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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
7
A reader from Ottawa describes chronic health battles including dizziness and weakness. After years of illness and ineffective treatments, Hood’s Pills are credited with significant improvement for the writer and their son, who weighed 125 to 143 pounds at the time.
An article notes a Sassafras based patent purifier tea to clear skin and describes a way to brew it. It mentions a Russian officer testing falcons as fast carriers versus pigeons. Professor R W Wood reports thawing frozen pipes with electricity. Kansas City anti smoke ordinance upheld as furnace firing deemed preventative of smoke nuisance.
Advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a powder curing painful feet and bunions and making tight shoes comfortable. It claims 10,000 testimonials, sells in druggists and shoe stores, with a 25 cent mail option and a free trial package. Also notes scientists say the orange was once a berry and developed over 7,000 years.
A historical advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an uncured catarrh case and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous system remedy. It cites F. J. Cheney & Co and mentions West & Travax, Walding Kinnan & Marvin as endorsing parties. The ad claims the remedy is taken internally and lists price as 75 cents per bottle with testimonials available.
A Munich Hygienic Institute report cites YaS 38 as fatal to bacteria and recommends Dr Pfunder s Oregon Blood Purifier. The text also notes the sun emits about 600000 times more light than the full moon, reflecting dramatic scientific claims.
The article outlines U S time zones Eastern Central Mountain and Western and explains how the date changes across the 180th meridian. It describes how Havana Guam Manila and Honolulu relate to Greenwich time and how ships adjust dates when crossing the date line.
The article, noting Russia’s vast army and rising navy, compares armaments across nations. It cites tables from St Pauls detailing army sizes, populations, and conscripts, and recalls Lord Randolph Churchill on the cost of compulsory service.
The article describes heavy breech loading coastal mortars for inner line harbor defense. Each 13 ton mortar fires a 12 inch, 1000 pound shell in a high trajectory. With 1000 planned units, 20 already placed at Atlantic entrances, the system uses ranges of four and a half miles and precise chart guidance to target ships. Loaded by two to six crew, one shot every two minutes.
A traveler aboard a fast express dining car complains that the eggs are too soft. The waiter explains they were taken from hot water too soon. The traveler suggests returning them and boiling them longer. The New York Weekly notes a homely girl looking good in a picture.
Letter from Magnoe Lia Iowa describes recovery from a serious tumor after three boxes of Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Lozenges. The writer reports relief from bloating smothering spells heart palpitations and bearing down and says the tumor passed and health improved allowing longer walks. Also mentions English surgeon Dr Heather Bigg and a Cascarets Candy Cathartic ad note.
A fragment lists animal facts and quips from late 19th century periodicals. It notes Carolina parroquets nearly extinct in the United States, surviving only in Florida and the Indian territory, and comments on dubious cures and curiosities including medicines for consumption and social sayings.
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