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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1908
Page
7
The Hartman plan declares Peruna will be sold to the people as a household remedy with labeled ingredients and public literature. It pledges transparency, testimonial accuracy, and foreign plant expansion while defending medical ethics and challenging critics.
An advertising note promotes Swift & Company Calender as a decorative home enhancement. It can be mailed anywhere for ten cents. The item is pitched alongside demographics and a patent medicine claim for Brom Quin ine. An English view credits Robert E Lee as hero and gentleman, noting his lesser political reach.
A witty quip recalls a doctor who misdiagnosed a patient as having a stomach ache, only to learn the next day the patient was wealthy enough to afford an appendicitis diagnosis as a business error. The remark, attributed to Die Muskete, reflects satire on medical practice and privilege.
Conditions in the Chicago district show improving trade with a healthier tone in leading branches. Mercantile distributions show mainly satisfactory indications as stocks shrink and spring and summer demand is anticipated while costs may ease further. Agricultural conditions remain strong with high grain values boosting wider consumption. financials improve as funds rise and discount rates ease. Iron industry resumes, idle workers decline, and woodworking expands lifting lumber markets. district failures total 32 versus 37 last week and 25 a year ago.
Bradstreet's commercial report notes mixed signals from markets. Wholesale and jobbing trade stay subdued, with cautious spring buying. Southwest reports some canceled orders reinstated. the South sees slow trade and collections, though lumber mills resume with lower stocks. Eastern trade dull unless weather driven. U S weekly failures total 272, versus Roots last week and prior years. Canadian failures tally 3.
Chicago cattle and hog prices quoted. primes and heavies with ranges. Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo, New York, and Toledo follow with wheat, corn, oats, rye, butter, eggs and seeds price ranges and grades for commodity trading across regional markets.
Fire consumed the Buffio warehouse of the Merchants and Shippers, causing losses under 200 dollars. Separately, New York University’s School of Commerce announced a practical advertising course. A blaze wiped out all structures in Twin Lakes Minnesota, a town with a population over two thousand.
La Crosse Wisconsin seed firm John A Salzer Seed Co offers free plant and seed packets to gain 20000 customers in 1908. advertisement lists Salzer's Red Globe Onions Morning Star Cucumber Earliest Cabbage Emerald Cucumber Market Lettuce Dinner Onion Radish and more, with prices per acre or per package and postpaid delivery.
In a fiery address the speaker calls for a president who is a people’s statesman, farsighted and sagacious. He should rise above partisanship, seek national welfare, and be trusted by all. A weary listener quips to look in the Oklahoma constitution.
Cloverport Kentucky Judge J H Wills offers to answer inquiries from backache and kidney bladder sufferers about Dean's Kidney Pills He endorses the remedy saying it is the best he has known and will gladly answer questions Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
A crowded street car scene features Miss Pimmie chiding Mr Gayboy for not offering his seat to a woman. He replies that he always lets younger men seat themselves, insisting he was absorbed in a newspaper and did not notice. The exchange ends with a lighthearted quip.
A nine month old child suffered face and foot rashes causing sleepless nights until Cuticura remedies allegedly cured within hours, with cradle cap cleared as well. The testimonial from Mrs. Hattie Currier of Thowaston, Missouri dated June 9, 1906, accompanies an unrelated note on Garfield Tea laxative and peanut meal bread in Spain.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows a young man praising a woman’s hair as abundant and beautiful. Her sister interrupts, noting the hair would spill to the floor if loosened, adding a playful aside about its length and volume.
A fragmentary dialogue captures Mrs Naybur and Mrs Rawler discussing health as winter grips a household. A promotional ad follows urging readers to buy OUR-PIL lemon pie ingredients from D Zerta Food Co Rochester NY.
A garbled Chicago Tribune excerpt quotes Uncle Allen Sparks on soft speech. The page includes medical ads for Pazo Ointment curing piles in 6 to 14 days, Congo railroad fare claims, Lewis' 5c cigars, Indian nose rings, and Dr Kline's nerve restorer with a Philadelphia address.
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