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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1900
Page
7
A Paris trend brings bonnets and large yellow straw hats to horses and donkeys in New York, with ribbons, flowers, and horse names displayed on crown bands. Drivers favor cornflowers marguerites and poppies, noting sun protection and artistic flair, as American horses adapt to the stylish headgear.
A 19th century essay argues girls need open air activity to be healthy, opposing the idea of frailty. It urges dress for practicality and outdoor life for girls. Also includes guidance on proper address for clergy, noting not to use Rev as a prefix in conversation.
Colored globes in drug store windows were first displayed by the Moorish druggists of Arabia and Spain.
The piece argues foreign abuse of Chinese immigrants fuels entanglements. It then links stomach overtaxation to indigestion and suggests Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the best remedy to prevent nervousness and sleeplessness.
The Latin line Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur appears with its known English renderings. It highlights how altering names would reveal the satire references the reader themselves.
A vintage ad offers one hundred dollars for incurable catarrh via Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney and Co as proprietors in Toledo and includes endorsements from Weat Truaxz and Wal eing Kinnan Marvin. The copy promotes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and claims testimonials are free with price per bottle. Family Pills are cited as best.
Sim Reeves, the London ballad singer, marks his 82nd birthday. He has long been praised as the English ballad master and has performed publicly since age 14, earning renown as a premier vocalist.
Advertisement notes free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York. Claims cure for sweating damp swollen feet and makes shoes easier to wear. Also advertised for corns and bunions with nationwide druggists and stores selling it for 35 cents.
A fragment reflecting on life stages quotes a view that middle age is the happiest period when youthful passions wane and age infirmities have not yet begun, noting that shadows in morning and evening seem large but vanish around midday.
Warning of serious symptoms from tenderness in the back and kidney strain promotes Smiths Sure Kidney Cure as a gobalable remedy and system regulator. Priced at 50 cents, it is sold by all druggists. Kansas City priests of Pallas festival may be dropped due to poor attendance and trade this year.
A collage of ads and notices offering at home earning jobs for all, medical cures, and consumer products. Highlights include a paying home position, dropsy treatment by H H Green’s Sons, Langdell still at Harvard Law, Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic, laxative tablets, Putnam Dyes, Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and a remark on resignations as a proverb.
A parade of brief notes recounts a New Jersey bank robbery claim against a clerk named Schreiber, Yale professor E W Scripture winning a gold medal for a color blindness test device, shipbuilding sites in South Carolina, a Mouck’s Corner steamer launch, Mexican city life and gardens, and foreign views on American success including Chamberlain and Zola.
A vintage medical ad touts Cascar ets as a universal cure from headaches to cancer asserting bowel health as the path to wellness. It promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic with the slogan genuine metal box tablets marked C C C and warns against imitations.
New subscribers to The Century Magazine in November 1900 receive free copies of the August September and October issues or a pamphlet of The Helmet of Navarre. The offer includes a yearly $4.00 subscription. Also described is a tan cloth box coat for young girls with a velvet collar and four pearl buttons, double-breasted.
A seven dollar bill from 1776 Continental Currency holds no current commercial value beyond what a collector would pay as a historical relic. The Brotherhood of Carpenters chartered ten local unions in the last month, five of them in the southern region.
A collage of vintage ads and lines features products and quips such as Bluing agents, hair color remedies, corn care, teething syrup, and light witticisms. Mentions Toledo Ohio and general consumer pitches from an old newspaper page.
Suggests a pleasant tonic for malaria liver kidney bladder cramps colic and run-down feeling. Promotes strength and tone for the whole family. Endorsed by doctors and sold by druggists.
Turkey reports a world total of 196 500 900 Mohammedans with 18 million in Turkey and Europe, 99 million in Western Asia and Hindostan, 20 million in China, 36.5 million in northern and northeastern Africa, and 23 million scattered elsewhere.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes for swollen smarting burning feet corns and bunions priced 25c with free samples and requests readers to write Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY. A military draft note mentions mass desertions as eight men from one regiment fled to Italy preferring exile to service.
A Chicago based Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co advertises a free trial bottle for two 2 cent stamps and 300 dose bottles at 1.00 prepaid. The notice lists a long range of ailments claimed to be helped, including rheumatism sciatica neuralgia gout dyspepsia headache and more. It also notes agents wanted and mentions a German scientist analyzing Belgian artificial nutmegs with vegetables and minerals.
Advert claim encourages women to begin saving early for Christmas. It promotes Russ' Bleaching Blue laundry product and notes it is sold by all grocers. The copy contrasts pessimists and optimists among women.
The fragmentary note hints at a proverb about risk versus reward, suggesting a minor gain may equal greater trouble. Further readable context is unavailable to identify exact names or places.
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