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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
5
Sir Robert Ball reassures readers no danger from Halley's Comet and recounts New York hotel revelry. Guests at the Hotel Gotham and Hotel Astor view the comet from diminutive terraces with breakfast and music, receiving silver telescopes as favors.
Florence Nightingale, famed as the angel of the Crimea, turns ninety on May 12. In New York Mrs Florence Howe Hall recalls a 1902 Mayfair visit and Nightingale's quiet support for suffragism within a peaceful campaign.
The article extols Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo and his Favorite Prescription as a cure for female weaknesses and disorders, promising to purify regulate strengthen and restore vitality. It urges medicine dealers to offer the remedy and warns against substitutes.
In a men's service a Yorkshire vicar praised wives who mind the home and children as heroines, prompting a farmer to tell his wife she is a heroine. She protests, noting her own church attendance and counting five bonnet colors from last Sunday.
Dr Johnson describes a balloon made from the lightest materials and filled with light air or ether. Bladders capture vapor produced by acid to create buoyant gas which is stored in a large spherical case. The balloon rises if air density matches the surrounding environment and wind conditions allow.
Instructions describe making coffee ice cream by mixing hot sugar and coffee with thin cream, chilling, folding in whipped cream, freezing, and serving with mint. A method to remove ink spots from a white embroidered waist uses kerosene oil, yellow soap, then soap and water to remove all traces of ink.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for liver stomach and kidney troubles. It claims the pills expel poisons and restore health, vigor and courage to the weak and nervous. Available for 25 cents at A W Shelley.
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