Dean's Kidney Pills Advertises Cure for Kidney Troubles
A classic 19th century advertisement asserts backache signals kidney trouble and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a universal cure. It quotes Mrs. Adam Guntle of Crawfordsville Indiana detailing years of relief after three boxes and endorses the remedy for herself and others. The ad offers a free trial by mail from Poster Millurn Co Buffalo NY and lists price at 50 cents per box in drug stores nationwide.
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Bright
Dean
Adam Guntle
South Plum St
Crawfordsville
Ind
Irish apology and Winchester honors in Bloemfontein and Europe
A Bloemfontein paper apologizes for missing its first edition due to an accident. The Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven, renowned globally, earns praise as royal patrons, including King Oscar of Sweden, naming Winchester as gunmakers to His Majesty.
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Bloemfontein
South Africa
Boston Herald
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
New Haven
Europe
Oscar
Sweden
Pee
Odd Sayings and Ads From Noted Papers
A jumble of quotations and advertisements from old newspapers includes Mrs Peck returning from Niagara and Mr Peck praising Niagara. It notes a skin ailment cure with Dean's Ointment sold at drug stores for 50 cents. An ad promises money back for unsatisfactory Put pam Fadeless Dyes and ends with a wry quip from Puck.
Flag Raising at New Orleans Custom House in Civil War
A Civil War era reminiscence recounts a daring 1862 flag-raising at the New Orleans custom house after Farragut's capture. Sailors and marines, led by Capt. Henry H. Bell, raised a 30 foot American flag atop the building while facing a hostile 8,000 strong Confederate crowd supported by City Mayor John T. Monroe's peace proclamation and naval protection from warships offshore.
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National Tribune
New Orleans
Farragut
Henry H. Bell
Hartford
Louisiana
Custom House
Canal Street
Home Guards
Tigers
Foreign Legion
John T. Monroe
Mansfield Lovell
Gen. Smith
Vicksburg
B. F. Butler
The Game of Love and the Match That Surprised
The dialogue frames a couple’s courtship and marriage as a playful contrast of deception and outcome. Ned admits the match lacked true worth, noting the husband was ten years older than claimed, yet the union stands as a practical settlement of pride and fortune.
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Ted
Ned
Pies and Pioneers of the Civil War Also Medicine Men
An excerpt recounts varied Civil War skills among veterans in the Twentieth Illinois including watch repair boot making and locomotive work. It describes two informal doctors who sold a dockroot cure after Shiloh and a pies for soldiers episode at Briton’s Lane with a commission to bake and share pies, ending in a humorous misadventure.
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Mlinois
Occupationa
Hre
Henry C. Payne
Martin Bechtel
Shiloh
Payne
Bechtel
Britton’s Lane
Oustenala Ford
Hatchee River
Tennessee
How to Take Fine from a Kansas Officer's Tale
An army officer from Kansas recounts overheard dialogue in a Manila military hospital. Two patients discuss body parts for wounds with crude slang, mentioning “flippers” and “floppers” versus feared hits to the “dome” or “slats.”
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Kansas
Manila
Wiamsaa City Journal
Peruna Praised By Prominent Figures In Midwest Endorsers
The testimonial collection from C F Given of Sussex N B and Julian Weisslitz of Buffalo NY extols Peruna as a cure for colds and catarrh. D F Wilber of Oncca endorses its efficacy, while a Sangerlust official notes relief of bronchial catarrh and voice loss after using Peruna. Readers are invited to write Dr Hartman for gratis advice.
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D. Fr. Wilber
Oncc
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Entremen
C. F. Given
Sussex
N. B
Vic
Yeating Club
Julian Weisslitz
Seneca. Street
Buffalo, N. Y
The
Sangerlust
New York
David F. Wilber
New York City
Talian Weisslitz
Dr. Hartman
Aus Hartman Sanitarium
Egotism in a Thin-Soil Crop Theme
A collection of satirical quotes and ad slogans from various papers dated to 1900, highlighting vanity in crops, lax digestion remedies, poverty as insult, and a boastful exchange about life insurance. The items reflect period advertising and editorial tones with brief, punchy lines. The snippet includes mentions of Burdock Blood Bitters, Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, and a life insurance quip, sourced from Los Angeles Herald, Chicago Daily News, Indianapolis News, and Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Los Argetes
Philadelphia Bulletin
Reduced Round Trip Tickets To South And Southwest
Eastern Minot The Chicago & Eastern Minors R. A. offers sale round trip passes at lower rates to winter tourist points in the South Southeast and Southwest with returning validity to May 1903. Liberal stopovers en route and through sleeping car service Chicago to Florida via Illinois Central. Details available from ticket agents C R R or Richardson P GP A Galage.
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Eastern Minot
Chicago & Eastern
R. A
Kketa
Paneras
Chicago
Florida
Ternllinois x. R
Richardson
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Puck
ST. Jacobs
Ss A Wyer
Excelsior
Ames
Il Fis
Lee
Grant
Victoria
Bob Lee
Jacksonville
Wilber
C. F. Alven
LE Wilber
Aely
Chicago Daily New
N. W
Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Indianapolis News
TacSinile Signature of
Ies Ikanens
Sim Np
Catholic Standard and Times
Etna
Turkey
Janta Constitution
Gastoria
Bears
Castoria
Esteys
Estey Piano
Estey
Estey Factory
Brattleboro
Vermont
Paxtine
Ilar
Armenia
Whrawe
Woodward & Go, Gha Commission
Jth's Companion
Boston
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