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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
7
Older newspaper clipping shows a collage of patent medicine pitches, railway protests, eye salve anecdotes, and exotic product tidbits. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claims cures for female ailments while railways test signals. Items note Petitt's Eye Salve, Lewis' cigars, frog skins exports, and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children.
A college-educated youth with little job skill lands a clerical post at a Cleveland firm. Tasked with drafting a reply, he delegates to a reluctant stenographer who, after minimal guidance, produces a letter the young man then claims as his own. The boss signs it, revealing the deception. the young man soon leaves.
A dated ad promotes four watercolor pastel pictures titled Four Water Color Pictures Free to introduce 20 Mule Team Boraxo Bath Powder. It claims the pictures are artistic, printed in ten colors, and would sell for a dollar each if available in shops. Readers are urged to mail a postcard to the Pacific Coast Borax Co. in New York City for full information.
A Dublin concert hall memory recalls a late night row sparked by a prank with water. The anecdote shows Dat prompting a fight among patrons. Also noted is a statistic that four percent of educated people are color blind, highlighting a curious demographic fact.
A compact historical note traces how the modern patent medicine business grew from old home made remedies. It cites Peruna as a case, notes its Mennonite origins and Dr Hartman, and mentions common remedies like aloes and quassia in brandy and whiskey tonics.
A vignette lists Cocoanut-Custard Pie praise and a 10 cent Our Pie package with two pies worth of proper ingredients. Also includes a sketch about police handling a cock fight and a Mexico City tip controversy with cabmen and cargadores.
Charlies McCormick of Kenville Manitoba reports 100 acres in 1907 on the 8 S W of section 18 township 35 range 27. Eighty acres yielded 22 bushels per acre sold at 90 cents per bushel and 20 acres oats at 60 bushels per acre sold at 35 cents. Net profit after threshing and hires was over $1,600. Thomas Sawatzky of Herbert Saskatchewan says wheat value per acre is $22.50 from 70 acres yielding 1,750 bushels at 90 cents. Oats 15 acres 500 bushels and barley 5 acres 80 bushels. He endorses similar farming results.
A Bakersfield reader credits Cuticura remedies with curing a seven year old after a severe measles outbreak and prolonged itching with bleeding sores. In Paris, the Automobile Club funds a special bicycle police unit using flags to warn drivers on the Champs Elysees about smoke speed and odor, with expansion planned if successful. A Jewish Voice editorial argues religion fulfills a basic hunger for meaning across intellect and practice.
Mrs. Marie Sipfle of Helena Montana states three years of backache weakness and kidney trouble improved with Dean's Kidney Pills. Four boxes provided a complete lasting cure sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Diversion Newly Arrived Spirit Dont the people here ever have any amusements. Pluto Well we have what you might call a fire drill once in a while. There is need for Garfield Tea when the skin is sallow the tongue coated and when headaches are frequent. The infant death rate of fashionable London is 11 percent while the East End is 38 percent.
An amateur astronomer describes the moon as a beautiful face in profile, lifted as if in disdain of earthly matters. Observed with an opera glass at half phase, the chin nearly touches the terminator and features resembling a man’s face emerge in the moon’s outline.
An advertisement asserts deafness results from an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube and that nine of ten cases stem from catarrh. It promises $100 for any deafness due to catarrh not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure, notes product availability from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo, and adds Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Adam Zawfox asks why Starkey pores over a paper. Starkey replies he scans a list of a hundred men who own all the money in the country. He hoped his name would appear but it does not. The exchange reveals his disappointment and curiosity.
An old advertisement claims women are cured of nervous distress by Dr. Kine with a free 8 trial battle and treatioe. It mentions LENE and Arch Sarees of Philadelphia along with steel rails averaging 130 tons of metal per mile and iron at 145 tons.
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