Senator M. C. Watler Praises Peruna in Dyspepsia Letter
The U S Senator from South Carolina, M. C. Watler, in a Washington letter to Peruna Medicine Co., endorses Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble, calling it a wonderful medicine and tonic. The piece also notes Peruna tablets and discusses catarrh as a stomach issue, with other light anecdotes about aging and grammar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feruna
M. C. Watler
U. S
South Carolina
Washington, D.C
Peruna Medicine Co
Candles for Dinner Table Care and Cost Savings
This notice advises on candle choices for table use. It contrasts expensive aromatic varieties with ordinary tallow dips, noting tallow candles burn longer when kept cold and used in porcelain holders, and that first patent cane tests offer savings by allowing candles to burn inside until the wick reaches the end.
Simple Kidney Bladder Rheumatism Cure Claim An Emminent Authority
A home made mixture using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla is touted as a cure for backache kidney trouble weak bladder and urinary difficulties. The ad claims an eminent authority in a New York daily paper endorses it as the finest prescription and offers it as a safe, stomach friendly remedy worth trying.
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New York
Lydia E. Pinkham
Save Scraps of Soap and Quick Kitchen Relishes
Household hints advise saving every soap scrap to make suds for cleaning baths and marble surfaces. The piece includes a soap bag method and several vintage recipes such as corn relish, dark fruit cake, pineapple tapioca, currant cakes, white wallpaper treatment, chestnut salad, and hickory nut pie with dated ingredient lists and steps.
Memory of Vanderbilt and a mackerel schooner life anecdotes
A collection of quirky notes on the Vanderbilt legacy including a tale of the Commodore greeting a woman who once sold poultry. It also describes life aboard a mackerel schooner with a 14 man crew and two watches, detailing bunk layouts and duties. A ventilation test ends with a humorous frame-house remark.
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Gladys
Vanderbilt
Commodore
Milionaire
New Jersey
Travel Magazine
Transformation From Coffee to Postum Promoted
An old coffee drinker can quit coffee and switch to Postum without loss of morning ritual. When well boiled and cream served, Postum pleases connoisseurs as milder Java does. Within ten days to two weeks the body deteriorates less as caffeine is removed and replaced with nourishing liquid food. Read The Road to Wellville in There's a Reason.
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Wellville
Doan's Kidney Pills Helped Veteran After Kidney Trouble
A veteran from Indianapolis describes severe kidney pain, swelling, and weight loss in 1897. He avoided amputation, started Doan's Kidney Pills, and reports swelling subsided, urine normal, pains vanished, and nine years of health since. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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B. Frank Doremus
Roosevelt Avenue
Indianapolis
Ind
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Granddaughter Coined Long Word at Garden Table
A four year old in the story uses a playful neologism to describe flowers for dinner. She asks for the “underchildrenable flowers,” prompting grandmother’s garden duties and a humorous family moment about picking flowers for a meal.
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Harriet
Katherine
Grandmother
Cure for Eczema Relief with Cuticura Products
Walter W. Paglusch of Chicago says a year of eczema itching kept him awake at night until using Cuticura Soap Cuticura and Resolvent Pills. He spent a dollar twenty-five and was completely cured. Reported from 207 N Robey St TIL October 16, 1906.
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Walter W. Paglusch
N. Robey St
Chicago
Til
Drink More Water Calls for Regular Hydration
The text extols water’s soothing and hygienic benefits and urges more varied use of clear water between meals, noting that few people drink enough water between meals.
Beecher Word Letter Joke and Ostrich Feather Notes
Justin McCarthy recounts Henry Ward Beecher finding a letter marked Fool at Plymouth Church and joking about signing without writing the letter while a Pettyville observer mocks a pompous figure. Also notes ostrich feathers can be harvested every eight months with plumes cut, not pulled.
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Beecher
Justin McCarthy
Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Church
Keepsake of a Moral Maxim by Leighton
A compact quotation attributed to Leighton urges inner steadfastness to ease speech. The line extols guarding the heart as a path to restraint in words, framing virtue as harmony between feeling and expression.
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Peruna
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University of Irginia
M. C. Butler
Dodds
Standard Oil Company
BF Beit Dealen
Caeks
Talla
Commodore Vanderbilt
Gloucester
Seneca
Freecat
Hide
Fur
Himnenpolla
Pettyville
Puck
Bivie
Leighton
Sige
Carters
Jacobs
Ballard
W. L. Douglas
Jaremen
Etree
Paxtine
Naul, Ord Bo
Imaediata
K. Paxton
Evi
Iuerlo
URC La BASCO_ enor
M. Sowri Tuwowasba
Defiance Starch
Feoen
Siena
Salt Lake City
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