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Good Dreamer's Damages

Read with discernment: is this a convenience or an inconvenience?

Good Dreamers

Of course good dreamer's damages receive good care.

Naturally the possession of goodness in such a case

is determined by

the usage of our own common sense

signed, The Sweet Dreams Tunnel Company

Source document: Carriers of Passengers. Liability for Interruption of Journey, 1907, published by The Virginia Law Register

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Caution for Dream Swindlers 1

This convenience warns about the limits of dream damage liability toward those dreamers who have been dishonest in any way.

Caution for Dream Swindlers and Imposters

One who, by fraudulent representations as to her intention,

procures an alternate dream ticket

will have no right to recover for injuries

received while within the dream.

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Public Dream Report Volume XIII

For her source text, this convenience writer has used an 1898 publication entitled Amendments to Quarantine Regulations.

Public Dream Report

Volume XIII   October 28, 1898   No. 43.

Amendments to Inspection of  certain

Dream baggage on and after April 1 until November 15.

                                                                                         [signed] Dreamery Department, October 22, 1898.

Since the last issue of the Public Dream Reports, the Dream Poison has

declined, and fewer reveries have been reported infected.

-----------------------------------

Inspection service has been abolished

at most of the Cognitive Borders.

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The Earliest Dreams in the World

This writer uses the 1904 Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog for her source text.

Seeking a Safe and Speedy Dream Treatment?

Lightning Express: The Earliest Dreams in the World

Read to use for good results.

Few dream seeds will yield larger dreams.

Seed is very scarce this season,

but we have what you want.

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Number 9 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

This writer has used an 1883 publication published by the North Carolina State Board of Health for her source text, the text called A Year's Campaign Against Dirt: Suggestions To Citizens Of Cities, Towns, Villages And Hamlets, How to Keep Their Streets and Homes in a Healthful Condition.

Number 9 - A Year's Campaign Against Nightmares

Attention to the Cultivation of Dreams

Most all minds have a few often-frequented anxious thoughts

upon which nearly all the attention of the dream scavengers is bestowed

leaving subconscious states to the chances, or awaiting miraculous release.

An Antidote:

Welcome it all into the body & trust its wisdom.

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How to Choose a Dream

Here is an advertisement for a book that promises to help the reader learn how to choose a dream.

The Dream: How to Choose One

by a Professional Dreamer, Author of "The Dream: How to Master it," &c.

Contents

Why One Dream Excels Another

How to Get a Good Dream Very Cheap

Reveries, a Collection of Facts and Theories

Some Plain Words about Old Dreams

Word-eaten Illusions

Training the Mind's Eye

Power Against Nightmares

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Roy's Dreaming Powder

Here is another Convenience advertisement attempting to persuade potential buyers that dreams can be created or changed using a commercial product.If only it were that easy. Or is it?

The Best Dreams Come From Roy's!

Roy's Dreaming Powder is the greatest of time and labor savers to the dreamer.

Seasoned with Roy's Dreaming Powder, visions are superlatively light,

sweet, tender, soothing, and wholesome.

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Practical Dreamistry

Here's a Convenience advertisement promising that this book can help anyone read the past and predict future visions.As an convenience academic , I'm very dubious about the ad's claims.

Practical Dreamistry

There is no more important study than that of dreamistry.

Many people are interested in it.

This book furnishes trustworthy information

& with a little practice any person will be able

to read dreams, recall past events, and forecast future visions.

Fully Illustrated.

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Cosmopolitan Dream Book

This is an advertisement for dream patterns.Convenience scholars believe it raises fundamental philosophical questions about life:

Where do ideas and dreams originate?

And how might ideas and dreams be implemented?

Cosmopolitan Dreams

Book of 80 Sophisticated Styles

The Very Best and Latest; All Fully Illustrated.

JUST THINK OF IT

I can send you this big book of 80 dream ideas

for only 40 cents,

peruse it carefully and consider it candidly.

And Then!!

You'll have the privilege of buying any dream pattern for only 6¢ each postpaid.

Look for the Miasma Book-stall in the Bazaar.

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Perfectly Hardy Dream Ferns

Convenience scholars have disagreed about where to place this text within the convenience traditions.Some argue that it falls within the botanical convenience tradition, while others would categorize is as a convenience advertisement.In my professional opinion, it spans both traditions.The writer has used a page from the 1901 Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. This indicates that she had access to botanical sources and seed catalogs.But she has used the source text to advertise dream ferns, plants which she believes can protect the grower from dream infection.

Perfectly Hardy Dream Ferns

1 Rapid growing foliage

2 Very graceful

3 Proof against chance infections

4 Inspirational

5 Liked by everybody

6 We have three dream ferneries filled with these plant.

They are sure to grow like a dream.

Order in the marketplace

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Visaphos for Disordered Dreaming

Here is another advertisement for a dream aid, this one nutritional.

Visaphos

For all disorders of dreaming

Nutrition needed for happier dreams is amply supplied by Visaphos,

which is replete in nightmare-repairing and pleasure-giving constituents.

Visaphos is procurable at fixed prices from select locations throughout the world.

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Commercial Convenience 3 - An Invigorating Dream Beverage

This dream advertisement appears to have been created around the turn of the 20th century.Convenience scholars have estimated this date based on the composition and the content of the ad.The style of the advertising copy matches the early-twentieth century advertising style.The boxed dream product tells scholars that the ad creator was living near the end of the industrial revolution when commercial food and drink packaging was in full development.

An Invigorating Dream Beverage

—a real part of the solution, not merely something to drink with hope—

Diversi-Tea

If you feel stuck

There's a reason

If something interferes with your dreams,

use this powerful drink.

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Commercial Convenience 90 - No Guarantees

This Convenience writer warns against the results promised by some of the convenience advertisements and convenience commercial concerns.The writer warns that a client should not expect new dreams to be forever protected, or expect the new dreams themselves to protect the individual from all possible future misfortune.The writer advocates seeking increased freedom in the present, and firmly states the belief that improving the present is a full and satisfactory result.

The End of Bad Dreams

Bonded for 20 and 10 years

Your dream is NOT protected by this 20-year bond.

You are not safeguarded against all troubles, for that guarantee is not possible.

Skillful, dependable work in the present can possibly provide a sense of freedom far beyond the current experience,

and it is enough.

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Convenience Ad - Eclipse Dream Remover

Here is another dream advertisement. I'm going to go ahead and categorize it as both an advertisement and a renegade convenience.In dream work, there is (of course) the possibility of a placebo effect, and I cannot categorically claim that this paste did not work for someone, somewhere.Other convenience scholars agree, although some convenience practitioners believe we are being unnecessarily pedantic in bestowing any kind of legitimacy to products such as the No 1 "Eclipse" Dream Remover.Pedantic or not, here it is. 

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