Do Your Feet Ache and Shake into Allen's Foot-Ease
An advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder promises relief from tight new shoes and foot discomfort. It claims to cure corns bunions and sweaty feet and offers free samples by mail from LeRoy New York. A separate note reports Will Edwards a Negro lynched for murder near Greenville Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allien S.olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Will Edwards
Greenville, Miss
Ancresa
Olmsted
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Adventures Health
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound claiming to restore women's health with overwhelming proof. It references Lynn Massachusetts and urges non experimentation for female well being.
Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets Candy Cathartic
Ad copy promoting Cascarets to cure constipation. Claims mild effective relief and guaranteed results. Encourages ordering by mail with free sample and pamphlet from Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago Montreal New York. Contains promotional tone and warnings against imitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wien
Cascarets
Cascaret
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
Montreal
Can
New York
Oeygs C
Carnegie Partners Rise From Ranks in Steel Empire
A historical overview of Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, and partners in Carnegie Steel. It profiles Henry Phipps, Lauder, Schwab, and others, noting humble beginnings, key roles, and shifting loyalties amid the Frick–Carnegie conflict and block of stock values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay Frick
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Henry Phipps
Frick
Alleghany City
Rai Tae
Andrew
Young People's
Phipps
Thomas WU
Millet
Tron
Steadt
Pittsburg
George ‘Kart
Wis
Carnegié Concern
Toot Carnegie. & Bro
Lauder
Europe
Lees
CM ‘Schwab
Carnegie Company
Schwab
Henry Murry
Lucy
Mr. Carnegie
Curry
Henry W. Borntrager
Lawrenceville
Areians
Early Partners
Silent Flat Hearts Longing Amid Absence
A Chicago Times-Herald vignette portrays a couple with an intimate exchange inside a quiet flat. They speak of embracing and kissing while noting their parents are away and the surroundings feel deadened by emptiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Chicago Times-Herald
Catarrh Cure Promises Cure With 100 Dollar Reward
An old advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy and claims it cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case not cured and asks readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoventana
Wileganar
Catarra
Haiti
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo, O
One Man to the Yard Cavalry March Formations
A fragment notes that marching divisions form four abreast, occupying as many yards as there are men in the unit. The phrasing suggests a drill manual style describing line formation and spacing during foot marches.
Swanson’s Rheumatic Cure Ad Offers Free Sample Bottles
A fragmented advertisement touts Swanson’s Sonops Rheumatic Cure offering 300 doses in a 5 drop daily regimen. It claims universal relief from rheumatism and other pains, promises a free sample bottle and a prepaid large bottle, and lists 160 Lake It Chicago as the contact. It also includes stray lines about exercise and a reference to Magnetic Starch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Swarton’s
Express
Cure Co
Lake It
Chicago
Peruna Promotes Health in Nebraska Homes
Letter from Carl T Roberts of Falls City Nebraska praises Peruna as a cure for lung fever nervousness stomach trouble and catarrh claiming nineteen bottles saved fifty dollars in doctors bills. Other testimonials hail Peruna as strongest medicine for the household and urge its use as a preventive and remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Charlie
John
Peruna
Peria
Tama
Mason
Nam Krowin
Falls City
Wiliam . Youngbrodd
Washington
Hartman
Columbus
Obio
T. G. Walker
Carneiro
Kansas
Roberts
Falls City, Neb
Sporadic Chat About Hunting and Magnetic Starch Mirth
A fragmented city exchange discusses hunting around woods and mentions magnetic starch as a product. The rural talk shifts to farmers and sportsmen with quirky remarks about mangers and rooks.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn, Mass
Russia
Turkey
Iron King
Indiana
England
New York Tribune
Kure; Ltd
Amos Kelner
Cherry Valley
Lil
Papa Khce
Iain Apis
Best
Tia
Tor
Lee
Bottie
Meee Aker
Dorchester
Mass
Asgood Stout
Santa Clara Manufacturing CO
Omaha
Neb
Sciatica
Hon
Wiliam Moutigh
Peruna’ Igs
Peru- Pees ‘Medicine, Company
Java
Shier
City Garden
Earl'’st
Emerald Cancer la Crosse Mariet
Salzer
Salze Beeeda Rou
la Crosse
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Doug
Ys Ce
Pensions Tovsie
Otparrell
Pension
Newt
State Street
United States
Canada
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