Crisis of Girlhood a Time of Pain and Peril
Miss Emma Cole asserts Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life and restored health. She laments numerous young women sacrificed as they entered womanhood, noting the dangers of cities and upheavals during this critical period and the resulting long years of suffering.
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Emma Cole
Lydia
Pinkham
Greelar
Miss Emma Cole Praises Lydia Pinkham Remedy
A mother urges help for a girl entering womanhood and credits Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with stabilizing health. Emma Cole of Tullahoma Tennessee recounts suffering palpitations soreness and nervousness at fourteen and credits the product with rapid improvement and life saving potential. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to young women and emphasizes care from Lynn Massachusetts.
All In the Name and Everyday Life Anecdotes
A physician notes aspirin use without prescriptions and the old chemical name acid salicylletic as a reminder of branding. Articles on laundry starch quality, a daughter’s costly gift, a chocolate gift influencing mood, and antique London betting books reveal social trends and curiosities of daily life.
Tricks of memory and transmigration of souls debated
Dr Andrew Wilson discusses metempsychosia the transmigration of souls and the Subliminal consciousness theory. He notes memories stored in brain cells can surface as recollections from past lives or as false memories due to slight delays between brain centers in perceiving surroundings.
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Andrew Wilson
Acta
Submarine Kite Warns Ships Of Shallow Water
A Swedish engineer developed a two section underwater kite on a light metal frame to warn vessels of shoals or shallow depths. The canvas device trails beneath the ship with a warning bell sounding if it touches bottom, then can be reset and deployed again.
Not Worth Noticing Hawley But and the Blithering Remark
The dialogue centers on Hawley and Crawley debating a remark by Huskle. Crawley defends challenging the insult while Hawley notes the claim that Huskle called someone a blithering idiot. The quoted line questions the existence of the word blithering in English.
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Hawley
Huskle
Crawley
Standard and Times
Unclear exchange quoted by a chronicler at boarding house
A fragmented dialogue shows a chronicler criticizing a boarding house meal while a youth retorts about a kiss from a girl over the telephone. The wording reflects early 20th century style with misspellings and misplaced punctuation.
Strong Denial and Travel Comment Confusion
A brief exchange shows a new minister responding to praise of a trip with a strong denial of weight gain. The dialogue includes garbled phrases about foreign travel and a reply asserting no weight change since the trip.
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Cumup
Solup
Held Back by the Foundry's Slow Progress
A fragmentary note discusses a large foundry lagging in progress with unclear reasons and resistance to rapid advancement. The garbled text hints at frustration and obstacles hindering timely improvement or modernization efforts.
The Marrying Squire of Brazil Indiana
Justice Geo E Law of Brazil Indiana earned the nickname The Marrying Squire for having married around 1400 couples. He recalls kidney trouble ten years ago and credits Donn's Kidney Pills with curing him after three cases. He has been free from kidney complaint and backache for nine years. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Foster-Milburn Co
Boffata, N.Y
Battle of the Riveter in Kansas City
An Oklahoma uncle visiting Charley in town witnesses a riveter on a tall steel skyscraper hammering away high above Grand Avenue. The startled man mistakes the racket for a woodpecker, exclaiming Great Scott. This humorous anecdote comes from the Kansas City Star.
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Charley
Oklahoma
Grand Avenue
Scott
Kansas City Star
Worst Case of Eczema and Quaker Oats Promotion
A concerned mother recalls her four month old son’s severe eczema, noting doctors’ failure before using Cuticura Remedies leading to improvement in months. The snippet also mentions Boston congressmen and a note on the Scotman’s Diet praising oats with a Quaker Oats family package promotion offering a free china piece.
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R. T. Risley
Piermont, N.hs
Scoteman
Attractions for the Traveling Artist and Defiance Starch Endorsements
The piece notes artists like Mme. Bernhardt, Signora Dose, and Caruso dislike solitude while traveling, with companions arranging trips and offering guidance. It also promotes Defiance Starch as a safe, economical choice for fine fabrics, touting its strength and finish, plus an Australian educator visiting Boston. A quip about upside down turn turning into slander closes the text.
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Mme. Bernhardt
Signora Dose
Caruso
Teeny-Ad Claims and Notable Biographies from a Dated Page
An assorted page notes old patent medicine claims and endorsements including Garfield Tea and Castorta with warnings under the Pure Food and Drugs Act. It also mentions schools teaching card playing to German upper-class girls and profiles Jeremiah Curtin, a polyglot linguist and author educated at Harvard, who served at St Petersburg after Lincoln’s era.
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Jeremiah Curtin
Irving
Bristol, Vt
Lfe
Harvard
Lincoln
Legation
St Petersburg
Allcock's Porous Plaster Claim of Global Lead
The original Allcock's Porous Plaster is celebrated as sixty years in use and the world’s standard external remedy. It claims unrivaled sales and asserts superior relief for a weak back chest cold or local pain caused by cold or over strain, with imitators failing to rival its effectiveness.
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Allcock
In the Shade of the Sphinx Potential hotel boom near pyramids
The Egyptian government grants building rights across the plain from Eskebich to the Nile jeopardizing the sphinxes and ancient sites. Societies form to exploit the landscape for large hotels as American style skyscrapers rise nine to ten stories near Ghiseh.
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Eskebich
Nile
Pyramids
Ghiseh
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