Chamberlains Cough Remedy Praised In Advert Claims
Public notices extoll Chamberlains Cough Remedy as effective for croup and pleasant for children. Endorsed by E A Wemphreys of Cape Colony and sold by De Kruif and Lubbers, the ad also touts various other products and quotes jokes and miscellaneous lines.
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Su Walley
Chamberlain
E. A. Wemphreys
Mir
FE. Lock
Aficea
Cape Colony
South Africa
de Kruif & Lubbers
de Jsraif & Lubbers
Miraculous Cure Claim and Local Remedies Mentioned
A family from Henrietta Va claims a miraculous cure for eczema after using Electric Litters. The notice promotes blood medicines priced 50 cents and 1 dollar at a local drug store. Additional lines tout Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as safe for children with decades of trust and no opium content.
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H. M. Adams
Henrietta
Tve Itrait & Lubbers Drug Store
The Century Magazine Subscription Offer
The Century Magazine defends American life traditions and supports authors while urging wholesome city life and education. Send for full particulars and a special offer to new subscribers.
Death by duel at a Moscow ball shocks Russian society
Report from Moscow describes two young Poles Nidetzky and Komorozsky who dueled by suicide after a card game for the love of Count Feodorovo’s daughter. Komorovsky shot himself, Nidetzky left by train to Berlin. The woman soon accepted a Russian nobleman’s proposal.
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Russia
Moscow
Nidetzki
Komorozsky
Count Feodorovo
Ecarte
Komorovsky
Nidetzky
London Globe
Sweating System Debases London Shop and Toilet Life
The piece condemns the sweating system dividing labor in London trades from shoemaking to tailoring and dressmaking. It cites universal low wages, extreme overwork, and deductions for thread and irons, with women and widows bearing the heaviest hardship. It notes housing crowding and sanitation issues in East London, urging parliamentary action.
Tremor Heard in Kansas As Structures Shake
Report from Kansas describes a loud noise puzzling residents with possible causes from a car tire to a barn collapse amid rising crop levels. No injuries reported and authorities urge caution while investigations continue.
Gastronomic Puzzle and Senate Banter in Pamphlet Flap
The text discusses a food puzzle where cops, mice, and caterpillars consume different proportions of weight. It then shifts to the Senate rate bill debate with Senator Tillman’s pamphlet speeches and Senator Spooner discovering the printed remarks in the cloakroom. The scene ends with a Wisconsin actor’s remark to Senator Tillman.
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Tillm
Fillman
Spooner
Senate
Tillman
Ben
Wisconsin
Pamphaet
Pies From Mrs Tillaan's Pastry Wrap Spur Curious Talk
Mr Spooner recalls passing a pastry shop and spotting a girl emerge with two cherry pies wrapped in one of Mrs Tillaan's works. The remark prompts playful banter about pride and clever procurement.
A Conscientious Patient
A doctor in Everybody's Magazine prescribes a drastic life change for a patient, recommending rest in a quiet country place, beef, milk, and one cigar daily. After a month the patient returns, saying the advice worked except for the single cigar that nearly killed him when he began smoking again.
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Everybody's
Bercary
Weather chief jokes about forecasts and mishaps at banquet
Willis L. Moore of Washington jokes that forecasters often end wet after predicting perfect weather. He compares mishaps to a cross eyed gentleman bowing for a waltz as three ladies rise.
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Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
Washington
Anglo-Saxon Citizen Attends Funeral in New Orleans
In Leslie's Weekly a tale shows an Anglo-Saxon man at a Frenchman's wife's funeral. On Ca mus street he meets the bereaved husband who jokes about his display of grief. The husband boasts his own restraint at the house and claims the cemetery would demand more men to bury his feelings.
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London
Leslie
New Orleans
Camus Street
Des Moines
Fellows & Fellows CO
Walnut Street
Iowa
Describing Nagging and Household Conflict
The text condemns nagging as despicable and urges spouses to stop it with decisive action. It argues husbands who tolerate nagging lose respect, and notes that sometimes the man nags while the wife should end it, with a firm confrontation seen as better than ongoing verbal war.
Italian girls to be taught domestic work in New York union
The Frances Willard WCTU in New York plans to teach dishwashing and housework in an artistic way to Italian girls under a charge. The Methodist church extension society will cover expenses. The piece contrasts women’s roles and social perceptions with remarks on gender and family behavior.
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Frances’ Willard W.C. T. Union
New York
Napoleon
Caesar
Methodist Church
Extension Society
Duty and conduct in the business office for women workers
A Philadelphia Bulletin article urges workers to value fair pay and effort, stressing there is no employer favor. It advises women to stay focused, avoid trivial chatter, and remain pleasant to all staff, including office boys and janitors, while dressing neatly and putting business first.
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Philadelphia
Beggar Teases Gentleman Over Lost Nose and Eyewear
A beggar woman shadows a gentleman who lost his nose and repeatedly cries for Heaven to preserve his eyesight. He questions why, and she explains it would be sad since he would have nothing to nest his spectacles upon.
New French Bamboo Publication Debuts in Mons Belgium
Le Bambou, a new French publication dedicated to bamboo study culture and uses, will be published notably at Mons Belgium. The text notes bamboo's eastern origins and its wide range of uses that astonish visitors.
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Mons
Belgium
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