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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1911
Page
10
A Detroit ad offers a free at home kidney and bladder cure recipe from Dr. A. E. Robinson. The missive claims quick recovery from pain and weakness, touts a $8.60 doctor’s fee, and invites readers to write for a plain envelope mail copy, promising harmless remedies and self-use.
New York physicians faced blame for morphine habit growth at a meeting of druggists protesting a city ordinance banning retail sale of morphine preparations without a prescription. Caswell Mayo cited a mail canvass of sanitariums showing 90 percent of drug habit victims formed the habit from physician prescriptions, 8 percent from proprietary medicines.
Two Scots, Sandy and Jock, chat about a golf game planned for the morrow. The exchange features his insistence on a morning round on the links and a joke about intending to get married in the morning, highlighting a light, humorous tone.
Richard Croker voiced distrust for aeroplanes at a New York dinner saying there is nothing beneath them and if anything goes wrong they drop. He recounted a London reply about a son who bought a flying machine being on crutches.
A fragment cites Knocker Jones and Rocker with memories failing under oath, mentioning a witness stand lacking recall. It shifts to a patent elixir pitch for Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, touting stomach and liver regulation with sugarcoated granules. A sentimental quote from Helen Hunt Jackson closes the piece.
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, claiming it softens the gums, reduces inflammation, relieves pain, and cures wind colic. The price is 250 a bottle.
Henry J. Goldstein of Boston reports Hood's Sarsaparilla cured five years of rheumatism that left his knees stiff and crippling. He says the remedy restored his health and business ability after trying many medicines without relief. He urges others to take Hood's as well.
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