Romance of the Mulcahey Family
A drunken prodigal returns to his wife in Shantytown after five years, only to find her awaiting him. Dennis Mulcahey slips away to work on a Western railroad and is not seen again that night, leaving his wife to endure widowhood anew. The scene ends with his sudden, unkept homecoming.
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Mulcahey
Dennis Mulcahey
Dennis
Shantytown
Mr. Mulcshey
Dinnis
Dinnis Mulcahey
New York Times
Bow Colors Reflect Traits of Character in Harper's Bazar
Colors in fashion are linked to character in a piece from Harper's Bazar. White denotes guilelessness and coolness, blue suggests innocence and refinement, green conveys dignity, rose hints at coquetry, purple implies majesty, red signals pride or defiance, and yellow pairs sunny generosity with possible luxury or guilt.
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Harper’s Bazar
Debt Trick Backfires in A Michigan Man Tale
A Michigan man dodges a creditor for a year then accepts a sham loan to erase a $25 debt. A mutual friend witnesses the scene as the creditor concedes and a judgment is won. The piece ends with a note on awkward ice skating tricks as a metaphor.
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Detroit Free Press
The Tyranny of a Fixed Idea In Mental Illness
Dr Ball argues before Paris Faculty of Medicine that most people are only partly reasonable and many suffer from fixed ideas or imagined ailments. He cites cases of sensory greasing fears, reading disorders, and imaginary obstacles, noting visual hallucinations like those of Lelorgne de Savigny who died in isolation seeking relief.
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Ball
Paris Faculty
Dr. Cabade
Lelorgne de Savigny
Mrs. Writer Describes Painful Menstrual History
A woman recalls painful menstruation and the relief she found with Dr Guys It's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. She notes bearing down pain and side and loin ache, claiming the remedy provides quick relief and is worth its weight in gold.
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Dr. Guys
Yellow Dock
Lydia E. Pink
Lynn
Mass
Lfe
Aix
Alber
Philadelphia
Rich farmer’s tale: thrift to fortune after unorthodox wedding
A Sparta Sunbeam item recalls a Georgia farmer who, twelve years after marriage funded his license by borrowing money. Lacking a proper suit, his bride tore wool from a sheep skin to spin and tailor him a suit. He now holds about $5,000 in value, and local merchants would sell him goods on time.
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Sparta Sunbeam
Menman's Peptonized Beef Tonic Promoted In Ad Copy
An advertisement touts Menmans Peptonized Beef Tonic as a complete beef preparation with blood-making, force-generating and life-sustaining properties. It claims benefits for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, debility, exhaustion, overwork and pulmonary illnesses. Caswell Hazard & Co. sell through druggists. Also notes fruit designs on newer brocades with raised velvet horseshoe patterns.
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Mensman
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
Medical claims and clasps described in old notices
An 19th century advertisement touts Wells Health Renewer for dyspepsia impotence and vitality while listing novelty cloak clasps featuring wooden mask mouths and bronze or silver animal heads as fashion hardware.
Rapidly Spreading Disease Warned By Early Symptoms
Symptoms of paralysis include eye twitching numb hands and feet pain at the base of the brain and throbbing. German Hop Bitters advised when warned by these signs. Court trains sloped to a bird's tail for pointed bodices in evening dress.
Brown's Iron Bitters and Hop Bitters Promote Health Issue
The ad notes Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure for rheumatism and general debility and promotes Hop Bitters to rejuvenate workers after long hours. It markets fashion items like Loxa redingotes, embroidery in silk and chenille, and work costumes. The language references health benefits and improved vitality for laborers.
Reader seeks cancer cure with Golden Medical Discovery
A letter from a Buffalo New York reader describes a breast lump thought to be cancer. After four months with the lump, the writer reports taking Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets since June and the lump disappearing. The note ends with gratitude.
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Prence
Buffalo, N. Y
Don’t Die in the House Product Ad Summary
Product listing for insect and pest control named Rough on Rats promises clearance of ants rats mice roaches bed bugs flies and other pests with a one cent offer. The ad emphasizes household use and quick action.
Navy Officer Credits St Jacobs Oil For Relief From Rheumatic Attack
Commander J. B. Coghlan U S N reports that eminent naval and other surgeons failed to help his rheumatic attack and, on Dr Hoyles advice, used St Jacobs Oil achieving complete relief. John Carr Moody Esquire lawyer of Vallejo California was likewise cured of a severe joint trouble.
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Army and Navy Journal
J. B. Coghlan
U.S. N
Hoyle
St. Jacobs
John Carr Moody
Esaq
Vallejo
Cal
A Stupendous Bridge Across the Firth of Forth
A vast project under way aims to become one of the world’s most remarkable bridges. The main girder nears a mile in length resting on cylindrical piers weighing 16,000 tons each, with 42,000 tons of steel needed and an estimated cost around 7.5 million dollars.
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Firth-of-Forth
Scotland
Wells' Rough on Corns advertised cure and large tobacco leaf
The notice promotes Wells' Rough on Corns as a quick complete permanent cure for corns warts and bunions. It also notes the largest tobacco leaf of the season grown by John C Dougherty of Lancaster County Pennsylvania measuring forty six inches long and twenty seven wide.
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South
North Carolina
John C. Dougherty
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
An assortment of patent cures and oddities in print
A collage of health quackery and curiosities touts German Hop Bitters Kidney-Wort and Dr Pierce cures, with praise for Browm’s Iron Bitters and Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners. It notes a German peer extortion case, a giant Jupiter bald spot, an electrical Munich exhibit, and trial belts for men.
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Irvington, Mich
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Lancaster
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England
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J. B. Morgan
United States
RV. Pierce
Tuomas J Methvin
Hatcher
Texas
Ecrape
America
Willam Premier
Gunpowder
Maryland
Germany
Mrubbell
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Addison
Globe
Jupiter
Fairfield
Iowa
J L Myers
Amon
Munich
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Dye
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Hosteiters
Bifters
Charles A. Vogeler Co
Sussesters
A. Vogeler
Baltimore
Bright
Cruccists
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True & Co
Auquata, Maine
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Chicago
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Toga
N.Y
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Douglass Bros. & Payne
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W. PA B & Sons
Minneapolis
J. F. Apriesy
Winneapolis
Minneapolis Harvester Works
Minneapolis, Minn
R. M. McIntosh
Tie Capital
Temperance
New England Conservatory
Toe Grea
Oliver Ditson & CO
Boston
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Ditson & CO
Broadway
Perry Sth
Tiller
Park-Kinter
Pamn-Ki Ler
Armer
Hi Poole
Philadeliphia
Trisun
D. D. T. Moore
Moore
New-Yorker
Tribune and Farmer
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Maybene
Coener Ee
Mose Skinner
Horns Lane
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Racine
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Azad
Woodbury
M&a
Peter Cooper
James Jmnyson
Godsmit Carrer
Robert Burns
Schilar
Andrew Wilson
W. Mattiou Williams
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New York City
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Natithing CO
Chicezo
Adi Fi Gon Oven To & Co
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