What Wife Says Goes In Home Painting Debate
A discourse on home painting warns that owners who micromanage painters or use poor materials cause bad results and wasted money. It promotes hiring skilled painters and consulting a National Lead Co. paint testing kit, noting the firm’s Dutch Boy lead and drying advice. It also includes light anecdotes about mixed metaphors and a London Church Congress incident for contrast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
National Lead Co
Trinity Ride
New York City
Freddie objects to doctor's liniment in Lar per's Weekly
The dialogue shows Freddie criticizing a doctor’s medicine while his mother explains it is liniment. Freddie questions if rubbing it in is necessary, expressing doubt about the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freddie
Larper's Weekly
Didn’t Realize How Injurious Coffee Really Was
A Washington woman chronicled harm from coffee, linking it to rheumatic attacks and teeth decay. After quitting coffee and using Postum for six months she recovered, claiming better sleep and no rheumatism. The Postum Co. promotes The Road to Wellville and cites ongoing reader letters as evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Temperance Lesson for March Sunday School Lesson
Readings from Proverbs on intemperance as a social and spiritual problem. The lesson emphasizes self control, the woes of drink, and how early Christians transformed behavior through Christ, the Holy Spirit, organized faith, and communal support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Peter
John
Paul
Silas
Hell
Christ
Inherited Kidney Trouble Patient’s Relatable Cure
Mrs Frank Rosebaum of Masco Idaho recounts hereditary kidney trouble with vision, circulation, sleep, and back pain. after hundreds spent seeking a cure, she credits Deans Kidney Pills for relief. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Doctor question and patient reply end with tub joke.
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Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Bulalo, N. Y
Cure for Dry Eczema Promised by Cuticura
Public notices and testimonials mix in this fragment from a early 20th century paper. A police chief’s testimony touts Cuticura remedies for eczema on legs and ankles, followed by assorted quotes and ads. The items reference Castoria, Brown’s Bronchial Troches, and other patent medicines, all bundled in a miscellaneous health and consumer goods roundup. The community voices range from medical claims to light humor and travel snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George P. Bliss
Morris
Manitoba
Kotter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sule Props
Heston
Untitled 1880s notices mix with patent cures and ads
A collage of 19th century notices and ads includes land sale terms at 50 cents per acre in Wyoming, railroad fare and deed offers, art and science cures, a catarrh claim, triplets living to sixty, Marine Eye Remedy, and various pills and salves. It blends promotional copy with medical testimonials and brief local notes.
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Cooper Like
Wyo
Pallmadg-Buntin Land Co
Railway Exchange
Chicago
Olmissiua Perce
Krew
Spohn Medical GO
Goshen
Ind
U.S
Texas
Lou
Andy
J.J. Snyder
Austin
Austin National Hank
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Church Congress
London
Luke Gal
Cuticura
Ezsma
W. H. Underwood
State Senate
Clay Center
Underwood
Kansan City
Brown
John I. Brown & Son
Boston
Mus
Wendell Phillips
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
State of
Wyoming
Arlist
der. Laboratory
Pearl Street
Tommie
Qing City
Toledo
Lecay County
Frank J. Chinky
Pos. Cnenry & Co
County
Sinta
Galttro
Tate
Frank J. Cheney
A. K
Seel
A. W. Gleason
Eee ¥ & CO
Hall
Towbridge
Avran Albert White
Moses Henry White
Miriam Lenorah Lewis
Australia
London Mail
Pettit
Howard Bros
Forfield Lea
Bishop
Northwest
Pacific Northwest
America
West
East
California
Oregon
Idaho
E.L. Lomax
Omaha
Hoo
Sloan
Sweeney
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
S.oms
Piso
Dr. Marshall
H. Keith
Mfr
Cleveland, O
Popercr
Cascarets
Cascarette
Waloores Ue
Fompson
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