Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Ad Offer
An early 20th century appeal touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a confidential aid for women with menstrual and related ailments. It promises expert advice from women, free letters, and testimonials from users like Mrs. Mary Dimmick, urging readers to seek help without surgery or a male doctor, through Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkha
Mary Dimmick
Benning
Tam
Lydia Pinkhall
Mary Dimmicd Toth
B. Caysh Strolening
Washington
Lydia E. Pinkham
Woman Burns Self in Bonfire After Family Tragedy in Orient
Mrs. Charles Hemmers, aged wife of a farmer near Orient east of Portland, saturated her clothes with kerosene and set fire to them in a cabbage patch after building a bonfire of papers. Her charred body was found by her husband early Sunday. She had previously attempted suicide in San Francisco years earlier and suffered melancholia after a supposed desertion.
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Charles Hemmers
Hemmers
Orient
Portland
Hemmer
Hemmera
Hemmere
San Francisco
Cal
Riot in Warsaw as Bund march sparks deadly clash
A Sunday evening riot in Deska Street Warsaw left four dead and about forty wounded, all Jewish. Police and military dispersed a 1000 plus crowd of Jewish socialists and memorial demonstrators after gunfire from both sides. Several arrests reported.
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Deska Street
Warsaw
The
Bund
Dzika Street
Dzika
Bold Japanese Plan to Shift Armies Across Asia
Native reports say Japan plans to move the bulk of five armies from the front toward Vindivostok and then Mongolia, using Mukden and Tie Pause fortifications as a screen to delay General Linevitch. The move aims at Tsitsihar, a bold, perhaps impractical strategy that could offer Russian cavalry a chance to reveal the enemy’s intentions.
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Vladivostok
Mukden
Linevitch
Vindivostok
Mongolia
Tsitsihar
Five Die in United Verde Mine Explosion
Five miners were killed and five others seriously injured in a blast at the United Verde mine in Jerome Arizona, owned by Senator Clark. The accident occurred as the shift began hoisting and twelve men remained on the surface awaiting lowering to the pit.
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United Verde
Jerome
Arizona
Clark
Artist Stabbed by Girl in Lancaster Killing
Ralph W Kilne a 26 year old artist was fatally stabbed Sunday afternoon near Long Park Lancaster by Jennie Good aged 1 The pair were part of a fishing party A quarrel prompted her to threaten to eat his heart Kilne urged her to stab and she struck He lies in hospital unconscious police have not yet arrested the assailant
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Ralph W. Kilne
Lancaster
Jennie Good
Kline
Miss Good
Long Park
Kilne
Free Port concept and world trade notes
Fragmented clipping notes discuss monquito use, blood digestion, and free port ideas. Mentions Germany wine duties and Hamburg free port concept with other nations cited. Includes a Paris cure for consumption and a London Mail shoplifting report describing a woman with a trained dog and stolen lace.
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Dietriati
Germany
Hamburg
Austria
Denmark
Roumania
New Zealand Wildlife Flourish and Early US Term Debate
Experts note New Zealand hosts unmatched growth of imported animals with red deer over 600 pounds and trout reaching twenty pounds while sheep multiply fast with finer wool. The other excerpt recalls 1787 debates on presidential term lengths from four to twenty years with proposals by Martin, Williamson, Gerry, and King.
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New Zealand
Rivera
Alexander Martin
Williamson
Elbridge Gerry
Rufus King
King
Insurance on Rail Tickets Heirs to Payouts Case
English accident insurance offered to ticket buyers promises heirs a payout if death occurs during travel. A worker insured for 2500 dollars, his widow receiving the sum after death. The piece notes growing insurance interest. It also advertises Allen's Foot-Bane powder for foot ailments and mentions British stamp taxes with 19400 dollars in stamps required for a railway company agreement in London.
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Engiaurt
London
Spelling Variants of a German Resident in Portugal
A German resident in Portugal named Schinite complains of his name being spelled differently by Portuguese correspondents. Examples include Snibytts, Schmithz, Xemite, Chemilie, and Schemeth, highlighting confusion in spelling across letters to Cologne and England.
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Smith
Portugal
Schinite
Cologne
Snibytts
Schmithz
Xemite
Chemilie
Schemeth
Weight loss tips from old diet advice column
The text lists rules to stay slim: avoid water at meals, drink tea or coffee instead, rise early and walk five miles daily, skip naps after exercise, sleep eight hours on a moderately hard bed, and avoid bread potatoes peas macaroni olive oil cream alcohol sweets and pastries.
Golden Medical Discovery Promised Cure for Digestive Ailments
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic for stomach disorders, indigestion, sour belchings, and related ills. It claims permanent relief not from alcohol but from native medicinal plant extracts, with testimonials from users in Buffalo and New Jersey. It mentions accompanying products like Pellets and an illustrated medical adviser.
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Lerce
Isaaa
Ali
Pierce
Colden
Luca Nagerio
North
Arlington
New
Bottioot Dir Pleres
Golan Medical
Severst
Witteame
Riles Barret
Ruitnos
N.Y
Common Sewer Medical Adviser
Thuffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
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Wootson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
Howe Treatment Care
Bree
Texet
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Ieee
Coniston
Shores & Shores
Bex Cure
May Pha
Tamsure Piqo
Atlas
Paris
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Maple Street
Norwich
London Mail
Allen
Allen S. Olmaind
le Roy
Ness
Pranen
Ftuttalo
Asti
Texas
Montana
Wien
Lp Des Rees
Wising
Walloon
A.J. Tower CO
Porram
Tower Canadian O., Limited
Toronto
Canada
Opden
Benter’Pahraaa
Vogeler Seed CO
Civ
Otas
Nathan Bickyord
Washington, D. C. Oes
I Sauleira
Thompson's
W.N. A
Salt Lake
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