Favorite Prescription and Dr Pierce remedies advertised
An advertisement from Buffalo promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe vegetable tonic for female weaknesses. It claims cures for hysteria nervous disorders and womb ailments, touts benefits for fatigue and memory, endorses multiple products, and offers a 7 year satisfaction guarantee with refunds. The notice cites the American Medical Association seal and lists prices and ordering details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Invrgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Handsome jacket pattern free to readers linkage
Our notice announces a Demorest's Monthly pattern offer printed in our next issue. Readers can obtain a free jacket pattern valued at 25 cents by sending for the pattern envelope which also explains Demorest's Monthly, published by MEST in New York.
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Demorest’s
OEA
Demorest’s Monthly
MEST
T 14Th Street
New York
Popham & Co Promotes Asthma Cure in Philadelphia
An 19th century advertisement touts a cure for asthma by Popham & Co of Philadelphia. It claims the product relieves all curable cases with a pleasant use, offers trial packaging free pamphlet and package, and invites readers to request samples.
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PITAM
Popham & CO
Philadelphia
Fragments of a 1900s Classified Needles and Odor Remedies
A damaged OCR classified fragment advertises facial preparations and ointments for freckles pimples and liver moles with a note sending 60 cents plus postage to a Toledo address. It mentions cheap jewelry and a Mammoth Illinois data line with an Chicago address.
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SPAYD
Toledo
Many Topics Spark With Modern Progress and Oddities
A long OCR list covers diverse items from patent surges and wall coverings to new uses for iron slag and rubber soles. It notes Franklin’s grave condition, Pastrour’s baronial honor, wage laws in Connecticut, and Japan’s railroads. It reports a banter about Cleveland’s visit escorts, Irish civil war forms, and the Bear rescue in Alaska.
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Connecticut
Chicago
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Frank James
Atlanta
Burlington
N. J
United States
Treasury
New England
Niagara River
Buit
Goose Island
Ohio Monument
William Henry Harrison
Lous T. Rebisso
Equatorial Africa
Luanda
Lower Guinea
Mozambique
Congo
Michigan
Far West
Omaha
Macci van Cort
West
New York
Georgia
Chattsworth
Richardson
South Carolina
North Carolina
Cleveland
Ireland
Samuel J. Tr.pen
Charles E. Simmins
White House
Juan N. Continua
Diaz
Rio Grande
Brownsville
Tex
Tur
Bear
Naturin
Vincent
Napoleon
American Forestry Congress
Springfield
Ill
North
Canada
Mighty host invades St Louis for grand G A R parade
Fifty thousand veterans arrive for a massive Grand Army of the Republic encampment in St Louis with up to 15,000 more expected by parade day. The city glows with eight miles of illuminated streets, grand arches, and a six mile line of march reviewed by General D. P. Grier and General Fairchild.
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St. Louris
Grand Army of the Republic
Army of Friends and
Registry Department of the
Grand Army Arch
Twelfth
Olive Streets
D. P. Grier
St. Louis
Department of Missouri
Department of
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Virginia
California
New Hampshire
Indiana
Nebraska
Iowa
Colorado
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Delaware
West Virginia
Washington Territory
Kentucky
Arkansas
Florida
Gulf
Dakota
Oregon
New Mexico
Texas
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Tennessee
Georgia
Rhode Island
Naval Veterans
Sons of Veterans
Knights Templar
Fourth Street
Broadway
Clark Avenue
Christy Avenue
Corps
Franklin Avenue
Locust Street
Pine Street
Sixth Street
Washington Avenue
Planters’ House
Grand Army
Twelfth Street
Olive Street
Court-House
Army Corps
Grier
A. J. Smith
Logan Post
Mounted
Springfield
Mass
Fairchild
General Fairchild
Gray
Grand Army encampment debates Vandervoort resolutions
In St Louis the Grand Army encampment debates fiery Vandervoort anti Cleveland land resolutions. Majority favors shelving them for expediency while minority would endorse condemning Cleveland action. Pension reform dominates discussions with new bill aiming to pension 12,000 veterans and widows, and extend aid to minors. Columbus wins next encampment site. pension hall proposed by Congress. Lincoln tomb pilgrimage hindered by rain as 1,000 veterans visit Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield.
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Grand Army
John A. Logan
Joseph W. Drexel
Mount McGregor
U. S. Grant
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
United States
Fairchild
South
Fsnd
United States of America
Thomas
Ilinois
Logan Monument Fund
Alger
Michigan
Burdette
Washington
H. H. Thomas
Illinois
John C. Robinson
New York
Beaver
Pennsylvania
Hannibal Hamlin
Maine
Charles D. Nash
Massachusetts
Keifer
Ohio
Drexel
Vandervort
Omaha
Cleveland
Union
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Washington Avenue
Milwaukee
Gettysburg
Chattanooga
Negt
St. Louis
Vandervoort
Committee On
Committee On Pensions
John A. Logari
Rock
Chickamauga
Hancock
Committee On Resolutions
Utah
Columbus
Saratoga
Pension Hall
Council of Administration
Charles E. Gantz
Albany
N. Y
Birth of Jay Kingdon Gould Heir to Gould Family
Jay Kingdon Gould, son and heir of George Gould, receives a mother of pearl cradle on solid gold feet as a gift from his grandfather. His maternal grandmother sends a christening robe from Baden once worn by a German crown prince, with crown motif. He is gifted with a pair of diamond rims by J C Flood of California. Boston Globes.
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Jay Kingdon Gould
George Gould
Mr. Gould
Baden
Germany
J.C. Flood
Californis
Boston Globes
Religious Frenzy Murder in New South Wales Case
Passengers aboard an Australian steamer recount a brutal case from August 28 in New South Wales. Wadham Wyndham, driven by religious frenzy, killed his wife and three children, claiming divine inspiration and planning to crucify them as Christ was crucified. The aftermath describes extensive wounds and attempts at impaling the victims, reflecting a deadly delusion.
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San Francisco
New South Wales
Wadham Wyndham
Wyndham
Christ
Anarchists clash with police at Union Hill skating rink
New York reporters describe a riot at Union Hill New Jersey where one hundred fifty anarchists tried to force entry to a skating rink meeting in support of Chicago condemned men. Police repelled the mob with clubs. four arrests made and a seriously wounded man likely to die.
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New York
Chicago
Union Hill
N.J
Ferdinand Ahlers
Ellsworth Post
Schwartz
Young Millionaire Sands Hopkins Plans European Tour Fight
Kansas City reports Sands Hopkins a wealthy eccentric hires cowboy boxer Pete Hickman under contract to defend his honor in Europe. Hopkins will pay Hickman ten thousand dollars if the bout goes well, as the trip is expected to be lengthy.
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Kansas City
Sands Hopkins
Pete Hickman
Europe
Hopkins
Hickman
Deliberate Shot Into Crowd of Children
Deliberately shot into a crowd of children by John Sullivan after a domestic dispute in Curcaco. He fired a double barreled shotgun at the youths, wounding about a dozen, none severely. Sullivan was promptly arrested.
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Curcaco
John Sullivan
Henry Street
Sullivan
Aiken Woman Dies After Fall From Window
Mrs W W Woolsey of Aiken South Carolina, under treatment for a nervous disease, fell or jumped from a third story window at 164 Montague Street. She died this evening. Her husband owns a large cotton plantation near Aiken.
Pneumatic dynamite gun trial fires eleven shots
In New York on October 2 the trial of the pneumatic dynamite gun saw eleven shots fired in ten minutes. All shots hit a target two thousand yards distant, demonstrating striking accuracy under test conditions.
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New York
Discouraged preacher ends life in shooting tragedy
Mittersser G. O. Oct. 2 reports Henry Clements, a Free Methodist preacher living five miles west of here, placed a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger with his toe. The blast destroyed the top of his head as stated, with discouragement at preaching failure given as the cause.
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Mittersser G. O
Henry Clements
Here
Free Methodist Church
Miner Burned to Death in Rescue Attempt
Louis Tasky a miner at Tower Minnesota was burned to death while trying to rescue his two children from a burning cabin His wife and one child are left destitute.
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Paul
Louis Tasky
Tower, Minn
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