Mexico Travel Guide From A Lanterned Era By J Weldon Lithgow
The article outlines budgeting for a Mexico trip including daily costs and lodging, customs on purchases for duty, and routes by rail and ship. It highlights itineraries via Rio Grande bridges, Vera Cruz arrival options, and notes on churches, rural chapels, and blessings of livestock. It finishes with climate zones tierra caliente templada and fria and a closing by J Weldon Lithgow.
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Mexico
Secretary of Treasury
Rio Grande River
Laredo
Tex
New Laredo
Mex
San Antonio
City of Mexico
Eagle Pass
Cudad
Portiario Diaz
Monterey
Beata
Sl Paso
Ciudad Juarez
Brownsville
Matamoros
Gulf Coast
New York
Mobile
New Orleans
Galveston
Texas
Havana
Vera Cruz
Church of San Antonio Abad
Republic
Gulf of Mexico
Patzcuaro
Saltillo
Durango
Chihuahua
Sierra Madre
Torreon
Coahuila
Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas
Vera Cru
States
Tierra Caliente
Tierra Templada
Tierra Fria
J. Weldon Lithgow
Politeness as a Rewarding Virtue in Denver Story
A wealthy Arizona ranch owner who was aided by a Denver manicurist after falling victim to streetcar trouble has left her $25,000 and other valuables in gratitude. The piece notes politeness as a continuing, universal-value investment and suggests it may become a global occupation.
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Arizona
Denver
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments and Hall's Cure
Caution against mercury containing catarrh ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Cure is taken internally, works on blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials and price 75 cents per bottle. Also recommends Half a Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Drugeista
Compass diagrams on J apanese ceilings in homes
A Sunday Magazine note observes that Japanese avoid sleeping with heads to the north because the dead are buried that way. Many private homes and larger city hotels display a compass diagram on bedroom ceilings for guest orientation.
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Japan
The
Sunday Magazine
Rough on Rats in Out Buildings Notice
An 1890s style poison notice explains mixing Rough on Rats with food and placing on boards under floors to trap rats and mice. It recommends closing large openings to dogs and chickens while leaving small ones for rats. Available at druggists in 15 25 and 75 cents from E S Wells Jersey City NJ.
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E. S. Wells
Jersey City
N. J
Hidden Romance Turns to Drink After Marriage
A little woman recalls their past as she reveals that before marriage her husband kissed her whenever they passed a tunnel. The bosom friend asks if it continues and she answers that now he takes a drink instead.
Quotation Fragment Promotes Remedies and Morals in Brief
A collection of snippets includes product ads for Hamlin’s Wizard Oil and Laxative Bromide tablets, Allen’s Lung Balsam, and a salesman boast, interspersed with quips on marriage, morality, and hobbies. Reads as a cluttered 19th or early 20th century newspaper page item.
Family cough syrup promises cure in five hours
A vintage advertisement touts a cough cure claiming rapid relief from coughs and bronchitis. It prescribes wild cherry bark, cardial essence, and pine syrup, with dosing every half hour for four hours then smaller doses, and claims it can heal throat and lungs in a few hours for non consumptives.
Cupid's Cynicism quoted in The Circle
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts romance and price with the line I could buy the song for 50 cents. The Circle presents a cynical aside on affection and exploitation in a brief literary excerpt.
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Cupid
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the Centaur Company
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Castoria
California
Deere Implements and Velie
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Kansas City, MO
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute At
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Western
Canada
Dolliver
United States
Towa
West
Hkup
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Timigration
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