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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1906
Page
6
W L DeClow Cedar Rapids Jack Farm Cedar Rapids Iowa offers Percheron and Belgian stallions in black roan and chestnut colors. Prices 700 to 1100 dollars. Ages three to five, sound and 65 percent breeders guaranteed. Farmers urged to buy for outside breeding to pay in one season.
Sam Kendall of Phillipsburg Kansas endorses Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for burns boils sores and other injuries. The ad claims rapid healing for burns boils scalds wounds piles eczema salt rheum chapped hands sore feet and sore eyes. Available for 25 cents at Fisher Bros. drug store with a guarantee.
A young dentist entertains fair patients during drilling by discussing Paris fashion journals. He spends an hour nightly reading Paquin, Cecile millinery, and opera gowns, turning dental visits into stylish interludes. His charm boosts his practice and incomes.
The article describes making imitation stones from paste that resemble diamonds in luster and refractive properties. It notes that paste can deceive most observers except the most expert, matching the high index of refraction and dispersion of top quality diamonds.
A historicHealth note extols strong lungs in gorillas and humans and features Mrs. Ora A Stephens of Port Williams Ohio describing Dr King's New Discovery curing a two year cough and suspected consumption. Fisher Bros. druggist guarantees the remedy priced 50 cents and one dollar with a trial bottle free.
A quip discusses married men keeping diaries as foolish, recalling how diaries hold trivial notes. The author notes many diary keepers burn them after marriage and wives tend to remember every word.
An advertisement promises a guaranteed cure for itching bleeding and protruding piles with Paz0 Ointment. Druggists will refund money if it fails to cure in six to fourteen days. The product costs 50 cents.
A colonel in Gen Pickett's division drinks too much applejack after General Pickett asks him to visit his tent. The exchange shows the colonel's difficulty in moving and his polite hesitation as he declines to leave his position.
The balance wheel runs at 18 000 vibrations per hour and the movement travels 3 558 miles yearly. A drop of oil is consumed to keep it running, and it should be overhauled twice a year. House cleaning every six months lengthens a watch's life.
E A Runge visits Madison on business. Will Osborne of Mineral Point guests his brother L T Osborne amid a lead and zinc fever case. Beloit hosts the 31st Y M C A Wisconsin convention March 15 to 18 with local reps named. Milwaukee road project to add a second track near Portage to Watertown and Lake George marsh fill planned. Ringling Brothers circus described as a vast operation with five trains, 85 cars, 24 pavilions, capacity 14 000 in tents, two shows daily, and high daily expenses.
The article traces E. B. Clark's view in Technical World that a Pan American railway would mirror the gray plover migration from Alaska to Patagonia. It argues the project, once a dream, has advanced beyond vision and could enable a continuous Yukon to Limay rail journey, uniting diverse climates and peoples.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed a universal cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. Internal use targets mucous surfaces and builds up the constitution. The firm offers 100 dollars for any cure it fails to achieve and invites testimonials.
Willie Simmonds, a McIndoes, Vermont native, travels to Boston at about 18 seeking his father. He assumes everyone knows everyone and asks a uniformed officer if he has seen his dad, hoping the officer can direct him to his father.
In a Contemporary Review excerpt the author argues that ill directed suggestion shortens life. At a certain age people poison themselves with thoughts of death and lose faith in their strength, accelerating aging and decline.
A health note explains that keeping air passages open and breathing deeply to fill both nostrils and lungs can banish insomnia. It emphasizes equal nostril breathing and full lung use as a general remedy.
Mrs. Mary H. Walters of Columbus Ohio describes being starved with a stomach too weak to eat and nerves too wrecked to sleep. She credits Electric Bitters with immediate improvement and a complete cure, calling it the best health tonic on earth and praising Fisher Bros for the 50 cent guarantee.
Captain Thomas Paine of Newport founder of Trinity church and a partner of William Kidd. Paine retired to Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay where a Kidd messenger found him in Boston. Paine sent seven bars of gold to bribe Kidd's jailors, but Kidd was hanged in London.
Edgar Stillman Kelly, an American composer living in Berlin, said he is setting some of Sousa's marches to music in an interesting experiment when asked what he is doing now. The remark was shared by a friend who had not seen him recently.
W H Brown of Pittsfield Vermont, a pension attorney, endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills as nearly as good as a pension. He says they keep his family in splendid health and relieve headache constipation and biliousness. 25c guaranteed at Fisher Bros drug store.
A lecturer returning from Germany recalls a marriage custom where a woman throws jugs from her house onto the cobbles to signal neighbors to bring old bottles and tins. The next morning a daughter marries and the father replaces broken crockery with new articles, making old items easy to discard.
A Japanese researcher named Mat sura studies how diseases and bodily states affect hair growth and thickness. He notes coarse hair is highly sensitive to the body’s condition, acting as a veritable history of the individual during the growth period.
A wealthy Londoner says he has no time for regular exercise and instead gains health from daily half hour of electrical massage at a noted electrical specialist. He claims this substitutes for two hours of other exercise and his appearance appears to support the claim.
A Boston merchant serves Webster a glass of old port and claims the price, with interest, comes to 1.25 dollars per glass. Webster laughs, then asks for a refill to “stop that confounded interest,” illustrating a wit about compound interest.
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