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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
6
An old promotional piece touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a grand remedy for women’s ills. It cites Calming roots and herbs, claims on Western Indians and grandmothers, and features Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri praising restored health after twelve years of illness and eleven doctors.
A compiled digest lists events from 1775 to 1804 including General Montgomery killed before Quebec and Washington’s surprise at Princeton, plus notes on the Bank of North America charter, Jefferson resigning as Secretary of State, and religious and scientific items with mentions of the Mor mons, Nipur tablets controversy, and Sloan's Liniment testimonials.
The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac is now in 8,000,000 homes and available free from all druggists. The 1908 edition is published and supplies will soon run out. inquire early. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children soothes gums, reduces inflammation, eases pain, cures wind colic for 25 cents a bottle.
Rear Admiral Goodrich commander of the New York navy yard says Henry Reuterdahl was correct about defects in the American navy. He shares views with the Secretary of the Navy and hints the president plans a general reorganization of naval bureaus.
The California Trail Canners Association awarded a record contract to the American Can Company for 800 million cans to be delivered at 60 million annually over five years. The terms reportedly forced on the Steel Trust came after threats to build California can works by local fruit growers.
The rent reduction drive in New York City's lower East Side swells to an estimated 30 000 to 70 000 participants. Local socialists spearhead leadership with numerous meetings, some outdoors, broken up by police. Landlords fear the movement and several have already reduced rents.
The readable fragments reference Mrs Gasweil and several others in a catalogued social context. Names such as Mrs Piehimeas and Mrs Tighuins appear in garbled phrases suggesting a social column or household notices.
Fragmented ad copy urges readers to ask their grocer for a pie themed promotion. Mentions Rochester New York and a five package tree kite set with lemon and coconut flavored options.
The text discusses a proposed Arctic grade grain route from Hudson Bay to Liverpool aiming to shift western Canada trade away from overland routes to New York. It claims a thousand mile shorter path would reduce costs, boost grain exports, and influence Pacific and Atlantic commerce, with Trudsen Bay highlighted as a major trade hub and western Canadian agriculture expanding toward the Canadian Rockies.
A Vermilion South Dakota resident reports a decade of persistent, painful skin eruptions and hair loss. After fruitless treatments by doctors, three boxes of Cuticura Ointment and Soap cured the condition and restored hair. The letter notes expenditure of 50 to 60 dollars. August 18 1906. Also included is a humorous Twain pricing anecdote from a New York publishing house.
Souvenir post cards from The Evening Wisconsin company Milwaukee Wis advertise five color views of the che rallics at Washington Park. Orders at 12 cents each with coin or stamps to Post Card Dept Milwaukee Wis. Also snippets note imports to Canada in 1807 and other stray items about town life and local figures.
Robert Franklin urges migration to central Nevada where about a million acres of fertile irrigated land await homesteaders. The piece contrasts urban grind with a government offer of free land and stresses the lure of Sacrament acres of government property, urging readers to seek healthier rural life.
F. W.N. U. No. 3 1908 notice requests advertisers to mention they saw the advertisement in this paper. The brief item emphasizes current publication placement and readers’ reminder to reference the paper in outreach.
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