Ink Stained Curtain Raise Scandal At Midnight
A Manchester mother confronts her daughter Annabel after Mr Tinberry allegedly leaks ink from a fountain pen onto Annabel during a late night discussion of China and Japan. Annabel faints from shock as her dress and face are stained, in a sensational London Tit-Bits style scene. Kilgore Ohio reports on Dodd's Kidney Pills claims and patient testimonials in a separate local notice.
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Annabel
Manchester
Dover
Annabel Googan
London
Kilgore
John T. Riegle
Dodd
Allen's Foot-Ease Cure for hot aching feet
An 1907 advertisement notes Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for hot sweaty callused and swollen feet sold by all druggists for 25e with a trial package free. It lists Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY and includes a comic Harvard Lampoon gag about mistaking someone else for a backslap.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Woman Recovers After Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A Boston woman describes years of misery with back pain headaches and fatigue then credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health Appetite returned and weight gained She urges others with feminine derangements to try the remedy and join thousands who have benefited.
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Drak
Pinknam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Frankie Orser
Warrenton St
Boston
Mass
Hobbies as a life's guide for the young generation
The essay advocates hobbies for youth as a source of happiness and practical gain. It argues many girls can learn photography sewing cookery and athletic pursuits and warns against short lived interests. The author urges mastering one pursuit before expanding to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Churches Should Lead Charitable Work Against Diverse Societies
The speaker argues churches lose influence and members to auxiliary groups like the Y M C A and Associated Charities. Social settlements draw funds and workers away, diminishing church driven charity and its religious character. He stresses churches alone should sustain extensive charitable efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Charities
Women and Salary Drive Entry Into Business Life
A speaker argues that women's entry into business hinges on salary and opportunity. Married women work to support families and provide for children, while all women seek financial independence and personal expression. The speaker urges that adults, regardless of marital status, should have reasonable paths to self support and that social issues may be solved through individual economic opportunity.
Poetic Echoes And Lullabies From An Old Journal
A collage of verse and prose from 19th and early 20th century sources. It opens with an exuberant spring ode about birds, daffodils, and cosmic messages, then shifts to lessons on listening and sharing opinion, followed by nostalgic tavern memories and a mother’s lullaby.
Dinner Party Tale About a Gun Story
A man at a dinner party, unable to share his gun story, pays a waiter to slam the door so he can erupt with the tale. The door noise proves a misdirection, and he resumes with another joke about guns.
Cuticura Soap Ointment Pills Offer Skin Remedy
Complete treatment set costs 81 00 and promises to cleanse skin and blood of humors. It cites eczema psoriasis ringworm pimples scalp crusts and infant sufferers, claiming Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills have superhuman virtues proven by global testimony.
Kentucky Breakfast Food and Local Humors
The item blends quips about Henry in Kentucky with a Michigan cafe joke and a pasted ad mix. It cites a passel of product blurbs on fodder plants and seed catalogs, plus brief notes on cough cures, a confidence line, and a 1900s Minneapolis ad reference.
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Kentucky
Henry
Kentucky Mountaineer
Michigan
Boston Post
Your Face Dear Love and Other Poems in Midwestern Papers
A collage of verse excerpts from Ethelwyn Wetherall Louis Minturn Waterman and others published in Good Housekeeping SS Times Chicago Record-Herald and Boston Budget. Includes reflections on love praise after death and a fading landscape with nighttime imagery. The poems weave intimate emotion with seasonal and domestic settings.
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Ethelwyn Wetherall
Louis Minturn Waterman
SS. Times
Dean's Kidney Pills Promote Kidney Health for Women
An Ohio woman, Mrs. Sadie Mettles of Columbus, reports backache, fatigue, and nervous symptoms eased by Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad claims kidney weakness causes illness and offers a free trial by mail, with a 50 cent box price and distribution through Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Sadie Mettles
4Th Ave
Columbus
Ohio
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Mabel
Ethel
Butte Intermountain
Harvard Lampoon
Yale Record
Douglas
L. Douglas
Brockton
Mother Gray
Noarse
Children's Home
New York City
the Church and Charities
Lou Wall Moore
Poesy
Ethel M. Kelly
Leslie's
Chicago Daily News
Life’s Tavern
Mary Burt Messer
Atlantic
Darling
Little One
Mary Putnam Gilmore
Boston Transcript
Victoria
K. LJ
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Addison
Puck
O'Brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
Robert Collyer
Samuel Putcher
LL Flicka
New York
Love
Garland the Living
Errant
E Kiser
Chicago
Record-Herald
Ethel C. Fessenden
Western Department
Chicago, Ill
Eastern Department
Hartford
Bears
Castoria
the Centaur Company
Citv
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