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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1908
Page
3
A Chicago reader reports a year of severe eczema with nightly itching eased by Cuticura Soap, Cuticura, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills costing a dollar twenty five. claims complete cure. Separate column notes a lecturer dismissing heredity as sole cause, an elderly man protests.
John Armstrong of Cloverport Kentucky describes lifelong kidney trouble and severe backache. He says after using Dean's Kidney Pills he regained strength and health, praising the product as the reason for his recovery. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
The scale-tailed apus once extinct in Great Britain near Hempstead Heath ponds is found again in two Preston Merse ponds near Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire. The small crab, about two and a half inches, resembles a king crab with a large shield and back-swimming habit. It has an extraordinary number of leg joints, with historic counts around 1,802.04 by Schaffer and Latrelle listing about 2,000,000.
A London Mail excerpt shows a speaker lamenting market upheaval after moving yesterday. He reports a van driver damaged furniture worth five pounds, lost a five-pound Bank of England note, and a gas company demanding double the usual deposit. He adds he has been summoned for jury duty.
A Washington woman credits Postum with restoring her health and happiness after years of nervous trouble tied to coffee, while national news covers battleship fleet plans, the vice presidency role, and proposed legal changes to antitrust and labor laws. The President favors new reform bills, iron punishment debates rise, and naval trials set speed records amid ongoing governance.
A Moose Jaw reader reports 500 acres wheat yielding about 22 bushels per acre and 120 acres of oats at around 50 bushels per acre. Wheat sold at 85 cents a bushel for 200 acres, netting about 18 per acre, while frost-damaged wheat on 300 acres may net 13 per acre. oats net about 17 per acre. The note mentions grain-car shortages and general profit expectations despite weather.
A. D. Bavee of Aurelia Ta recounts using Sloan's Liniment to cure a fistula in a horse after a skeptical doctor. He notes success on a sweeny case and a plowing neighbor’s horse with sweeny, praising Sloan's Sure Coke Cure as well. The account emphasizes rapid improvement and strong endorsements from local riders.
A note from Chicago Tribune recounts Crusoe discovering footprints leading to a knoll where a billboard bears the slogan USE BANK'S PILLS FOR ALL LIVER TROUBLES. The publishers, driven by ad rates, omitted the incident from the story, leaving the text garbled upon press.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner that Hall's Catarrh Cure will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured. Claim includes testimonials and mail order details from F J Lee & Co Toledo Ohio. Also contains scattered clippings about jokes and a tombstone dealer comment on a motto about “Entered Into Rest.”
A 10 cent chocolate pie mix ad promotes OUR PIE chocolate flavor with easy directions on the package. It claims healthful nutrition and instant usage, with ingredients ready for immediate use. The product is put up by D Zerta Co in Rochester New York and available at grocers.
A multimillionaire signs a large check payable to his preferred college, praising smaller colleges as feeders to big universities while noting they are not the only feeders.
The fragment describes two newsboys fighting over a craps game as a professor remarks on finance. An ad copy promotes Garfield Tea as a mild laxative for cleansing the system and purifying blood. The text then references a dragonfly’s ability to fly backward, contrasting it with a swallow’s speed.
An article arguing that many women undergo unnecessary surgeries in hospitals and praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a life saving remedy. It cites testimonials from women including Mrs Dattoretne of Kansas and Mrs Arthur R House of New Jersey and promotes the product for female complaints and other conditions. The piece mentions thirty years of use and invites sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A brave ship battles towering waves and fires rockets and flares from the rail to signal for rescue. Amid the red glare a tall austere man confronts the captain, protesting the daredevil measure as they face possible death.
The Bellman notes that Parisian etiquette requires men to wear dress clothes at the Armenonville in the Bois de Boulogne, while they may dine at boulevard restaurants in plain attire. The fashion rule remains an unwritten Parisian custom, with the coat reserved for dining near the city’s big park.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Fase A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests the feet, Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's foot-Fase makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample mailed FREE, Address Allen 8S, Olmsted, la Roy, N. Y.
Sidelights on History recounts a playful scene where a young Miss Liberty rejects the cradle image exclaiming it is a crib. The anecdote notes Peter Faneuil as a better merchant than cabinet maker for failing to fit rockers under the cradle.
The dialogue notes a boastful inventor claiming a perfected faster automobile named the Inevitable by a professor. The piece then shifts to Dorset England where watercress farming expands with a single farm hiring forty workers for picking and processing cress for market.
A New York Sun inspired claim links hair growth to music therapy. String instruments, especially piano, allegedly aid growth while wind instruments harm it. Cites Paderewski and other virtuosi as examples and notes barbers in London Paris Berlin proposing violin solos over clients heads for fee.
A child named Gertrude looked from a window as lightning flashed along a telegraph wire during a storm. She exclaimed to her mother that she had seen a piece of the sun fall from the sky, in a vivid New York Press note.
Pettit's Eye Salve first sold in 1807 and shown as a enduring remedy with claims of curing millions of weak eyes. The ad notes it is sold by all druggists of Howard Bris Buffalo New York and links to a golf course setting with a quip about neatness on the links and a Chi cago dinner anecdote at Shinnecock Hills involving young golfers and a playful exchange about holes on the course.
The Houston Post reports a tense exchange over where a girl should take music lessons. The father and another party debate whether lessons should be at home or at the mother’s rooms, reflecting a dispute about custody or arrangements.
A compact Victorian style ad for Cascarets candy tablets marketed as a health aid. It promotes a pocket box claimed to act like exercise for bowel and liver muscles, compares to athletic workouts, and warns against bulk sales. Mentions 10 cent price, Sterling Remedy Company, and tablets stamped CCC.
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