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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1903
Page
7
A collage of vintage health claims features Hood’s pills and tonics for skin eruptions and blood disorders, Hall’s Catarrh Cure promising deafness relief, and medical quack quips. Also includes mock dialogue on divorces and smoke free stoves.
Nervousness remedy promotion mentions Kilme's Great Nerve Restorer with a free $2.00 trial bottle offered by Krise & Co. The Australian wheat crop is estimated at 16,000 bushels for the year, a sharp drop from 48,000,000 bushels last year. Mothers are advised by Mrs. Winston's Boothine Syrup for teething children. The sailor’s lighthouse sighting note contrasts with the actor’s reception.
A collage of proverbs on ambition and spirituality, brief jokes, a veal ball recipe with gravy, and scattered quotes from newspapers. Also includes a prunes jelly recipe and a satirical exchange about a timekeeper. A reflective note on respect for women closes the item.
A testimonial from Mrs. M. P. Smythers of Wytheville Virginia praises 8.8.8 as the world’s best blood purifier after a severe boil outbreak. Another Sherman Texas resident reports impurity in blood and appetite loss improving quickly with 8.8.8, calling it the best medicine as an appetizer and tonic.
The Kremlin in Moscow houses the so called largest bell in the world cast in 1733 by order of Empress Anne. It weighs 432000 pounds and stands nineteen feet three and a half inches high. It was never hung and was excavated to position by order of Emperor Nicholas in 1838.
Dr. Hartman promotes Peruna as the internal systemic remedy for catarrh. Physicians like Robert R. Roberts M D and F H Brand M D vouch for cures in diverse cases. It claims to heal mucous membrane inflammation anywhere and urges readers to seek free advice from Dr. Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
A Clark county and a Ferdinand Dubois county log schoolhouse remain as relics amid a broader decline. The piece recalls tiny teacher salaries, temporary boarding, and the old era of strict R educations vanishing as times change and modern fads rise.
A setter, crowded into a captain’s cabin on a canal packet boat, was left by a drunken master at journey’s end. The next day the dog, listening intently, leaped when the boats passed and sprang ashore to reunite with his owner at the guest house, demonstrating remarkable intelligence.
A brief exchange shows Cora and Merritt discussing propriety as a man avoids pursuing a woman with talk of business. Cora directs him to speak with her father to prove serious intent.
In a playful dialogue Algy asks Jones about his daughter's hand. Ferdy quotes the reply: take her and let me be happy. The scene notes how many people board yet the speaker recalls few who enjoyed the arrangement.
Newspaper style quips show a brash druggist praising his catarrh cure, a city editor questioning a reporter’s silence, and a refined admirer pressed by a suitor about a ball. The snippets capture wit and social cadence in brief, humorous vignettes.
A recipe describes making a good batter pudding by mixing two eggs one cup milk three and a half cups sifted flour three tablespoons melted batter half a teaspoon salt a tablespoon sugar two teaspoons baking powder and one cup of chopped cherries or small fruit. Bake in a greased mold over boiling water for two and a half hours and serve with a creamy sauce. A Sunday labor note quotes Rev. B. R. Willard decrying employers who force workers to labor on the Sabbath in Ohio.
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