Women Must Sleep and the Nerves of Modern Women
A health advertisement narrates nervous prostration interrupting sleep and links symptoms such as indigestion exhaustion womb displacement fainting dizziness headache and backache to nervous stress. It cites Mrs Hartley of Chicago and claims cure through Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a warning and proof of its unfailing efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartley
Congress St
Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Smoking in Japan and other varied items in brief
The excerpt notes widespread smoking in Japan with men and women smoking from a young age and a custom of lighting a pipe for a gentleman. It reports Mrs A Krossie of Chicago fined for a blind pig case, a bank robbery in Springfield Nebraska, and mentions Chinese entanglements and a Chinese indemnity note to Minister Conger. It also promotes Hoster’s Stomach bitters for digestion and states overtaxed digestion causes disorders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Various 19th Century Advertisements and Notices Collage
A mixed set of compact items including patent medicine pitches Hall's Catarrh Cure and Cascarets Candy Cathartic, promotional claims for Allen's Foot Ease, political notes on French disturbances, naval movements toward China, a call for profitable employment, and a local lynching report with a nonfatal outcome near Anniston Alabama.
Protective Policy Promotes Union Pacific Travel
The Union Pacific touts protection for passengers on the Great Overland Route with advanced track and equipment, high speed reliability, and time schedule accuracy. It advertises cheap east rates via Denver and Salt Lake, and details on rail and steamship transport through agent F B Choate in Salt Lake City. The Denver & Rio Grande offers scenic routes with daily expresses and through cars to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Salt Lake
Denver
F. B. Choate
Salt Lake City
Denver & Rio Grande
Grand Junction
Chicago
Denver and
Rio Grande
D &R Grr
Santa Fe
Kansas City
C. F. Warren
Santa Fe Ronte
Dooly Block
Utah
Edison Wins Job After Deafness Doubles Telegraph Speed
A tall green countryman named Edison applied in 1871 at Maury Smith’s Broad Street office, proved deaf but could read a fast telegraph. he copied a 2000 word Washington message at 40 words a minute, impressing Dick Hutchinson and securing immediate employment with the consolidated lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broad Street
New York
Maury Smith
Smith
Consolidated Telegraph Lines
Western Union
Mr. Smith
Dick” Hutchinson
Edison
Hutchinson
The Lion of Lucerne Monument in Switzerland
Travelers to Lucerne admire the Lion of Lucerne carved in rock beside a cliff. The colossal sculpture by Thorwaldsen honors the Swiss Guard who perished at Paris on August 10 1792 defending Louis XVI. The lion bleeds from a spear and holds a shield bearing fleur de lis and the guards’ names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucerne
Free Avon Foot-Ease Sample Ad and World News Snippet
An 1900 era ad promises a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease with a New York return address and notes its uses for sweaty damp feet and corns. The text also mentions assorted health ads and international items including potential German claims over a death, Boer War arrivals, and naval troop movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Avon
Olmsted
le Noy
N. Y
Chinese Pawnshops Rise Like Towers in Canton
In Canton, pawnshops are common and resemble banks more than typical shops. They store valuables when not in use and lend on winter clothing in summer. Depositing possessions there is not viewed as derogatory to a Chinese gentleman's dignity.
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Canton
Progress Promoted by Poverty
Poverty inspires effort and discipline, creating hope and future focus. Wealth without need could breed laziness and softness, while hardship strengthens body and mind, driving industriousness and resilience with a built in remedy in hope for a better future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Evening Post
Corious Instinct in Weeds Revealed in Sunlit Death
A colonial-era reflection on weeds seeding behavior describes plants guarding seed pods as they die. Leaves curl upward over seed pods to shield them from sun, yielding a striking, almost devoted display in death.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mus
A. Hartley
Califoruls
Uish
Drs. Shores
Harmon
Nat'l Bank
O'ak
Gipsix
the Glue Co
Gipline CO
Oecas
H. Airis
Pres
Rm. W. Nicol
Salt Lake Electric Supply CO
Penney
Galt Laxe City
Utan
Morrill
Western
UNION
A. &. Derge & Co. Lake
Tannhie Pension Bickford
Washington, D. C
N.H. Welsh Corps
Box B
Atlante
al Druggista
i . yagh Syra_ tima
Bolas
N.Y
A. Krossie
Lake Avenue
Spearman & Co's
Springfield
Neb
United States
China
Conger
Hall
Fr. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
Lord Salisbury
Foreign Office
France
Gordon Highlanders
Devonshire Regiment
Natal
Fort Dearborn
Anniston
Ala
THE
Union Pacific
Mexico City
Federal District
Germany
Baron von Ketteler
H. H. Green
Atanta
South Africa
Trieste
Hamburg
America
W. Grove
Pao Ting Fu
Paris
Piso
Joan F Borea
Trinity Springs
Ind
Harburg - American Steamship Line
Odessa
Far East
Adams
Venezuela
J. W. Gunnell
Toledo, Ohio
Signor Marconi
Hawaii
London
Parese
Konow
Norway
Castiria
Dati Fila
NEW_YORK
Swanson
Lake Ktreet
Baecqgg
W.L. Deug
Juglas Shoe CO
Brookis
Bosanko Co
Philadelphia
Bears
Castoria
Louis Erhardt & CO
Atchison, Kans
Winchester
Witte
Stevens
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