Dr Williams Pink Pills Help After Typhoid Fever
A testimonial from Charles Worth of East Vassalboro Maine describes severe lingering nervous weakness after typhoid fever. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with rapid improvement and full recovery after several weeks of use. The ad asserts the pills repair flesh and strengthen nerves by feeding them through the blood and guarantees they are free from opiates.
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Williams
Charles Worth
East Vassalboro
Maine
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Elephants Piling Logs Show Off Their Skill
The article describes elephants in saw mills performing log handling tasks. One elephant drags a log from water to the saw bench and places it on a table with tusks, while another end holds the log for the next step. They stack, move, and arrange squared logs with precision before handing them to raftsmen for binding.
Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers Promoted For Stomach Relief
An advertisement offers Mull's Anti Belch Wafers as a drug free absorption cure for stomach troubles. It claims the wafers relieve belching gas indigestion and related symptoms without drugs and promises a free sample or two boxes for 75 cents, with a 50 cent price per box.
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Mull
Mulls
Defiance Starch Promotes Quality and Quantity in Market Ads
An old newspaper excerpt promotes Mull's Anti Belch Wafers with a free box offer and touts Defiance Cold Water Starch as superior value. It mixes sales pitches with light humor about moral suasion and a jab at talking about a musical director. The piece references Mull's Grape Tonic Co. in Rock Island Illinois and general druggist sales.
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Mull
Mull's Grape Tonic Co
Third Ave
Rock Island, Ill
Relief for Women and Health Advice Notice
A historic ad-like notice promotes Mother Gray’s herbal remedy from The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy New York. It claims cures for kidney and urinary troubles for women and offers a paid sample by mail. A separate proverb notes that a man may be too old to learn but not to realize it.
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Mother Gray
New York
Mother Gray Co
LeRoy
N. Y
Real Mint Sauce And Parisian Fashion Sparks
A guide to making authentic mint sauce for lamb includes washing mint, soaking, and using light gravy, with optional sugar and salt. Separate note discusses Parisian fashion, warning about black accents on white and the correct label placement inside jars for dry goods.
Fashionable dress and accessories for reception wear
A London tailor offers reception wear sets that emphasize coordinated accessories. The guide highlights a short skirt, smart hat, shoes and spats, stockings, gloves, and matching shoetops and hat as key to elegance, noting the dress itself can be simple yet stylish.
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London
Simplicity of Stocks for Neck Fashion This Year
The text notes a trend toward simple neckstocks that are high but not too tight. Soft materials, linen stocks, and daily wear options are described, with stand up collars featuring lace, embroidery, or needlework to stiffen.
Pelerines and Ribbon Fashions Inspire New Designs
Fashion notes describe pelerines visites victor ines and similar trims shown in silk foundations with shirred and plisse ribbons. Manufacturers embrace new modes using pull or draw threads in ribbons to ease design and creation, with velvet ribbons often tucked into the pattern.
Fashion Notes on Dresses and Fabrics in the Season
Greens appear in new shades both light and dark. Lace ruffles at the elbow finish a charming dress. Simmer coats feature practical pockets. Narrow boas and ruffs give way to larger, smarter rubes. Velvet ribbon designs aid trimming. Long silk traveling coats dominate. White serge revival gains traction amid a wave of zephyr fabrics in multiple colors. Plaids and tartans return each fall alongside varied tan shades.
Parisian negligee ribbons set fashion tone
The Paris fashion scene elevates negligees with abundant ribbons. Decorative ribbons, embroidery on sheer fabrics, and tied strings or bows are used to enhance elegance in dainty matinee pieces.
Summer Dance Frock Described with Pink Rose Grenadines
A dress article outlines a dance frock suitable for hotel society. It features silk and cotton flowered grenadines with a pink rose design on white, satin ribbon trim on flounces, a low-cut draped bodice with white lace and elbow-length sleeves, and a front lace point over gathered material.
Bead Collarette Invades Fashion Circles
A striking novelty beadwork collarette captivates top modistes. The accessory is eminently successful when applied with discretion to avoid recalling past decade bead cushions.
Flower colored summer silk coats described in fashion note
The article notes pretty flower colored silk coats trimmed with rubhes and worn with flowered muslins. It highlights color matches with dresses from corn to pink greens and blues. Matrons prefer deep tones like plums and purples, while lighter coats suit lighter gowns.
Home Economy Tips From The Household Page
Practical advice on kitchen and home care including lemon juice in water for pastry, eggs stored on their small ends, reusing paraffin for jelly and jam coverings after washing, unpainted wire netting for resting flatirons and cleaning, and using short candle ends to start a fire.
Fashion description of a Mohair bodice and skirt ensemble
The article details a light weight Mohair gown with Sevres blue fabric and creamy lace chemisette. It describes a draped bodice with silk quillings, a deep girdle with a dip point, double mohair sleeves, chiffon puff sleeves, and a plain front skirt with a bias French seam and circular volants.
Embroidery Hints for Linen Suits and Accessories
Embroidery hints describe girls in linen suits sewing card cases to match outfits. White on white and blue tones, other colors used, plus handkerchief bags priced at 25 cents ready stamped on sheer linen. Cream satin batiste and orange velvet accessories noted.
Almond Custard Recipe Summary
A traditional almond custard recipe instructs blanching almonds and forming a paste, then beating eggs with sugar and milk or cream, combining ingredients in a saucepan, thickening without curdling, chilling in a glass dish, and topping with beaten egg whites, sugar, and lemon extract before serving.
Lace styles for sleeves described as sheer and misty
The text describes heavy stiff laces as unsuitable for sleeves and sleeve flounces. It praises transparent lace, particularly point applique like Honiton Lierre Valenciennes and oriental varieties, for a soft misty, frothy sleeve effect.
Sultana Cakes Recipe Steps And Batter Mix
Ten ounces butter and ten ounces castor sugar are creamed. Add four eggs gradually and lemon peel. Fold in sultanas, flour, baking powder, and enough milk to form batter. Bake for thirty to forty minutes in a moderate oven.
Pillsbury's Vitos Ad Promotes Common Sense
Minneapolis firm Pillsbury Co touts Vitos The Meat of the Wheat as pure white granules of wheat core, with no additives or cooking required. The ad claims high digestion, no lumpy texture, two pounds yield twelve pounds of cooked food, priced 15 cents per two pound package, and asserts no competitors due to size and wheat quality.
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Minneapolis
Pillsbury Co
Pillsbury
One on the Conductor In a Montana rail tale
Col. Sanders, a well known passenger with an annual pass, forgot his ticket and paid five dollars in a torn five dollar bill after an argument with a conductor. The clash ended with Sanders urging the conductor to turn the bill in to the company as laughter spread through the car.
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Sanders
Montana
Col. Sanders
Rough on the Cockney and the Healing Power of Music
Two physicians debate music as a curative agent. One recalls a dying boy soothed by room music who recovered. The other cites a dying man aroused by music outside his window who threw a bootjack, yet the organ grinder died. A Mosquito quip adds social banter about marriage and thinking.
Oust the Demon A Tussle with Coffee
A California couple describes nervous headaches and neck tension from coffee. They switched to Postum Coffee and soon improved with no return to the old coffee. They say their headaches and neck pain vanished and they now share Postum with their children.
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Calif
Battle Creek
Mich
Postum
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