Part Time Help Replaces Full Time Maid In Small Homes
A Swedish style household guide notes that hiring a part day helper can replace a full time servant in tight spaces. An example shows a four hour morning arrangement for four dollars weekly with duties including cleaning, dishwashing, ironing, and preparation of vegetables. It argues this reduces furniture needs and avoids idle time, while highlighting practical issues of doorbell interruptions and the desire of some wives to preserve independence by tasks like cooking. It also provides practical notes on repairing china and glassware, including glue recipes and methods, followed by a chicken and rice pie recipe with step by step cooking instructions.
Prince Chap and the Evolution of Chapman to Chap
The London Chronicle explains how the word chapman evolved from trader to customer and how chap came to mean man. It notes Shakespearean usage of customer as boon companion and traces the shift to modern sense through quotations and examples.
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London Chronicle
Cure for Eczema Promised by Cuticura Remedies
Thomas M. Rossiter of 290 Prospect Street East Orange New Jersey reports a long battle with eczema since 1894. After trying hospitals and spending hundreds of dollars he says Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap cured him in five weeks and urges others to use the products.
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Thomas M. Rossiter
Prospect Street
East Orange
N. J
Mar
Return in Age to Childhood
A Washington scientist notes that aging cephalopod shells show retrogressive changes resembling youth. He says “the old man returns to second childhood in mind and body,” with shells becoming markedly similar to the animal’s juvenile form as they age.
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Washington
Allcock’s Plaster Promoted as Universal Pain Remedy
The advertisement touts Allcock's Plaster as a quick safe and certain outside cure for local pains such as back cramps rheumatism and colds. It claims rapid action clean cheap and usable while working, noting sixty years of use and world wide reputation.
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Allcock
Poem Fragment and Advertising Jingle Mix
A garbled excerpt blends a Latin maxim with flashy product lines for Garfield Tea and Norb laxative. The text hints at satire on quick judgments and urges readers to ask a druggist about the laxative marketed as mild and potent for constipation and liver regulation.
Quack Remedies and Odd Inventions Highlight 19th Century Trade
A jumbled OCR passage mentions CURER ange IN ONE DA TIVE Bh OMO Quinine Tablets offering money back if they fail to cure. It references a 6d box price, counterfeit judges, Lewis' Single Binder cigars, and a tease of Starch products by Defiance. It ends with Otto Schlick proposing a heavy wheel on a vertical axis to prevent ship rolling like a gyroscope.
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Otto Schlick
Hamburg
Examine all CASTORTA bottles for safe infant use
Important to Mothers urges careful inspection of CASTORTA bottles to ensure safe and curative remedy use for infants and children, emphasizing diligence in administering medicines and following directions.
Famous Band Leader Dead in New York
Prof. Louis Schneider former director of the Marine band in Washington and leader of the Imperial band, which performed at the surrender of Sedan, has died in New York. He received decorations from Napoleon III, the king of Italy, the king of Belgium and Pope Leo XIII.
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Louis Schneider
Marine Band
Washington
Imperial Band
Sedan
New York
Napoleon III
Italy
Belgium
Leo XIII
Money in Popular Songs
A celebrated composer argues that popular songs form the real ambition of most composers. He notes thousands would trade their ears to write a tune that reaches the barrel organs and that many would later wish to dispose of their ears once it remains on the organs.
Breakfast Roll Dough Preparation
Instructions describe mixing flour salt and Berwick's baking powder with butter egg and milk to form a dough. Roll one inch thick, cut rounds, brush with egg yolk and milk, and bake briskly 15 to 20 minutes until done.
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Berwick
Hetty's Thoughtfulness Detail
Hetty explains to a listener that she and her mother are taking medicine. To tell their bottles apart Mamma has tied a string around hers and Hetty says she must tie a string around hers as well. The child notes the difference and shares the practice with simple curiosity.
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Hetty
Mamma
American Pumps Sent to India by Direct Shipment
The United States ships about $50,000 worth of pumps and pumping machinery annually to India, with most imports routed through Bombay.
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India
United States
Bombay
Defiance Starch Promoted for Fine Fabrics
The summer favorite fine white goods prompt choice of starch. Defiance Starch is advertised as chemical free and safe for fine fabrics. It strengthens stiffness so half the usual amount achieves a perfect finish as if new. A witty line about a woman and a man follows the ad copy.
Piles Treatment Promise With PAZO Ointment Claim
An advertisement touts PAZO Ointment promising cure of itching blind bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days with a money back guarantee. The claim emphasizes rapid relief and refunds if not cured.
Peoria ad notes coy tobacco and remedies
Fragmentary ad text mentions Lewis' Cigars and a Peoria factory, a softening syrup for children, and generic moral lines about happiness and marriage, with garbled phrases and partial product names.
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Publius Syrus
Lewis
Peoria
Sumatra
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
WaLpina, Kinnan & Marvin
Ill
Grab
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
U.S.A
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Chesebrough Mfg. CO
State Street
New York City
U. S. Kia V i
Lincoln
Hastings
Nebraska
Navy Recruiting Station
P.O. Building
Omaha
Thompson
California Fig-Syrup Co
California Fig Syrup. Co
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