Hardened liver and pale pills promise cure
A Pittsfield farmer Valentine Smith recounts recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He says he suffered from abdominal distension and kidney issues, slept poorly, and faded health for years before relief followed by renewed strength and ability to work.
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Democrat
Pittsfield
Valentine Smith
Williams
Minsin Coiry
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Hall Mishap Echoes Through Fractured Verse
Fragmentary lines convey anguish as a speaker contemplates pain and delayed truth. Imagery hints at a tormenting wait and the struggle to acknowledge a loved one’s deception, with a focus on emotion over clear narrative details.
The New Women Prisoner In Court Mock Trial Tale
The Detroit Free Press mocks a court scene with a woman prisoner demanding trial by peers while a judge laments lacking power to summon angels to jury duty. A Kitty asks for bread in a kitchen snippet from the Chicago Tribune.
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Detroit Free Press
How To Build A Warm Winter Poultry House
Agricultural hints advise careful planning for a cost effective, warm poultry house to keep fowls comfortable in cold weather and to encourage winter laying. A cement floor, stone foundation, stone wall, earth bank, and tight woodwork with siding and south facing windows are described, plus a complete perspective view by Webb Donnell in the New York Tribune.
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Webb Donnell
N.Y
Among the Poultry
Farmers' Voice stresses care and management in poultry practice. It urges sturdy housing, sufficient feeding, attentive husbandry, and careful scrutiny of egg quality and incubator habits to prevent losses. It highlights the need for committed effort, proper food like chopped clover and bran, and prudent blame when eggs fail to hatch.
How to Attain Early Maturity in Animal Breeds
The article argues improved breeds mature faster but at the cost of weakened constitutions. Breeding from immature animals increases susceptibility to disease. It suggests sometimes breeding young, but warns against using progeny of immature stock as breeders due to poor returns.
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Ayer
Society tale and comic quip at Washington reception
A Philadelphia society woman visiting Washington attended several functions and met a Russian attaché. In a witty exchange she asked how he was, and he answered Bulle vitch. The tale ends with the laugh on the lady. In Spain a folk remedy for whooping cough involves three hairs from an ass, with a belief that the ass will die when the cough ends.
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Rittenhouse Square
Washington
Legation
Spain
California Fig and Top Co laxative syrup feature
The California Fig and Top Co. celebrates its highly regarded laxative remedy, touted as the universal laxative. Advertised as popular and effective, it is offered by all druggists. The clipping also includes a Boston Transcript quip about marriages and an undertaker brother.
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California Fig & Top Co
Boston Transcript
Now Until Spring Overcoats in Fashion on Rail Travel
A promotional note extols lightweight attire for travel on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It emphasizes comfort, speed, and safety aboard steam heated trains and touts the railway as superior in the West. The quote from Carlyle about sorrow as a lesson ends the item.
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Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered as Constitutional Remedy
An ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional cure priced at 75 cents. A separate line mocks a man who endures a fit of passion under a lawgater’s apply. A quip notes every bride wears a wedding dress beyond her father’s means.
Why She Was Offended In A Velvet Gray Moment
A Chicago Evening Past item recounts two girls in contrasting outfits, one in gray and the other in dark blue, discussing a new bloomers fashion. The gray girl recalls admiring the bloomers while the other deflects by saying she would not wear them even if he were in her place.
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Chicago
Piso's Cure for Consumption Advertised by Mrs Deis Lott
Mrs Deis Lott of Rincewar Missouri testifies that a six year cold settled on her lungs and caused coughing and coughing up blood. She credits Piso's Cure for Consumption by Tar Prep Company of Warren Pennsylvania for rapid relief after following directions and bought two more bottles for her husband, who also endorses it. The letter asks for publication if allowed.
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Piso
Sneen
Cousins and a Jailbird Watch Prank
A jail inmate group drank together when one displayed a watch. One teased him asking its cost, he replied six months. The remark in Washington reflects a humorous jail phrase about time served.
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Washington
Aged and infirm urged to try Stomach Bitters
The aged are advised to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe solace and invigorant to retard wrinkles and decline. It is claimed to counteract rheumatism and neuralgia, improve digestion, rectify biliousness and malaria, and a wine glass before retiring is said to promote sleep.
Fragmentary Aphorism Note in Old Quote
A clipped quote laments loss of manhood and womanhood with a sidelong jab at childhood, attributed to a young man or youth. The excerpt hints at moral themes rather than a full narrative, offering a lone fragment of social commentary.
Fragmented 1905 Advertisement Snippet
A garbled clippings mix features medical cures and patent remedies with brand names like Piso’s, Hales Honey of Horehound and Tar, and Pike’s Toothache Drops. The text also references Burke and a few personal names, all in a jumbled ad style typical of early 20th century newspapers.
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Pike
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U.S. Gov't Report
Rincewar
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Warren, Pa
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