06 Aug 1903
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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
1
Dealers praise extra quantity and superior quality of De fiance Starchs, claiming it replaces rival brands. Some cannot sell other starches, arguing that money speaks louder than silence as ambition drives effective sales efforts.
A collage of old advertisements including Allen's Foot-Ease claims relief for swollen sore hot and ingrowing feet. Other notices tout subscription drives cures for consumption and colds, a Katy pamphlet offer, St Mary's Academy promotion, cigar pricing, Bank of England note costs, and remedies from Lawrence Drug Co. for catarrh and piles.
Notre Dame University in Notre Dame Indiana advertises its preparatory and collegiate courses. It highlights free catalogs and terms, with rooms offered free to sophomores to seniors and a commercial course for business. Also promotes St Edward's Hall and a thorough program, claiming sixty years of educational work. Also includes an unrelated consumer ad for Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders and W W Kimball Co piano and organ sales with substantial price savings.
Des Moines reports Attorney General Mullan contends the Iowa board of medical examiners exceeded its authority by a February resolution barring nonresidents from receiving itinerant practitioner licenses. He says the board cannot discriminate between residents and nonresidents if qualifications are equal, delaying enforcement. The piece also covers Iowa State Fair exhibits by Waterloo manufacturers, pension reports, and various local notes.
A string of eccentric anecdotes spans strange punishments in China for murder by insomnia, dental marvels in Louisiana, witty quotes from Irael Zangwill on hair, a Liverpool wood hardening process using sugar, a Paris mother’s twenty year trance fed by peptone, a spa trance woman and a theater of kiss counts in Balister Spa.
In Waller City North Dakota on July 27 Mrs Matheia M Boucher relates how she found relief from years of dizziness and a recent sciatica attack after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. She reports rapid improvement within weeks and continues to recommend the remedy to others with similar ailments.
The experience and testimony of notable American women prove Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound corrects such trouble at once by removing the cause and restoring the organs to a healthy normal condition.
A Chicago veteran of the First Wisconsin Cavalry writes that after years of kidney catarrh he found relief from Peruna. He purchased the remedy on a comrade’s recommendation, used it four months, and says he is now well and stronger than in two decades. The letter urges early Peruna use at first symptoms and notes Dr. Hartman offers advice if needed.
A humorous column sketches local society in a farcical mood with a sheriff threatening an execution, a boastful billionaire and a candid photographer. The scene shifts to fashion notes about summer wear and French stockings claimed to endure longer than usual. The tone blends satire and social curiosities from an era.
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