Old Gentleman Wot Pleased
An English club in Hongkong hosts a whitehaired elder who becomes agitated after reading a letter carried by a Chinese butler. The envelope’s Chinese inscription insults him, but he proves a skilled Chinese scholar and shares a cure for hair growth and scalp ailments using Corpus Compound. A Washington man in New York recalls meeting a native in Connecticut who reveals his birthplace was two miles away.
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Hongkong
Firetclas
Washington
New York
Connecticut
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed
A vintage advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy for women's suffering. It claims extensive testimonials from women across communities, praises the product's roots and lack of drugs, and asserts its success in restoring health and normal conditions.
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Serine
Lydia BR. Pinkham
Bealthe
Lydia & Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Lydia
Violtun
Lydia E Pinkham
Khan
Ho Newson
Pinkhor
Ios
Lydia E. Pinkhans
International tensions and domestic shifts ripple across 1907 news
The report surveys global alarm over China policy, a bereaved millionaire founder James Oliver death in Indiana, Columbus theater seating limits, Berwick plant reopening, Ohio school aid bill, Detroit industry rebound, and a string of civic frightful events. It notes fires near Tokio, a brutal lynching in Georgia, shipwrecked craft, labor unrest, and looming canal cement purchases.
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China
James Oliver
Milionare
South Head
Ind
Bond
Columbus
Ohio
American Car and Foundry Company
Berwick
Collinwood School House
Detroit
Mich
JUDGING BY THE RESULTS
Col John F Bishop deputy surveyor recalls a Tennessee memory of his grandfather a minister who humorously questions a villager claiming conversion and remarks that the Almighty could not have influenced it. The anecdote from the New York Evening Telegram frames skepticism toward religious conversion in a rural setting.
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John F. Bishop
Tennessee
Lah Conner
Ted
New York Evening Telegram
Three Cures of Eczema by Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Miller’s daughter helped a Indiana mother’s child recover from terrible eczema using Cuticura Remedies. The case details a severe, recurring outbreak ending in complete cure with Cuticura, and notes the writer Sarah E. Lusk from Coldwater Michigan dated August 16 and September 2, 1907.
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Indiana
Sarah E. Lusk
Mich
Doan's Kidney Pills Sell Well in Balem Va Patient 81
A male resident of Burrell Street Balem Virginia recounts kidney trouble after a back injury and prolonged misery. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills with restoring his health after years of ineffective remedies. The testimonial notes the product’s availability and price.
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Daniel
Queen
Burrell Street
Balem
Doan
Forter- Milburn Co
Buffalo
Marble Consolation in a BBC Era? Silent Sorrow and Irony
A vignette presents a wife advising endurance and future fame for her husband, who muses on monument building, gratitude, and life insurance. The dialogue pivots on recognition after death, with wry humor about public memory and personal assurance amid uncertain appreciation.
Two Irishmen explain rooster barns in Connecticut
Connecticut tale recounts two Boston Irishmen observing barns with weather cock shapes and a river on top. The gag about eggs and roosters is tied to a joke about farm design before a political talk by Prof. Price. The scene includes women from a club complimenting the tariff lecture in a playful magazine tone.
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Connecticut
Boston
Dennis
Price
Woman's
Sunday Magazine
The Doctor's Gift and a New Food Miracle
A patient recounts dramatic relief from indigestion after using Grape Nuts. Two years ago severe biliousness plagues vanished within weeks, as vitality returned and mental clarity improved. The letter credits the family doctor for introducing the product, praising the Inventor and urging readers to read The How to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn
Maytag
Vortum Co
Hattie Crewk
Wellville
Economy Carrying Too Far In College Course Choice
President J G Schurman of Cornell argues freshmen aged 16 or 17 are too young to choose their courses. He warns immaturity leads to mistakes and compares it to an old man in Freetown, his tale of costly headstones, epitaphs, and four wives. The piece cites Rural New Yorker editor praising Salzer's Early potato yields and promotes seed catalogs and farm grain varieties.
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J. G. Schurman
Cornell
Schurman
Freetown
Mary
Hester
New Yorker
Salzer
Wisconsin
Luc
John A. Salter
la Crowe
Wis
America
True Generosity. A Sleep Riddle From The Herald
A fragment from The Herald and Presbyver reflects on authors and work hours, noting that few authors write more than seven hours daily yet their sleep benefits others through rest and pace, turning generosity into a quiet sleep metaphor.
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the Herald and Presbyver
Music and patent cures in bustling ad page
A fragmented ad slate urges readers to buy nine pictorials from the Jerome H. Remack Co for 25 cents, touts musical extracts from the Merry Widow operas, and promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for foot relief. It also teases a powder magazine and hints at headache causes with Bromo Quinine products, reflecting an era of mixed advertisements and medical claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome H. Remack Co
New York
Merry Widow
Mdon
Paris
Siam
Jerome H. Remick & CO
West 41St St
Interpruvibers
Ganular Music
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H. Edward Gove Co, Mfg
Haverhill, Maan
Noda Soy
Tokio
Great Northern Branch
The
Order of Telegraphers
Curry Robertson
Jobe Heary
Iankinerilie
Warren Hart
Ireland
Mireour
Mountain Railway
Epstem
St. Louis
National Scape
Kansas City
Manhaenet Bay
Says
Port Washington
Bena
W. O Hradiey
Kentucky
Fairbanks
Taft
Lathan Canal Commission
Mount Oqrat
Mount Orab
Cincinnati
Allison
Senate
T. Hance
Union Trust Company
Detewlt
Tw Trost
Creel
Chihuahwhan
Dtate
Chiniintwa
Mexico
Tillman
New York City
Committee On Woman
Hawhide Western Hallway Company
Cullfurcla Construction Company
Walker Lake
Nevada
Ole Hundred
Nieaioe
Ameleham Avenue
Broadway
Singer
Vilager
Woman
Virginia
W. Willie
Borneo
Willie
Courlanbiy
BY & CO
Totede
Marion
Toll
T. Farquharson
N. Meade
Hyature
Garfield
Devda
Farrar
Martind
WindliNgar Praag Vales
Bae
Mire
Winslow
Koichi Abtys
Pat Ros
Ecu
Aiava
Ose
Allen
FBI
Olmsted
Roy
N. C
Mit
E.w.grove
Box
SyCup
California
Cartersittle
Paxton Toilet CO
Salt Lake City
ST Patrick
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