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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1903
Page
2
Don’t wait until despair and shattered nerves drive you down. Mrs Pinkham offers advice and Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to restore health and happiness. With Lynn Massachusetts at its base the medicine boasts millions of successful cases and free guidance to interested women.
The piece notes a growing petroleum habit in Paris and calls for urgent action by authorities. Physicians agree on its general harm, though not on all effects, describing victims as despondent and morose rather than violent. The anomaly of petroleum drinking in France is described as perplexing.
A concise reflection on how cautious reasoning can reveal only a small portion of what lies ahead. The idea likens careful thinking to a telescope that shows a fragment of future possibilities rather than the full landscape.
Wm E Gentry of Lakefield Minnesota recounts decades of back misery and painful urination. After using six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills his pain vanished and he feels better than in fifty years. The ad touts cures for lame backs kidney and bladder troubles and notes widespread endorsements.
A compilation notes Congressman Littlefield praising publicity, Sino unrest, L. A. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co venture, and death of breeder David Vandolac. Utah Senate backs territorial omnibus, Rev. W. P. Washington jailed for forgery, and Afro-Americans rally for Crum as customs collector. Pettite named Alabama senator. Nelson nominated for Dakotas customs. Judge Fentress dies in Chicago. Minnesota backs lumber tariff repeal. Jamaica hails Panama Canal treaty. Miss Odell dies in Newburgh. Phillips Brooks anniversary observed. Teller election legality affirmed. Barnard named chevalier. Roosevelt contributes to famine relief. railroad shifts in Chicago. Japanese test bids for locomotives. memorial services for deceased MPs begun. Von Ballestrom resigns as Reichstag president. Danish report links Nordic mining to American copper trust. Osgoode dies. Minneapolis sues McClure for alleged libel.
An affluent hoarder near Le Mans named Chape fale kept a chapel over his family tomb to continue daily routines. He read, wrote, and managed accounts in the coffin which held a mattress and acted as a resting place. He asked that his pipe, tobacco pouch, penholder, and other familiar items be interred with him.
A Washington boy caddie story involves Supreme Court Justice Harlan hiring a 12 year old, the boy missing the next day, and a rich senator's daughter arriving with an excuse about a luncheon for Senator Depew. The tale highlights caddying among social classes.
A young charming woman boarded a suburban street car across the river and found her hat alive. She leaped to the floor as four mice scurried around the car in panic. The woman explained the old hat had not been worn for a year.
In a Senate exchange Senator Spooner of Wisconsin joked with Dr Heenan consul at Wessa who stood six four and broad shouldered, noting the disparity in height while Spooner read a book. The remark sparked, Great Scott, as Spooner quipped about stature. The piece also mentions Gates and a $ seven million one day goal before pay day.
The article notes seventeen changes in under two years as of March 1901 twelve died three resigned two unseated by contests, marking the greatest number of changes in a single session of Congress according to researchers.
A dramatic line notes the impossibility of a second degree verdict when a spouse serves as judge and jury, highlighting a potential conflict of interest in a legal proceeding.
An advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening clothes at five cents a package and touts Defiance Starch as superior, claiming many dealers prefer it. The copy notes the right to personal superstition and remarks on wealth lacking rational enjoyment.
An old advertisement claims Defiance Starch outperforms rivals with a guaranteed refund and 16 ounces for 10 cents. The passage also promotes various dubious tonics and social maxims, noting remedies like Kline’s Great Nerve Heiston er and A Woman’s Idealization. The ad targets households with claims of ease, value, and social advice.
Dre Richards Van Camp of 144 Farnam Street Omahe Neb promises a cure for catarrh by mailed treatment. Doctors claim long establishment and reliable practice in Omahe. Send case details and one dollar to receive one month of inhaler and constitutional treatment. An old bachelor touts gold cure for feminine heart troubles.
Dr W O Coffee of Des Moines Iowa claims to cure cataracts and other eye diseases at home with medicines. He announces a free booklet on eye diseases for readers, promising to restore sight and strengthen weak eyes.
In a Brooklyn Life item a stork reports delivering three babies to a single tenement woman while her husband is unemployed and the family has no money, illustrating hardship and the humor of human circumstances.
John Sebastian, a renowned railroad veteran linked with the Rock Island system, has been appointed passenger traffic manager over the entire Rock Island network and additional lines including Choctaw Gulf Oklahoma and St Louis Kansas City Colorado. He began in railroad service 34 years ago as a ticket clerk at Santa Fe Chicago.
A fragment discusses deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh, promising a hundred dollars for incurable cases by fair cure. It references circulars from Anne Grants in Toledo, Ohio, and includes a dialogue about discomfort and expense.
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