Hood's Sarsaparilla Claims Global Merit and Cures
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as surpassing all medicines in merit sales and cures with over 40 900 testimonials in two years. It purifies blood cures blood diseases eruptions and humors strengthens stomach builds up system and makes the weak strong. Also notes bricks from sand experiments in Wales and a reform discussion on court oaths urging truth telling.
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Hood
Waited to a Shadow A H Stotts Kidney Remedy Claim
A. H. Stotts of Columbus Ohio recounts fifteen years of kidney trouble with backaches and severe urinary disorders. After a collapse he used Dean's Kidney Pills, took twelve boxes, and recovered to 188 pounds. He states he has been well for two years and that the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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A. H. Stotts
State Capitol
Columbus
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Portland Trade Directory Ad Listings in Portland
Classified ad listing for Portland business firms and products including electric equipment, corsets, horses, artificial eyes, clothing, poultry feed, pianos organs and telegraphy courses. Includes Woodard Clarke Co and Morrison Bath streets, Hazelwood district, and Pacific Telegraph Institute address.
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Woodard, Clarke & Co
Peter
Woodard
Cream AK
U.S
Buffum & Pendleton
Alfred Henjamin & Co
Morrison and
Bath Streets
Allen & Albert-Kamaker Co
Portland
Oregon
The Moth Fight in Massachusetts and Watch Jewelers Myth
A Boston man pursues a moth control plan using imported parasites from Zurth to eradicate the pest in Massachusetts. The piece also debunks a common suspicion about jewelers substituting crystals for jewels, explaining modern watch jewels are cheap and rarely worth more than a small amount per unit.
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A. Fl. Kirkland
Boston
Zurth
Massachusetts
Mr. Kirkland
Belated husband overheard quarrel over poker loss
In a city apartment building entrance hall a belated husband is overheard by neighbors arguing with his wife. She accuses him of gambling away money while he claims he won twenty dollars. The exchange ends with a self aware remark about a man’s right to recreation.
He Was Looking Ahead In Quiet Domestic Scene
In a cozy room Mr. Trouble Hunter sits by a stove with a Havana cigar, his sadness deepening as his wife asks if business is off. She comforts him while he contemplates the coming spring and the burden of taking down the stovepipe.
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Trouble Hunter
Indianapolis Star
The Man on the Steps and the Matinee Delay
Ethel delays George with fashion fixes in a boudoir while we wait on the front steps. Fifteen minutes pass. She pleads for one more minute to feed gloves and locate a lost pin. Twenty minutes slip by before he rushes to avoid missing the matinee.
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George
Ethel
After All She Found She Had Been Doing a Great Good
Mary Cranston tires of teaching and faces a pupil's mother seeking help for Jim Malony. She aids him, his employers relent, and Jim resolves to stay honest. The scene ends with Mary smiling at restored purpose, recalling the earlier days.
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Mary Cranston
Norah
Mary
Jim
Jim Malony
Min
Craig & Shippen’s
Duel of Ham Sandwich Carvers Reveals New York Rivalry
In a New York restaurant rivalry ends in a comic duel over ham sandwiches. Two expert carvers agreed to a race to one thousand sandwiches judged by patrons. Pierre wins at ten hours seventeen minutes with Francois close behind. Half-eagles split, signaling a lighthearted prize amid the spectacle.
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New York
Pierre
Francois
The Hard-Working Reformer
A Washington Star quotation frames a reformer as a Geshere figure who must speak long to express one of the ten commandments, noting no initial dispute over that idea.
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Eben
Washington Star
Reward Offered for Catarrh Cure Failure
One hundred dollars reward offered for a catarrh case that cannot be cured by a catarrh cure. F J Cheney & Co and Bar & Tanax, Toledo wholesalers, vouch for F J Cheney as honorable and capable. Hall's Catarrh Cures sold at 75 cents per bottle by druggists. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and a humorous anecdote about a piano student.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Prope. Doles & Wo
F. J. Cheney
Transaone
Toledo
Hall
To Break In New Shoes With Allen's Foot-Ease
An old advertisement urges use of Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease hot sweating aching swollen feet corns ingrown nails and bunions while breaking in new shoes. Claims to relieve discomfort and improve fit. Provides address in Le Roy New York for samples and purchase at druggists and shoe stores.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
X.Y
No Need of It Peddler Faces Rebuff Over Corn Cure
A peddler offers a painless corn cure with taunting rhyme but a woman rejects the offer, declaring she has no painless corns. The door is slammed in response in this brief Chicago Tribune fragment.
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Tadam
Chilcago Tribune
Columbia Hydraulic Ram Promise Of Easy Water Raising
The Columbia hydraulic ram is a simple inexpensive device that uses a small water fall to lift water to any height. It provides domestic water and can lift spring water using muddy stream water, requires no attention and minimal maintenance, and pays for itself quickly. We stock a large supply and invite inquiries to the hydraulic department for illustrated literature.
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TS Columbia
Hydraulic Department
Fragmented 19th century ad and dialogue snippets from Columbia Engineering Works
A garbled collage of period items includes a terse exchange about threats and distance, an ad for Dr Kiloe’s Nervous disease cures, a political stock remark from a senator, a Mothers Winslow remedy notice, and comments on a Miss Deery and Miss Jellers noting a Greek statue like profile. The readable items suggest a mixed page with trade, medical ads, and social chatter.
Portlands Forward and Bunton Assayer Ad
Portland Oregon advertisement from Forward and Bunton offering assaying services for lead and copper ores from Colorado. Mentions cyanide testing envelopes, full price on application, carbonates and general assay work, with references to Leadville and a national bank.
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Pffoward & Bunton
Leadville
Colorado
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