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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1909
Page
18
A Virginia resident recounts severe eye inflammation affecting both eyeballs and lids for two years. After failed treatments by multiple physicians, Cuticura Ointment improved symptoms in one week and fully cleared within two weeks, with no recurrence since.
A specialist tells the popular preacher to rest or risk dying within three months. The preacher agrees, saying he will go abroad immediately for a complete rest. The exchange shows a humorous, abrupt confrontation over health and travel.
In Brooklyn Life the line reveals a confidential exchange where Phyllis tells Myrtilla she cannot reveal a secret after promising not to tell anyone. Myrtilla expresses ongoing interest and attention to the whispered matter.
An advertisement touts Allen's Rung Balsam as proven for deep seated coughs colds and bronchitis. It claims the remedy is simple safe and sure and asserts that while some girls are angels some are high flyers, implying a praise of aspiration.
A portrait of Prof. Munyon a Philadelphia philanthropist who built a national medicine business by funding top specialists and offering cures at pennies a bottle. He guarantees results or refunds and advertises free medical examinations through offices nationwide at 53d and Jefferson streets Philadelphia.
The president of a public service corporation declares a solid year with rising assets and handsome dividends, yet privately worries that financier J Pierpont Morgan might strike to engulf the firm. A stunned stockholder meeting erupts in silence as the speaker jokes about balance sheets and looming peril.
Early 20th century remedy prescribes a simple potion for rheumatic pains and general weakness. Mix one ounce Sarsa parilla, one ounce Toris' compound, and half a pint of whiskey. Shake bottle well and take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bedtime.
A young professor of vocal culture lectures Miss Violet on expressive singing. She retorts that her heart is already free, prompting a tense, flirtatious exchange framed in a period voice.
If you are sensitive about shoe size, Allen's Foot Ease helps by shaking into shoes. It cures tired swollen aching feet and provides rest and comfort, especially for patent leather shoes. Sold everywhere 25c. Sample sent free. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
A Chicago Tribune quote recalls a maid arguing she has worked for every family she ever lived with. The exchange satirizes labor and domestic service, reflecting on worker recognition and personal histories in urban life.
A courier remarks on a European habit where hotel labels on trunks reveal a guest’s tipping nature. The top signals generosity, the middle middling behavior, and the bottom indicates untrustworthy conduct.
The Senate opened at noon with a presidential message read and referred to the committee of the whole. An executive session followed until 2 30. The House also met at noon with copies distributed. the reading lasted about an hour and a half and the message went to the committee of the whole. Over 350 Senate bills and resolutions were presented Friday. A Ray ner resolution seeks Taft to arrest Zelaya as a criminal for American deaths. Adjournments set for Monday and Friday mornings. Key House items include a $2,000,000 West Side Chicago post office bill by Lundin and a Sabath contempt of court jury trial measure, plus a sugar frauds investigation. Moxley seated. Kustermann denies conflicts over German shipping trade amid subsidies.
Senator Raymer denounces Zelaya and presses for murder trial in the Senate. Senator Depew proposes a 1913 exposition to mark emancipation day semi centennial. The Senate adjourned until Thursday with no House session.
No Senate session Tuesday as the House referred the President's annual message after Payne and Fitzgerald of New York clashed over endorsing economy in government. Hobson of Alabama warned of unpreparedness for war, urging a more liberal navy policy. Richardson of Alabama backed liberal waterway policy. McDermott of Illinois promoted free wood pulp. District of Columbia appropriation bill reported. House adjourned to holidays, reconvening January 4.
The Senate did not meet on Wednesday. The House passed the Esch bill requiring railroads to file full monthly reports with the Interstate Commerce Commission and a measure to empower the commission to demand uniform railroad car equipment. Debate grew over a section barring use of railroad reports in damages actions, with support to keep the section as incentive for fuller accident data. The Mann Panama Canal bill, reported by the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, faced opposition over centralizing canal governance and the Isthmian Canal Commission.
Military aerographists report that the Alps attract Hertzian waves allowing Switzerland to intercept wireless messages within a 6000 mile radius, due to the mountain range’s effect on signal propagation.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the West Branch Hat and Cap factory at Northumberland Pennsylvania causing an estimated loss of 100 900. Contracts are sought for two submarines for the Russian navy to accompany a battleship fleet. In South Framingham Massachusetts 17 year old Hinman Knowlton, while sleep walking, is believed to have fatally shot both his parents. The boy was rested.
A Toronto Globe report details Midwest farmer migration to Saskatchewan as families relocate for cheap land and to keep sons near farms. The piece contrasts Iowa land prices with Canadian options and notes the cultural ties to home and country as motivation for the exodus. An additional excerpt describes a perilous Andes mountain road ride, where a coach advances along a narrow zigzag path with a tense drive and shouting, whip cracking, and dangerous drops.
Penelope laments the long absence of Ulysses and imagines a life with a traveling salesman. She seeks solace in the Ladies' Home Journal and contemplates an easy divorce.
A 19th century style advertisement offers a $100 reward for catarrh cures Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed to cure catarrh by affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. Endorsed by Waterman Kinney Marvin wholesale druggists Toledo and partners. West's Catarrh Cure described as internal remedy with testimonials offered free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
In a brief exchange Maria is alerted to a call from Mrs. Highmore. She frets about her appearance saying she looks like a fight and asks John to hold the wire while she fixes her hair.
In a night editor's room dispatch a man undergoes nose amputation. The feature story invites dramatic treatment of the medical detail.
The notice argues against substitutes for Davis Painkiller highlighting its effectiveness for rheumatism and neuralgia based on long usage. It also notes that in the last four years 166,000,000 Irish land stock has been issued.
A brief quip about apple quality centers on a shopkeeper and a customer. The line references Northern Spies apples with a humorous exchange implying sarcasm about the variety. The dialogue captures a small rural market moment.
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