Laughing at Life in a Market and Columns
A miscellany of light humor and social quips from a 20th century page. Cartoon captions reference a penny-pinching buyer, a chatty gas seller, and tales of vanity and marriage, ending with a quip about newlywed life and divorce.
Fragments of humor and rural life in brief vignettes
A collection of short, humorous lines and exchanges from rural and small town life. Jokes about water pumps in the country, doorways to social encounters, a Kansas City teacher's salary question from a pupil, and quick quips about dinners and social strings.
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Kansas City
Kan
Cure for dry eczema praised by Manitoba chief of police
Chief of Police Capt George P P Miike of Morris Manitoba recounts a cure using Cuticura Soap and Ointment after a two year itchy leg condition with scaly patches and sores. He claims rapid relief within weeks and endorses the remedy. The notice also notes related civic remarks and local commentary on Lincoln day observations.
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George PP. Miike
Morris
Manitoba
Potter, Drug & Chem Corp
Cutienra
Hoston
Fragmented medical ad copy with scattered claims
Fragmentary OCR text mentions health concerns and remedies, with unclear names and places. Readers see stray phrases about a case, a nurse or patient named Mathias Campbell, and ad style lines from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York selling a product for 50 cents per box.
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Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Health and patent medicine claims from a vintage ad
An OCR fragment promotes CASCARETS as a bowel tonic and criticizes laxatives while touting a 1711 Italian inventor of a plane and various drug promises. It mentions Marine as an eye remedy and cites conformance to Pure Food and Drugs laws with scattered names and phrases.
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Lawes
Spahn Medical Co. Ad Promises Distemper Cure
An 19th century style advertisement hawks a distemper cure for horses and dogs. It claims widespread sales with over 410000 bottles in a year and urges purchase through druggists or the manufacturer in Gesben, Ind.
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Nspoha
Spahn. Medical Co
Gesben
Ind
Brown's Bronchial Troches Advertised For Colds
An old time weather commentary segues into advertisements for Brown's Bronchial Troches claims to ease throat troubles and coughs. The piece also notes a laxative product, Bromo Quin ine style, and references a Boston publisher B W Grove. It closes with a remark on estate feuds and a historical note about the Gentlemen's Magazine from 1721.
Alberta and Western Canada Hold Prosperous 1908 Crops
The census study shows Wheat yields in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta totaling about 107 million bushels with farmers gaining around 5 million dollars. Oats barley and flax add another 35 million in value. Canadian settler letters praise land, climate, schools, and growing railway expansion while noting hard first years but strong long term opportunities.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Canada
Western
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Central
United States
Oscar Li Kio
Kadmonton
King
Phils Cnuhtry
Michigan
PACTS: Odd Fragments From A Vast Archive
A jumble of historical notes covers asbestos, Japan’s population, pirate pulp paper origins, and malaria parasite discovery in Constantine. It recounts crimes, a Spanish nobleman at Penn, and Worthington Ford’s library work. The piece also relays gas vents near Chittagong and a Bedouin’s hospital tale from Haifa.
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Japan
McLaveran
Constantine
Algeria
Coles
Feat -Ealing
London
Brentford
Carlos de Potestad
England
Spain
Worthington C. Ford
Library of Congress
Haw
Massachusetts Hisseetics Society
Bradford
Plymouth Plantations
Winthop
New England
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Yonkers Statesman
Puck
Yonker's Statesman
Boston ‘Transcript
Sapleigh
Bute
Browns
Jove
Mrt
Robinson’s
Boston
Leeema
Police
Lana
Saloure
Mathias Campbell
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Cascarets
Bartolommeo Cristofell
Padua
Italy
France
Goodwin
Danysz
Pier
Miles
Carters
Brown
Ohn
I. Brown & Son
Lees
B. W. Grove
Gentleman's Magazine
Hudson Bay
Great Ampire
Awgust
Bempett
York Life Building
Omaha
Neb
Western Canada
Putnam
Siootes
RE Brog CO
Gainey
Minols
Quebec
Finland
Haifa
Valentine
Asia
Pring Mattress
Viret Jumaceooan
Zinsractusetts
Choate
Duke of Wellington
C.J. London