Daughter Cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Baltimore readers report their daughters cured after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs L A Cokeran of 1103 Rutland Street credits three bottles with restoring health from pale appearance and weakness. The company cites hundreds of grateful letters and urges other troubled females to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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Baltimore
Alice
Lydia E. Pinkham
L. A. Cokeran
Rutland Street
Lynn
Mass
Captain of industry or second lieutenant remark
A terse exchange questions whether a figure is a captain of industry, answered as a mere second lieutenant. The ad advises gargling Hamlins Wizard Oil with three parts water to ease sore throat and avoid lingering misery.
Hostess A Japanese Tea Party Guide And Games
The article outlines a Japanese themed tea party with careful room decor using screens and artificial blossoms. It suggests bowing greetings, serving tea in handleless cups, and offering rice or ginger treats, plus games like bag ball with colored bean bags and scarf challenges, plus mystic thought tricks and Black Art demonstrations for entertaining guests.
Summer lawn and shore games for outdoor fun
The article lists popular warm weather pastimes such as stagaziné played with two bases and It in the middle, fire buckets where lines pass items along a basket, and a modern blind man’s buff variant with bells. It emphasizes safe play spaces and lighthearted competition for groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gill
Charity Supper Hosted by City Church Club
A club of young women hosted a novel supper in the church parlors. Guests marked selections on pencil-ruled menu cards placed at each seat, the riddle at the top left unguessed as Madame Merrill noted in the account.
Fall Millinery Trends Highlight Feathers and Silks
High feather decoration leads fall millinery while sheer striped silk waists gain favor. Long top coats fill vacation trunks as eyelet embroidery grows, wider skirts return with ruffies. White pumps rise in demand and fichu, white linens, and ecru mousseline usados shape collars and cuffs. Hosiery colors match gowns.
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Ecru
Olive green cotton dress with lace yoke and broderie trim
A description of a two piece cotton dress in olive green featuring a broderie Anglaise yoke, braid trimmed bodice and sleeves, button detailing, and matching collar. Accessories include a black chip hat with salmon pink foliage. Materials listed include casement cloth and broderie Anglaise.
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Broderie Anglaise
Anglaise
Relishes Served With Meats and Virginia Mixed Pickle
A vintage instruction on chutney and pickles. It details chutney from apples tomatoes raisins brown sugar mustard pepper and cider vinegar, simmered two hours and bottled. It also outlines Virginia Mixed Pickle with cucumbers beans onions and cauliflower brined, layered with salt, and processed in a grape leaf lined kettle with spiced vinegar steps for long keeping.
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Simmier
Virginia
Have No Other Than a Woman's Reason Quote
A Shakespeare line notes a woman's reason as decisive, asserting belief in his thinking as personal validation. The fragment emphasizes subjective motive shaping judgment and affection with period voice.
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Shakespeare
Melon Dishes and Watermelon Treats for Desserts
A guide to serving melons with tips for chilling musk or water melons. Recipes include watermelon sherbet with sugar nuts and egg whites, stuffed musk melons with vanilla ice cream, and watermelon pickles with cinnamon cloves and vinegar. Also describes preserved melon rind from lemony sugared rind.
Music as Universal Plea of Life and Death
A Ruskin quote extols music as the most orderly, delicate, and perfect bodily pleasure. It claims music aids all ages from infancy to old age, and haunts the deathbeds of pure and innocent spirits, contrasting it with other arts.
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Ruskin
Physical wreck to cured by Dean's Kidney Pills
Edward Gucker of Mattoon Indiana says severe back pain and kidney trouble left him a physical wreck. Doctors warned of a short life but after using Doan's Kidney Pills he rapidly improved and was completely cured. He urges others to remember Doan's and notes price 50 cents at druggists and stores.
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Dean
Edward Gucker
Mattoon
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Right Heavy
A fragment shows a novelist struggling to finish a chapter while his wife jokes about a butcher’s bill to wake him. The dialogue hints at domestic humor and fatigue.
Nordica remarks on antique sculptures at Deal Beach party
Mme Nordica comments on European touring notes that some people ignore damaged antique figures in museums. A British Museum guide recounts to visitors a centaur sculpture as a Chicago meat salesman asks what such a creature would be fed, ham and eggs or hay.
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Mme Nordica
Deal Beach
British Museum
Chicago
Cuticura Remedies Claim Cure For Child Eczema Head
A testimonial from Mrs. Francis Lund of Plain City Utah describes severe baby rash on a child’s head progressing to a running sore and relief after using Cuticura Resolvent Soap and Ointment. She notes hair regrowth and endorses Cuticura products, offering samples via Cuticura Dept. 12 L Boston.
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Francis Lund
Plain City
Utah
Boston
Crowded Sayings Spark Gentle Rebel Wit
A witty exchange shows a supercilious girl asking about male courtesy. She notes men in a crowd seldom address others properly, with one incident where a face blends with a hatpin and no apology is offered.
Castoria Warning for Parents and Children
Public notice urges caretakers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature indicating use for over three years and to ensure child safety as Fletcher's Castoria remains a trusted remedy for infants and kids.
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Fletcher
Dust Dangers Push Tuberculosis Deaths Higher
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis warns that deaths from tuberculosis in dusty trades exceed the national average. Mortality among grinders reaches 49.2 percent, with many dusty categories above 25 percent, and overall dust exposure links to 23–36.9 percent deaths across dust types.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
United States
Cole’s Carboli salve advertised for burns and cuts
An old style advertisement claims Cole’s Carboli salve stops the hurt of a burn or cut, heals faster, and prevents scars. It lists prices 25c and 5c, offers a free sample, and mails from Cole & Co. Black River Falls Wisconsin.
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Cole
Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
Men Iron Better Than Women Predicted In St Louis
Laundry men predict men will take over as hand ironers in St Louis. they argue men handle the strain better and perform the work more efficiently than women.
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St. Louis
W.L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
W. L Douglas
Epee
Spark St
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad 25c Bottle
An old advertisement proclaims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething to soften gums reduce inflammation ease pain and cure wind colic for 25 cents a bottle. It ends with a proverb Prevention is better than a cure and a quip Poverty keeps off the gout.
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Chicago and North Western Railay
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