Doans Kidney Pills Feature In Patient Recoveries
A collection of testimonials from Aurora New Mexico Barrie Green Point Pleasant and other locations tout Doans Kidney Pills for bed wetting weight gain relief from kidney trouble and improved urinary symptoms. Patients report fewer night time awakenings less dribbling and resolution of edema and other related pains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
New Mexico
Doan
Uat
J.C. Locuno
W. Va
Poan
Hooff
Point Pleasant
Dean
Fragments From an Early 1900s Newspaper Page
A collage of quotations and notices including poetry fragments, humor lines, patent medicine ads, a school geography joke, eye ear nose throat ad, humor about hero worship, a medical ad for Piso’s Cure, and a California dynamite plowing invention described as a novel method for breaking salt soil in farming.
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California
TWTURING DISFIGURING Skin and Scalp Ills Across Ages
A historical piece traces disfiguring skin and scalp conditions from infancy to old age, detailing pimples and scrofula as chronic afflictions. It discusses humours and bodily imbalance as believed causes and notes remedies once popular in medical practice.
Cutedura Remedies Marketed as Cure All Skin Ailments
An advertisement extols Cuticura Ointment Resolvent and Soap as the supreme treatment for eczema scaly humours and scalp disorders. It promises rapid relief, safe permanent cure, and wide efficacy including infant rashes and ringworm, with claims of worldwide use and economical care. Also promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children and ends with a proverb about whitewashed reputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosleure Arcilvent
Boston
Dentist Tackles Root of Trouble with Catarrh Cure
Hall's Catarrh Cura is taken internally. Price, 75c. A dentist gets right down to the roots of the trouble. Carpets can be colored on the floor with PUTNAM FACELESS DYES. The canned article that goes quickest is a dog's tall.
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Hall
Putnam
A Cheerful Expression Not Always So Easy to Keep
The widow recalls being teased for her cheerful look after her husband’s death as she traveled to his burial. A nun repeatedly flirted, prompting a funeral scene anecdote. A bystander joked he liked her cheerful expression, illustrating how cheer can draw unwelcome attention at somber moments.
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Markham
Edwin Markham
New York Times
Expert Testimony on Postum Replacing Coffee
An expert testifies to Postum Cereal Coffee as a healthful replacement for coffee. The witness describes quitting coffee, overcoming cravings, and regaining health after switching to Postum, attributed to improved nerves and heart function.
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Postum
Uyick
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wealthy Old-Age Industrialist Ford Built Plate-Glass Empire
An Albany special recounts Capt. John H. Ford, builder of the first polished plate-glass factories in New Albany and elsewhere. From Kentucky roots he rose in Tarentum and Creighton, Pa, then Ford City, fuelled by gas and coal. At 78 he moved toward New York capital, creating massive plants and amassing millions, yet he faced cancer and retires after selling factories for 10.04 million.
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United States
Gays
Albany
Indianapolis
John H. Ford
Indiana
Tarentum
Kentucky
Greenville
New Albany
Lenox
Magé
Washington
New York
Creighton
Ford City
Pittsburg
Plateglase Trust
Tie
Tarentum Slongside
Ind
Short Names Boost Cabinet Efficiency in 19th Century Dispatches
The article notes many cabinet members have one syllable names, highlighting Hay Root Shaw Postmaster Payne and Knox among them. It contrasts current names with predecessors like Alger and Gage, arguing short signatures save time signing thousands of daily documents and that officials move from full to abbreviated forms soon after taking office.
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Fen
Hay
Root
Shaw
Payne
Knox
Moody
Wilson
Hitchcock
Cortelyou
Day
Secretary Day
Alger
Gage
Mr. Payre
Charl Emory Smith
Ier
John W. Griggs
John D. Long
Ike
Benjamin B. Smit
Jong
B, B. Smith
The Might of a Lie and a Downfall of Carlisle
A reminiscence on ex-Speaker John G. Carlisle now a New York lawyer recounts a disputed Cynthiana speech that purportedly denied the United States as a nation. It details a confrontation with reports and accusations that ruined his political hopes, leaving him remembered for a controversial claim.
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Earth
John G. Carlisle
Washington Square
Pine Street
Cynthiana
New York
United States
Iert
South Carolina
North
Carlisle
Tribune
Post Office Confusion Over Love Letter Joke
A young woman visits the post office and asks for a letter and jokes about love versus business. The clerk asks the playful question and she blushes, finding no letter. She returns later and asks for the love letters, while laundry bills grow longer with time.
First Class in Grammar, Stand Up
Johnny resists study saying his teacher asks for everything but then declares answers wrong. His Uncle recalls youth as he explains the word postpone. Johnny jokes about boys postponing their clothes when swimming.
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Johnny
Nunky
Register of the U S Treasury Uses Peruna for Summer Catarrh
The Register Judson W. Lyons and others write from Washington and Baltimore praising Peruna as a remedy for spring and summer catarrh. Letters from Miss Camilla Chartier and Mrs. Kate Hohn recount relief from digestive and headaches with continued use. Dr Hartman offers free advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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Register OF the U. S. Treasury
Judson W. Lyons
Register of the United Ages
Washington, D. C
Augusta
United States
Camilla Chartier
West Lexington St
Baltimore
Etina
Perna
Peruna Write At Once To Dr. Hartman
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
List of patents issued to Northwestern inventors includes Robert Hunter Minneapolis Minn fishing reel Herman Krupke Paynesville Minn powder blower Theodore Knudson Wannaska Minn portable stim puller Michael Quiggle Owatonna Minn cow or calf weaner Josian Record Mankato Minn suspension carrier apparatus Budd Smith Austin Minn weed exterminator Paul Wilburg New Ulm Minn horse shoe Lat Johnson patent lawyers 911 and St Paul Caneer Press Bid The Expensive Town quoted dialogue from Philadelphia Press promoting Allen's Foot Ease powder for new shoes with 25c price and free sample address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy N Y
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Northwestern
Robert Hunter
Minneapolis
Minn
Herman Krupke
Paynesville
Theodore Knudson
Wannaska
Michael Quiggle
Owatenna
Josian Record
Mankato
Budd Smith
Austin
Paul Wilburg
New
Because Philadelphia Public
A playful exchange shows Tom and Dick asking why their fiances love them. Dick reveals his fiancée’s reply is a simple yet satisfying reason. The line hints at a lighthearted joke centered on the city of Philadelphia as a punchline.
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Tom
Philadelphia
There’s many a nip between cup and lip
A brief note cautions that outcomes can still change before an event. It emphasizes that small delays or missteps may alter the expected result, underscoring caution in planning and anticipation.
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Grippe
Barrie Creen
Grand Trunk R. R
Sorius
Trom
Medical Advica Fres
AMS
Happy Isles
Greece
Waldo
H. Rindlaub
Fargo
N. O
Jim
Baltimore Herald
Piso
N. W. Saute
Ocean Grove
N. J
Cutieura
St.Jacobs Oil
Price
Capt. Ford
Johan G. Carlisle
Kate Hohn
Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Rootbeer
Wera
Wallons
Malvers
Wil Drugeis
Faustina
KR. Yaxton CO
Mass
Are
Cole Younger
Plains
Younger & McCarthy
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
Hameen
Thompson's
Swedish-American Telephone Co
Chicago, Ill
Virginia
Adarese
Wrald
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