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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1901
Page
7
Iron as Nation’s Strength and Honest Hearted Bitters
The piece contrasts iron’s value with wealth, urging Honstetter’s Stomach Bitters for overworked stomachs and digestive ills. It blends nature imagery with moral tones, noting healing virtues and a clipped, reflective tone about life, health, and the unnatural.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honstetter
Kinney
Allen’s Woot-Ease Promises Relief for Tight Shoes
Advertises Allen’s Woot-Ease powder to ease wearing tight or new shoes and treat swollen feet corns bunions and ingrown nails. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 25 cents with free trial by mail. Also notes Count Tolstoi’s skeptical view of physicians and medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Count Tolstoi
LeRoy, N. Y
Headache Powders Promoted As Safe Remedy
An ad touts headache powders as the latest scientific cure free from injurious drugs. It notes Heliogabalus as the first Roman emperor to wear a silken garment and recounts a 220 A.D. public silken gown that sparked scandal among cautious Romans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Heliogabalus
Cure for Coughs and Teething Pain Ad Teasers
An old ad style item lists Piso's Cure for Consumption as an infallible cough remedy cited by N W Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900. The snippet also notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain and wind colic and comments on jury delays and busy people failing to accomplish much in a short, scattered parade of phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Farm notes show broad crops and cattle trade across Texas
Cotton pickers are in demand and Abilene’s first bale sold for 9 c. Boll worms near Durant Illinois. Texas wool sold in Boston at 18 c. Cattle moved to markets in Victoria and Moulton. Peach trees planted in several counties. Grass worms drought and water issues threaten crops. An apple famine looms in Philadelphia with higher prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement and testimonials
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co as makers and includes endorsements from West & Truax and Lig Kinnan & Marvin. The copy promotes internal use and serum-like claims, with price per bottle and dealer notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Lig Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
Hall
All Drugg
Ers Hall
Gard and health ad bundle with cure claims and sayings
An assortment of vintage ads promotes Allen's Foot Ease and Garfield Headache Powders with claims for foot relief headaches and samples. Other lines tout eye water, Wizard Oil, and moral quips reflecting era advertising tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Vast US petroleum output and rail fuel use summarized
A historical tally shows the United States produced about 1 000 584 459 barrels of crude petroleum from 1859 to 1901 with California railroads consuming over 10 million barrels annually for 360 days. California has 10 refineries using 2 million barrels yearly while other coast industries add to a potential 15 million barrels per year. Berlin reports rail ticket machines selling 30 million yearly with Augsburg slots moving over 200 000 tickets daily at Friedrich Strasse and Zoologischer Garten stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
California
Union Iron Works
Fulton Iron Works
Ferries
San Francisco
United State
Berlin
Friedrich Strasse
Zoological Garden
Hidden Date Proclaimed in Red Letter Day Message
A wall inscription extols September first as a red letter day promising a boon to all. The text hints at a premium list and a guaranteed Lion, though the full context remains unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lion
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Atchey
Price
Tower CO
Boston
Mass
Oeuaas
Ine Brown
Phelps Brown
Emedy
Emaar
Awarenea
Swift Portrait & Frame Co
Dallas
Tex
C. B. Anderson & Co
Thompson
N. U. Houston
Woco
Abilene
Durant, IL
Camp County
Lincoln County
New Mexico
O. B. Robertson
Victoria
Moulton
Texas
W. A. Jackson
Amarillo Country
Stratford
D. C
W. F. Lamon
Cuba
Johnson County
Grayson County
J. E. Horne
Waco
August Meckel
Mason County
Perry McConnell
Sonora
Richard Riggs
Davis Mountain
Presidio County
Fort Worth
West Texas
T. H. McNeely
Uvalde
Paulton & Mitchell
Naples
Morris County
France
State Department
Skinner
Marseilles
Heely
International
Great Northern
Cherokee County
United States Weather Bureau
Morecroft
Wyo
Miles City
South Dakota
Bloomburg
Cass County
Jesse Sherman
A. C. Stewart
L. B. Easters
G. F. McKnight
Wilson
Corn Belt
Sarah Powell
B. 8
R. F. Bishop
Oak
Ellis County
Dickey
Wizard Oil
Yucatan
American Pharmacal Co
Evansville
Indiana
Sawyer
M. Sawyer & Son
Cambridge
ST. Mary’s Academy
Notre Dame
Sisters of the Hot Cross
Thorong
Boston Normal School of Gymnastics
St. Mary's Academy
Lion Coffee
Woolson Spice CO
ONO
Earth
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