Laxative Syrup Endorsed by Well-Informed World
The California Fig Syrup Co promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known safe mild laxative. Ads urge buying genuine product from California Fig Syrup Co and note a fifty cent bottle price. Also includes a boxing remark by James Carroll and a crude joke about a man named Smithers, plus a statistic on exiles transported to Siberia since 1840.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
California
James Carroll
San Franciscid
Smithers
Dodge papers and cactus plans in a mixed era update
General Grenville M. Dodge donated original career papers to the Iowa State Historical Society. Luther Burbank plans to introduce a spine less cactus to Nevada deserts. Advertisements tout eye salve and Allen’s Foot Ease. A Brazilian governor urges modern farming methods and machinery.
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Dew Moines
Grenville M. Dodge
State Historical Department
Luther Burbank
Nevada
A. Heppner
Fallon
Ip Pettit
Howard Bros. Buffalo
N. Y
Brazil
The Painting Season and Vocation Bureau
The article discusses making pure white lead tests for painting and promotes National Lead Company's blowpipe kit and the Dutch Boy Painter. It also covers Boston's Vocation Bureau, its Civic Service offices, and aims to guide youths toward scientifically determined career paths to reduce unemployment and aim for purposeful planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York City
Vainter
Boston
Vocation Bureau
Boston Transcript
Civic Service House
Salem Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Woman's Educational and Industrial Union
Borax the Nature Cleanser and Purifier Explains Use
An article extolls Borax as a safe economical disinfectant and cleaner for sinks pipes clothing and utensils. It claims borax cleanses drains freshens laundry and sanitizes meals while presenting a humorous aside about an arrest and theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ature
Min—Gttier
Man
Beatitude of Love and a Portrait of Names And Verse
A garbled miscellany of verse fragments and prose snippets includes a longing lyric about tender love and return from a nondescript speaker, an anecdote about a bishop and a clergyman, and brief notes on Garfield Tea and French family statistics. The piece also features a San Bernardino reader praising Dean's Kidney Pills as a lasting cure.
Bostonian Appreciation and Rosa Becker Appointed Agent
Dr. David Starr Jordan recalls John Muir guiding a Bostonian to Yosemite's vast multicolored panorama and the Bostonian’s exclamation about crossing sap. Rosa Becker named claim agent and U S pension attorney for Missouri, noted for Civil War era aid to federal soldiers.
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New York Times
David Starr Jordan
Brooklyn
John Muir
Yosemite Valley
Muir
Cure for years of skin ailment in a week claims ad
An ad reveals Fritz Werschlaff of Columbus Ave New York states he spent years and hundreds on doctors with no relief. He credits Cupticura Reme dies costing a dollar fifty for curing skin sores between toes and near the anus in seven days and returning him to work. The piece includes literary fragments and a note about Japan’s war ending and brandy strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutteurn
Rene
Fritz Werschlaff
Columbus Ave
New York
N. Y
Fragmented 19th century ads and street quotes
A scattered OCR sample shows garbled lines about bagpipes on the battlefield and a string of early 20th century advertisements. The text references rewards, drug testimonials, and personal opinions, with broken names and incomplete sentences.
Call of the Soil Drives 80IL to Return to Farm Life
A Southern newspaper writer argues the appeal of farming amid financial stress. The piece praises farm youth as future leaders and highlights Western Canada lands offered at 10 to 15 dollars per acre. It notes Canadian free homestead grants of 160 acres and government agents in the U S facilitating inquiries on railways and rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bia
United States
Canada
Government of
Grandfather's Cure for Constipation and Cascarets Ad
Advertisement touts Cascarets as the natural exercise for bowels, comparing it to Sawbuck wood sawing and ten mile walks. Claims no purging or stomach upset, premium boxed tablets at 10 cents, warns to avoid bulk sale and to seek genuine Sterling Remedy Company product stamped CCC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Remedy Company
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad Claims
An ad questions Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments. It invites verification of claims and letters from women, asks about confidentiality and the number of supporters, and urges persistent use by skeptical yet suffering women seeking health.
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E. Pinkham
America
Ydia Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia EB Pinkham
Lydia
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Ilias
Putnam
Jack
Grace
Ethel
Jenbel
Tadianapolis, Inc
Garfield Tea
Garfield Tea Co
San Bernardino
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Lionel M. Heath
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Dean
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Japan
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Haile Femily
Wiese
Johnach
TM. P
Magazina
Tommy
Wynn, Tant Co
Grimewold
Detroit
Iowa
Sisinnciaten
Gob Gchave
Lew Kerk
Murker Police Furon
Western
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Pamphist Nest West
D. Scott
Ottaway Candas
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