Alcoholism in France condemned by Academy of Medicine
The Academy of Medicine of France urges the chamber of deputies to ban widespread aperitifs as dangerous to health. Dr Laborde reports absinth contains poisons and vermuth noy eau and Chartreuse pose risks though to varying degrees. The law against absinth should be enforced and fraud and alcoholism curb cited as fiscal and social harms.
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Academy of Medicine of France
Chamber of Deputies
Laborde
Vermuth
Noyeau
France
Chicago Chronicle
Ten Penny Nail Injury Heals Quickly After Balm
A Forkland Virginia merchant, Mr Powell, reports his daughter stepped on a rake made of ten penny nails. A nail pierced the foot fully and another half way in. Chamberlain's Pain Balm was applied and within five minutes pain vanished. In three days she wore a shoe again with no discomfort. The balm is advertised as antiseptic and faster than standard treatment. Sold by J L W Oakle.
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S . Powell
Chamberlain
JL VW
Okle
Insanity May Be Infectious Says Lunacy Expert
A Medicinische Rundschau article argues insanity is contagious based on cases observed by a lunacy expert. A notable instance describes a husband who fell mentally ill two years after his wife was declared insane, improved when she was moved to an asylum, then relapsed when she returned home, repeating three times. After the wife’s permanent institutionalization, the husband fully recovered.
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Medicinische Rundschau
Vienna
London Express
Praise for Chamberlains Cough Remedy From Wheeling Resident
Letter from Ralph S Meyers of Wheeling West Virginia praising Chamberlains Cough Remedy for curing a severe cough cold and chest pains after taking multiple doses and bottles. Sold by J L Wikle.
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Chamberlain
Ralph S Meyers
Thirty-seventh St
Wheeling
W. Va
J L Wikle
Willing to Go Without Henry Clews Hair Remark
A New York Times anecdote describes Henry Clews on a western railroad train with a bald head being teased by a rough passenger who jokes about hair distribution. Clews replies that he was late for the hair and would rather have none than the remaining supply.
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Henry Clews
Mr. Clews
New York Times
Worm Destroyer Advertised in Oxford Shops
Worm Destroyer claims to kill worms and remove mucus from their nests. It asserts a quick return to a healthy body where worms cannot exist. Available for 25 cents at J L Wikle and J B Privet in Oxford.
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J L Wikle
J B Privet
Oxford
Noted watchmaker Mrs Wilson famed for high profile matches
Detroit Free Press notes Mrs R T Wilson wife of New York financier and dean of a famed matchmaking society. Her husband rose after the Civil War, and the family produced marriages into the Goelet Astor Vanderbilt and Mason circles, including Grace Wilson to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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R. T. Wilson
New York
South
Wilson
Ogden Goelet
Manhattan
Michael Herbert
Orme Wilson
Astor
Grace Wilson
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Richard T. Wilson, Jr
Marion Mason
Boston
Detroit Free Press
Remarkable cure rumor from Elizabeth West Virginia
An old man afflicted with incurable cancer allegedly healed after using Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Amica Salve. The tale claims the treatment expelled biliousness and kidney and liver troubles and turned a run down system into robust health. Sold by Miller Drug Co and West End Drug Co for 50 cents with guaranteed satisfaction.
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Elizabeth
W Va
Roberts
Bucklen
Don’t Fay
Miller Drug Co
West End Drug Co
Monster Sawfish Caught By Steamer New Guinea Crew
On a Singapore bound voyage through the Carimata strait Chief Officer Devitt baited a shark hook and hauled ashore a gigantic sawfish. The creature fought wildly, its tail causing sea chaos like a large propeller. It measured twenty seven feet long with a saw four hundred forty four feet long? The saw was preserved and the fish dispatched on deck.
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Singapore
Carimata Strait
Devitt
New Guinea
Policeman Praises Foley's Honey and Tar in Testimony
Nashua night officer J N Patterson recounts suffering a bad winter lung cold. After trying several cough remedies and two doctors with no relief a friend recommended Foley's Honey and Tar and two thirds of a bottle cured him. He calls it the greatest cough and lung medicine in the world.
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J.N. Patterson
Nashua
Foley
Miller Drug Co
The Bread Jar Care In Warm Weather
The bread jar or tin should have the closest attention daily during warm weather. Wipe out the crumbs and scald it every morning. Keep muffins gems and quick biscuits separate from raised bread and use them up at once by steaming or re heating in the oven or by toasting. Use rice and the various preparations of wheat both as cereals and for breakfast cakes during the hot weather and let the corn and oat meal be reserved for the winter diet.
Dr King’s New Life Pills Sell Despite Youth Disdain
Ad praising Dr King’s New Life Pills claims the remedy cures indigestion jaundice fever constipation and other ailments regardless of age. It quotes 25 cents price and lists Miller Drug Co and West End Drug Co as sellers.
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Dr King
Miller Drug Co
West End Drug Co
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