Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Nurse
A Newark nurse testifies to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound curing female ailments after other medicines failed. She credits long experience and advice from Mrs. Pinkham, now Lynn Massachusetts, noting the remedy’s broad endorsements and the relief it brings to women suffering from irregular, painful, or weakened conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marths Pohlman
Chester Avenue
Newark
N.J
Phi
Clint Nared
Philadelphia Hospital
Lydis &. Pinkham
Che
Safrat
Best Medicine
Lydis K Pinkham
Lydia &. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Strange Bequest and Scotty Ride Highlight Oddities
A Staffordshire bequest asks twenty shillings yearly to a poor man to walk the church during sermons to awake attendees and keep dogs out. Also, Walter Hott, a Death Valley miner, rode a Santa Fe train from L A to Chicago in under 45 hours, earning over $600 and setting a record for long distance rail travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staffordshire
England
Walter Hott
Death Valley
Los Angeles
Chicago
Santo
Utah
Jorado
Fragmented 1900 era clippings mix odd ads and notes
A garbled OCR page mentions Red Cross Ball Blue soap, South Bend brand, rare birds shot in northern areas, a cold remedy, and a London stamps critique. It also cites a Norwich address dated February 17, 1900, notes on rabbit fur and animal-derived bowls, and Russia’s varnished feather-like tableware.
Stable Root House Construction Plan and Drainage Advice
Instructions detail building a stone based root house under a driveway with a concrete footing and arch. It covers trenching in clay, using small stones as fillers, tile drainage outside footing, cross section of the root house, arch centers, rods and anchors, manhole/ventilator, end windows, coping walls, and frost protection with earth covering.
Windmill Water Supply Plan For Dairy Farms
A simple wind powered plan provides water for dairy or stock farms using a two inch line from windmill to a galvanized steel house tank enclosed in a wooden box. Water is drawn for household use year round with an overflow near the top to prevent freezing. Overflow then feeds a milk tank with its own overflow to a distant cattle watering tank.
Britain Moves Toward Decimal Weights System Adoption
The Board of Trade granted approval for new weighments of twenty pounds ten pounds and five pounds as aliquot parts of the cente in response to a request by the Association of the Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
John Bull
France
England
Board of Trade
Chamber of Commerce
Han
Woman Credits Dean's Kidney Pills For Death's Narrow Escape
A Chicago woman credits Dean's Kidney Pills with saving her from Bright's Disease in 1903. She describes eye trouble back pain and severe headaches easing quickly and lasting since then. The ad notes the remedy sells for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Tender earache relief also offered with home heat technique and a mustard plaster behind the ear for pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mra
EB. T. Gould
W. Lake Street
Dean
Bright
Foster-Milbun Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Clyde Pa Frogs For Market Draws daily labor
Several young men of Clyde near Philadelphia trap and ship frogs to the city market. The work pays $5 to $9 a day, yielding 60 to 189 pounds of frogs legs daily. Legs sell for about fifteen cents a pound, making a steady if quiet income for participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde
Philadelphia
Sly Crack at the Librettists
A New York Press quip notes that when a man reads his own joke in a paper without being caught he feels compelled to write a comic opera, a wry reflection on authorship and publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
English Testimony on Brave Chinese Soldiers in 1900
Mary Porter Gamewell recounts how Chinese troops, led by British officers, fought bravely alongside British forces around Tientsin and during the march on Peking. An officer defended the Chinese as not cowards after being disparaged, recalling their valor in the fierce street fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Wei
China
Mary Porter Gamewell
Tientsin
Peking
True Friends In Prosperity And Adversity
The saying notes that true friends visit in prosperity only when invited but come to aid in adversity without invitation, attributed to Theo phrastus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theophrastus
Also Mentioned on This Page
Martha Pohlman
Paul Hochstrasser
Salt Lake
Merchant's Protective, Association Ser Nape Genie Silat Ada Tas Ee City
Francis G. Luke
Scotty
Warren
Dooly Block
Saltem City
Boston
Cae
Red Cross
Pac Conta
Phe Russ Company
South Bend
Egypt
Howe
Stampa
America
Tam Sure Mo
Mna Thor Rome
Maple Street
Norwich
Russia
Root House
New York
Batlas & Hale
Wrarper
Bears
Castoria
DODDS
Lot
Sloan
Earl & Sloan
Albany Street
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