Peruna touted as cure for heat related nervousness
An old advertisement praises Peruna as the root cure for nervousness blamed on hot weather. It claims Peruna improves digestion to feed nerve centers, notes no narcotics, and asserts permanent, drug-free relief. The letter from Miss Blanche Grey of Memphis extols its benefits for fatigue and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas Blanche Grey
Seemphis
Tenn
Alabama Street
Manning
Blanche Grey
Canadian Lady Endorses Peruna Health Drink
Miss Mary Burns of Halifax writes that Peruna cured her indigestion and stomach trouble after years of poor digestion and failed remedies. She says within three months her health and strength fully recovered, praising the medicine as excellent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Burns
Spring Garden Road
Halifax
N. C
Diverse Advertisements and Snippets on Starch Land Ads and Jokes
A collage of ad blurbs and quips notes Defiance Cold Water Starch from Up-to-Date Housekeepers, rail land offers by Union Pacific in Kansas with $6 to $11 per acre, Nebraska stock lands at $1.75 to $2.50 per acre with installments, and excursion dates from Des Moines. Also mentions Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders, Erie Railroad rates and stopovers, a joke about map publishers funding wars, and bucket shops exchanging barrels for bungholes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Kansas
Nebraska
Union Pacifice Land Agency
Fifth St
Des Moines
Remarkable Chicago boy survives pioneering heart surgery
Edward Pelt, a Chicago office boy who shot himself, survived a groundbreaking operation by Dr. Carl Wagner that stitched his bullet damaged heart. The procedure required removing three ribs and opening the chest to repair the heart, lung, and surrounding tissue, a feat described as one of American medical annals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edward Pelt
Carl Wagner
Wagner
Free to Twenty Five Ladies Defiance Starch Promotion
Defiance Starch Co offers 25 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition, five per state in Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri, to the largest trade mark collectors from a ten cent 16 ounce Defiance starch package. Mail by Sept 1 1904 to Omaha Nebr. tickets by Sept 5, 1904. Also ads for rail and travel offers and social quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance Starch Co
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance
Omaha
Nebr
Remarkable heart and lung operation on Edward Pelt
The drawing shows Dr. Wagner opening the chest to repair heart and lung injuries from a bullet. Six stitches closed the wound and stopped hemorrhage as tissues were drawn together and the chest lid fastened. The account notes the procedure was delicate and dangerous, aided by the patient’s fading strength.
Doubtful Compliment by Feliz Adler Story
Witty lecturer Feliz Adler told this casual tale of two regular Carnegie Hall listeners who visited his home to praise his lectures. They expressed satisfaction after months of attendance and said they would return to their church perfectly content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feliz Adler
Mr. Adler
Carnegie Hall
New York
Boer Colony Planned as Gen Fouche Buys Kansas Land
Gen William Fouche, Boer patriot, purchased a quarter section near Geneseo in Ellsworth County Kansas and has taken possession. The move signals a potential Boer colony with Fouche in correspondence with former South Africa companions awaiting relocation with families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fouche
Hag
Geneseo
Ellsworth County
Kansas
Fouche
South Africa
Geni Fouche
Orica
Courtship and commerce mingle in a curious ad edit
The fragment mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption praised by Mrs T1108 of Maple Street in Norivich. It also riffs on courtship as a two sided game. An ad copy notes Lewis' Single Binder cigars at 36.00 per M and Defiance Starch claims. The scattered lines resemble late 19th to 1900s period ads and witticisms.
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Hartman
Handy Blueing
Handy Blueing Book CO
E. Lake St
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
St. Louis
The
Erie Railroad Company
Boston
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Niagara Falls
Cambridge Springs
Chautauqua Lake
Axe
Deaslera
Er Tisat
Nate
Rosebud
South Dakota
Chicago & North- Western
Boresteel
Ucketay
Pam Opis
Lydia, Pinkham
Charles Woodhull Eaton
M. D
Walnut &T
Usamieth
Thompson
Maitre
Wig
Ean
Erie Railroad
Comany
Railway Exchange
Pelt
His
Belgium
Leopold
Ooreia
Marenian and
Seipe
Samuel Pitcher dix
Siges
Lean Canad
Easeleta Town
Mtd
G@RACE MEDICAL COMPANY, (Inc
Maple Street
Noivich
M. Lewis
Owls
Peoria
Bears
Castoria
Vai
Pens Alona al Vaterana
Butts & Hillipny
Ava
D. O . Washington
PAN Dare Scale & Supply Co., Ltd
Market St
Syearly
Minnesota
Elwood Land CO
St. Paul
Waitlla
Omaha, Neb
W.N. U
Des Moines, la
Rosebud Reservation
Chamberlain
Yankton
Platte
Geddes
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chamberlain, Yankton, Platte and Geddes
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
F. A. Miller
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