Favorite Prescription Widely Sold by Dr. Pierce
A rural district practicer known for treating diseases gained fame as a consultant in many towns. Dr. Pierce later moved to Buffalo and marketed his Favorite Prescription nationwide. It was popular for women's distress and nervous conditions, with testimonials from a Mrs. Anbora of 608 Tenth Street praising its health benefits.
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Card players argue as Hines boasts forty dollar win
A fragment shows Hines claiming a win of over forty dollars after a long night at the card tables while another speaker contemplates TD’s perception of the night as wasted. The excerpt reflects informal chatter and interpersonal tension over gambling.
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Diamond Dyes Appeal Promises Simple Colorful Results
Dye instruction ad touts Diamond Dyes as easy for women to rejuvenate worn clothing and fabrics. It claims rich fadeless colors on wool silk linen cotton or blends and invites customers to view the Diamond Dyes Color Card. Some machines feature automatic attachments and some have sheriff's attachments noted in the copy.
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Dinggist
The Adams Family Views Lincoln and War in 1861 1865
Henry Adams and his son Charles Francis Adams Jr and Sr warned of incompetence and corruption in Lincoln’s administration and the cabinet. They warned of endless war and debt while England andFrance loomed, yet found glimpses of hope in Union sacrifices and abolition.
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Charles Francis Adams, Jr
Washington
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Blair
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England
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United States
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Union
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Virginia
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North and South
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Gettysburg
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Port Royal
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Labor in East Africa sparks anti compulsory labor pamphlet
The Bishop of Zanzibar attacks British compulsory labor in East Africa. The Living Age notes how such policy echoes European labor armies, Bulgaria’s law, and debates in Germany. It argues natives are forced to perform “work of a public nature” but is read as enabling private clove packing for wages, with a 20 percent government duty.
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Europe
Russia
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Woman Soldier's Harrowing Warsaw Wardrobe War Tale
Polish woman soldier recounts ten days without changing clothes and hours without food or water during a march against Bolsheviks near Warsaw. She describes 14 hour patrols, 60 pound packs, weariness, fainting comrades, and a tense pursuit through woods as clashes ensued. In the same column a public safety note on rail grade crossings and other items follow.
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Warsaw
Bolchevista
The New Learning from Oxford Demands Demographic Shift
Beverley Nichols writes of post war Oxford in the Weekly Review, deeming it internationalized and democratic with new buildings for working men. They will share university life and scholarships at reduced fees, with access to sports and societies, reflecting a vivid transformation amid wartime memory.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Weekly Review
Beverley Nichols
Oxford
Poland
History Repeats Itself and Waterway Debate Split
A republic watch recounts how party majorities shifted in past congresses and notes the current Republican control. The piece cites Hoover and U S officials backing the Great Lakes St Lawrence waterway, arguing it would boost American agriculture and alleviate transportation costs, while New York protections worry on inland commerce. It closes with a quip about a girl’s old fashioned charm and reports the first hunger strike in the Orient ending fatally in Seoul after 13 days.
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New York Post
Clect Miller
New York
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Redfield
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Cleveland
Duluth
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Montreal
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Orient
Seoul
Life as discipline and freedom in human virtue
A reflective essay contrasts life as a hard school with tests and pain, yet holds that fundamental joys endure. It cherishes physical being, thought, work, love, society, and the bonds of blood and emotion as essential inheritance, while noting freedom to adjust reactions is vast though fundamentals are limited. A New York Herald note adds a satire on a Senate champagne cooler sale and the questions it raises about funding and purpose.
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Deaton Independent
New York Herald
Senate
Romance the Evanescent in Milwaukee Journal Note
A wealthy woman criticizes marriage as a romance destroyer after escaping a second attempt at wedlock. The piece argues romance comes from within and from personal adventure, not from social rituals or external settings. It cites Roosevelt Kipling Stevenson and Beek to Mance as examples of elusive romance.
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The
Milwaukee Journal
Theodore Roosevelt
South America
New York
East Side
Keeping a Goat in the City A Chicago Note
The piece discusses goats as a flexible alternative to cows for urban families, noting goats are hardy calm non tubercular and safe. It praises goat milk for health with two quarts a day cited and claims low expenses and potential large benefits in certain circumstances.
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Chicago News
Europe
A Bad timekeeper
A London Telegraph tale describes an elderly traveler on a branch line growing impatient as the train lingers between stops. He asks a fellow passenger how late the train is, only to be told that a calendar, not a watch, would show the delay.
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London
Zero In Fascination Show Window Remark
Dalilas News notes a remark about merchandise not being fascinating, comparing it to a half switch in a show window and expressing personal indifference. The tongue in cheek line hints at consumer interest and display impact.
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Dalilas News
Cutleura Toilet Trio Ad Promises All‑Purpose Powder
An old advertisement extols Cutleura Taleum Powder as an antiseptic skin care talcum that freshens and perfumes. Marketed as part of the Cutleura Toilet Trio with Soap and Ointment, it claims economical use for face skin babies and dusting while renderings other perfumes superfluous.
Minor Office Row Sparks Hour Debate
A Houston Post clip shows a staff dispute over work hours. The boss presses a young worker about filing a complaint, while the employee denies seeking shorter hours but requests fewer daily shifts, stressing a preference to keep the current schedule. Also cited is a Santa Cruz News quip about age and marriage length.
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Houston Post
In Jail Yes I Got a Permanent Feast Apartment
A recorded jail quote hints at a grim mood with phrases about life and a stated claim of securing a permanent feast within an apartment. The terse dialogue reflects confinement and a sense of fixed circumstance.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims cure for deafness
An ad asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures deafness caused by catarrh by acting internally to clear mucous surfaces. Also notes product is a liquid taken internally and lists EF. Cheney & Co. as makers. The rest reads as stray historical notes about Native American rituals and a railway punctuality anecdote.
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O. Hall
Acta
EF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Couldn't Forget Codger Dialog Sparks Newspaper Banter
Blinks calls Codgers an old-fashioned cuss and the exchange with Binks reveals a clash of era language. The men debate respect and the phrase weal er rex hints at gendered ribbing common in the period.
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