Ottumwa Woman Cured by Pinkham Remedy Assertion
An Ottumwa woman claims relief from years of female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter praises the remedy, urges others to seek trial, and cites personal health improvements alongside endorsements from famous quotes and medical warnings about unnecessary operations.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
United
Neret BE
Basser Bae
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anaes
United States
Pinkham
Lynn
Mre
Maan
Grape Nuts Reputed Cure For Gastritis Story
A New Brunswick woman credits Grape Nuts with curing gastritis after months of severe stomach pain and weight loss. She stopped medicines, followed a diet of Grape Nuts, and regained appetite, weight, and mental alertness, returning to clerical work. The tale, attributed to Postum Co. promotes Grape Nuts as a health food.
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Brunswick
N. J
Sven
Postum Co
Battle Crook
Mich
Wellvills
Would You Give Up Friends For Love In A Comic Tale
A fragment from a magazine style piece uses old humor to explore devotion in marriage. Dialogue questions about renouncing friends and smoking reveal themes of love and sacrifice, with scattered quips about a parliament member and a birthday query about gifts for Willie.
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Willie
Worm Turns and Insomnia Stung in Local Exchange
A stream of quick one liners and witticisms unfolds in a bustling room. Snappy asides touch on deeds versus words, breach of promise, and clever retorts about a man named Jagnibs who never sleeps. The exchange hints at life in a tight social circle amid a cyclone of local atmosphere.
Fragmented Dialog From a Wartime Column
A noisy, clipped exchange opens with Maud admiring soldiers and Tom dodging a moral tone. The dialogue shifts to fashion and ships with playful misstatements and jokes about sea dogs, hobble skirts, and reading preferences during winter.
Do you remember Riggles at school
A brief line recalls a popular boy at school named Riggles then notes surprise he became a vegetarian, reflecting on memory and change.
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Riggles
The Fortunate Girl and the Rich Man's Quiet Love
A fragment notes a fortunate girl who tended a dying rich man. He fell in love, courted her as he neared death, and they planned marriage before the end. The tone hints at social contrasts and a quietly fated romance.
Madge Triumphs Then Falls to Revenge in Card Game
An Excire club game ended with Madge trumping an ace and claiming an early advantage before Morton revealed revenge on the next deal. Madge replied by leading a spade and trumping, turning the table.
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Madge
Excire
Morton
Alarm clock drops on sleeper to wake him
A humorous note describes an invention by Ashley Swalm eon a noiseless alarm clock that drops on the sleeper to wake him, sparking a lighthearted exchange about what truly wakes a person and a Paris duelists exchange about offense and propriety.
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Ashley—Swalmeon
Seymour
Ashley
Aahley
Tragedy of Gold Ties Sharon Family to Calamities
A sweeping California saga links Frederick Fermor Hesketh and William Sharon to murders suicides and disappearances. The narrative chronicles Sharon descendants, bankers, legal battles, duels, and a palace hotel tragedy amid fires and an earthquake aftermath on the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
Frederick Fermor Hesketh
Leutenant Ninth Lancers
Queenstown
Ireland
Sharon
Pacific
Hesketh
William Sharon
Crown Point
Belcher
Nevada
William C. Ralston
Ralston
Iife
Samuel
Siberia
Sarah Althes Hill
Enery
David 8
Terry
California Supreme Court
David C. Broderick
Broderick
Bia
Stephen J. Field
Sarah Althea Hill
Justice Field
Field
Charles Livingston
Palace Hotel
Ivingston
Sarah Mitchell
Miss Mitchell
Livingston
Senator Newlands
Florence Mily Sharon
Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh
Leutenant
Landers
Pacific Coast
The Plain Thing and Bullit Mocking In Jest
A fragment shows two men joking about a man named Bullit, one asking if his face resembles a simian and another retorting with comic contempt, calling the other “monkey.”
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Bullit
Jelk
Spoke Once in Fifty Years Dies at Ninety
Philip Burkhart of this place died at ninety after fifty years of silence. A Civil War era episode left him insane and superstitious, keeping a loaded gun for witches. He spoke only once near the end, predicting his death, and died within an hour of his stated time.
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Philip Burkhart
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Garfield
Bieefe
Phillips Brooks
Boston
Mamet
Richard Croker
New York
Sero Otacee
Ana
Sir Charles Hammond
Newcastle
Charlie
Sir Charles
London Globe
Man
Elia
Nice
Jagnibs
Aim
Maud
Tom
Mars
Alphonsa
Ethel
California
Lieut. Fermor-Hesketh
Hood
Drovmiste
Horse Gouda
Spohn Medical Co, Chemists
Goshen, Indiana
Union Metallic Cartridge Company
Remington Arms Company
Broadway
Kew Torker
Hopkins
Sam Fri
Sinanser
Cleveland
Weite
Wimburg
Kilmer
Eau St
R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Tumat
Sail Eae Sen, Sake
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