A Mother's Story Happiness After Years of Illness
A Dayton Tennessee woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring her health after years of invalidism. She describes crippling back and stomach pain, loss of appetite, and nervous weakness, and notes improvement began after taking the pills in October 1893. The article promotes the pills as a remedy for numerous ailments and lists availability and pricing.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
J. ©. Wilson
Rhea County
Dayton
Wilson
Willams
Willian
Pr Williams
The Washerwoman and the Loom of City Labor
The article laments the return of the old washerwoman era as steam laundry grows, noting acids and machinery wear linen faster and create social divides. It contrasts home finished linen with the crude polish of Chinamen laundry work and mentions injuries from peeling outer fabric, while urban life sketches resurface with washerwomen reclaiming street scenes and baskets in tenement districts.
Hardy Old Fellow Alexander Brownlie Lost Then Found Alive
An elderly prospector from Tumut New South Wales named Alexander Brownlie aged 76 went missing in the ranges for eight days with no food though he had water and a pipe to smoke. He returned to civilization alive though not well. A man feels as much sorrow for his wife’s illness as it affects his own comfort.
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Alexander Brownlie
Tumut
New South Wales
Pleasant remedy cited as superior syrup of figs
The article contrasts the plants in Syrup of Figs with cheaper vegetable extracts and mineral solutions, claiming the former has a permanently beneficial effect on the human system while the latter are injurious. It promotes choosing the true remedy manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Bankley is noted for interest in music, not piano study.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Catarrh Cure Ad Claims Mercury-Free Remedy
An old advertisement warns against mercury based remedies for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally. It asserts the product treats blood and mucous surfaces and offers testimonials and price per bottle.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Tololo, O
Halls
Toledo
Olin
Fr. Cheney & Co
Arise Ye and Depart For This is Not Our Rest
A Rev Dr Talmage sermon urges that earthly wealth praise and fame fail to rest the soul. He contrasts restless worldly pursuit with the eternal rest promised in heaven, citing personal losses and the example of those who found peace beyond this life.
The Motor Cycle Steams From Coal Oil Power
The motor cycle inventions promise to replace carriages with a single seat and four wheeled carriage models. Coal oil fuels the motor, a gallon driving 200 miles for a single rider and twice that for a four wheeler with three passengers. Experts see a bright future as energy efficient travel gains popularity.
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Terra Firma
Thea
Crippe
A Syllable Game Teaches Word Building Fun
A playful method invites learners to cut apart syllables from written words, shuffle them, and draw three at random. Players attempt to form a new word from the syllables, returning two if they fail and drawing again on their next turn.
Baseball Sun Beats The Court In Summer Heat
A fragment notes the sun’s glare on a game in the South where a player jokes about heat between court and baseball fields, implying a humorous comparison of conditions. The tone hints at a casual, colorful account of a sunny game day.
Portia Law Club aims to found first women’s law college
The Portia Law Club of San Francisco advocates creating the world’s first women’s law college led by Dean Clara S Foltz. Members seek legal influence for women while remaining non practicing, using the marter-board cap as their emblem and promoting women’s independence from men lawyers.
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Portia Law Club
San Francisco
I Lnw College For Women
Clara S Foltz
Daughters of America
Diamond Crowned Artist Cited By New Orleans Picayune
The New Orleans Picayune notes artists receive a crown of diamonds and rubies marked with the initial V. BR 7, and the bearer believes their life has not been lived in vain.
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Iue
New Orleans Picayune
Young woman leads two Missouri banks in Green City and Green Castle
Miss Comstock, president of Comstock Banking Company in Green City and cashier of the Comstock Castle Bank in Green Castle, is noted as possibly the youngest bank officer in the country. She began as assistant cashier and book-keeper in March 1850 and, in September, the Green Castle bank was formed with her as president of the old bank and cashier of the new one. She oversees the bank’s real work with evident success.
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Miss Comstock
Comstock Banking Company
Green City
Comstock
Castle Bank
Green Castle
Isso
Louisville Courier-Journal
Exquisite Fashion Pieces in Local Shops Offer Varied Silks
The town shops showcase maire jackets and assorted remnants in silks and brocades ideal for Arab jackets. A biscuit cloth jacket features gold braid and bead trim with square-cut edges. An imported square bolero in Louis Seize Chine style uses yellow, pink rosebuds, tibeline fur edging, and pare yellow satin lining.
Queen Victoria's jewelers gift luxury brooches
The article notes that Queen Victoria favors paying jewelers with diamond brooches and bracelets as tokens of appreciation for Windsor displays. Recipients are said to prize the pieces as lucky souvenirs, with many stars of the stage keeping them rather than selling.
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Windsor
Railroad Laborers Injured in Heat Expanded Rail Incident
An unusual railroad accident near the Louisville & Nashville line left Foreman Michael Quinlan and two workers badly hurt. The steel bowing from heat caused a crowbar prying mishap, sending the rail onto their legs. Walter Walters suffered a right ankle fracture. James Sneed endured leg amputation below the knee.
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Michael Quinlan
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Walter Walters
James Sneed
Foreman Quinlan
Sneed
Nashville American
Sacrifices and Crops in Roman Spring Myths
From the Fortnightly Review we learn that Romans offered red-haired poppies in spring hoping crops would ripen. Scholars like Ramsay Frazer and Frazer frame Attis and Adonis as vegetative gods tied to human sacrifice and the harvest cycle, with symbols of grain, reaping, and resurrection. An aside notes Austrian police must understand telegraphy.
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Festus
King’s Teignton
Professor Ramsay
Attis
Mr. Frazer
Tis
Adonis
Reading on Trains Harms Eyes Warn Eye Doctor Study
An oculist warns that persistent reading on trains strains eye muscles and degrades vision. He cites rough tracks, frequent distance changes, and fatigue from keyboard use as key factors, noting cure only with discontinuing the habit.
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Ati Entment Ceulist
Whitist
Creaking Boots Explain Why Boat Soles Creak and How to Fix
A reader explains that boot creaking comes from leather soles rubbing or heel stiffeners loosening. Remedies include adding soft material like felt between soles, securing stiffeners, and applying French chalk to reduce friction. Effectiveness varies with each case.
Fragmented 19th Century Text Sparks Curious Incoherence
A garbled historical OCR piece mentions Walter Baker and a Dar diplomacy context, with scattered names like Isaac Thompson and Druggists rates. It hints at a contest or prize, some midsetite petrie maw, and vague references to industry on the continent, but the readable facts are minimal and unclear.
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Wolter, Baker, &A
Petrie
Theoeonte
Walter Bakir
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