Munyon's Pills and Remedies Advertise Health
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills claim to energize the liver and nourish the stomach without calomel, sold in 10c and 25c sizes with free medical advice from Munyon's Doctors. Also advertised are Munyon's Cold Remedy and Rheumatic Remedy, priced at 25c, with claims of fast relief. The Spike Town Blizzard thanks an unknown donor for leaving a six pound turkey on Christmas Eve despite its toughness.
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Manyon
Munyon
YWON
Jefferson Sta
Philadelphia
Clugston
Spiketown
Cuticura and skin care remedies advertised for infants
An older advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for soothing infancy skin conditions and aiding sleep in distressed babies. It promotes easy use, claims rapid relief from itching and rashes, and invites readers to request a Cuticura booklet from Potter Drug. Also includes a Rousseau anecdote and a brief note on Pettit’s Eye Salve, followed by a historical account of water pump origins from Heron of Alexandria to 17th century devices.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sola Proprietors
Boston
Mass
Philadelphos
Euergetes
Hero of Alexandria
Germany
Morland
de la Hire
Explorers Share Pole Discovery and Plan Joint Tour
Two South Pole explorers meeting after their finds decide not to feud. They agree to co author a book and travel together giving lectures. One will handle the oratorical stunt while the other will contribute photographs for the screen.
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South Pole
Peril of cold exposure and a landslide danger
The clipping warns that cold and wet exposure can lead to pneumonia and promotes Perry Days Paniker as a preventive. It also contains a humorous dialogue about courtship and notes a slowly moving Italian landslide threatening a village of about 1,000 people two miles long and half a mile wide.
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Perry
Paniker
Italan
Farmers Advice on Animal Husbandry and Tree Care
Practical notes on breeding, feeding, and handling livestock plus tree surgery innovations. Includes cows milk weighing, manure use, open scratching sheds, horse dental care, and sunlit lean twined shelter designs for poultry. Also comments on price pressures, farmers versus merchants, and urging qualified veterinary dental care.
Catalpa Planting and Forest Use Affects Profits and Wood
Planting catalpas favors rich soil with profits cited at 21.55 per acre when grown for posts and timber. Dense early pruning and wind shelter boost growth, seeds are cheaper than nursery stock, and spacing is 4 feet apart. Heartwood is durable, thinning occurs after 8 10 years, and posts are a key product.
Resetting Orchard Trees In Old Ground
Advice on replanting after removal of old trees suggests digging new holes between remaining trunks, using wide 2 foot holes filled with topsoil and subsoil separately. Cut damaged roots, plant center, firm soil, bank earth up to shed water, prune top third, and add fertilizer or manure for early growth.
Length of Novels Debate in 19th Century Press
The piece argues against fixed word limits for novels, noting classics vary greatly in length from 50,000 to 700,000 words. It cites Don Quixote, Tom Jones, Vanity Fair, and War and Peace, claims shorter modern works may fail to achieve lasting impact, and questions authors’ ability to sustain great effects amid changing markets.
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Houges
Great
Vanity Fair
Thackeray
Henry Esmond
Dickens
George Enot
George Sand
Consuelo
Dumas
Vicomte de Bragelonne
Tolstoy
Anna Karening
Polkish
Sienkiewicz
Beasts and Men recounts Lissy the elephant’s treachery
Carl Hagenbeck, famed animal owner, recalls a perilous incident with his eight foot female elephant Lissy at Trieste. While trained to lift him by the trunk the beast suddenly hurled him against a barrier and flung him into the menagerie, leaving him bruised but alive after Philippe the keeper aided his return.
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Carl Hagenbeck
Hagenhbeck
Trieste
Mr. Hagenbeck
Lissy
Mr. Ha
Philippe
Wastingger Opportunities and a Cryptic Quote
The fragment references a Detroit Free Press quote about a person described as a positive borg who talks only of music and art and neighbors' scandals. It also mentions a cynical line on debt owed by the world based on one’s actions.
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Detroit Free Press
Backache Relief After Nine Months with Peruna
Mrs. Joseph Lacelle of Ottawa East Ontario reports nine months of persistent backache and headaches easing after taking Peruna. She says the medicine greatly improved her condition, calling it far better than other remedies and noting relief after a few bottles.
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Joseph Lacelle
Bronson St
Ottawa
East
Ontario
Canada
Peruna
Peruna Sample Bottle Free Offer Revealed
Free sample bottle offered by the Peruna Company of Columbus Ohio to demonstrate the value of Peruna in catarrhal troubles. Readers urged to mail for the sample and mention reading the notice. A Medical Department will provide free advice and health literature on request.
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Peruna Company
Columbus
Ohio
Saloons Across Creation in the Bottom of the Valley
A Cleveland Leader quotation pair depicts Mrs McSosh wishing saloons everywhere were at the valley’s bottom and Mr McSosh replying about passion and drowning in a humorous debate.
Have You a Cough or Cold Health Ad
An old time advertisement promotes Allen's Lung Balsam with simple safe effective relief for coughs and colds. It markets a product labeled Alldenlera and mentions a price point around $1.00, using period marketing terms and figures.
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Allen
Queer Villages The Peculiar Ones In England
A Harper's Weekly piece surveys eccentric English villages: carriages for houses with a chapel of horse trucks, a 1100-person town with no public buildings, Skiddaw village of one voter, roads funded by a lone rate payer, a dozen residents in Ely with no rates, Kempton near Bedford claiming seven miles of street for longest village, and villages that vanish when cliffs crumble or mines collapse.
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England
Skiddaw
Cumberland
Northumberland
Iele
Ely
Kempton
Bedford
Shropshire
Harper’s Weekly
Postum for Mothers Nourishes Mother and Child
A testimonial letter extols Postum as a nourishing drink for nursing mothers and a source of strength for a delicate child. The writer credits boiling minutes for flavor, notes improved health, and urges others to follow preparation directions, mentioning family well being and the book The Road to Wellville.
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Wellville
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