Doan's Kidney Pills Help 82-Year-Old Woman
Mrs Joannah Straw of Canton Ohio reports three years of rheumatic limb pain and backache with headaches and dull spells. After starting Doan's Kidney Pills at age 82 she improved to near the health of a 60 year old, sleeping well and working fine. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Joannah Straw
North Broadway
Canton
8. D
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Mirages of marriage and measurement amuse a chorus choice
Actress Marie Cahill chose chorus girls for Marrying Mary by Bertillon measurement to avoid mirage. She explains the concept with a tale where a boy asks about marriage and a father defines it as union by law, noting men often imagine pleasures where none exist.
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Marie Cahill
Mary
Miss Cahill
Pather
Sonny
Grape-Nuts Claim Strength From Digestion Change
A reader recounts changing diet to Grape-Nuts, leaving heavy meat eating behind. He cites improved health and weight gain from 95 to 125 pounds after adopting the cereal, noting digestion and nerves improved and the couple’s opinion shifted as results showed.
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Aiageiah
Swiss Eggs and Novel Dishes Spiced with Curry Powder
A vintage recipe column presents Swiss eggs with butter cheese and rich cream baked briefly, plus veal curry with tomatoes and curry powder. Also includes maple blanc manges banana desserts curry usage tips poached eggs with curry and sweet potatoes Mexican style with peppers onions and ketchup.
Baked Apple Pudding and Prune Pudding Dish Guide
Instructions describe making Baked Apple Pudding with six apples, six tablespoons sugar, eggs, butter, nutmeg and vanilla, then baking and serving with cream. Prune Pudding follows with stew of prunes and dates, walnuts and sugar, then beaten whites folded in and served cold with cream.
Had No Doubt Of His Fate
A San Francisco Argonaut tale recounts Jude Blank of Pacific Avenue receiving an ermine cloak from the judge after his wife cooked for a week. Envy grows among social circles as Mrs Blank’s culinary stint becomes a topic of local chatter.
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Jude Blank
Pacific Avenue
Blanks
Eczema Covering Baby Recovers After Cuticura Use
A Piermont New Hampshire mother recounts her son’s severe eczema starting at four months and spreading across his body. After trying many medicines, she used all three Cuticura remedies and observed improvement in two months with full recovery in six months, in October 1905.
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R. L. Risley
Piermont, N. H
Starch ads and gossipy excerpts from old paper
A collage of vintage items and quips including advice on voice cultivation for a daughter, praise for Defiance Starch as safe and strong, a note on small household economics, flirtatious captions about alimony, humorous lines from papers like the Lordon Chronicle and Buffalo News, a pie kit promotion from OUR-PIBE, a coin puzzle from Boston, and an ad for Dr Kline's nerve restorer with a Philadelphia address.
One Thing Held Him Back From a Missing Pair of Pants
A man in a flat reports a night disturbance with screams and speculation as neighbors watch from windows. He jokes he would fetch a policeman if he could find his pants, amid a chaotic scene and casual banter about laundry starch.
Deafness Cured By Constitutional Remedy Says Hall
Claiming deafness results from a catarrhal inflammation of the Eustachian tube the ad touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as the sole curative method and offers 100 dollars for any case not cured by the remedy sent via Toledo firm F J Cheney Co. Also advertises Taketals Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Drugglars
Tokefal
Pitta
Paige
Ptatest
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
Oor City
Truthful Boast and Starch Claims in Humorous Fragments
Traveling salesmen boast of having the most buyers with baby carriages in a Chicago hotel. Suc cess Magazine touts Defiance Starch with chemicals omitted and a new ingredient for strength and smoothness. Henpeck ponders a decision while his wife quips about the long time to “make up” his mind.
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Chicago
Success Magazine
Important to Mothers and Everyday Remedies Ad Feature
A collage of old ads notes Castoria for infants and children with a signature claim, plus a sharp trade line for Defiance Starch promising better results and money back if unsatisfied. It also cites quotes about marriage, sermons, cigars, and insomnia as the era’s ad musings and health claims.
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Idi
Defiance Starch Delivers Extra Value in Sale Push
The article highlights Defiance Starch offering more starch per package at the same price, claiming superior satisfaction and a standout sale showing its value over rival brands. The claim emphasizes one third more starch per package as a key advantage.
Her Method and Obscure Ad Phrases From a Page
A quirky excerpt discusses a family scene with Sis singing to test love and references a laxative bromide labeled Bromo Quinine. It cites H W Grove and a cure in a boy, then shifts to aging and opportunities with Lewis' Single Binder Cigar from Peoria Ill, ending with a quip about a crank.
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Lewis Factory
Eosia. i
Sis
H.W. Grove
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Ill
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