Cynical Young Women and the Strain of Modern Life
A New York Tribune style piece draws a portrait of overworked women burdened by daily chores and the ill fitting advice of doctors. It contrasts the ideal advice with real life demands as mothers and daughters navigate fatigue, expectations, and social judgment. Mrs Schwab’s charity is highlighted for its substantial aid to city children.
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New York Tribune
Romeo
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Helen Moon
New Providence
Ittle
E. V. Moon
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How to Care for Dishes and Flowers in Home Life
The article offers practical tips on keeping kettles clean with salt and vinegar to prevent verdigris, frying with minimal fat, serving water crackers with browned butter and pickles, and removing dishes from molds with hot or cold cloths. It also outlines making potato chowder, and guidance on cut flower handling, stem angles, and arranging blooms for a neat display. A vignette from Home Chat and a short tale about a mother and child conclude with a domestic scene.
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Doctor Theles
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Oman
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The Crying Need of South Africa for White Wives
A compilation of assorted clippings notes the severe gender imbalance in South Africa, predicting about one in four British men may not find a white wife due to prewar and postwar population shifts. It then shifts to human-interest vignettes from New Providence Indiana, including a celebrated medical cure, and a string of humorous anecdotes and advertisements from early 1900s newspapers. The piece mixes social comment with local items and promotional blurbs, reflecting a broad, noisy era journalism style.
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South Africa
Maladies of Jewels and Kidney Pains Advertised Cure
In a mixed 1890s style notice the text details jewel stone sensitivities to air heat and light with notes on opals pearls and diamonds. It then shifts to kidney pain symptoms and promotes Dean’s Kidney Pills with a testimonial from Mrs. Adam Gunde of 701 South Phillips Street Fortville Indiana and a mail order offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY for a trial package and price data.
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Regina
Bright
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Adam Gunde
South Phim Street
Frordsville
Ind
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Kidcine
Dr Thomas Electric Oil and cheap pancake flour ad
A fragmented historic page ad section urges use of Dr Thomas Electric Oil for cuts and burns while praising Mrs. Austin pancake flour for breakfast. It mentions London hansoms and a Wabash railroad education book by C S Crane with free publication and a six cent postage offer. It notes low nickel plate road fares to Boston with October travel dates and extended return options through November.
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Wabash
C. S. Crane
Wabath R. B
ST. Louis
Banton
Slams
Nickel Plate Road
A. Anterlin
T. Po A
W. von Ane
Peruna Cure Credited By Kansas Woman Letter
Mish Kate Brown, Kansas City, Kan, writes that seven years of illness from a neglected cold and related organ troubles improved after using Peruna. She says doctors and medicines failed until Peruna restored health, and she thanks Dr. Hartman and the Hartman Sanitarium for guidance.
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L. C. B. Association of
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Seventh St
Kansas City
Kan
Perong
Peruna
Perone
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Colombas
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Boston
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Tendom
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Poughkeepsie, N
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Washington Star
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Theodore Roosevete
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Theodore Roosevelt
Nis Seine
Viller
Wlsto Yay
Perons
You's Companion
Berkeley Street
Toston
Mass
Blue Lick Springs
Whentucky
Donu
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Kansas Indians
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Queeeneland
Australis
England
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Thomas Fuller
London
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Jay Gould
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Chicago
Nickel Plate
Fort Wayne
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Xoomey
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