Mrs Winn's Advice to Women Endorses Pinkham's Compound
Kansas City reader Mrs H T Winn credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from crippling monthly pain that kept her from walking and bearing weight leading to two healthy daughters. She urges others to try the remedy and praises its results.
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Lydia E.pinkham
Kansas City
Lydia E. Pinkham
H. T. Winn
Freemont Ave
Kansas City, Mo
Cumming
Charlie Bags Ley
Brief Decision on Evolution Theory and Human Folly
A short meditation noting how some men's actions resemble the mockery of nature, reflecting on the ease with which humans can drift from reason and dignity. The remark questions adherence to scientific ideas when personal conduct undermines credibility.
Lacking in Self-Assertion Mocked by Puck
In a quip from Puck, Abner Appledry-Jay Green is mocked for lacking pride and independence. The passage compares his behavior on streetcars unfavorably to asserting rights, noting he sits quietly as if in church and avoids marching through aisles or standing on the back platform.
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Abner Appledry
Jay Green
Ashton Allred
Puck
Eruption Disfigured Face Treated With Cuticura
In 1911 a five year old girl in Maurice Iowa suffered a painful facial eruption mistaken for ringworm. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment per directions, symptoms improved and the child was reportedly cured in three to four months. The notice promotes Cuticura products and offers a free sample with a 32 page Skin Book.
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Maurice
Henry Prins
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Mental Arithmetic Riddle With Tommy
A pupil spent one third of a sum and $3 is five sixths of the remainder. The total money is $18. Tommy answers with a joke about the jimjams.
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Tommy
Man Outshored by a Bill: Calling Card or Threat
A terse saying notes that to locate a man you need only present a bill. The remark implies financial leverage or debt as a method to summon someone, reflecting a historical view on debt collection and social enforcement.
Political Tares in a Christian View of Nation
A Christian political sermon warns of tares within the republic including immigration, liquor, and Sabbath secularization. It urges righteous living, voting for just laws, and prayer to align governance with God's will.
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Plymouth Rock
Bunker Hill
Yorktown
Tares
Sodom
Joseph Cook
Bis
Satan
Mustache Cup Tea Sparks Wit at New York Bad Taste Show
Miss Jeannette Gilder critiques a pink and gold mustache cup at the Bad Taste exhibition in New York. She jokes the cup rivals a hand-painted cuspidor and notes a spiritual bad taste exhibition is next. She imagines a fortune hunter from a poor American family courting a wealthy but vague Sauche widow.
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Jeannette Gilder
New York
Miss Gilder
America
Railway Map Reveals Tunnel Details in Clever Gag
A couple traveling to Scotland change trains at Carlisle. A porter assists with luggage and notices rice on the young lady’s hair. He shows a folded paper, presenting a railway map with blue pencil marks indicating tunnel locations and lengths.
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Scotland
Carlisle
London
Modern Business Man Pays Price for Distraction
Withersly asks Plimson about the game but he reveals a stranger interrupted his afternoon with business talk. The disruption cost him time yet he bragged he made $1,000 despite the bad luck.
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Plimson
Withersly
Prison Encounter Highlights Small-Town Curiosity
A jail visit unfolds as a prisoner speaks on love for books and pocket volumes, while the visitor notes the man’s humble hunger for knowledge despite pride.
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Pocket Books
Wrong King of Gardening Form That Patient Had Been Indulg ing In
In a Duluth after dinner speech Jerome S McWade jokes about gardening as a cure. A doctor tells a patient he will prescribe gardening, but the patient reveals gardening roof work caused his ailments. The bit pivots on social prompts and a country versus city theme.
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Crawford
Crabshaw
Jerome S$. McWade
Duluth
Limitation of Art from a Washington Family
The head of a Washington family is approached by his nearly adult son who declares an art career and asks for permission. The father muses on the plan, stipulating only that the son must not draw on him for money. The saying "three twenty dollar bills go like sixty" closes the vignette.
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Washington
Child Acts Surgeon's Role in Emergency
Sarah Shaffer a 13 year old from Los Angeles helped her five year old sister after a sidewalk fall. Dr Edward G Wiley the chief police surgeon guided her by telephone on how to apply a splint as an ambulance rushed to the Shaffer home.
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Sarah Shaffer
Los Angeles
Cal
Edward G. Wiley
Sarah
Maybelle
Wiley
Shaffer
Lowest Bidder and the Cost of a Daughter’s Hand
A young suitor asks for the daughter’s hand and offers ten thousand dollars a year to maintain her lifestyle. The father counters that another suitor can marry for eight thousand, implying a negotiation over expected maintenance costs. A separate remark mocks an aspiring actor’s impediment of speech, noting it goes unnoticed.
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