Nevada Man's Bathing Story Leads to Surf Scheme
A Nevada man recounts a humorous yet shady venture in Santa Monica where he hired eight men to bathe in striped Union jackets for tourists, charging $20 daily and skimming profits. The tale includes cold water, quits, a coroner's jury, and eventual solitary work, with the narrator praising the climate despite the scheme.
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Barnes
Santa Monica
California
Jones
Pacific Ocean
Union
Carson City
Resuscitation Attempt After Hanging: Early Electric Revival Claims
James Tracy was hanged in Chicago on September 15. Doctors Mann and Bluthardt applied electric current to the heart and spinal cord, causing facial movements and rhythmic heart action, but resuscitation failed due to a broken neck. They suggest possible revival in cases without spinal injury using electricity or other methods.
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James Tracy
Chicago
Mann and
Bluthardt
Odds and Ends Boarding House Humor in a Laughing City
A collection of fragmented quips and anecdotes on manners, marriage, and human foibles. A Seneca NY wedding tale, cigars as barter for love, and jokes about rope, storks, and household quirks fill a late 19th or early 20th century page, preserving light gossip tone and social observations.
Waln ut Leaf Hair Restorer Promises Natural Colorful Shine
An ad touts Waln u t Leaf Hair Restorer as a unique vegetable formula that clears dandruff restores gray hair to natural color and avoids new hair loss while not affecting health unlike other preparations. Sold by Smith, Kiine & Co in Philadelphia and Hall & Ruckel in New York. Also promotes Shilohs cough and consumption cure with a guaranteed claim and mentions Dr. Bosankos cough and lung syrup priced at fifty cents available from A. J. Davis.
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Smith, Kiine & Co
Philadelphia
Hall & Ruckel
New York
Pure Bitters Promoted as Life Restoring Cure All
Advertisement touts Pop Bitters as the purest and best medicine, a universal cure for all diseases. Claims include blood purification, liver regulation, and vitality restoration for the aged and infirm. Promises $500 for an uncured case and urges immediate use for any malaise.
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Nevada
Shiloh
A. J. Davis
A. d. Davis
Odds and
Farser
Fritz
Mamama
Tom
Seneca
N. Y
Turre
Messia
Seabury & Johnson
Platt St
Renson
BR Aure
Price Cts
MEAD
Rathbone
SARD
Ance
Eading
MRS
Ladies’ Tonic
Women's Medical Institute
Restomsiase
Henry Baxter
Mandrake
Johnson & Lord
Burlington, Vt
D. H. Siggins
Livery Stable
Third Street
Burgess
Nott
Guenther
Guenther & CO
Pittsburgh
Renevoliow
Lapies Jn Ut
Peguss
Women’s Medical Institute
QUEEN & CO. THE GREAT @PTICIANS
Chestnut Street
Periladelphia
Fedlaiee
Mathema Etritatees
SeStvice
M’f’g CO
Wahinn Sireet
Nason Mason
Hamlin
Yorkswash Ave
E.G. West
Joy
Fleming, Deuggst
Marxet St
Uchers
Tor
Fawllamor
French Street
Erie
W. A.greaves
George E. Lemon
Meadville
SMITH
Meadville, Pa
Prony
United States
eFor
J.C. Smith
A. M
Z Great Western
Mer' Gun Works
J. He. Johnston
Smithfield Street
KNABE
William Hnabe & CO
Baltimore Street
Baltimore
Fifth Avenue
Pearl St
Demorest
Newadeslers
W. Jennings Pemorest
East Fourteenth Street
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Spruce
Wade
Eitze
Weshiniston
Surube
Phe.ck
W. & T. Smith
Geneva
Ad. Yeas Stinson & CO
Portland
Meniy
William A. Wright
James Tate
Kinzua Village
Warren County
Wright
Kinzua, Pa
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