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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
8
Letters from readers praise Lydia E Pinkham remedies for menstrual irregularities and pain. Miss Mary Gomes of Aptos California describes relief after using Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. Miss Matupa Jensen of Ogdensburg Wisconsin reports recovery from severe sideache chills and nervous dizziness after three bottles of each remedy.
Indiana incidents record the death of Judge Horace P. Biddle at his island home near Logansport in his 90th year. The article notes his Ohio birth in 1811, early legal career, and ascent to state and federal courts.
An American farmer, skeptical at first about reading, receives a Plato book from a doctor and devours it. He praises the philosopher, saying the old man has been writing up some of his own best ideas, from cover to cover.
The article recounts Dowd the hunter discovering giant sequoias in California's Big Tree Grove after pursuing a wounded grizzly. It notes the grove spans about fifty acres with nearly a hundred mature trees and twenty over twenty five feet in diameter. An adjacent Jell O dessert ad promotes four flavors at ten cents.
A collage of short items from the era includes playful lines about burglar alarms and babies, a Norwich NY reader note praising Piso’s Cure for Consumption, a Kipling bear joke, early rail excursion tickets to North Manchester Indiana, Nickel Plate travel offers, and a Denver Colorado Special train digest. Also mentions rubber stamps and a medical remedy.
A mix of ads and anecdotes notes Libby McNeill Libby promoted luncheon meats with a free booklet How to Make Good Things to Eat. It also mentions Europe’s highest railway to the Gornergrat Swiss Alps, begun 1896, with a glacier powered system for summer operation. An item-on-the-street gag about a grand opera attendee named Mrs Archibald Jones introduces a name spelling joke. Allen's Foot Ease advertises a powder for foot care with a 25 cent price and free sample by mail.
Dr. Charles F. Mason reports from the Philippines that letters and souvenirs mailed to American soldiers and friends may carry variola and smallpox. He notes universal illness there, and that local weavers produce delicate josi and pina cloths often mailed home by soldiers, risking transmission of infectious diseases.
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promises rewards for catarrh based cures, detailing Eustachian tube inflammation as the cause. It also notes a nickel plate railroad time change with No.4 from Chicago at 8 30 p m and service upgrades, plus dining and sleeping car improvements and agent contacts.
An old advertisement extols Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children, claiming it is nourishing, made from pure grains, tastes like coffee, and costs about one tenth. It notes widespread grocery availability and adds a London Crystal Palace note mentioning a $300,000 annual running cost with minimal profit.
This ad promotes Jell-O as a quick delicious healthful dessert. It highlights no boiling or baking required by simply adding hot water and letting it cool. Flavors listed include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. It ends with a playful aside about holy water and laziness.
Special low rates to Milwaukee Wisconsin for the Biennial Meeting of the General Federation of Women's Club. Tickets sold June 1 through June 4, with return valid until June 11 or by deposit until June 30. Contact RK J Hamilton, Agent, Fort Wayne, for details.
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