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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
8
An OCR fragment presents a collage of old time patent medicines and inspirational quotes. It touts Dr. Thomas Electric Oil for pain, Burdock bitters for digestion, Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a tonic, and Doan’s Regulats for bowel regularity, interwoven with maxims from Balzac and observations on women’s fate and virtue.
The Daily Register and Leader offers new subscribers baseball season delivery through Oct 10, 1907 for 1.50 or daily and Sunday for 2.25. It promises full box scores of Western and Towa League games daily and exclusive baseball news for Iowa fans. Also advertises a trotting mare Ray McGregor for 150 cash with a top buggy and harness included. Ownership seeks country buyers at 158 Honore St Chicago Ill.
A compact observation notes that many men with strong claimed convictions would lose much if deprived of their prejudices, implying that belief rigidity sustains bold self image more than reason. The line critiques moral posturing and highlights the fragility of principled certainty.
Caters sales pitch for LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE claiming cure in one day with Druggists refund if failed. Includes E. W. Groves signature on each box and 25 cent price. Also markets deafness cures by constitutional remedies and offers $100 for catarrh related deafness that cannot be cured, with Hall's Catarrh Cure promoted.
A Freemason lodge notes the death of S D Griffith on May 14 1907 and offers condolences to his wife and family. The charter will be draped in mourning for thirty days and copies of the resolutions are sent to the Iowa Odd Fellows Bedford Free Press and Times Republican for publication.
Tatton Navigator 6990, a bay imported Shire stallion bred by Karl Egerton Tatton Park Cheshire England, is announced by Bedford Shire Horse Company. Foaled 1899 with notable lineage from Hitchen Conqueror and Lady Franklin, winner of Royal Agricultural Society Belfast and Royal Horse Show Yorkshire prizes. Standing season 1907 at Campbell’s farm near Bedford and Whittington’s barn Bedford Iowa, with $15 to insure colt to stand and suck.
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