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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
12
The Well-Informed favor a simple, pleasant liquid laxative with known wholesome components. California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted, gentle yet prompt remedy. Buy the genuine product manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co., sold by leading druggists for fifty cents per bottle.
A humorous dialogue leads to a pitch for Sloan's Liniment and Veterinary Remedies. The ad touts Dr Earl S Sloan a Boston veterinarian and offers a free copy of Sloan's Treatise on the Horse to readers who write to him at 615 Asbury Street, Boston Mass.
A Fort Wayne engineer praises Father's Lung Elixir after a December asthma attack. He states the tonic revived him in 26 hours and restored four weeks of work, endorsing its use for all lung troubles. Pricing: two dollars sixty cents per bottle, three bottles five dollars. Lock Box No. 219 Fort Wayne Indiana. Also an ad notes 200,000 frogskins exported for purse making and grocer advertised chocolate pie mix in three flavors priced at ten cents per package.
The text lists New Zealand endowment figures for schools and pension funds and includes assorted consumer ads. It mentions Laxative Brom Quinine, ER W. Grove signature, hummingbird incubation ten days, Mrs. Austin Buckwheat cakes, fresh goods at grocers, legacy ink longevity, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with price.
Readable clippings describe public library hopes for Milford with Miss Billa Arnold as librarian, local deaths in Evansville and Terre Haute, golden wedding anniversaries in Mishawaka and South Bend, waterworks debates in Mentone, accidents in Perry, and a child’s poisoning near Washington. Other items cover weddings, fires, lawsuits, mining injuries, and civic developments including a Union war veteran’s request for a flag-laden deathbed, and a patent for a streetcar safety device.
Mrs. Lizzie E. Sledge of Selma Alabama describes severe black splotches and itching eczema on face and body. After two doctors found it incurable she used Cuticura Remedies for six months, the outbreak ceased and no symptoms remained for three years since October 28 1906.
A club rule allows lifting a ball near the powder magazine railings and dropping with a stroke loss. A London writer recalls a West African coast course where the eighth and ninth holes are optional due to jungle danger and lions said to lurk nearby.
A Lake City Minnesota resident from Ultram Center reports severe kidney trouble with back pain dizziness and nervousness. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoration of perfect health and says the remedy is sold in all dealers for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A quirky riddle contrasts two hobbies with costs of 22000 and 660 yearly, one air cooled and the other naturally cool, each with a sparker count and crank mechanism. The passage shifts to drug ads and remedies for catarrh and piles, featuring Halls Catarrh Cure, PAZO OINTMENT, and a veteran soldier quip about wages.
A rustic by a stream comments aloud about a fisherman, teased by the parson's daughter as the old fool sits unmoving for hours. A separate line notes a disease-resistant potato has been introduced into France from Uruguay.
An old health advertisement extols Cascarets as a safe bowel aid arguing they stimulate muscles without wasting digestive fluids. It contrasts castor oil and cathartics with Cascarets and ends by offering a free gold plated bonbon box for ten cents in stamps.
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