Woman Recovers from Back Pain with Vegetable Compound
Mrs. Margaret McCumber of Georgetown Illinois credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with alleviating severe backache sideaches headaches and nervousness after doctors advised surgery. She praises the remedy and recommends it to other women facing similar ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown
Margaret McCumber
Frazier St
Illinois
McCumber
Peereaowe
Lydia E. Pinkham
Christmas in the Graveyard: Hiram Helps a Stranger
In a warm barroom scene, Hiram Blenkinsop departs with his dog to a graveyard where he comforts a frightened young mother and her sick baby. He guides her to a cottage next to heaven, where the Shepherd’s lantern unveils Pauline Baker at dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram
Eagle
Mr. Singleton
Moran
Hiram Blenkinsop
Thaddeus Sneed
Mr. Blenkinsop
Christmas
Pearl
Willie
Judge Crocker
Bob
Bethlehem
Pauline Baker
Caristimas
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Phyllis Defies Her Mother's Plans In A Wedding
In Hazelmead on a bright May day Phyllis accepts a marriage proposal despite her mother Mrs. Bing urging restraint. Phyllis asserts she is married and refuses to play along with costly charity expectations while confronting family tension and ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Delano
Bings
Hazelmead
Phyllis
Roger
New Kentucky
Mrs. Bing
Red Cross
Snowstorm of Feather Bed Raises Napoleonic Jest
A London band of three brothers staged a Napoleonic reenactment for the centenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death. They manufactured snow by emptying a feather bed into the garden, creating a playful disruption when their mother returned with the father. The anecdote appears in London Tit-Bits and Punch as a light humor piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoléon Bonaparte
France
London
Napoleon
Alps
Mother
Father
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