Dr Pierce's Invalids Hotel and Medical Bureau
Prominent Buffalo Wyoming sanitarium Dr Pierce's Invalids Hotel offers modern facilities and a medical bureau. He promoted Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription with a correspondence service for free diagnosis and affordable medicines sent by parcel post. Letters are confidential and addressed to Dr Pierce for chronic disease advice.
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America
Doctor W Pierce
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Invalids
Sloan's Liniment Aids External Pains and Aches
An 19th or early 20th century note touts Sloan's Liniment as quickly penetrating relief for neuralgia, nerves, and a range of external pains including strains bruises stiff joints sore muscles and lumbar discomfort.
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Sloan
Freezone promises painless corn removal
Ad text touts Freezone drops to instantly halt corn pain and allow quick removal without irritation. A Greencastle tale adds a patient who explains he cannot pay upfront yet receives care and later questions if he was treated for the wrong disease.
Cas Carets Advertisement and Senator’s Witty Exchange
A vintage ad touts Cascarets as a gentle remedy for headaches digestion and constipation promising restful sleep. A separate political joke features a senator noting public ignorance of his whereabouts implying ongoing busy work for constituents.
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Adv
Begin Fight on Tuberculosis in Livestock Campaign
The United States Department of Agriculture urges live stock owners to join a nationwide tuberculosis eradication effort. Veterinarians can aid locally, reducing costs by addressing the disease early as many herds still show potential for successful cleanup across the country.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Aspirin Card Urges Water With Dosage and Pricing
Take Aspirin With Water covers uses for ache neuralgia lumbago rheumatism neuritis and pain. It notes to say Bayer when buying Aspirin and mentions Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets cost two few cents with druggists offering larger packages.
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Bayer
Tuberculosis Affected Animals Freed and Restored to Health
Several animals contracted tuberculosis but were freed from the disease and later kept in a healthy condition, according to the report.
Fish By-Products As Hog Feed Tested By US Bureaus
Co operating with the bureau of fisheries the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture is testing fishery by products as hog feed. For years fish meal has been studied as a protein source for swine and found equal to high grade tankage. In the last fiscal year a new product shrimp bran was studied and proved favorable compared with fish meal while the diet included shelled corn and middlings.
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Bureau of Fisheries
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
St Jacobs Oil Advertises Quick Backache Relief
An old advertisement promotes St Jacobs Oil as a fast relief for backache lumbago and sciatica. It claims kidneys cause no pain and that rubbing the oil into the back reduces soreness stiffness and lameness. The copy urges readers to obtain a trial bottle from a druggist and use it for neuralgia rheumatism or sprains.
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St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Oii
Never the Same After That Morning Visit
A Monday morning incident where a friend walked in unannounced and asked if the speaker was home. The speaker replied and realized the oddity of the moment, leading to lingering awkwardness in their friendship thereafter.
Purebred Hogs More Profitable Than Grades
Purebred hogs of well known breeds fetch higher returns than grades. Breeding stock should bring at least double the selling price of market hogs. Purebreds also feed better and gain more per unit of feed compared with grade hogs.
I Am My Own Best Friend or So It Seems
Spratt laments feeling friendless while Sponger offers companionship for five dollars. The exchange exposes themes of loneliness and transactional relationships in a compact overheard moment.
Boschee's Syrup Promises Restful Nights for Colds
An advertisement extols Boschee's Syrup as a remedy for coughs bronchitis and colds noting its fifty three year history in homes worldwide. It claims flu deaths last year surpassed wartime deaths and promotes ease of sleep and morning mucus clearance. Made in America and sold widely.
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America
Real Signs of a Baby Squall
A brief weather observation notes a small squall on the water as a boat rocks. The speakers discuss the unsettled sea state and speculate on the squall’s origin and impact.
Right Age to Breed Gilts for First Litter Timing
Some breeders wait until gilts are about fourteen months old so their first litter arrives around eighteen months. After that, gilts are bred to farrow every six months, aligning breeding cycles with growth and production goals.
Three Stock Fundamentals Defining Livestock Production
The article highlights feeding breeding and care as the three basics of live stock production. It stresses feeding as the cornerstone for building the framework producing quality show animals and strong records.
DANGER IN STANDING WATER
Standing water should never be allowed to remain where sheep and cattle can access it. It harbors disease breeding germs and has led to loss of stock in the past.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure for Catarrh
An old advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures constitutional catarrh by acting through the blood and mucous surfaces. It promises to destroy the disease’s foundation, boost general health, and aid nature with a $100 guarantee if it fails, with testimonials and F F Cheney & Co of Toledo as the suppliers.
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Hall
Nature
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Hair dye joke and ketchup confession in quirky dialogue
Georgette comments on a red hair dye while Tricotine asks about the cost. She reveals she spent six bottles of tomato ketchup for the color. The piece ends with a playful line about fizzless soda water.
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Georgette and
Tricotine
Georgette
Elixir Babek and Indian Vegetable Pills Ad Promos
A fragment advertises Elixir Babek as a tonic for malaria and fever with claims of curing stomach issues and nausea. It also promotes Right's Indian Vegetable Pills with a trial box offer from 372 Pearl Street New York and features a mock death-bed scene critique.
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Pearl St
New York
Do You Want Real Relief From Catarrh
The article argues sprays and local treatments fail because they do not remove the underlying cause of catarrh. It promotes S. S. S. as an antidote to catarrh germs in the blood and claims a two course treatment will cleanse the blood and remove disease germs. Free medical advice is offered from the Swift Laboratory in Ga.
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Swift Laboratory
London Council to Build 24 000 Homes East of Barking
London council buys 3,000 acres in Essex to create a city like town with 120,000 people. It will include parks allotments shops churches schools recreation and factories and be the first large English city wholly owned by a public authority.
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London Council
London
England
Barking
Essex
Surprising Home Visit Sparks Images of Old Celebrations
A Sandy Mush resident recalls neighbors gathering on his perch after a party rumor and a courthouse stone joke. The tale echoes a humor piece where Harold Lloyd rejects a costly overcoat, and a father earns a share of his son's earnings.
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Tomlinville
Kansas City
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