Dr Williams Pink Pills touted for nerves and blood
A reader from Everett recounts dramatic recovery from overwork and nerve collapse after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He credits rapid weight gain, restored memory, and improved vitality to the tonic, noting friends observed a clear change after two weeks. The advertisement asserts benefits for general debility, headaches, indigestion, and even paralysis, urging others to write for details and buy at 80 cents per box.
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Geal
Tyrie
Wiliams
Munroe
Eliza Park
Everett
Murty
Mont
Boston
Wil
Tregard
Pelle
William A
Dr. Wilivane
Dr. Williamson Company
Schenectady
Soldiering In China Corral Frank Hayden Describes China
Corporal Frank Hayden of the army recruiting station recalls a year in China, praising the country for good food and cheap goods. He notes eggs, chicken, and mutton costs, mentions employing a Chinese cook, and comments on military sorties and local life. The piece also lists jurymen names connected to Franklin county's Apel term.
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China
Frank Hayden
Ching
Kauss City
Times
Amity
Franklin County
Button
Hanty
Curl
Lord
Dyer
My Cock
Pear
Kansaa City
Wide range of 1908 news items and incidents
The report aggregates chaotic, partially readable items including political actions in New Jersey and Russia, deadly fires in Lisbon, train wrecks, arson arrests, legislative adjournments, shootings in New Jersey, bank heist concerns, Ruskin associated church fire in London, a Saint Louis incident, naval losses, rail and road wreck statistics, a murder verdict in San Francisco, prohibition violations, and various international events in Manchuria, Mexico, and the United States.
Yale Professor Recalls Lunatic Food Habit Tale
Prof William Lyon Phelps of Yale told a story at a New Tipton chamber banquet about a hard drinker cured by food cravings. The man, fearing drink, sought food at every urge, even near confinement, and once shouted from a hotel transom asking for ham and egg sandwich.
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William Lyon Phelps
Yale
New Tipton
Chamber of Commerce
Lippincott’s
Blood-Cleaning Tonic Promoted For Spring Health
An old era home remedy touts Blood-Cleaning Time in April with a recipe using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon Compound Syrup Sareaparinla. Take a teaspoonful after meals and at night to clear skin sores and treat rheumatism catarrh kidney and bladder trouble. Also includes a quirky Paris scam tale and a note on Wall Street figure Rusell Sage at age 95.
Romantic Devonshire coffee tale and Postum testimonial
A Rock House witness from North Devon describes coffee troubles including indigestion brain fog and poor sleep and credits Postum Food Coffee with eliminating symptoms. The letter praises Postum as a superior table beverage noting careful boiling to extract flavor and urging readers to read the book The Ro ad ty Wellville.
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Philpotts
Devonshire
Rock House
Orchard Ti
Hideford
North Devon
Montum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Doan's Kidney Pills Helped Veteran After Long Illness
A veteran from Toons Avenue Indianapolis describes enduring kidney trouble since age nine. He suffered headaches dizziness loss of weight and a swollen leg before using Doan's Kidney Pills. After starting the pills the swelling subsided the urine normalized and pain disappeared. He has remained well for nine years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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B. Vrink Doren
Toons, Avenue
Indianapodla
Doan
Foeter Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
Treasury Robbery Recalled by Old Washington Theft
A 40 000 treasury robbery in Chicago recalls a prior 40 000 theft at the Washington treasury about ninety years ago. An outsider could not explain it at first until a clerk with access was linked to a professional gambler. A patient detective watched and caught the gambler with the notes, the clerk confessed, and the scheme used a hooked cane to snatch the bills. Encourage Saving. The piece then shifts to a moral on saving and guiding children to collect natural objects for education, citing Ruskin on character and gentleness.
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Sub-Treasury
Chicago
Treasury Department
Washington
Navy
Youurster
California Fig Syrup Company
Sentul
Syrip
Bonna
Elisir
Senna
Arag
United
Secretary of Agriculture
California
Secret of happiness praised by Dr Adin Clarks remedy
A garbled advert cites Dr Adin Clarks of Gortleld Tea praising a patent medicine claimed to be the great secret of human happiness. It asserts the remedy purifies the body, cures immoderate appetites, and promotes happiness by moderation and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr Adin Clarks
Prize for the Unmarried at Wesleyan Chapel
A Rawtenstall England wedding ritual involved a cut wedding cake with a marriage certificate chunk. The recipient who found the piece could wed for free within 12 months by Rev. J Bennetts. The quirky event reflects a local tradition and Goldsmith attribution.
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Bazar
Spritside
Rawtenstath
England
J. Bennetts
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