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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
7
Porto Rico, though only a thirteenth the size of Cuba, has more than half as many inhabitants. It is the most densely populated island in the West Indies and has a higher proportion of whites and a higher grade of intelligence than Cuba.
An order for Dodd's Kidney Pills shows a route from Buffalo to Iceland via New York and London, illustrating U S goods reaching remote areas. The item touts American manufacturing superiority and global demand, interwoven with a brief 1910s style vignette and a street scene dialogue.
An old pamphlet promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute for kids claiming it nourishes health. Praised for flavor resembling coffee yet cheaper by about 4 percent, Grain-O is advertised at 15¢ and 25¢. The note also cites U.S. Angora goat numbers and Mohair output of about 1,000,000 pounds annually.
A collage-style ad snippet notes Mrs Austin’s dress, daily seafaring fatalities and ship losses, plus promotions for Allen’s Foot-Ease free samples and oyster consumption in London. It also mentions Pan-American Exposition openings at Buffalo and Nickel Plate Road fare offers with dates and contact prompts.
The week brought favorable temperatures east of the Rockies with beneficial rains in the central plateau and eastern slope. Corn planting advanced in central valleys and northern districts, while Southern states reported poor stands and needs for rain. winter wheat mostly favorable except insect damage in parts of Texas Oklahoma and Michigan.
Report lists Sufi losses with villages in the Apenines wiped out and no life toll given. In other items Turks exiled in the past eleven years and a Bedford Pennsylvania blaze damages Harley's Bank and five businesses for about 100000 dollars. Prolific social notes include engagements and suicides.
The article extols Buenos Ayres as one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities with a population exceeding 795,000 at end-1899 and rising by about 80,000 yearly. It notes $8 million yearly revenue, 13 000 gas jets, 8000 lamps, 1250 lights, 15 theaters, 1.6 million yearly spectators, and 116 million streetcar passengers. It highlights diverse nationalities from Spanish and Italian to German English French Irish Welsh Portuguese Chilean Polish Russian and Swiss.
Mrs. M A Goss of Bryant Missouri credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing months of sciatica and rheumatism after two doctors and various remedies failed. She says a week of use brought relief and within weeks she could sit up and walk, now doing her own cooking and housework, having taken sixteen boxes. Her tale draws visitors from miles as the pill gains statewide notice.
Two Minnesota delegates report Calgary in December as warm as May in Minnesota with no snow and cattle in prime condition. They praise Yorkton district grain crops Wheat twenty five bushels oats sixty bushels and root samples. They plan to invest in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan districts advertised by Canadian government agents in your paper. Washington sized sixty nine and quarter square miles.
An advertisement promises six bottles of Dr Shoop's Rheumatic Care for a fee if cured, else free. It notes a prior claim that 26 418 patents were granted by the patent office in the past year. The text includes a Wisconsin mailing address in Racine and a boxed offer.
Rates effective April 30 1901 on any one of our Peerless Trio of Daily Express trains to Buffalo or return. Write wire phone or call nearest agent C A Asterlin Fort Wayne Ind or R J Hamilton Fort Wayne Ind. A good ostrich yields £40 worth of feathers.
Fort Wayne Indiana supplier advertises rubber stamps of all kinds plus printing outfits and daters. Consumers are invited to write needs to LockBox 219 for pricing and details.
A 1780 founded Walter Baker & Co. on the Neponset River in Dorchester grew into a vast cocoa and chocolate maker. The firm upholds quality, denounces fraud, and advertises La Belle Chocolatiere as its trademark and Dorchester, Mass. as manufacture site. A Maine court ruled that a buried body belongs to the landowner, not relatives.
Stow's This offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, with West Truax Kinnan Marvin as endorsers, claim Cheney is trustworthy. Halt's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and affects blood and mucous surfaces. Prices listed. available from all druggists with free testimonials.
Country Youth-Yes, but it’s a bloom in’ poor one for fishermen.
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a pure grain based healthful drink that avoids coffee side effects. It claims Grain-O is nourishing and pleasant in taste and comparable to the finest coffee when prepared correctly. Priced at 15 and 25 cents.
The item lists Spain’s coast length 1317 miles with Mediterranean and Atlantic segments. It notes Hot Springs Arkansas in a canyon and quotes varying ad copy and sayings. It mentions travel to Buffalo for Pan-American Exposition and gives train details and rates. It includes patent medicine pitches and a teething syrup for children.
A cheerful woman sinks into misery with headaches back pain insomnia and nervousness. Her husband dismisses it as blues while her condition worsens until a grave female trouble is diagnosed. Mrs Pinkham offers relief and evidence of help for sick women nationwide.
Advertisement notes rubber stamps available with low prices and urges readers to send orders to Lock Box 219 Fort Wayne Indiana Also requests writers to mention seeing the advert in the newspaper.
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