Mills
Saling
Europe
John Sacks
New York
Sacks
Atheline
Prussia
Germany
Kansas City Journal
Telephone Tuning Improves Organ Builders' Pitch
The Diapason notes that a prominent American organ builder wires instruments with telephone transmitters above the pitch octave in the diapason department. Tuner hears exact diapason pitch through a headset telephone by a plug when working anywhere in the organ.
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The
Diapason
Chicago
The Dance of the Future as Harmony with Nature
The author argues future dance must reflect natural law and gravitation, condemns modern ballet as sterile, and praises Greek sculpture and ancient dance as continual evolution. A Milwaukee editor is noted as leading the Milwaukee Leader toward a serious yet sunny, proletarian tone.
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Sion
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Leader
Civil War Veteran An drew Weber Leaves Monticello for Soldiers Home
After fifty years with his wife, An drew Weber a Monticello resident and Civil War veteran who is nearly blind left his home to spend his remaining days at the soldiers' home in Virginia. Mrs Weber lies prostrate with grief and refuses consolation.
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Andrew Weber
Monticello
N. Y
Virginia
Microbes Linked to Baldness in Scan of Hair Health Theory
A Hamburg professor and a French dermatologist claim a scalp microbe causes baldness. They say the microbe lodges in sebum, destroys hair follicles, and closes pores, with no hair growth possible thereafter. Rexall 93 Hair Tonic is advertised as a remedy with a money back guarantee, available in San Antonio at The Rexall Store.
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Anna
Hamburg
Germany
Sabourand
Rexall
San Antonio
H. Ll. Wagner
East Houston
Avenue C
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