Dont Do That Dear A Comic Advice Letter From Mrs Pinkham
A humorous excerpt from a 19th or early 20th century column about women advising private matters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It features repeated lines of dont do that dear captions and a brief closing note on Russia facing famine every 10 or 12 years.
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Pink Am
Lynn
Mass
J. W. Foley
New York Times
Russia
Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Featured Patient Testimony
A Pennsylvania woman recounts relief from female ailments after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims decades of success for conditions including displacements inflammation and irregularities with numerous testimonials.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinknam
Fiddle Church Vane at Great Gonerby Surfaces Curious Tale
From the London Standard comes a note on a rare church vane at Great Gonerby, a dip and bow shaped finial with a tale of a peasant violinist who prospered in the Far West, funded a church, and attached a fiddle and bow sculpture to the summit. The piece links to claims of vast irrigation potential and a new orchard venture in California with speculative shares offered.
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London Standard
Great Britain
Great Gonerby
Greitham
Great Merby
Far West
Great Gonerchy
Pearl cross from Australia on sale and misprint riddled ad
An Australian syndicate owns a nine-arch cross shaped pearl known as The Southern Cross valued at £10,000 and exhibited in Australia after its 1876 discovery near Reebourne West Australia. The fragment mentions selling cans and hides, a catalog note, and a New York population projection for 1932.
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Aei
Reebourne
West Australia
Avoid Risk in Buying White Lead Paint
Advice warns buyers of white lead risks from adulteration and misrepresentation. The National Lead Company guarantees parity and quality with its Dutch Boy mark and offers free testing guidance and a paint booklet. A Washington Times anecdote shows Secretary Root handling a language mix up with foreign visitors.
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National Lead Company
Woodbridge
New York City
Deep Cracks From Eczema Cure Claim
W H Dean of Newark Delaware reports a curing of severe hand eczema after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He notes years of failed remedies and physicians’ prescriptions before two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Soap completely healed his hands. The statement is dated March 28 1907.
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Catlurn
W. H. Dean
Newark
Del
Jerry Retort
Clyde Milan
Washington
Mint
Tellow
Alsie
Milan
Clyde
A Colonial Calf and Early Puritan Humor
In 1631 Thomas Dudley, deputy governor of Massachusetts Bay, wrote a 19 page letter to the Countess of Lincoln recalling a Watertown calf incident. Wolves driven off by muskets alarmed Roxbury, Boston, and records show the calf survived. The note closes dated March 28, 1631.
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Thomas Dudley
Massachusetts Bay
Countess of Lincoln
Watertown
Roxbury
Boston
Ralaetts Alvo
Martin Lee
J. Muliali
Bloux City
Wonders of Flowers and a Salve Claim
An article notes plants reacting to weather and light with unique properties in an American garden where flowers open and perfume at night. Pettit's Gye Salve is touted for inflamed eyes and conjunctivitis, said to remove film. A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt mentions a cashier and bank in a terse exchange about a missing cashier and the bank being out.
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Ee Tentee Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
Funny Baseball Incidents From Old St Louis Memoir
A collage of amusing baseball anecdotes features Yankee Robinson of Chris Von der Ahe's St. Louis club, Pete Browning's line drive, and Chris Vor der Ahe’s sharp bursts of exasperation. The piece mixes Clemens and Crawford quips, Leever’s teaching quirks, and Connie Mack on a hot Washington day.
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Chris Vor der Ahe
Yankee Robinson
Chris von der Ahe
St. Tonia Club
India
Yigual
Chris Youdér Ahé
Yankees
Ant
Loulavilles
St. Louis
Pete Browning
Robinson
von der Ahe
Uis
Jon
Chris
Globs Lights and Quirky Observations From Atchison Globe
A collection of humorous observations and social quirks from the Atchison Globe. Notes on manners, language, nursery myths, and everyday behavior provide a wry, observational snapshot of past small-town life. Features jabs at fashions, family roles, and playful banter about language and propriety.
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Atchison Globe
Kansas
An Old Fashioned Doctor and a Carnegie Tribute
A Washington Star note recounts a tale of Dr Blank a pompous old fashioned physician at a Carnegie tribute in New York. It mocks his methods through a Burlesque medical anecdote where a man pierced by a steel bar faces a choice between leaving the bar or risking a fatal operation, highlighting overbearing clinical arrogance.
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Washington Star
Koch
Andrew Carnegie
New York
Blank
Weidelburg
Local Tale Spins Around a Misheard Senator Claim
A comic exchange features two hobos discussing a woman who believes a boastful line about being a senator. The conversation centers on a mistaken identity and a joke about two tires after dinner tales.
Woman Sees Double All Her Life Wins Treatment
A Kansas cattleman’s wife, living forty years with double vision, learns she sees two of everything. In Kansas City an ophthalmologist tests her sight with a candal and corrects her condition with glasses. After treatment she begins to see normally, and explains her prior perception to her husband.
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Kansas
Hansas Tan Camernan
Nome
Huad
Kanana
Huebanil
Kidney Pills Restore Milford Man After Hopeless Prognosis
Verrill of Milford Maine recalls a severe injury that left him paralyzed with kidney failure. Doctors warned he would never walk again, but after using Doan's Kidney Pills his strength returned, he shed crutches, and his kidneys improved, leading to a full recovery. Sold by Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Verrill
Milford
Doah
Foster-Millurn Co
Buffalo
Belgian police dog Bull leads five burglars to arrest in triumph
Patrol dogs from Parla exhibit sagacity as Bull, the obstinate pupil, defies recall yet tracks a thief pack. Trainer M Libbrecht’s crew follows a ground strip, assembles on signal, and each dog targets a specific man. Burglars caught, goods recovered, celebratory kennels fete follows.
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Patrie
Parla
Brussels
M. Libbrecht
Bull
Medical Bill from the Washington Herald
A patient complains of ague and agrees to stay indoors and diet as prescribed. The physician orders quinine, totaling ten grains twice daily. The bill amounts to half a guinea.
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The
Washington Herald
Grape Nuts Help Ailing Girl Regain Health And Appetite
A girl who suffered from severe digestion issues and starved herself for fear of meals describes her improvement after using Grape Nuts. She credits the cereal with restoring appetite, strength, and overall health, noting she now eats normally and remains well. The letter, promoted by Postum Co, urges readers to “Read The road to Wellville.”
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Well
Postum Co
Byrne
Wellville
Good Money In Dry From the Los Angeles 7
Maxwell of San Jacinto reports a 0 acre grain harvest yielding profit above land costs, praising self ownership over renting and seeking more grazing land. San Francisco excerpts note Union Square restoration plans and local garden humor, including water-wanted heather and a father grandson biblical book vignette.
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Los Angeles
Maxwell
San Jacinto
Maxwell Nortan Tolanaea
Bis
San Francisco Chronicle
McLaren
Fix ‘Francisco
Union Square
St. Francia
Celine Bregta
New Irrigation Scheme Aims to Use River Wheel Pumps
A California land owner proposes irrigating sections along the Rio Grande with a novel wheel device placed between two boats that rise and fall with the waves. The mechanism is expected to operate a set of pumps, with electricity envisioned as a future fertilizing aid.
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California
Rio Grande
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