Woman Credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound for Ovarian Relief
Mrs Laura Essions of Walker writes she suffered over five years with ovarian trouble and discharge. She says after weeks on Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound her symptoms vanished, avoiding surgery, and she urges other women to try the product for similar relief.
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Dean
Lydia E. Pinkham
Laura Essions
Walker
Dean Mas. Proenam
Mrs. Larna
Commercial Hotel
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia E Pinksham
Building plans for barn with stone basement and livestock
W T E requests advice on converting an old 49 by 60 foot barn and a 24 by 64 foot structure into a single building with a stone basement. The plan targets housing 30 cattle, 7 horses, 20 swine, plus a 2000 bushel root house, plus a pig pen and drive space. A 60 by 60 plan includes a full basement stable, root house, feed rooms, pig pens, and cow stalls. Also suggests reusing a small stone basement as a pig pen and improving access from the barn basement to the root house. A note discusses barn layout, light, and fire risk for implement sheds.
Generals Endorse Peruna The Great Catarrh Remedy
A series of letters from Confederate and Union generals and officers praising Peruna as an effective catarrh and digestive tonic. Notable endorsements include J Floyd King, Robert Smalls, Ira Abbott, G Yarnell, D T Kirby, W H Powell, W H Sebring, Eugene Payne, and others as lettered testimonies from Washington D C and various locations. Readers are urged to write to Dr Hartman in Columbus, Ohio for advice if not satisfied.
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Brazil
Gulans
Mosquito Coast
South America
Peruna
Powell
Hecker
W. H. Powell
Belleville
General Lomax
Washington, D.C
L. 1
Lamas
Payne
Washington, D. C
Eugene B. Payne
4Th St. N. W
O'Beirne
James R. O'Beirne
Broadway
S. S. Yoder
Ohio
Yoder
Urell
18Th St. N. W
Washington
Poker's German roots claim an old game abroad
London Express notes that poker traces to Germany where it has been played for over a century in Westphalia districts Emigrants carried the game to the United States and the name scharwenrel reportedly evolved into poker The fragment also recalls fruit yields and a seed company's promotional line, with stray observations on marriage fees at Rotterdam and a quip about a Roman word for yes
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Wanz
Westphalia
United States
London Express
Crookedest Railway in the World
The crookedest railway runs from Boswell to Friedens in Pennsylvania. It covers about five miles by air, while the track loops back near itself four times. At one point the line loops a five mile stretch and returns within 300 feet of its own path on a grade fifty feet lower.
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Boswell
Friedens
Oldest Bank Note Located in British Museum
The oldest bank note is held by the British Museum and dates to 1368 in China, predating Gutenberg's era by about ninety two years. The note’s origin and early printing history are highlighted in this archival snippet.
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British Museum
Chine
Guttenberg
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Seamer
Svaneseinss Nelden-Judson Drug Co
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Dente Colo
DiLlas
Tam
TRE B.C. Morris Floral CO
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Pennsylvania Ave
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Cairo
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South Carolina
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Kirby
D. T. Kirby
Sebring
Perena
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W. 4Th St
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Anacostia
D.C
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Perona
Marcus Wright
Corcoran St
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Aslington
Free Homestead
Canada
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Atlan
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Ottawa
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Central Avenue
Great Falls
Montana
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Washington Ave
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Victoria Bay
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Croce
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Putnam Fadeles
St. Jacobs Oil
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