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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1900
Page
4
A collage of fashion notes and home ideas drawn from Topeka shops and Chicago fashion centers. The piece surveys apparel trends, dining tastes, and practical tableware while hinting at domestic optimization and social expectations for women. It mentions sewing, new dress patterns, and household devices, framed in a period voice with occasional literary touches.
A vivid collage of home crafts, clothing trends, and domestic tips. The piece describes embroidered gowns, window shelves, new stock fabrics, storage ideas, and the care of delicate garments. It also notes advancements in footwear, stockings, and buttons, plus culinary and social luncheon trends.
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for female ills. It urges women not to chase new cures, cites patient letters from women in towns like Tulare County and Binghamton, and claims long proven success with cures for menses, nervous prostration, and bladder inflammation.
The piece cites Lydia E Pinkham's Compound as holding the record for cures, with advice on cooking and pastry methods. It then reports Paris authorities probing actress Sarah Bernhardt over morality and means of subsistence after a Bordeaux incident, noting a police inquiry and Bernhardt’s guarded responses. A brief note on anti trust talks in Chicago follows.
An old newspaper ad touts Holt in Kidney Tablets as a universal cure. Promises quick relief for kidney issues and related ailments. Claims ingredients are plant based and easy to take. Lists multiple druggists and cities where sold.
A New York Journal piece discusses adapting Burke's Peerage to American society with numbered ranks and bowing etiquette. It notes royal and noble delineations, the role of couriers, and the impracticality of full adoption while hinting at social codification by a committee, referencing figures like Ashley Burke and public concerns over trusts and drummers.
A long letter from a Kansas man describes decades of suffering from piles and bowel issues. He praises Dr McCully of the British Medical Institute for sending him home with medicine that provided relief after many prior failed remedies and wasted funds.
An advertisement from a Topeka medical institute claims cures for bowel, rectal, piles, and deformities with a contract guarantee. Dr S Edward McCully leads the institute offering free consultations and various supposed analyses, at 42 Topeka Avenue.
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