The Badge of Honesty on every wrapper of Dr Pierce’s Medicine
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Medical Discovery as a 40 year proven blood purifier and tonic for stomach and liver disorders. It lists ingredients like Golden Seal and Queen’s root, claims non alcohol basis, and offers a free booklet from Buffalo NY authorities. It promotes All-Healing Salve for sores and Pellets for stomach liver and bowels.
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Doctor Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Bartholow
Coe
Ellingwood
Tver
Bo We
Fragments on Morality and Memory Across Time
A reflective meditation on humanity, mean behavior, and memory. The narrator ponders foolishness, aging, danger of time, and contrasts words on gender with scattered archaic phrases. The piece questions virtue, family history, and the fate of boys and men over generations.
Agnes Irwin honored with LL D from St Andrews College
Miss Agnes Irwin dean of Radcliffe College in Cambridge mass receives the LL D from Andrew Carnegie representing St Andrews College at a Philadelphia ceremony on April 17 1906. The award honors personal achievement and she is noted for guiding young women in scholarly study.
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Agnes Irwin
Radcliffe College
Cambridge
Mass
Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Carnegie
St. Andrew's College of Scotland
Miss Irwin
Witherspoon Ball
Philadelphia
Negre
Diet Focuses on Skin Health from Cleansing Diets
An article discusses how diet affects complexion with emphasis on fruit consumption. It notes fruit should be eaten regularly and highlights cleansing benefits as part of overall physical condition improvement.
Home Remedies for Moist Hands Use Belladonna and Cologne
The article prescribes daily wetting of moist hands with a mixture of two ounces of cologne and two drams of tincture of belladonna after washing. It advises a second lotion of one dram of isinglass, one dram of turpentine, and two drams of oxide of zinc ointment, heated gently to dissolve tsinglass, then applied to the palms at night.
Birthday Party Centerpiece With Goldfish Wreath
A child’s party featured a centerpiece a rov of goldfish set in a flower wreath with many small bouquets, each tied with ribbon ends. After refreshments, ribbons were pulled causing the wreath to fall apart. Supper included bouillon, cream chicken in paper cases, mock sandwiches, lemon ice, candied cherry mugs, and home made sponge cake in large sheets. Final touches were mottoes and bonbons.
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Bouillon
Cvs
Baby's Bath Blanket for layette use in the home
Describes a wool flannel bath blanket apron for babies. It covers protecting the mother’s gown and wrapping the infant after a bath. Requires two yards of heavyweight wool flannel, includes a one inch tuck and inch wide wash ribbon to tie around the waist. Edges may be ribbon binding or simple buttonhole with wash silk.
Plain Hot Water As Universal Toilet Preparation
The Boston Herald cites plain hot water as the best toilet preparation with diverse uses. It suggests drinking a bowl nightly for digestion and sleep, placing a bag at the feet for colds, at the back for backache, or at the neck for headaches or insomnia, plus eye bathing for inflammation, foot soaking for fatigue, hand soaking before manicures, and steam facial weekly for complexion.
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Boston Herald
How to Air a Bed for Fresh Sleep
The bed should be stripped each morning and aired thoroughly. Do not place the bed near a window with fog or rain. In humid weather a room should be aired but bedding must not absorb dampness by being near the window.
Old French Milk Bleach Recipe For Face Cream
A vintage formula describes a facial bleach from milk strained and heated with cucumber pulp, plus alcohol and tincture of benzoin. The mixture is cooled and poured into a bottle, then used at night after washing and before applying creme marquise.
Laundry Tips From a Bygone Guide
Household advice covers ironing tablecloths on both sides with moist heat for stiffness and gloss, thinning stale starch for limp linen, keeping meat hot by steaming, bias ruffle cutting by folding, using soap to ease new cotton sewing, and moth prevention with alcohol camphor and red pepper for fabrics and furs.
Doctor confirms patient’s sound lungs and heart
The doctor declares the lungs perfectly sound and heartbeats regular. He says the patient can eat the bird with confidence.
Danish Premier Denies Secret German Treaty
Copenhagen May 4 Premier Christensen states the Danish government has not and will not conclude a secret treaty with Germany. The policy remains neutrality and not alliances as rumors circulate.
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Copenhagen
Christensen
Germany
Humor and Philosophy By Duncan M. Smith
A humorous poem about a man secretly captivated by a young woman. He clumsily brags of courage while admitting how her proximity defeats him, surrendering his bravado and even wage earning pride to her orbit. The piece playfully contrasts male bravado with feminine influence and charm.
Why Does That Rich Fellow Have Any Money
Dialogue reveals a puzzled person questioning a wealthy man’s finances. The exchange contrasts curiosity about the man’s wealth with a stranger’s lack of apparent friends. The humor hinges on misdirected assumptions about wealth and social ties.
Unsung Feats Highlighted in Local Recollection
A brief tribute notes an unnamed man who preferred small tests of effort. He found pride in simple tasks like pushing a baby cart, an achievement praised as meaningful in the memory.
Operatic Phonograph Moment Sparks Listening Rush
A brief scene shows a couple debating music taste as the phonograph plays. The dialogue reveals a shared enthusiasm for opera and a ready readiness to pause daily activity to listen. The exchange highlights how opera affects their habits and mood.
Dad Furnishes the Coin in a Family Tale
A fragment hints at a father figure with limited style yet shaping a household. Wry dialogue contrasts his lack of style with the notable image of his wife and daughter, inviting readers to speculate on family dynamics.
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Dad
They Discuss Practical Aid to Heathen Peoples
A dialogue weighs humanitarian aid and practicality. One argues for sending useful goods that bound traders would accept in exchange for rum, while another scoffs at the idea. The exchange highlights differing views on aid effectiveness.
A Substitute. I Need to Get a Haircut
A speaker muses that a haircut could be avoided by staying busy or pursuing marriage as an alternative path to fulfillment. The tone hints at trying to choose between immediate grooming and broader life changes.
Quote on honesty and success from a wartime era dialogue
A short exchange contrasts poverty with honesty and asks how to define difference. The exchange suggests both tramps and successful people share a similar claim to honesty and value.
Self reliance and social hopes in old prose
The excerpt argues that personal fault should not govern anger and that those who expect nothing often have justifiable reasons. It notes that good wishes are inexpensive yet valuable, and warns that friends getting their way can ruin one’s own plans.
Foley Honey and Tar advertised as safe remedy
Notice to customers states Foley s Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung troubles contains no opiates and is not ruled unsafe by the National Pure Food and Drug law. It is sold by all druggists and recommended for children and adults. EXCURSION details show Iowa Central Ry tickets to Los Angeles and San Francisco from April 25 to May 18 with return by July 31. stopovers allowed. A B Cutts contact offered. Additional May excursion to Minneapolis St Paul on May 18 with return until May 21. round trip $4.00.
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Foley
Mystic Shriners’ Convention
Conference of German Baptist Brethren
Los Angeles
Cal
Iowa Central Ry
San Francisco
A. B Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
Twin Cities
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Brighton
St. Paul
New Empire prospectus advertised for South Dakota lands
Readers are urged to request a free illustrated pamphlet titled New Empire about rare farm bargains and new towns in the Minneapolis and St. Louis extension area. Address A. B. Cutts in Minneapolis to obtain the pamphlet before edition exhausts. Also a dental reminder about Dr King s New Life Pills for bowel regularity and appendix health, available at Stewart s pharmacy for 25 cents.
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South Dakota
Minneapolis
St. Louis R. A
Qootes
Stockman’s Paradise
Dr. King
Stewart
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