Fragmentary Puck style satire and ad copy items
A garbled collage from Puck pages includes dialogue on a Rivers-DeStyles flat and a family skeleton, a Frank J. Cheney oath offering hundred dollars per tubercular case, a Chicago Net exchange about a cashier and bank president, and market chatter for Winslow's Syrup and a quip about ducking for apples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Frank J. Cheney
Oath Chas
F. J. Acing
Tole
Grm
Franky
Cheney
A. de Baar
A Gentle Hint From Tit Bits About Soldiers Wives
A jumble of anecdotes and ads from Tit Bits and other columns notes army life in at home stations where wives handle laundries and repairs for small deductions. It tells of Private McGinnis with mismatched neck button fixes and a mock hint that backfires as a buttonhole fits a makeshift patch. It includes stray items about Peruna Almanac and a kidney pills testimonial, ending with an old remedy claim for piles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoars
McGinnis
Cleo
Reflections of a Bachelor and Humorous Snippets
A collection from the New York Press features satirical lines about lawyers a next world and notions of wealth. It includes light jokes about a man’s vanity, cheap sales ads, and witty classroom gags from a boy and a Sunday school pupil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
J. Mulhall
Sioux City
Borax promises hygiene and safe cleaning uses
An ad style piece extols Borax as a simple effective disease prevention aid for unsanitary sinks and drains. It claims hot water flushes remove disease traces, softens water, whitens linens, cleans kitchen goods, prevents moths, and is harmless to the system. Promotes a free color book from Pacific Coast Borax Co. and notes a Cleveland humor snippet about siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borar
Pacific Coast Borax Co
Chicago
Etymology of hiccup and variant spellings through history
The article traces the word hiccup through English history with forms such as hiccough hiccup and hickup. It cites scholars like Burton Heywood and Thackeray noting variations and notes an erroneous link to cough. It explains the etymology from hicket and hicock and related European forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton
Heywood
Lamb
Murray
Murray Gays
Hicket
Hicock
The
Times
Remedy and Anecdotes From Old Remedies and Oddities
A jumbled miscellany of patent medicine claims for Sloan's ointment and Cuticura, mixed with humorous vignettes, agricultural tips, and a birth notice. Includes patient testimonials, a story about an alarm clock given to a Chinese cook, and assorted domestic anecdotes from early 20th century life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Aiding Women
A vintage advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments. It cites Mrs Bertha Mutt of Louisiana Mo stating twelve years of suffering with fits and eleven doctors ended after following Pinkham's advice and using the compound. The text claims the product restores health and strength, urging other women to try it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia
Pinkham
Bertha Mutt
Louisiana
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia EK. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Muff
Lawson as a Prophet and Copper Price History
In Success Magazine Frank Fayant notes copper is understood by life spent in it. Tracing price moves from 12–14 cents in 1903–1904 to 15 cents by 1904, then rising to 26.4 cents for 21 months, and peaking around 21 cents, copper later plunged to 11.5 cents in seven months.
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Lawson
Frank Fayant
Success Magazine
T. W. le
Aviguat
T. Wn
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Petit
Western
Canada
Nore
Hieber
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Pampkin
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
EK. T. Holmes
Seckson
Atertown
South Dakota
W. V.bennett
New York Life Building
Omaha
Neb
Lippincott’s
Roper
Gleason
Norany Poauie
Hall
F. I. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Arre
Winslow
Castor
ENS
Rsize
Ld Desamoulpotooer
Lili
New York
Bears
Dougine
Deakey
E. Douglas
Truckion
Aia
London
Frank Roseboom
Washington Street
Moscow
Idaho
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
I Business School
Philadelphia Ledger
Preeaneden
Catarrhone
Fic Syrup Co
George
Cleveland 1
Jack
Sloan
Hiram Mattinziy
Bishop Potter
Hudson
Tom
N.ow. & Fur Co
Minneajo
Ee Agricultur
Milwaukee
Grange Dept
Springfield
Dai
Mee Aires
Housenard
Chas. Kueble
Bocyrus
Hature
Bia EL Pinkham
Mayer
F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Company
Wilwaukee, Wis
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