HARDSHIPS OF ARMY LIFE AND VETERANS’ KIDNEY TROUBLES
Thousands of veterans face kidney troubles after war service. David W. Martin of Bolivar Missouri recounts kidney pain after a war injury and credit to Deans Kidney Pills for relief. The piece pairs medical ads with a note on Brandreth's Pills and a historical aside about Manhattan’s name changes and turbine propellers gaining favor in navy and merchant service.
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David W. Martin
Pyare Tnarchant
Bolivar
Mr. Martin
Dean
Yester- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Moffat’s audacious dream rail line over the continental divide
The Rail road Man’s Magazine details David Moffat’s bold Denver to Salt Lake City air line project. It notes opposition, personal financing, and costly early work including tunnels, curves, and a three-mile Main Range tunnel under James Peak. The piece portrays the undertaking as a grand, courageous railroad venture with daunting costs and limited early returns.
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David H. Moffat
Colorado Railroad Inn
Denver
Salt Lake City
Continental Divide
Union Pacific
Rio Grande
Railroad Man's Magazine
David Moffat
Maveral Railroad
Moffat
New York
Colorado
Burlington
Malin Range
Main Range
James Peak
Williun Cook
Fast California special run praised by Kansas City Star source
A Kansas City Star fragment quotes a conductor recalling a rapid trip on the California special to Bloomington and LaSalle Street. The narrative includes vivid remarks about a stove, an engineer, and a humorous backhanded exchange involving a cook and a backseat inspector.
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Dad South
Union Depot
California
Bloomington
LaSalle Street
Smith
Kansas City Star
Primitive English Railroad in Lake District
A tiny Lake District railway runs one train with two officials. The vehicle is steered by a managing director who also handles tickets and guards, and a chief engineer who drives and stokes. The line stops for friends of either official and the route is corrected using local signals and tractors for occasional misplacement.
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Lake District
England
Simple cold remedy promises quick cure with whiskey mix
An advertising claim touts a home remedy for colds and coughs using Virgin Oil of Pine Pure, glycerine, and whisky with hourly doses. It warns to buy only authentic Pine Oil in sealed vials from Leach Chemical Co. and cautions adulterated oils cause nausea. The piece also notes odd anecdotes about a congressman's successor and a seed company catalog touting oversized oats heads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lung Trouble
Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Deafness Cure Advert Theatrical Ode To Relief
An old newspaper fragment markets a deafness remedy, naming Halle Catarrh Cure and Cheney & Co. It references a poetic scene and a wealthy indulgent dinner setting while urging readers to try the remedy for lingering hearing loss. The text blends testimonial flavor with product promotion amid period prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halle Catarrh
J, Cheney & CO
Pulsda
Tate
Clung to Old Fashions in His Last Years
Augustue Squiré, longtime Cutlers' Company member of London, died at ninety three. He avoided gas, electricity, telegrams, telephones, and trains, preferring bus, carriage, cab, or boat. The fragment notes his frugal, old fashioned life and distant travel habits and mentions other era advertisements and notes from the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustue Squiré
Cutlers' Company
Landon
Beare signature and claims of long market brands
A garbled 19th century clipping mentions Beare signatures and long time brands for laxatives and tonics. It references Garfield Tea and Castoria safety notes for infants, plus a Carnegie pension for Judge C C Cole of Des Moines and Panama Pearl Islands commerce and pearl beds led by Joshua Pisa shipping pearls to Paris.
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C. C. Cole
Dea Moines
Drake ‘University Law School
Harvard Law School
Hoe
Joshua Pisa
Panama
Ington
Pearl Islands
Pacific Ocean
Paris
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for female ills. It cites Lydia Pinkham’s discovery of the remedy and includes testimonials from Mrs Ford and Miss Miller. The notice invites women to contact Lynn Massachusetts for free advice and health guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E Pinkham
Jene
Mass
Eng
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Ford
Lansdowne St
Baltimore
Eczema Sufferer Finds Relief With Cuticura Remedies
A Chicago reader reports three years of severe eczema ended after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for three months. The testimonial, dated October 2 1905, praises the remedies and urges others with the disease to try them, signed by Mrs Florence E Atwood. Col Silas W Hurt elected Civil Service Reform association president is noted as a naval officer under Grant.
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Ava
Florence E. Atwood
Crilly Place
Chicago
Til
L. Berger
Col
Silas W. Hurt
The
Civil Service Reform Association
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National
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Bafalo
Cleveland
Giscinnatl
Calonga
Bt. Louis
Philee Delybie Uoha
Lewis & Bros
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Mall Pill
SMA
Albert Douglas
Grosvenor
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Washington
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America
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Allen
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German Empire
International Sugar Statistical Association
Austria-Hungary
Malomo
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Mra. Winslow
Renton
Drewes
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Sam
Paz
Gunauid
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Castoria
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Womeca
Vorace E. Miller
W. 5S. Ford
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Ballard
Semel aDapse
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