Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advertisements
Readers from Princeton Illinois and Poland New Jersey praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from female troubles headaches inflammation and general weakness. Nurse Horace Newman also endorses it and urges others to consult the company for confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
J. F. Johnson
Princeton, Ilinoi
Poland
N. J
Horace Newman
Herkimer Co
N. Y
Lydia FE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Baptism Jokes and Barbers Tool Spark Local News
In a drought warning tone Brother Cassius Cautious Rush volunteers for baptism at a colored camp meeting and jokes about repeated baptisms to dodge sparks on Judgment Day. A New Jersey barber patents a comb attachment for one blade of hair shears to speed up cutting.
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Cassius
Brother Cassius
Marie Honeycutt
New Jersey
Drink Denison's Coffee for Health and Bluffing Insight
A compact line study urges drinking Denison's coffee for health and hints the art of bluffing lies in knowing when not to engage. The note blends promotional flavor with a sly moral cue.
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Denison
Michigan State Fair Opens With Low Turnout
Detroit opening day saw under two thousand visitors as rain dampened excitement at the Michigan State Fair. The event features larger poultry, growing livestock entries, and stronger entertainment while police boost patrols to deter crime. Judge Howard Wiest was elected presiding judge of Michigan's circuit court, with planning left to him to address judge assignments and compensation.
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Lansing
Detroit
State Fair Association
Dickinson
Inspector Good
John D. Downey
Wiest
Fellows
Fuller
Wayne County
Murphy and Mandell
Murphy
Mandell
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers to Hold Eleventh Convention
The Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers association schedules its eleventh annual convention September 14 15 and 16 at the Griswold house Detroit. The program includes addresses by William C Wheeler and E W Burt with talks on retail accounting profits and insurance. Officers will be elected and samples inspected. banquet closes the event. Articles of Incorporation for several Michigan firms are listed with capital at various levels.
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Lansing
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association
Griswold House
Detroit
Marx
William C. Wheeler
Lynn Rubber Manufacturing Company
Lynn
Mass
Michigan
Mutual Fire Insurance
George Pond
E. W. Burt
Boston
National Shoe Retailers’ Association
William M. School
M. D
School Manufacturing Company of
Chicago
Michigan plans $100000 TB campaign statewide
The state board of health and the Michigan Antituberculosis Society outlined a two year plan to exhaust the $100,000 legislative appropriation for tuberculosis control. Clinics, county nurses, and state supervision will cover all cities towns and rural districts with a survey of the state first. Revisions to laws on hospitals subsidies referendums and prohibitions on almshouses were urged along with an extensive educational drive. Doctors Kellogg and Vaughan spoke amid a general discussion of the tuberculosis campaign.
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Michigan
State Board of Health
Michigan Antituberculosis Society
State Board
Philip H. Jacobs
New York
Tuberco
National Society For Losis
Victor C. Vaughan
Jacobs
Vaughan
J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek
Local liveryman struck by freight train at church street
Hastings report says D C Watters was severely injured when his buggy was hit by a freight train crossing the Michigan Central tracks at Church street. Grand Rapids notes Deputy Commissioner Mickel warns arrest for unlicensed milk dealers operating near Grand Rapids.
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Hastings
D. C
Watters
Michigan Central
Church Street
Grand Rapids
W. J. Mickel
Both Adepts in Deceit Signals and Separation
The captain, newly married, is ordered to camp near his residence. His wife and he signal with handkerchiefs to cope with the separation. A passerby questions the practice, and the captain explains it as signal-code training for his men.
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Jane
Cuticura Samples Offered By Mail For Scalp Care
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment to cleanse and purify the scalp, soothe irritated skin, and combat dandruff and itching. Sample requests are offered by mail with a postcard to Cuticura Dept XY, Boston, noting availability wherever sold.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
Onions in Seed Head Stalks Delight Sketching Club
A party of young men and women in a sketching club motored along a country road. They observe graceful stalks bearing pale green globes shading to gray and purple. A gardener explains they are onions gone to seed, inspiring enchantment and curiosity.
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New York Times
Aunt and student spar with professor over sociology
In a witty exchange, Miss Knowles pleads ignorance while Aunt Bana argues with Professor Bilks about sociology, the professor insisting she underestimates his intellect. The banter highlights clever wordplay and social dynamics in a campus setting.
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St. Niece
Professor Bilks
Miss Knowles
Would You Go to War If Your Country Called You
A dialogue queries Mr Jobbles on military service. He evasively weighs obligation versus choice, saying he might enlist if urged strongly enough but could refuse if the initial call seemed merely inviting. The exchange reflects attitudes toward conscription and personal duty.
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Mr. Jobbles
Superhuman Feat in Louisville Courier Journal
A quotation from the Louisville Courier Journal features a summer girl seeking balance between sun kissed beach looks and alabaster ballroom elegance. The dialogue hints at fashion beauty challenges in contrasting daytime and evening appearances.
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Louisville Courier Journal
Appropriately Named and the Tol Gates on Success
A Buffalo Express snippet muses on names and fate with a wry joke about why a baby is named Bill for a birth date. It asserts a paradox of love and ambition, warning readers success comes with tough limits and unavoidable thresholds.
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Bill
The
Buffalo Express
Mighty Power of Love Universalist Leader Quote
The Universalist Leader laments love’s absence in world affairs. The essay praises love as a divine force that could unite felons and outcasts, transforming statesmanship and warfare, arguing commerce and calculation perish but love endures and will ultimately triumph.
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Emerson
Christendom
Perfectly at Home Boarders Sit At Farmer Corntesses Table
The passage notes summer boarders making themselves at home by seating and eating with ease as if related, with humor about crumbs of comfort and the idea that a person must have enough to form a square meal. It further claims it’s harder to be a live wire than to get close to one.
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Corntesses
When a Woman Lowers Herself To Look Up To A Man
A concise proverb notes that a woman's act of lowering herself is likely meant to elevate her view toward a man, reflecting social dynamics and judgment about gender roles. The saying suggests reciprocal admiration or deference in relationships.
Marriage for money and a lazy man’s steam train
A quoted exchange suggests marriage as a failure when entered for money. The speaker warns a man who relies on others to push progress, likening it to a train idle without its own steam. The tone hints at prudence over hollow motives.
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Cotter
Bs Doe
Nectalicieg & Tesciees
Serems
Teaiet
Lfem Ttaizatie
Cotter Laboratory
Gerteley, Cal
Cricage, la
Doan
James Kennedy
Madison St
Bay City
Mich
Dean
Soca Bez Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Michigan State Fair
G. R. Schimmel Company
Gustave R. Schimmel
Arthur Brand
Walter G. Lueck
Saginaw Creamery Company
Saginaw
Wilcox Hardware Company
Adrian
Turner Furniture Company
Sinslow Timber Company
Val F. Fox Company
Acme
Jackson
Ween
Joe Droes
the Centaur Company
Castoria
NTAVR
General Roofing Manufacturing Co
Eno
Keace
Garteid Avenue
Bandas sSerry
Moq
Milwaukee
DU Pont
DU Pont Powder Company
Wilmington
Delaware
Desler
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Standard
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