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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Pierce's Pleasant Pills as a remedy to invigorate and regulate stomach liver and bowels. The copy uses marketing language to promote health benefits and claims free samples and confidential communications.
In a satirical sketch from Puck, the millionaire cannot boast of posterity as his daughter elopes with the coachman and his two sons pursue the gold cure, undermining his claims of wealth or lineage.
Mrs Wm F Davis of Stony Creek Conn says eczema ruined her health for years. After hundreds of dollars and doctors failed, two cakes of Cuticura Soap five boxes of Cuticura and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent cured her. Geo Co Davis 161 W 36th St New York reports the claim. Also notes German hygienic advice on light clothing in hot weather.
An advertisement promises PAZO OINTMENT as a guaranteed cure for piles with refund if not cured in 6 to 14 days. A stray line claims Kipling was “an expert at airpencering” and that he constructed many miniature ships.
Fragmented agricultural poem describing a farm life after upheaval. It contrasts fevered revelry with a calm pause, centering on a family letter from the farm that reveals yearning, mortgage paid, and the mother’s sorrow. An Agricultural Epitomist engraving style note frames the verse.
In a tale of a widower, his first wife Maria, and a young bride Helen, the house holds tension as a portrait challenges family bonds. Maggie the nurse warns of a stepmother’s place while the child Freddie faces loyalty to dead Maria. The household strains test love, memory, and belonging as a new union reshapes affection and duty.
A tale unfolds of Maggie and Paul reconciled with Freddie and Maria's child. The stepmother’s tears, love guiding a wounded boy, and a new brotherhood emerge as the father vows to mend past hurts. The family finds a fragile harmony in a quiet attic scene.
A column discusses the rise of trademark artists in a city, noting an Irish American leading figure with wit over talent for design. It covers legal quirks, gender issues in registrations, and the appeal of signatures and coined words as top trademark ideas.
A vintage advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It explains the Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss and offers a $100 reward for untreatable cases. The ad promotes remedies and asks readers to send for free circulars.
Ex Senator J S Clark of Calais Maine amused a barber shop crowd by letting his pipe go out repeatedly while chatting. He kept asking for matches from Melvin Noble a well known practical joker. Noble teased that it would be cheaper to burn coal with a grate in the pipe.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, the pastor asks what Brother Spotcash would do if faced with an injunction to sell all and give to the poor. The merchant replies he would obey, stating his stock is for sale and that he gives more to the poor than any two men in this block.
An old testimonial recounts kidney failure and urine irregularities, with back pain and languor, relieved by three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills from Franklin of Rochester. The seller notes the product costs 50 cents per box. A secondary note discusses gender differences in purchasing behavior by tailor and cutter.
An old style ad touts a laxative and quinine combo to cure a cold in one day. It mentions a money refund if ineffective and cites a signature of Grone, plus a Maxim Gorky reference and Count Witte as context for revolutionary liberty claims.
A testimonial letter describes a woman cured of a uterine tumor after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges readers with mysterious pains or signs of inflammation to seek Mrs. Pinkham's free advice and start the remedy to avoid hospital surgery.
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