May Time’s Pleasanter than March In Almanac Lines
A North China Daily News excerpt notes Junjab prison escape off the Burmese coast after 20 days at sea and 240 miles drift, highlighting distress and emaciation until rescue by a steamer. It also references aviation weight gain for Wilbur Wright and a discussion of Black Hand activity in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robina
Marjorie
T. B. Aldrich
North China Daily News
India
Port Blair
Andaman
Allen's Poot-Ease Free Sample Offer
An offer invites readers to write Allen 8. Olmsted in Le Roy New York for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease a powder to shake into shoes. It claims to cure tired sweating hot swollen and aching feet and eases new or tight shoes. It notes the product is sold by all druggists and shoe stores at 25 cents. A Mexico man Jose Gaadaloupe Aleud of Jalestit ian Jalisa is described as the world’s oldest man born in 1770 and in good health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Ben Gend
Orator
Ff.oodward
le Roy
N. Y
Allen
Olmsted
Jose Gaadaloupe Aleud
Jalisa
Mexico
Sard
Siren
Salome
The Forgiving Wife and Common Sore Eyes Ad
A wife forgives her faithless husband after confronting him with compassion and partnership, turning crisis into unity. The piece promotes Phun’s Eye Salve as a remedy for sore eyes and reference to African labor in colonial commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phun
Howard Bros
Buffalo
Ten Years of Pain Ends for Mrs Emmerich in Napoleon
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich of Clip ton St Napoleon Ohio suffered kidney trouble for fifteen years with back pain poor eyesight and dizzy spells. After two years confined to home she found relief and a cure with Dean's Kidney Pills, which she says saved her life. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Yester Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Emmerich
Clipton St
Napoleon, C
Dean
Yester-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Sweets for Afternoon Tea and Earth Interior Notes
A New York Times note describes Russian Shortcake with almond paste layers and cassava wafers as afternoon tea delicacies, plus crullers and a savory sardine butter sandwich. A New York World report from the University of Jena discusses the earth’s interior, density estimates, and a hypothesized dense core called buryaphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
New York Times
Russia
New York
University of Jena
M. Thiene
Univerasity of Jena
Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills claim to ease constipation
An ad touts Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills as a gentle laxative that stimulates liver and stomach activity without griping or weakening. It asserts constipation causes many ailments, praises the pills for toning nerves and enriching the blood, and notes no calomel or dope with a 25 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munyon
Health Note and Odd Tidbits From 1908 Era
An assortment of old notices and anecdotes appears. It includes an advertisement for Cascarosacks claiming quick bowel and liver cures, a miscaptioned health blurb, a stray note about Secretary Wilson and farming, a joke about a seed catalog list, statistics on global sheep decline and pension costs, and a Russian automatic burglar alarm device description.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female ills
A historical testimonial from Bardstown Kentucky and Christiana Tennessee praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, and nervous prostration. Letters claim long suffering ended and renewed strength enabling women to resume work. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice through her mass mailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bardstown
Evermorenna
Jo5pen Hall
Christiana
Tenn
Mary Woop
K.P. D
Lydia J. Pinkham
Dollar Wheat to Stay Quietly, Central Canada Grows
Central Canada Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta are praised as the future breadbasket of the United States. Demand for their wheat rises as prices stay around the dollar mark, with immigration, investment, and new rail lines boosting prairie towns. The piece asserts Canada will dominate global wheat supply, benefiting American farmers who migrate north for fertile land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
James J. Pull
Mr. Tih
John Bull
Winnipeg
Prairies
Cuticura Resolved Rash Miracle Endures Two Months
A mistranslated 1907 testimonial describes a severe body rash on a child that resisted treatment from many doctors. After using Cuticura Remedies a marked improvement appeared within weeks and full recovery occurred in about two months. The note cites George S. Lambert of Mahanoy City, with dates Sept 26 and Nov 4, 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George S. Lambert
West Centre St
Mahanoy City
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Many a Day Is Spoiled By a Cough Remedy
A collage of brief items notes Kemp's Balsam as a 65 cent cough remedy, Representative John Tener as the tallest new congressman, a French airship firm Clement Bayard, Montreal’s ice shipments to Europe, Garfield Ten herbal remedy for constipation, a skywear parachute skirt concept, Germany's brewer ownership, and ad copy for South Dakota and Oregon listings seeking irrigation project details.
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Sloan
eSee Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
Wilbur Wright
Woods
May McClure
New York City
Black Hand Trust
Baltimore Sun
Rowland
Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Henry
Cataract Power Company
East Indies
California
Fic Syrup Co
Bloux City P'T'g CO
Rac Smnile Signature
Bears
Castoria
New York American
Europe
Africa
Leslie's Weekly
Tropical Africa
German East Africa
Nigeria
South America
America
Ruggiste
Murine Hye Remedy Co
Chicago
Hall Caine
Earth
Cascarets
McCrady
Liberty St
Franklin, Pa
Dept
Louisville
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Philadelphia
Otis Lst
Germany
Tuflaex
Mr. Dumanovsky
The
Geographical Society
London
Alexander Agassiz
Cambridge
Society
Ernest H. Shackleton
South Pole
Tennyson
Nyay
Deere
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bangkok
Siam
Uganda
J. LE. Hine
Mengo
St. Paw
Johnk. Tener
Pennsylvania
New Congress
Tener
Washington
Jack Toner
Iceman
Turope
Montreal
Veoean
Garfield
Clement-Bayard
Soutil Dakota
Brookings County
Alex Powell
Clear Lake
Oregon
C. O. Thomas Company
Vale
Ore
Correspondence National Editorial Association
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
E. T. Holmes
Lackeon Han
Mul
Mina
Akota
Watertown Sette Duilding
Omaie
Maks
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