The Secret of Poverty Address Highlights Overwork and Underpaid
Dr Woods Hutchinson spoke at the American Museum of Natural History in New York noting serious city problems of overwork, underfunding, and overcrowding tied to underpayment. The era’s public warnings urged caution against stripping wealth from the needy. A miscellany of anecdotes and ads follow, including a dramatic eczema testimony and items from Dupay’s store.
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Woods Hutchinson
New York
American Museum of Natural History
Truth About Peruna free booklet offer
A brief notice advertises a free illustrated booklet titled Truth About Peruna. It instructs readers to address The Peruna Co. in Columbus, Ohio, and notes the booklet will be mailed postpaid.
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Peruna
Peruna Co
Columbus
Ohio
FOUNDED NEW SECT Had Many Followers and The Duke Burials
The piece traces John Wroe founder of the Christian Israelites in Britain and Australia, noting his lifetime from 1781 to 1863 with claims of his still living. It mentions Johanna Southcott and fanatical beliefs, Wroe’s Melbourne triumphs, a Wakefield mansion, and the Fisherites later forming a church after his death. It cites followers, donors, and the sect’s ongoing Melbourne presence with a church at Fitzroy and a small Sunday attendance.
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Duke of Portland An Cruce
John Wroe
Callingwood
Melbourne
Johanna Southcott
Imperial Review
Wroe
Britain
Europe
America
Australia
Stanley
Ashton
Eng
Wakefield
Booth
Fitzroy
Carlyle
Who Supports the Wife Debate in New York
In a New York debate Rev Anna Howard Shaw argued husbands do not support wives in a semibe civiliz ed era where fathers hold custody yet men earn more. Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman countered that a wife earning and caring for home should be supported similarly. The audience favored Dr Shaw's view.
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Anna Howard Shaw
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New York
Anna Shaw
Gilmareld
Teaching Girls to Ride Horses in Side Saddles
The article describes teaching girls to ride on cross saddies with safety first. Young riders learn a safe astride position, wear bloomers, and often skirt removal during country lessons. Instructors lead the pony and ride a faster horse nearby to catch the child if she falls.
Banking Control in New York Banks Dominate Stock Market
An attack on six New York banks claims they manipulate stock prices and create money out of thin air. It argues banks lack conscience as presidents and directors speculate with others’ funds while deposits face risk if banks fail. The piece questions why the public trusts these institutions and what they gain.
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New York
Ite
Darky
Rose
Norf Cartina
Marcha Gon
Sie Auale
Martha Wes ‘Coe Fort
F.mayer Boot &Shoe CO
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Marches and Marches at the Jersey general store
A Jersey town school teacher noticed George Eliot works in a general store window and asked if they had Micholmarch. The clerk replied they do not but offer new titles including works by Sousa.
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Jersey
George Eliot
Michlomarch
Will
Sousa
Broken Rest and Odd Tales From Old Newspapers
A mixed clippings roundup includes a testimonial for Deans Kidney Filla claiming a complete cure from kidney trouble after fasting and pain relief. Also short vignettes: a barber joke about shaving cost, Bayonne’s alarm system disabled by a spider, a five year old’s doctor joke about a mustache, Rastus preferring to be a preacher, and an insurance agent gag scene ending with a man tricking a solicitor.
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Thomas N. McCullough
Weber
Colorado Springs
Colo
Saya
Reef
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. J
Postum praised as coffee alternative by health letter
A reader testimonial extols Postum over coffee citing relief from stomach issues insomnia and headaches. The letter from a young woman and a brother describes improved sleep digestion and well being after switching to Postum from coffee.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Common Sense Cures Skin Ailments Promoted In Ad Copy
An ad style assortment promotes a D. D. D prescription claiming to cure eczema psoriasis and barber's itch by killing skin germs with wintergreen glycerine and thymol. It cites a Chicago dermatologist and a Toledo firm Cheney Co promising instant relief and internal use.
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Dennin
Chicago
ToLeDo
Lucas Coum
Chenrt Ates
F. J. Cheney & CO
Othe
Lori
Catanan
Wayne Catanas Cone
Frank J. Cheney
Cleason
Tree
Eynem
Cheney & CO
Wells
The Prince of Grumbiere
A humorous exchange about unreasonable boarders and petty grumbles. Parmer Joy retells a summer tale of a man who complained about everything including demanding a toothpick after milk. The snippet also includes scattered ad-like lines and quotation fragments.
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Prince of
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Norkin
Papa
May
Bundy
Ington
George Washington
Helen
Mary
Eczema
Cutiura
Wm. Hont
Thomas St
Newark
Potter Drug & Chom
Corps Sale
Boston
Dupay
Andy Carniggy
Bayonne
Ita
Tommy
Harper's Weekly
Rastus
Wayside
Mr. Jones
London
Lombard
Philadelphia
Pat
Bridget
Maine
Plutarch
Winslow
Hummwalien
Tos Nan Tag Coiee
Carters Tver
Wig Pettit
Howard Brown
N.Y
Plato
Allen
the CexTaLm Company
Castoria
Bears
Neand E. Burton Serena
Ville. Gola
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Distemper
Secs Grenae Vital
Seon
Spown Medical CO
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