Briness Home Plaques Promote Arts And Elastic Starch
An advertising feature highlights four porcelain game plaques by Millville artist for dining rooms, offered free to buyers of Elastic Starch from J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co. Purchasers of three ten cent packages receive a plaque, with no ads on the plaques. The piece also advertises Cuprase Carets and notes an Atlantic monthly issue coming August 27.
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Millville
J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co
Messrs
J. C. Hubinger Brow. Co
Heroes of War Heroism and a Pink Pills Testimony
The Chicago Times-Herald profiles A Schiffeneder of 161 Sedgwick Street Chicago a Civil War veteran born in Australia who fought in the Twenty sixth Wisconsin Volunteers and endured capture at Gettysburg Bell Island and Andersonville He credits Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his appetite and health after years of stomach catarrh He is a prominent Grand Army man in Chicago and moved there with his family The article ends with a striking domestic note about a wife chasing her husband with a poker and being ruled by a rod of iron.
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A. Schiffeneder
Sedgwick Street
Chicago
America
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Volunteers
Army of the Potomac
Shenandoah Valley
Gettysburg
Schiffeneder
Bell Island
Andersonville
Sherman
Georgia
Mr. Schiffeneder
Patent Office Patents and Applications in 1898
In the year ending June 30 1898 the U S Patent Office received 42120 patent applications and granted 22731 patents. Reasons include improper preparation and prosecution and high appeal costs of 10 dollars to correct primary examiner errors. This gap shows many meritorious inventions abandoned or hindered by process. Thomas G Orwig & Co Iowa Patent Office offer free information on preparing prosecuting and selling patents.
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Des Moines
Iowa
U. S. Patent Office
Board-of-Examiners
Thomas G. Orwig & CO
Iowa Patent Office
No-To-Bao Promise for Fifty Cents Sold in Drugstores
Purporting to cure tobacco habit No-To-Bao is advertised at 50 cents with claims to strengthen the weak and purify the blood. The note cites all druggists as sellers and mentions Switzerland as a labor context with 11 hour days.
Colorado Midland Route Through Hagerman Pass Highlighted
The Colorado Midland Railway promotes its line via Hagerman Pass at 11 580 feet as the highest standard gauge route through the Rockies. It touts scenic mountain views, excellent train service, and low rates. Contact the General Passenger Agent in Denver for rates and pamphlets. It notes longevity trends with more centenarians in milder climates.
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Hagerman Pass
Colorado Midland
Rocky Mountains
Colorado Midland Railway
Denver
One Night Stands and a Dancer’s Despair
A call boy leads backstage to a sad tale of a touring comedian whose sick child anchors his humanity. A kind dancer offers help with a silken purse, but he rejects revenge on appearances and finally returns to care for his ailing daughter, ending in quiet tragedy.
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Blanche
Trip
Night of Mercy and Loss in a Theatre Tale
A dancer nurses a dying child while a comedian keeps vigil, tears the blanket to find the child dead, and buries the girl next day. The father, leaving the churchyard, rushes to catch a western train to perform again, forgiven by the woman who would have been his wife.
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Blanche
Ralph
Mamma
Dad
Cupid in a Canteen Reveals 1864 Brooklyn Letter
A Rock Island Newfoundland dispatch details a faded 1864 letter found in an old Brooklyn canteen. Rosa Corvin, then 16, signed it urging a soldier to vote for Little Mac and for Old Abe’s end. Corvin now Mrs. Leary recalls no memory of writing the note.
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Rock Island
Brooklyn
Rock Island Arsenal
Mac
Abe
Rosa Corvin
Gold Street
M. A. Leary
Seventh Avenue
Manhattan
A Flower's Rise From a Wapping Window
In early 1900s Wapping a nursery gardener named Lee discovered a new flower in a shabby house window. After a thefty purchase at 42 dollars and two plants swapped, he cultivated 300 cuttings and popularized the fuchsia, turning it into a greenhouse staple with hardy outdoor varieties. The fashion waned but fuchsias remain, rarely as scarce as before.
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Lee
Wapping
Advantage of Being a Kahner
A Prussian court ruled the phrase Vaterlandlose Geselin fellows without a country libelous when used by a lesser figure. The term was applied by a conservative candidate to electors who backed his Polish opponent and he was ordered to pay damages.
Sea-Serpent Sighted Near Boothbay Harbor Maine
Residents report another sea-serpent sighting near Boothbay Harbor Maine. Witnesses describe a head as large as a fish barrel and a creature lacking fins flippers or a tail, leaving experts puzzled by its size shape and motion.
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Boothbay Harbor
Maine
Tailor Dies After Accident Swallowing Needle
A tailor accidentally swallowed a needle and died from inflammation. The passage also notes the supposed effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, claiming it strengthens the nervous and weak, and observes that humor varies among men and women.
Educate Your Vowels with Cascarets and More
An old newspaper snippet advertises Cascarets for constipation and Piso’s Cure for Consumption with prices and refund promises. It also parodies dating advice, a nerve restorer offer, and notes on Darwin, typewriters, and love.
Oldest remedy claims and child teething syrup ad
An OCR snippet touts an aged remedy as fastest cold cure and endorses Mrs Winslow's soothing Syrup for teething pain. The text includes generic proverbs and a claim about wisdom, ending with a faded reference to a bottle.
Halls Catarrh Cure Price Mentioned as Constitutional Cure
Classified style note repeats Hall s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a price of 75a. A second line dismisses substitutes for education, suggesting disapproval of using an obscure remedy as a substitute for learning.
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