Spring Humors and Hood’s Sarsaparilla Adclaim
An 1890s style health blurb touts spring blood cleansing with Hood’s Sarsaparilla to cure boils eruptions and weakness. It cites a Nevada law on travelers water rights and recalls a judge famed for marrying 1400 couples. It notes Swiss women students and a German Empress anecdote. It ends with a tale of India marriage lotteries and a potato production stat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Sanford
Nevada
American Desert
Kansas City Times
Wireless stations to be set up in six Italian regions
The Italian government appropriated 36000 for establishing six wireless telegraph stations at Rome Milan Turin Sicily Sardinia and Massona for general use and to promote business transactions. Other notes mention water gas being highly poisonous and early tungsten lamp prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Milan
Turin
Sicily
Sardinia
Massona
Paris Academy of Medicine
Grebant
Lievin
France
Saarbruck
Germany
Sir John Murray
Loch Ness
W. 8. Franklin
James Gale
Gale
Queen Victoria
Leopold
Beatrice
Orangery
Matrimonial Quip Sparks Gossip At Lunch
Three Germans discuss a mutual friend's second marriage remarking that a man who marries twice does not deserve to have lost his first wife. A separate quip questions elbow sleeves and garters with gloves, reflecting social wit in today’s notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumal
India
Washington Herald
Peruna Believes Spring Catarrh Relief Ad
Miss Dora Haydon of Washington D C writes in praise of Peruna noting great relief from catarrh and urging friends to try it. Mrs N P Lawler of Pittsburg Kansas recounts severe spring cold developing into catarrh, rapid improvement within days after starting Peruna, calling it wonderful medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Hayden
Miss Dora Haydon
6Th St
8. W
Washington, D.C
N. P. Lawler
Broadway
Pittsburg
Kas
Antiphlogistine factory plans from Lincoln clay banks
A Lincoln boy’s barefoot feet lead to plans for an antiphlogistine factory. Doctors declare the antiseptic can be made from clay and glycerin, prompting landowners near southern city clay banks to set up production. Meanwhile, a freight car labeled Farm Implements is found to carry dynamite. A glue-thickened meat pie case in Oldham leads to a three month jail term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hermann
Lincoln
Neb
West Virginia
Oldham
England
How Did He Hide tt and the Smoking Car Injury
A fragmented collage of 19th century snippets notes a man named Slickwa injured in a train collision while in a smoking car, with his young wife unaware of his smoking habit. Other pieces discuss quack cures, election fears, teething syrups, microbe threats, and a humor gag about cheese odors at a Chicago Tribune counter.
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Slickwa
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Continental Oil Company (Incorporated
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Hest
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Portland
Portland Tile and Mantel Co
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Chicago
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Air Line News
Southwestern Securities CO
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Portland Seed Co
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Iventio
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New York Press
Mark Twain
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Elmira
N. Y
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Sam
Mr. Clemens
Success Magazine
Peruna
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Kline
HL Kline
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Mall
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St Pat
Mon
Hicks-Chatten Portland
YALE
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REGON
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Washington Sts
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Burton
Arsayer
Leadville
Colorado
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C. Gee
Chinese Medicine Co
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Sherman, Clay & CO
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