Lydia Pinkham Remedy Promises Kidney Cure for Women
A Buffalo New York club president credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her kidney trouble after two years of illness. The advertisement quotes testimonials from Mrs. Weisslitz and Mrs. Pryxus, urging sick women to seek the remedy and write for advice. It warns kidney disease as highly fatal and offers a $5000 reward for original letters proving authenticity.
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Weisslitz
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia E
Mars
Pavla Weusstitz
Seneca St
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
Bright
Lydia EE
Pintham
Oral Strona
Dalton
Mass
Questionable claims and advertisements flood 19th century pages
The column riffs on sensational promises of nerve restorers and beauty potions, featuring Dr Kane's Great Nerve Restorer and Defiance Starch. It mocks extravagant claims, notes a Philadelphia address, and parodies moral warnings about family theft and squandered money.
Mutual Insurance Co. marks annual meeting and strong farm policy
State Farmer's Mutual Insurance Co of S Omaha Neb is a leading West farm insurer organized in 1895 with 20,000,000 in force. It issues a perpetual policy that never expires before a fire. Annual meeting January 12 1904. Agents wanted. B R Stouffer secretary T B Holman president. The port side of a vessel is not necessarily the captain's wine cellar.
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State Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Co
S. Omaha
Nebr
B. R. Stouffer
Sec
T. B. Holman
Try One Package Defiance Starch Advertisement Card
An old advertisement promotes Defiance Starch with a 16 ounce package priced at 10 cents. It urges readers to try it to save money and features a lovestruck youth’s refrain.
Royal Christmas at European Palaces Richly Planned
Elaborate European royal Christmas follows centuries old precedents. The royal family opens the gift room first, then the court, servants, gardeners, and stable staff are remembered. Professional decorators prepare greens and festive trees across a department store like display.
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Royal Palaces
Europe
A Matter of Growth and Culture Across Classes
The article argues culture grows with wealth and time, noting the rich and old aristocracies differ from newly wealthy groups. It contrasts Western and Eastern refinements, and South and New England gentility with the crude culture of rapid wealth in New York, Chicago, and the West. Gunton's Magazine.
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Carlyle
West
East
South
New England
New York
Chicago
Gunton's Magazine
Privileges of English Mayors On Coastal Rivers
The article describes periodic ceremonies in Newcastle and Bournemouth where the mayor and corporation assert shore rights along their rivers. A custom allows the landing mayor to kiss the prettiest girl as sovereign compensation. In Bournemouth the retiring mayor gives his successor a ceremonial salute as part of the tradition.
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Newcastle-on-Tyne
Bournemouth
Progressive King of Siam Celebrates Golden Jubilee
The 65 year old King Chulalongkorn marks a grand golden jubilee in Bangkok. He modernized Siam with canals railways lighthouses and hospitals while preserving native customs. He leads a German modeled army but keeps a royal bodyguard of 400 noblewomen daughters.
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Siam
Chulalongkorn
Bangkok
Amazooes
Hollering Smith Ends His Hollering After Portrait
Frederic Remington sketched a West cowboy nicknamed Hollering Smith. The portrait startled the man who admitted likeness but vowed to stop hollering, saying he would now celebrate with a tin horn. The exchange ended with a firm statement that Hollering Smith has hollered the last holler.
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Frederic Remington
Smith
Mr. Remington
Philadelphia Post
Senator Perkins Tours Europe Faces Rain Humor
Senator Perkins of California returned from Europe to heavy rainfall that spoiled his trip and led him to joke with a London bus conductor. He asked why the roof leaks and the conductor replied it only leaks when it rains.
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Senator Perkins
California
Europe
London
Mr. Perkins
Practical hat prank causes lively scene on South Main
A Fall River Globe item recounts a back room practical joke in which an old hat is used to bait an unsuspecting customer. The hat is swapped, then the crowd dances on the returned hat while the victim believes his own hat is being toppled. A later version saw a participant jump on his own hat.
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Fall River Globe
Gilbert Umbrella Loss Stirs Witty London Club Note
W. S. Gilbert of England lost his umbrella at the Carlton club in London. He posted a humorous notice in the cloakroom asking the thief to return the umbrella, joking that under club rules members are noblemen and gentlemen, implying the culprit must be a nobleman.
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W. S. Gilbert
Carlton Club
London
Gilbert
Man Declares Dinner Invitation After Bowery Mission
A Bowery mission scene ends with a derelict man named Wilson asking why the missionary would not shake his hand The missionary invites him to dinner The next night the missionary finds Wilson dead on his lodging-house table The clerk identifies the man as Wilson and notes he died about half an hour earlier
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Bowery
Wilson
New York Press
Invitation Etiquette and a Cemetery Snub in Quebec
A New York Times recital notes the Governor General’s invitation etiquette, citing an error where Lady Dorion, deceased, was invited to a function. Sir Antoine Dorion accepted for himself but declined for her, as she lay in St. Anne’s cemetery, prompting a repeat correction the following year.
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Governor General of
Canada
Au Courant
Sir Antoine Dorion
Quebec
Dorion
Antoine
de Camp
Antoine Dorion
Anne’s Cemetery
New York Times
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Atlantic City
Auta
Malied
J. C. Rickey & CO
WaLwur Br
Paina
Omaha
Bath
Watertown
Farnam St
Neb
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Gee
Osan
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