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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1906
Page
6
The Indianapolis Gun Club hosts the Grand American Handicap this week with a field of top national trap shooters. The event runs Wednesday and Thursday with sweepstakes and handicap matches on other days starting today. A record number of trophies and prizes are offered this year.
An inspector tests a class on mottoes for the months with two proverbs about weather and seasons. A pale boy interrupts, noting the landlord pays arrears instead of weather lore, prompting quiet laughter in London.
A humorous aside describes a person staying in a New York hotel that charges $12 a day for a room with a bath. The speaker jokes about needing the bath to stay warm or comfortable, highlighting odd hotel pricing and daily calls for self care.
Bluffton Indiana resident Mr M F P Burroughs praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best for bowel trouble after years of use in his family. He notes it is often needed before summer ends and urges purchase from J L Wikle.
A discussion from Success Magazine on how mental balance supports long life. A well poised mind maintains serenity, resists trivial disturbances, and preserves centripetal focus, while hot temper and constant confusion drain vitality and shorten life.
People who have used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and spoken privately about its benefits are praised for making it a household word. The ad notes the medicine cures diarrhoea and bowel troubles and is sold by J. L. Wikle.
Health advice warns constipation as the root of many illnesses and urges immediate lifestyle changes. It recommends Cascarets to stimulate bowel muscles, aid digestion, and prevent waste buildup, claiming the ten cent box fits the pocket and is produced only by Sterling Remedy Company.
A promotional notice invites readers to mail ten cents in stamps to receive a beautiful French designed gold plated trinket box. The offer claims to cover handling costs and asks readers to mention their name address and the pay date.
A historian describes bees acting as undertakers, killing intruders with stings and embalming corpses to keep the hive safe. The process uses a hermetic wax coating that preserves the body without contamination, even snail shells cannot be pierced.
An old formula claims a severe cold can be stopped in one to two days. Early symptoms include a dry cough a watery nasal discharge and a thin white tongue coating. Taking Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy hourly at first sign purportedly counters the illness restoring health within a day or two for sale by J L Wikle.
The article describes how different birds groom themselves using water, dust, or loam. Wild ducks travel for fresh water baths, sparrows mix water and dust, partridges bathe in loam, and all birds enjoy ash baths after a field burn, creating dust clouds as they rise.
For twenty years W L Rawls of Bells Tennessee fought nasal catarrh. He reports swelling and soreness in his nose vanished after applying Buckleas Arnica Salve to the sore area. The salve is advertised as the best, 35 cents at West End Drug Co. and Miller Drug.
The thirty first Texas State Sunday School convention opened in Travis Park Methodist Church San Antonio with delegates from every county. President Wiggins presided as discussions on Sunday school methods began. Prominent speakers come from Texas and other states and music director Clarence M. Magee of Dallas leads the program.
The cocoanut crab, one of the oldest crab species, lives in southern lands and feeds on cocoanuts. It uses a strong foreclaw to husk and crack the nut and then extracts the meat, showing a remarkable instinct Darwin compared to distant natural structures.
A Leavenworth Indiana woman weakened by female troubles and stomach catarrh was advised surgery but her husband delayed it to try Electric Bitters. The remedy reportedly cured her, with claims it treats torpid liver kidney disease biliousness jaundice chills fever debility nervousness and blood poisoning. Price 50 cents at West End Drug Co and Miller Drug Co.
A well to do farmer lent a spare horse to neighbors free of charge but warned them not to overwork him. One man needed it for a funeral procession and claimed he must keep up with the procession even if it kills the horse, prompting a caution about driving fast on a hot day.
A Frontier era editorial warns young women against hasty marriage, declaring it wiser to remain single than wed a “worthless man.” It stresses women can marry later while cautioning that leaving a binding, unhappy union is difficult once formed.
An herbal remedy named Chamberlain's Salve is advertised for sore nipples chapped hands burns frost bite chilblains chronic sore eyes itching piles tetter salt rheum and eczema. Sold for 25 cents a box by J. L. Wikle.
A comic exchange shows Mamma prohibiting front yard play on Sunday while Willie argues that the back yard is also Sunday. The short dialogue appears in Lippincott's The Modern Sunday section.
The Kansas City Independent reports on what it calls heroic Chinese medical methods for diseases like rheumatism neuralgia gout ulcers and diarrheal complaints. Treatments involve hot teas and broths with ginseng and impure substances, water-drenching approaches and various tonics.
W. L. Hill of Bowie Texas rose from 90 pounds to over 150 showing dramatic weight gain after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. He credits the remedy with curing a terrible cough and nearly fatal decline. Trial bottle offered free by local druggists.
A polite salesman touts cheese as lovely while a boarding school student objects that lovely should describe something alive. The salesman insists on using lovely, citing his own judgment and humor. The exchange appears as a light, clipped anecdote from the New York Press.
An advertisement claims headaches are caused by blood pressure congesting the frontal region and promises a quick cure. Dr Shoop’s Twenty Minute Headache Cure supposedly relieves pressure by redistributing blood, offered in tab form and marketed by J L Wikle.
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