Pretty Girl Saved From Catarrh of the Lungs By Peruna
Florence E. Kenah of Ottawa Ontario writes of recovering from a severe cold that settled into catarrh after using Peruna a few weeks. She claims rapid relief, supports the product’s safety, and notes ongoing use to help friends. The letter promotes Peruna as non narcotic and harmless with long term effect.
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Florence E. Kenah
Maria Street
Ottawa
Ont
Crown Point
Ind
Perana
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Postage Stamp Shelters Workaholic Father
A weary father caring for a ten month old child finds brief respite when he places a bright two cent postage stamp on the child's hand. The boy amuses himself for about an hour, allowing the father to resume his tasks until the mother returns home.
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Nettie
Promoted Alderman Praises City Yet Pays for Degradation
A Glasgow councillor rises to bailie rank and jokes about degradation in thanks speech. The piece also notes English words absorbed into French and a brief, unrelated anecdote about a hunter finding a wounded duck attempting to stem bleeding with grass blades.
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Glasgow
England
Repeater Greta Abt ire Langman a Les Dealing with Burning On
Fragmentary text discusses fire safety for oil fires with guidance to avoid water and to use earth or sand to extinguish. It mentions paraffin oil, then abruptly shifts to a sales-like note about wheat varieties and yields across multiple states and counties.
Sample OCR Notice Fragment From Historical Paper
Fragmentary OCR text mentioning a La Crome reference and a financier scene. Appears to describe a wideawake farmer and a warehouse like Bank of France cellar storing silver coin in 800 barrels. Contains garbled phrases and nonstandard terms.
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Barret
Bank of France
Balloontets Qualifications And Sailor Standards Cited
British officers cannot balloon unless they are good sailors and carry over 160 pounds in weight. The note argues good tea matters less than fineness and contrasts one degree of goodness with twenty of fineness.
London Cab Spending and Tips Report
A statistician estimates London cab spending at 25.9 million pounds yearly with about 7.5 million pounds deemed tips and overcharges. The text discusses public behavior and questions the distribution of cab fares.
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London
Many Roads to Ruin in Bankruptcy Court
A jurist recalls humorous and somber cases of failure. A young aristocrat bankrupt at 26 squandered a $2,000,000 inheritance on extravagant dinners. a bachelor faced debts from gambling to tailors. weather shifts and pests ruined trades. a woman insurance agent blamed declining beauty for dropping income from $7,000 to $75 monthly.
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America
Madeira
Mean and Meaner Lore in Smoker Car Conversation
Fragmentary dialogue from a 19th or early 20th century periodical shows travelers from Chicago Baltimore Philadelphia and New York trading remarks about mean men and family quirks. The excerpt also references a poetic heritage and lines from a songish memory, yielding a collage of characters and verses.
Giant Leipzig station to host twenty six rail lines
Townsmen of Leipsic Saxony boast a massive railway project planned within ten years. The colossal station will cost about 30.5 million dollars and feature marble granite bronze and steel. Frescoes of German landscapes will decorate walls and refreshment rooms, with beertaps serving twenty different beers.
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Leipsic
Saxony
Senator Hoar Reflects on Long Public Service
The late Senator Hoar, after his last Senate reelection, meets a friend who congratulates him. He replies that he cannot hold the honor forever and compares himself to an Irish factory worker who, dismissed after forty years, laments aging and the end of steady work.
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Hoar
Senator Hoar
Senate
Worcesters
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Health Revival
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cleanses and invigorates the liver and digestion, claiming it cures biliousness and constipation. It urges readers to avoid dealers selling substitutes and offers a free medical advice letter and a 1000 page medical book for interested buyers.
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Doster Pierce
Seay
Golden Medical Discovery
Pierce
BR. V_ Pierce
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Florence Kenah
Florence E. Kenak
L. Douglas
Wriheir
Ant Potentos Meteletcs
Sivls Olas, Brockton, Massachu
Htlard
Ballard
Louis
Gale
le Assays Relias
Ogden
Peuter
France
Paris
Rove
Austria
Germany
Greta Abtire Langman A
Les
Wis
Fort
Opel
Schilling
Tee
Chicago
Baltimorean
Philadelphian
Wayne
New York
Lion Coffee
Woolson Spice
Tnledo
Ohie
Isis Genatse
Nelden-Judson Drug Co
Salt Lake City
Utah
Alasstine Co
Grand Kavida Mich
New York City
Roa
Pate
Seeds Poultry
LEE Pioneer Seed CO
Denver
Colorado
Vogeler Seed CO
Shy
Gtk
Bailey & Sons
Rmd
ST. Balt Lame City
Utam
Hest Allatta Beem
aleo"Grees
Gorden
Ste. Ts
Ordete
Uandholm
Sandholm Drug
Dee Moines
Iowa
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