Plans and Design 2nd Dwelling Costs and Features
Detailed advertisement for a two story dwelling by Dennis & Gastmeyer Architects at 280 Broadway New York. The house, costing 2800, features steam heat a full brick basement balloon frame hemlock and spruce timber cypress siding two ply paper exterior white lead paint fancy leaded glass bow windows blinds reed interior woodwork cypress molding and paneling tiled bath and kitchen porcelain fixtures gas and electric readiness and fine hardware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis & Gastmeyer
Broadway
New York
North Carolina
When Love Is Antiseptic in a Conservatory
A humorous tale contrasts a French physician’s dread of microbes with a couple in a conservatory. He fears every touch spreads germs, while she, baffling him, refills an antiseptic fountain and writes YES in spray, ending with a playful hint at evolving etiquette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conservatory
Rapid fire guns and their adjustment in big cannon
A historical overview explains rapidity of fire in large caliber guns, distinguishing from true machine guns. It covers automatic aiming devices, brake systems to absorb recoil, loading improvements, electric elevators, and examples from Havre and battleships, noting three shells per minute and other efficiency gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Literary Digest
la Nature
Bays
Deport
Havre
Cll
Seaweed In Valuable Transformation Of Sand Dune House
A simper cottage built on sand used drifting seaweed as soil to stabilize foundations and create a green garden. The method produced lush vegetation, hedges, and flowers, turning barren dunes into a vibrant yard and is praised as a useful innovation.
Wanted Simple Tunes and a Diabetes Cure Tale
A Westport father lumbers through a musical moment with his violin daughter as a library visit ends in awkward family tuning. Meanwhile in Hinton Ky a local teacher claims diabetes cure via Dodd's Kidney Pills after two doctors said nothing could help. The ad claims diabetes is a kidney disease and praises the pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Jia
Kansas City
Mary
Ahe
Hinton
E. J. Thompson
Thompson
Dodd
Cures Promised for Eczema Yet Mixed With Ads and Notes
An assortment of old notice style copy begins with an advertisement for Cuticura remedies claiming rapid cures for eczema and scalp eczema with instructions to bathe, cleanse, and apply Cuticura products and take Resolvent pills. The piece weaves in travel ads for Nickel Plate trains, a quip about church hats cited to Cleveland Leader, and a report from Omaha about Shoshone town lot sales near Wind River Reservation tied to the Chicago & North Western Railway. It closes with a brief quotation about measuring truth by what one gives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Casper
Wyo
Shoshone
Wind River Reservation
Chicago & North- Western Railway
Suffering Woman Credits Kidney Pills For Health Miracle
Mrs. Mary Cogin of 20th Street and Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City Missouri says years of weakness dropsy and swelling ended after using Deans Kidney Pills. She reports she grew well and even bore a healthy baby after doctors had given up. Advertisement notes price 50 cents a box and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Cogin
20Th St
Cleveland Ave
Kansas City
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Promised Cures
A vintage medical advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for female troubles. It claims to treat uterine disorders backache, headaches, nervous debility, and menstrual pain, offering safety and near infallibility, with sale through druggists and a warning to refuse substitutes.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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