Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Featured In Personal Letters
Read letters from women in Pentwater and Peoria praising Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from back pain, heaviness, and other female ills. The items urge trying the tonic and cite personal improvements after use. Also mentions Grove's Tonic and a humorous anecdote about a wife and damp air.
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Pentwater
Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alice Darling
Peoria
Ill
Lydia E.pinkham
Clara L. Gauwitz
R.R. No
Like Magic Grape Nuts Relief Letter Promotes Its Benefits
A Chicago man credits Grape Nuts with restoring digestion and appetite after years of dyspepsia and failed medicines. He says after four packages his stomach is improved and he can eat anything, claiming increased strength and overall brain and nerve support. The letter is from the Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan with a reference to The Road to Wellville.
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Chicago
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Presence of Males Detrimental to Egg Yield in Poultry
A New York Experimental Station study with pure-bred and mixed pullets tested pens with and without cockerels. Results showed hens without males laid earlier and more reliably, while pens with males saw lower overall egg production, suggesting male presence reduces yield. Feathereating issues in one pen may have contributed to declines.
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New York Experimental Station
Hints on Ducks and Geese Growth Rates
A Pekin duckling weighs about two ounces at hatch and reaches key weights at weeks three to four and six to eight. By ten weeks they reach 5 to 6 pounds and should be marketed between nine and twelve weeks. Geese grow similarly with goslings around four ounces. Turkeys start slowly but accelerate after three months.
Practical Fashions One Piece Dress For Small Women And Girls
A pattern 6191 presents a one piece dress suitable for small women and young girls with a blouse featuring drop shoulders and plain sleeves. It can be worn with a sailor collar or with a high neck and standing collar. Sizes 14 16 18 years require 3 1/4 yards of 44 inch material and 3 1/4 yards of insertion trim.
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Ati Department
FOR A LITTLE MAID PATTERN DESCRIPTION
A dainty warm weather frock for a girl six or younger features a combined bodice and sleeve design with tiny tuck detailing and a gathered skirt attached to a belt. The pattern 6175 offers sizes 2 4 and 6 years with material estimates and trimming needs, price 10 cents.
Poultry Tips for Home Raising and Market Quality
A guide urges boys and girls to raise poultry, notes wet feet harm hens, and stresses clean nests and dust boxes. It praises the 150 eggs per year benchmark, advises lime sulfur sprays to control lice, and favors well managed poultry as a year round income.
Solemn warning to parents about bowel illness remedy
An advertisement urges parents to prepare King's Diarrhoea and Dysentery Cordial as a guaranteed treatment for dysentery cholera morbus flux and infant cholera. It cites a testimonial from Robert Yount of Fuller N C who recovered after a half bottle and notes the product is sold by all medicine dealers for 25 cents.
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Robert Yount
Fullers
N. C
King
A. W. Fuller
Ady
Four year old and girl neighbor share day play near Central Park West
A short tale describes a boy Alton and a girl Elizabeth who call each other from a fence and discuss a bath. The snippet ends with a moral about living in the day and a quote from Jeremy Taylor urging patience with life’s evils.
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Central Park West
New York
Alton
Elizabeth
Old Salt Responds to Boys at Southampton Piers
A scene at Southampton piers shows boys playing near the edge when an elderly watchman cuffs one youth. He explains his indifference to their fate but cites the uncertainty of the situation as intolerable, remarking it as a broomin uncertainty.
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Jeremy Taylor
Southampton
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
Womanly traits endure despite desexing debate
The text argues against the idea that desexing erases womanliness. It cites Weininger noting some claim a person cannot be anatomically female and psychically male. Regardless of appearance, a woman's psychic qualities stay distinctly feminine.
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Weininger
Mr. Weininger
Cindy's Beaux in the Kitchen Sparks Family Feud
A woman finds Cindy's visitor in the kitchen and confronts her. The guest insists he is not a beau but Cindy's brother, prompting further confusion as Cindy rushes to verify. The scene captures tense, humorous misunderstanding in a household.
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Cindy
Beau
Bradder
Chicago Record-Herald
Cure for eczema on a child's face by Cuticura
Mrs. Lillie Sikes of Lexington Tennessee recounts using Cuticura Soap and Ointment to treat her son's eczema from one month old. Within a week skin improved and healed without scarring after trying the products. a free sample and Skin Book offer is advertised from Cuticura Department L Boston.
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Lexington
Tenn
Lillie Sikes
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Baseball jest after Yankees loss shocks Frank Chance
Irvin Cobb teased Frank Chance after a defeat by offering a light punishment for the Yankees. He suggested gathering the team so Cobb could reveal third base as a “surprise treat,” provoking a bemused response from Chance.
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Yankees
Irvin
Cobb
Frank Chance
Chance
Stick to Your Intentions and Stock Bal Sam of Myrrh
Public ad copy urges immediate purchase of Hanford's Bal Sam of Myrrh for home use and stables to treat cuts burns bruises and sores. It quotes humorous exchanges and mentions Hicks Capucine for summer headaches with prices 10c 2c and 50c per bottle.
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Hanford
Prayers Questioned by Little Brother Willie
A humorous exchange from the Chicago Journal recalls William staying up late and asking why wake the Lord at night. His mother expresses surprise over him not saying prayers, highlighting a child’s cheeky response.
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William
Willie
Chicago Journal
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Dialogue from a Louisv ille Courier Journal page features a humorous exchange about a hat bill and a Wall Street past. The snippet includes the line Agatha and Geoffrey debating the hat’s price and a quip about a Wall street lamb.
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Wall Street
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Drawback Cartoons and a Fat Man’s Resistance
A humorous fragment notes a fat man as a target of an unloaded pistol and the irony of fate that the weapon never misses its aim. It references 1846 Hanford's Balsam and a line about stout resistance.
Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil Promoted to Farmers and Stockmen
Thousands of farmers and stockmen already know it and a trial will convince you that Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil is the most wonderful remedy for wounds burns old sores carbuncles granulated eyelids skin or scalp diseases barbed wire cuts galls sores scratches shoe boils warts and mange on dogs. Set by nearly all druggists. If your druggist
Republic Lives 13 Hours at Cleneguita Chile Mexico
Rebels in Cleneguita near Santa Isabel resist federal troops for thirteen hours. Pancho Villa is named provisional president of Chihuahua by locals who claim the republic's creation but government troops arrest leaders and suppress the movement.
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Santa Isabel
Chile
Mex
Cleneguita
Republic
Pedro Terrible
Chihuahua
Cieneguita Ranch
Pancho Villa
Villa
Republic of
Mexican Northwestern
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Grove
Cts
United States Pension Office
Lee
Kronk
New York State
Rakeman
Philadelphia
Bani
B. M. Wooll Ley
Victor Baritariur
Atlant
KODAK
Eamon
Beng
Dreacli Tan
Magic Goose Grease Co
Eczema
Adv
Agatha
Geoffrey
Hunt
B. Richards Medicine CO
Sherman, Toxza
el Presidente
Gina
Chas
H. Fletcher
Juirine
Iron
Tonis
E. W. Grove
Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co
Paxton Toilet Co
Bostem
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