Defiance Starch Co offers Exposition tickets by mail
An old advertisement invites women in Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri to mail Defiance cold water starch trade marks from a ten cent 16 ounce package for a chance to win one of 26 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition. Entries must be received by September 1904 with tickets sent by registered mail. The pitch touts Defiance 16 ounce pound packaging and no sticking to iron.
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Defiance Starch Co
St. Louis: Exposition
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance
Omaha
Nebr
Defiance Starch Upsell and Family Remedies
An old timey shopper’s pitch contrasts Defiance Starch with 12 oz brands, claiming 16 oz for the same money. It promotes no cooking starch and notes Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething and gums, plus a moral quip about broken promises and new ones.
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Defiance
Otter
Curious 1900s Advert Fragments Read Aloud
A collage of old ad blurbs and trivial jests highlights foot powder and shoe comfort, hair care tips, a soap recommendation, a penny c cigar, starch boasts, and light quips about performers. It mirrors retro consumer culture with brand names and punchy lines.
Defiance Starch Promoted For Household Use
A brief promotional note extols Defiance Starch as essential for every home and claims it is priced 10 cents more for 4 oz than rival brands. The text also mentions using a stout club as a blunt tool to shape young men’s careers.
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William James
Harvard
James
Byron Williams Poem About Returning Home
A lyrical excerpt describes a speaker returning home in June, recalling woodland scents, streams, winds, and fields. It evokes peaceful countryside imagery and a longing for a beloved maiden waiting by an arbor for a lover. The ode blends nature with a romantic vow of reunion.
What She Needed At The Boarding House Table
Humorous fragments from a boarding house scene show a Chicago ringleader praising swims in a lake while a prim older woman objects. A landlady serves sausage as a joke and a wry remark on kissing a nonfiancée follows. A Connecticut politician turns to the Bible for consolation amid grim politics. Humor and whimsy mix with old time quips.
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Chicago
Itv
Connecticut
Humorous miscellany from a bygone era touches morals and myths
A collection of quips and short takes from a Massachusetts perspective on end times rents, pilgrim nostrums, and social foibles. It muses on deceitful prognostications, mortgage jokes, water safety, and the ironies of age, marriage, and appetite with a string of wry observations and playful jests.
Roughing It In Vancouver and Odd Global Tidbits
A bishop sleeps on a Vancouver wharf with a blanket as his pillow and a ship salutes Costa Rica. Cattle in Russia wear glasses to prevent snow blindness, while Japanese ladies enter trains with small shoes and smoke pipes. A Dumfield girl battles a five foot snake on a mountain path, and West Java uses postage stamps repeatedly by defacing them. Pajama clad New Orleans resident enjoys after hours comfort.
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Alaska
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Russia
Mary
Dumfield
N. J
West Java
Customer Questions High Rum Prices Amid War Talk
Dialogue notes a shopper puzzled by rising rum costs, with a dealer attributing the increase to the Russia Japan war. The exchange hints at broader effects as Japan's postwar plans could boost demand, though details remain unclear.
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Russia
Japan
Red Cross Skin Soap free cake ad promises beauty
An advertisement touts One Large Cake of RED CROSS Skin Soap as a unique skin beautifier containing Vaseline glycerine and witch hazel. It claims spotless skin results before social events and urges readers to obtain a free cake at their grocer from J C Hubinger Co. The note also mentions Stuttgart, Germany blacklisting undesirable tenants.
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RED Cross
Hubinghr's
Will Interest Mothers and Defiance Starch Advertisements
A collage of old advertisements and claims. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children and other tonics promise fever cure, teething relief, and worm destruction. Defiance Gold Water Starch boasts extra ounces and household efficiency. Also includes a sworn affidavit by Frank J. Cheney about a catarrh cure and classic sale pitches for Hall's Family Pills and seal products.
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Mother Gray
New York
A. S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Earth
Frank J. Cheney
Seligen Tiet
Dennis Od
Deci A.W
Gleasoy
Notary Pastra
Ed Chen
NEY & Co
Toledo
Takeo Hall
Quirks and Quips From Noted Figures and Stories
A light collection of humorous anecdotes about figures like William Jennings Bryan Dean Stanley Beveridge and Professor William James. The items include a chicken gift inquiry, a life insurance fever joke, a German artist quip, a senator losing money, a classroom exchange on belief, and a wry remark on fortune and marriage.
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William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
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