Talkative Chicago Barbers and a Lighthouse Keeper’s Tale
A Chicago barber shop tale contrasts New York barbers for talkativeness and profit pressures with a West Side shop that prospers on volume and a strict 15 cent shave cut. A second anecdote recalls J E Hartzell’s early Yankee encounter and a later marriage, plus a lighthouse keeper family, a measles cure, and a vivid memory of Guiteau portrait drawing from memory.
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California
Hot Springs
Florida
Chicago
New York
The Doctors Guilty Heart Cure Ad
The copy asserts grave medical failures by physicians in heart disease treatment and claimsDr Miles New Heart Cure is the only reliable remedy. It cites thousands of cures and offers a free book, with Crowder Reed as sellers.
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Children's Department
Castoria
Boston
Mass
Miles
Crowder & Reed
F.C. Roe
Watkins
Patti and Marquis in Rouen Romance Revealed
The Journal des Debats notes a preliminary tale of Patti and her fiancé. Max Strakosch keeps tight control as Patti travels to Rouen to sing, where a fan hides under her floor to create a mock voice from above. The next day she introduces her fiancé to the astonished impresario. The journal asks if the marquis regrets the Rouen trip.
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J. UE. Uartzell
Sherman
Creorgia
Washington
Globe-Democrat
Patti
Des Debats
Max Strakosch
M. de Caux
Rouen
Mademoiselle
Impressario
Mary J. Evans
Ferdinand Basler
W. 45
Maple
Redmond Handley
Indiana
Sullivan Circuit Court
Sullivan
A. D
W. M. Denney
New Nerve and Liver Pills Claim Quick Bilious Relief
Patent medicine advertisement proclaims regulation of liver stomach and bowels through nerves. Dr Miles Nerve and Liver Pills claim speedy cures for biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation. Suitable for all ages 50 doses 25 cents samples at Crowder and Reeds subscription urged for the Union.
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Miles
Crowder & Reeds
Wonders of the needle and thread tree from Mexican plains
A fragmentary 19th century excerpt discusses a curious plant on the Mexican plains resembling a needle and thread tree. Leaves are fleshy resembling a prickly pear, with fibers threaded from leaf sockets to form usable thread. The piece cites the Philadelphia Press and includes other brief notices on health remedies and public life.
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Horatio
Worthy
Philadelphia Press
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Dal
Tady
Fitch
Crocodman
L. A. Stewart, D. D.S
North
Davis’ Hardware Store
Samuel Pitcher
G. C. Osaoon
Lowell
Masa
J. F. Kincae Og
Conway, Ark
H. A. Ancurr
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn, N. Y
AtuLex
Surra
Pres
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
Ature Umiers
Ilace
J. MA Lang
Qualiy
West Side
Loren Trescott
Gov. Lighthouse
Sand Beach Midh
Detroit
Dr. King
Joe K. Smock
Guiteau
Garfield
Coleman
Washington Post
Thad
Alex Moir
Britt
Iowa
Chamberlain
Denver
Mary Ann Edington
Owensburg
Ind
J. W. Carson
Hall
Strength and Health
Joe. K. Smock
What He
Hutchinson & Co
Vincennes Commercial
Ayer
Galbraith & Starks
Sharon Grove
Bernardo Ochoa
Drid
Spain
A. J. Osment
Indian Head
N. W
J. C. Butler
Spencer
James A. Adams
St. Augustine
Texas
3. C. Ayer & CO
Merrell & Soule
Syracuse
State of
County of
Terin
Illinois Female College
Jacksonville, Ill
W. F. Short
D. D
William A. Fleming
Salena A. Fleming
John T. Hays
Ytto Krug
Fair Exchange
Gore
Crowder’s Bank Building
N, Cashner
South Side
McCammon & Wolfe
Crowder’s Bank
Worle
McEneney
Sonthste
P. Mckneney
Whiteside
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