Lapses in a Love Letter and Other Fragments
A quirky collection of weighted anecdotes and comic vignettes. Bridget editors a love letter with reluctance while Miss Gertrude pushes for affection and a thwarted romance. Separate scenes include a jokey writer’s missteps and Rothschild maxims shaping prudent conduct.
Re-cover jars and prepare meat and gravy filling
The text describes resealing jars with sore meat and gravy to avoid air spaces, topping with boiling melted wax and new rubber seals. It mentions a Rhode Island court ruling about paternal custody in a dispute and notes the Salvation Army’s global presence with fifty-two countries and colonies and services in thirty-one languages.
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Rhode Island
Salvation Army
Doctor Hartman cures family with chronic catarrh
A testimonial from a family notes health improvements after using Hartman’s medicine. The narrator recalls weight gain from 100 to 140 pounds and claims the doctor restored health through home advice and books. Also mentions asthma relief for husband and earache stomach catarrh cures for daughter and throat catarrh for son. Includes an offer for a veterinary correspondence course.
AGENTS WANTED For Spring Suiting and Cotton Fabric
Multiple advertisements offer agents full territory for distributing spring suiting and fine cotton fabric with free sample outfits and prepaid express, plus liberal credit terms. Also promoting a tobacco read book for users and non users at $1, and a farm listing in Sedgwick County Colorado. Dr Dunham contact and Dr Pierces Pellets for stomach and liver regulation are advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Dress Goods Company
Dept
West
Broadway
Mexican Catarah Remedy Claims Worldwide Cures
An advertisement touts a Mexican Catarah Remedy cure discovered by Mexicans. It claims treatment delivered for one dollar and promotes the Mexican Remedy Company of Clayton New Mexico. It cites Doctor Jenkins of Cornell saying sickness costs the United States a billion dollars yearly and hints doctors are riding in automobiles as a sign of costly medicine.
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Clayton, N. Mex
Jenkins
Cornell
United States
Dean's Kidney Pills Ad Promises Cure for Kidney Trouble
A vintage advertisement features Athan Hill of Stryker Ohio claiming kidney pills from Dean's Kidney Pills cure kidney-related symptoms. The copy describes backache dizziness urinary issues and fatigue with a testimonial of significant relief after taking the product. It urges readers to remember the name and buy for 56 cents a box through Milburn Co. Buffalo.
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Dean’s
Nathan
Hill Stryker
Ohio
Dean
Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Spohn’s Distemper Cure and Loose-Leaf Remedies Ad
An old advertisement touts Spohn’s Distemper Cure with money-back guarantees and claims over 500,000 bottles sold. It also promotes Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for children and related drug products with pricing and agency notices.
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Spohn
Spohn. Med. Co
Goshen
Ind
Fragmented Moral Reflections From Medieval Personal Accounts
A garbled passage suggests contrasts in medieval thought about sentimentality and virtue. It hints that the most sentimental writer may not craft the finest verse and notes claims about Toledo and Damascus swords valued by weight in gold. It also references that a man’s personal account may miss many sins.
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Toledo
Damascus
Varied 1909 Data Ranges From Metals to Rail Safety
A compilation covers numerous topics from Belgium coal output and hemp prices to arsenic use in Japan and Austria, early aeroplane experiments by Henson, Erie Railroad safety signaling, new rat and rabbit extermination methods in India and Australia, and a note on a chrysanthemum specimen in the British Museum compiled from various statistics and reports.
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Belgium
Rostock
New England
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Erie Railroad
Thes
Caie
Hngeland
British Museum
Chelsea Botanic Gardens
Philip Miller
Miller
Westminster
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Gertrude
Patrick
Miss Gertrude
Atlanta Constitution
Kerger
Thompson ‘Street
New
Yok
Thompson Street
New York
de Berry
New-York
Rothschild
Meyer Ansem Rothschild
Frankfort
Detroit Free Press
Eben
Edgar
Peises
Martham
Eng
Muzey
Hore
Heboo
Leadon
Canade
Dredd
R. V. Pierce
Nebraska Newspaper Union
York, Nebraska
Solcom
Choice Farm
Sedgwick County
Colorado
Dr. Dunham
Wenona
Illinois
Athan Hill
E. W. Groves
Dodds
N.N. U
Guara
York
Neb
Pson's
Korea
Victoria
Australia
Virginia
Japan
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Germany
England
United “States
Austria
William Henson
Henson
New City Chambers
Bishopsgate
London
India