Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Testimonials
Letters from women claim Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aided recovery from serious female ailments and avoided surgeries. Anonymized notes describe relief from pains and confinement, urging others to seek the remedy and offering to answer letters.
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Pinkham
Onrisiina Reed
Mound St. Ia
Orleans
Sally L
Lydia E.pinkham
Ani P
Mra
Kerbrecht
New
Lydia E. Pinkham
Fragmented Sports Talk and Odd Quotes From a Boston Eve Transcript
A garbled mix of quotes and slang from a Boston Eve Transcript style page. Items include a boy dreaming of wealth, a financier mix up, a broker’s hot spell remark about mercury prices, an umpire timing moment, and a catcher reacting to taunting praises. The piece reads like a collage of overheard sports and financial chatter.
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Mercury
Boston
Harriet Beecher Stowe Remembered At Birthplace
The memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Anne of Tom’s Cabin, was celebrated at her birthplace in Litchfield Connecticut. She died at about forty during the serial publication era, with the novel selling over 500000 copies in two years and becoming a major abolitionist force.
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Harriet Moneher
Lyman
Het
Harriet Beecher Stowele
Anne Tom
Wiebingion
Europe
Hanover's First Building to be Remodeled in 1828 Legacy
The old Presbyterian church at Hanover Indiana, the first Hanover College building, will be remodeled. It dates to 1828 when South Hanover formed, housed early college classes and a seminary until 1887. A tornado damaged it in 1887, the college moved, and commencement exercises have long been held there.
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Hanover
Ind
Old Presbyterian Church
Hanover College
South Hanover
Hanover Vollyer
Vol College
Chirnee
McCormick Seminary
Ohio River
First Woman Diploma Awarded Here at Educational Institution
The building hosts a historic moment as Margaret Minter of Nantucket R.1 is believed to receive the first diploma awarded to a woman from any educational institution in this building. The church notes over fifty members have served in foreign missions and ten college presidents were once members.
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Margaret Minter
Nantucket
Women to Care for Trees in Middletown Victory
Middletown aldermen awarded the shade tree contract to the Federation of Women's Clubs after previous bids were discarded. The group had secured $1,200 from taxpayers last year and now claims performance issues by contractors. The women pressed for the contract to be transferred to their society for city tree care.
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Middletown
N.Y
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Midsummer Hats From a Remodeled Past
MULIA BOTTOMLEY describes hats woven from Midsummer Hats TAGES and nets. remodeling worn shapes like leghorns and milans with net draped crowns, lace ruffles, and wreaths of flowers. Two illustrated examples show blue dotted net and hy drangea motifs enhancing worn brims and crowns.
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Signa
Mulia Bottomley
Two Husbands Dive Tales At Tea Time
A benign chat at afternoon tea becomes a comic tale with two wives comparing husbands bravery under water. One says her husband stayed submerged for two minutes once. The other boasts her first husband has not surfaced for breath in five years. Also an ad urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for safety signatures.
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Eveh
Clever use of baskets for a tidy girl’s room
A guide to neat, homey room decor emphasizes cleanliness and practical touches. It suggests scrap baskets to contain burnables, a selection of books and postcards, orderly shoes and closet, and a single plant. It highlights 10 cent willow baskets as pretty jardinières and DIY work baskets with fitted linings and decorative edges.
Slip Over Blouses In Silk Linen And Silk Pongee
Slip over blouses in silk linen wool satin or pongee require no buttons and slip over the head. They feature a small front opening a draw string neck and often a net frill. Sleeves are kimono style with a variety of plain striped and fancy fabrics.
Crocheted Cuff Links Then and Now
Crochet cuff links fashioned from two buttons sewn as a dumbbell pair with a sturdy thread loop. They are washable, attractive, not easily lost, and economical for use on wash waists.
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Whittemore Bros
Alpany
Vonsfaclerere
Ford
Chamois Trimmings in Evening Gown Design
An odd but beautiful gown features chamois colored tulle with embroidery on real chamote leather in Japanese style. Flora silks depict chrysanthemums in yellow, gray and drab tones interspersed with other decorative elements.
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Flora
Fragmented Quotes and Humorous Snippets in 19th Century Humor Pages
A collage of witty lines from magazines and ads. Phrases mock religion courtship and propriety while promoting household products and aphorisms. The text blends quotations from Smart Set Puck and Willard.
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Diracy
Demandet
J. Pierepont
Postum Cereal CO. Lad
Matile Crest
Mich
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
England
Rie
Coca-Cola CO. Attante. CO
Fletcher
The
New York Tribune
R Church
Parson
Smart Set Magazine
Supreme Court
Puck
Allens
Olmsted
le Roy, N
Frances C. Willard
Winslow
Pce
Tutt
Defiance
Uderiance
Guperion
Remington Umc
Pegresrsgemi Patel
Breadwar
New York
Ganas
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