Silent Sisters of the French Convent Near Biarritz
A Boston Globe item reports on the silent sisters at a secluded convent near Biarritz, where 57 women live without speech. The nuns follow strict rules, walk isolated paths, wear black with white crosses, and see the chaplain rarely. The piece notes their solitude, gendered perceptions, and the public’s haunting view of their life and retreat.
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Biarritz
Sœurs Silenciouses
Bay of Biscay
la Trappe
Pyrenees
Mauleon
Silent Sisters
Navarre
Pau
Indies Et Pau
Boston Globe
The Tidy Husband and His Tidiness Fits
A Philadelphia Times column humorously examines the tidy husband who scorns mess yet creates chaos with misplaced belongings and prying habits. The piece notes his fits of tidying up downstairs and upstairs, his gloomy talk, and the wife’s possible remedy through sweetness or strategic tidying.
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Philadelphia Times
A Different Trade
Miss Wabasi notes a friend who has just left as a pessimist. Miss Halstead counters that he is an optimist, describing him as an optician with the cream of the west side trade.
Earls Clover Root Tea Promises Relief for Digestive Ailments
An old advertisement claims the tea cures constipation indigestion and headaches for fifty years. It offers two price points 26 and 50 cents with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory and is attributed to Matthews' Pharmacy.
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Earls Clover Root
Matthews’ Pharmacy
Shiloh
Matthews Pharmacy
HE Marlin Firearms CO
New Haven
Conn
Colonial era patent medicine advertisement spread
An OCR fragment advertises various remedies and tonics. It touts Karl's Clover Root Tea for digestion and liver health, Dodge's Dyspepsia Tablets as a standard remedy, Dodge's Quick-Kure for La Grippe and colds, and GERENANA flour sold by Berg Bros. Co. The ad uses promotional slogans and references multiple products and pharmacies.
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Dodge
Matthew
Berg Bros. Co
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Nadie
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Karl
Matthew's Pharmacy
Harry Woolrich
Arenswater County
Tate
Montana
Aila
Whelms
Wilson Fletcher
Weh Polfenty
Shilohs
United States
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England
Sole Proprietors
S.C. Wells & Co
Leroy, NY
Hamilton, Can
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
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Patent Lawyers
Washington, D.C
Nee Oo
Hyatt & Coventy
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H. Goopman
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