Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endures as Remedy
A long standing claim for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy for female ills. A Melbourne Iowa testimonial from Mrs Clara Watermann praises its effects on longstanding ailments and credits health restoration to the product. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for free advice from Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Melbourne
Iowa
Lynn E. Pinkham
Clara Watermann
R. D
Way In Temperance Towns from Kansas City Star
A W R Smith records a Kansan flavored tale from the Sante Fe attorney, noting the local chuckle in a Kansas drug store joke about a man asking for beer. The pharmacist probes the intended use and the man reveals he needs it to grease a buggy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
W. R. Smith
Sante Fe
Kansas
New Georgia minister inspires praise from deacon
A Georgia church sermon by a new minister draws a back corner janitor’s sharp judgment. The old darky notes the sermon prays for items other preachers overlook, praising the minister for asking the Lord for things unseen by others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Darky
Joe
Skin troubles cured for two little girls
Two young patients with severe eczema saw improvement after using Cuticura Remedies. One suffered on the lower limbs and scalp, hair loss, and widespread arm soreness. after repeated treatment the skin became soft and smooth. Mrs. Charles Baker of Albion, Maine, reports the success on September 21, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutiura
Charles Baker
Albion
Hairy Gift Remains Abridged By Witty Lordship
A witty exchange at Lord Greenville’s table features a bald and avaricious friend offering a rare gift for a mutual friend’s wedding. The reply suggests a lock of hair as the perfect, inexpensive present, delivered with quiet humor by Greenville.
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Lord Greenville
Greenville
Fell from Scaffold and Injured Hise Hack
James C. Lee of 1100 9th street SE Washington DC recalls a 30 year old scaffold fall that seriously injured his back. He describes immense pain around the lower back and abdomen, tried plasters belts and other remedies, then used Sloan's Liniment rubbed on and taken home. After six and a half bottles he could work again at sixty seven.
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James C. Lee
9Th Street
S. E
Washington, D. C
Sloan
Shaan
Taken Unawares by a Humorous Political Exchange
A long public career includes amusing moments from Sir William Grantham when he was an aspiring speaker. An audience heckler challenged him with Its a He and Its a Me provoking laughter that drew him back to self possession. Also noted is an ad for a teething remedy and a Dr. Pierce Underhill lecture in Indianapolis criticizing extravagance as a divorces cause with a quip about a cousin in a tiny flat.
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William Grantham
Grantham
Mr. Grantham
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Pierce Underhill
Indianapolis
Jack
The
Columbus Dispatch
Jack Gantz
Attorney General
Pharmacy and Medical Boards
William H. Miller
Bill
Watt
Tedhunter
Payette County
Suffragette cocktail and a Lincoln lookalike tale
A fragmented Cleveland piece mocks a man named Jin Pettigrew and a 93er rumor he resembles Lincoln. It shifts to a Minneapolis Letter to Pittsburg Press about a new suffragette cocktail by a Hennepin bartender, claiming it stirs women’s empowerment and men’s submission, with a humorous four-step effect. It ends with an ad for Allen’s Foot-Ease powder promising relief for tired feet.
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Minneapolis
Pittsburg
Hennepin Avenue
Allen’s
Allen's
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
How a Lawyer Lost a Fee in Dallas News
An old timer recounts Colonel Bob Taylor of Bonham meeting a thirsty woman on a Delta county road. He jokes that a divorce would cost her nothing if she supplied water. The woman later seeks him in court, and Taylor funds her divorce, telling the joke about himself. The tale ends with a poetic excerpt from Matthew Arnold.
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Dallas News
Bob Taylor
Bonham
Delta County
Taylor
Murine Eye Nemedy For Red Weary Watery Eyes
Murine promises relief for red weak and watery eyes with soothing effect. Advert copy claims doctors endorse the product and that it conforms to the Pure Food and Drugs Law. The message urges readers to try Murine and notes satisfaction with eye comfort.
Mars irrigation networks and solar heating theory explored
A London Times reviewer questions Professor Lowell's Mars study noting a solar engine powered irrigation network could explain water, heat pumping, and energy transport to polar regions. The piece envisions vast pumping layouts from equator to poles via extensive sun driven machinery.
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Aictatt DP
Servis
New York American
London Times
Percival Lowell
Mars
Professor Lowell
Lowell
San Francisco
New York
Funny Preachers Win Fight from the Milwaukee Sentinel
The article highlights how humor and entertaining skills aid foreign missionaries, noting Mr. White's claim that natives respond to music and dance as a path to gospel outreach. It mentions Laos converts denouncing idolatry and embracing Christ, while a separate note discusses protected seals and salmon affecting Canada’s fish value.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
White
Presbyterian
Northwest
Anerenus
Mr. White
Laos
Milliner’s bill prompts cost-cutting in a clerk dispute
A quarrel over expenses sees a speaker lament that his milliner’s bill equals the annual pay for two bookkeepers, prompting a suggestion to discharge one. Separately, a statistic notes the United States leads in oats, producing 754,000,000 bushels out of 8,582,000,000 worldwide.
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United States
Mrs J Pemberton Relates Kidney Recovery Tale
Mrs J Pemberton of Lafayette Street Marshall Missouri describes severe Brights disease symptoms including weakness edema and heart oppression. After taking twelve boxes of Deans Kidney Pills her kidneys improved and she claims her health fully recovered. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Yester Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Yester-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Pope Translation of the Niad and Rare Books at Merwin Clayton’s
A New York Times notice describes sales at Merwin Clayton’s on May 11 12 and 13 including first editions of Pope’s translation of Homer’s Iliad with Pope’s autograph and a rare 1828 Bancroft Poems. Also cited is a Willow Pattern plate poem and a humorous Tatler excerpt about a waiter and a coat gag.
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Esa
Homer
A. Pope
George Jugland
Pope
George Bancroft
Prescott
Kidney Ailment and Farm Listing in South Dakota Area
A fragmented notice describes a 106 acre tract in a county farm near Brookings, cultivated with buildings and a stated rate per acre. It references owner Alex Powell of Clear Lake and includes unrelated contact lines for a typewriter carbon paper service and a Franklin Pennsylvania department notice, all garbled.
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South Dakcfa
Alex Powell
Clear Lake
Subdued His Lady Duke Wolf Tale of Animal Suffrage
From the New York Herald report at Bronx Zoological Gardens the Osler theory and women’s suffrage echo in animal life. Duke a gray timber wolf dominates his mate Susan until she asserts rights by force, converting him. prairie dogs witness a fatal suffocation of an aged patriarch as a ruse in the colony.
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New York Herald
Bronx
Duke
Susan
Cure That Cold Fo Day and Lane's Pleasant Tablets Ad
Cure That Cold Fo Day markets Lane's Pleasant Tablets as a quick cure for colds and grip. Advertises 25 cents a box, sample free, with Orator F Woodward of Le Roy NY as contact. Also notes dated Canada orientals counts and Greek studies reference.
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F. Woodward
le Roy
N. X
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