Phillips Milk of Magnesia Ad Promotes Stomach Comfort
This nondescript ad promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a universal sweetener and anti acid for children and adults. It touts gentle relief from acidity, claims physicians endorse the product, and notes the U S registered trademark since 1875.
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Phillips
U. S
Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co
Charles H. Phillips
Castoria: trusted baby remedy promoted for common ailments
A promotional piece touts Castoria as a universal night stand remedy for infants and children. It claims relief from colic constipation and diarrhea with a safe vegetable formula and urges mothers to remember the brand for emergencies and everyday use.
Who Invented the Bowie Knife Across Conflicting Tales
An exploration of conflicting claims about the Bowie knife origin. Narratives cite Rezin Bowie's brother James Bowie, blacksmith James Black, Jesse Cliffs, and John Lowell among others, with dates and places such as Natchez 1827, Washington Arkansas, and Gonzales Texas, debating true inventor.
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Bowies
John
Janes
James Bowie
Natchez
Philadelphia
Edward S. Ellis
Davy Crockett
Rezin
New York Star
Col
Bowie
Mississippi
Red River Herald
Nachitoches
Rapids
Louisiana
Charles Mulholland
Bayou Boeuf
Big Jim
Arkansas Gazette
James Black
Dan W Jones
Arkansas
Black
New Jersey
Washington
Ark
Jones
Alamo
Damascus
Jesse Cliffs
Resin Bowie
Bowie Boys
James
Maj
Norris Wright
Wright
Lowell
Jackson
Missouri
Gonzales
Texas
Mr. Sowell
Sowell
Eruption of Volcanoes Attributed to Ocean Tides
The piece explains Etna’s non explosive lava allows gas to escape, while explosive volcanos have thick lava. It cites Dr. William Bowie and others proposing tides knead the earth, raising lava and triggering eruptions near large bodies of water.
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Mount
Etna
William Bowie
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
London Green Girdle Plan by Garden Historian Loudoun
In 1820 John Loudoun proposed a permanent green girdle around London a tree planted boulevard starting at Euston Road looping through Marylebone Hyde Park Sloane Street to the Thames via Vauxhall Bridge returning through Kennington Camberwell Deptford to Greenwich Park. Costs halted progress with only the Oxford and Cambridge terraces begun.
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John Loudoun
London
Loudoun
Metropolis
Euston Road
New Road
Marylebone
Hyde Park
Sloane Street
Vauxhall Bridge
Kennington
Camberwell
Deptford
Greenwich Park
Thames
Edgware Road
Oxford and
Cambridge Terraces
Trouble Began After Engagement Shaken by Orange Lipstick
Bertie Baxter, newly engaged to a Braxton girl who bewitched many, faces turmoil as her fiancé at a tea-dance reveals a lipstick fad. A London Answers note records the flirtation with a joke about an orange flavored lipstick as the social strain grows.
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Bertie Baxter
Braxton
London
Perplexing Poiret in New York Branch Woes
Perplexing M Poiret, famed Parisian fashion designer, had a New York branch only weeks old when he confessed his struggle with English. He asked an American friend how to handle a gown that does not fit and a dissatisfied patron.
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New York
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