Questionable Advice & Advertisements

~ Friendly Talks About Marriage, G. W. Shinn, 1897

~ The Illustrated Catalogue & Price List of A. Coulter & Co., Wholesale Dealers in Staple Goods & Novelties, 1878

“Sew a few into your coattail and you can unconsciously carry off a good share of the contents of a small hardware store. With a little outlay and energy, a man can provide comfortably for a good sized family.”

~ The Referee & Cycling Trade Journal: A Weekly Record and Review of Cycling and the Cycling Trade, 1893

~ Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, Including Social, Commercial and Legal Forms, Letter Writing, Invitations, &c., also valuable suggestions on Self Culture and Home Training., by Richard A. Wells, 1891
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~ The Furniture Trade Review and Interior Decorator, 1895
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“Makes fifteen pieces of furniture; two hundred changes of position.”

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A Gentleman’s Smoke:
“Doctor’s Prescription”

“Take one every hour
-Dr. Puffo”

[Pharmaceutical Age. 1893.]

The Home and Farm Manual; A New and Complete Pictorial Cyclopedia of Farm, Garden, Household, Architectural, Legal, Medical and Social Information, by Hon. Jonathan Periam, 1884
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~ Hints on Etiquette, by Charles Wm. Day, 1843

~ The Review of Reviews, April 1900
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“TASTES LIKE SALT.
IS SALT.”

~ The Home Cook Book, 1877

~ The Referee & Cycling Trade Journal: A Weekly Record and Review of Cycling and the Cycling Trade, 1893

~ The Housekeeper’s Friend, 1879
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“…affording great relief and comfort to the many who find ordinary Corsets oppressive.”

~ Hopgood’s Hair Cream, 1892
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“Sedative Hair Cream…recommended by the Faculty”

~What Shall I Eat? The Housewife’s Manual, by Miss E. Neill, 1892

~ The Bazar Book of Decorum: The Care of the Person, Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonials, by Robert Tomes, 1870
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