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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
3
An English cautionary note describes discomfort in lower feminine regions and presents a remedy promising removal of the cause and restoration of health. It urges immediate attention to feminine needs and claims to offer a definite cure for general headaches pains and weight concerns.
Letters from Mrs Will Young and Mrs Augustus Lyon praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief of backaches and long standing ailments. The snippets claim renewed health after using the remedy, highlighting its reputed benefits for sick women.
An advertisement touts Salter Seed Co offerings for Dakota grown Macsrent wheat with claim of high per acre yields across multiple states. It invites readers to send 100 and a notice to La Crosse Wisconsin for a seed book and samples, plus 14 cents for an additional seed package.
Daniel Webster says cultivation of the earth is the most important labor and that until tillage begins other arts follow. He argues that man must settle, farm, and live off the land to progress, otherwise he remains a roaming barbarian.
The piece blends cigar sales figures for 1907 and 1906 with a nod to staff poets and a mock verse exchange. It references Garfield Tea as a laxative, a rubber tree sap yield, and the product Bromo Quinine with E. W. Grove’s signature. The tone mirrors a bustling newspaper page of vintage ads and notes.
The Century notes France England and Germany have invested heavily in waterways. It cites 8,000 miles of British canal, 3,000 miles in France, and 3,000 in Germany with 7,000 more via other routes. Britain’s Manchester Canal cost 75 million dollars for 35 miles, with broad benefits. Europe plans further canal improvements while arguing water transport remains far cheaper than land transport. The piece argues railways cannot replace inland waterways, noting wheat trade shifted from the Mississippi due to lack of accessible commerce rather than rail competition.
A mixed historical clipping advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a One Hundred Dollars reward for cures it cannot cure. It includes testimonials by Walding Kinnan & Marvin and extols internal use, plus a March April travel sales pitch on The North Western Line offering cheap round trips to Western cities and guided tours.
A physician remarks that the husband has no organic treble. Mrs. Pneuritch replies that this neighborhood is not to blame, but their neighbor’s graphophone terrifies him. The exchange highlights a humorous domestic concern as a graphophone disturbs the man’s peace of mind.
A humorous exchange features a father and son as Tommy asks Papa about the phrase goodbye on the telephone. The father notes he never uses it except when speaking to Tommy's mother, highlighting a playful take on polite habits and family banter.
In a Chicago Tribune exchange, Skittleson teases a stockyards smell becoming tolerable with time. Beeze responds with resigned humor about living with the odor after nine or ten years of exposure.
A set of eight attractive post cards in five colors features wild animals from Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo and will be mailed upon receipt of twelve cents. The ad notes appeal for both grown ups and children and provides The Evening Wisconsin Company Milwaukee Wis as the address. The local color vignette quotes a brief exchange about money and a white sale at a store.
An advertiser promotes OUR PIE Preparation for lemon pies at grocers for 10 cents. D Zerta Food Co. of Rochester claims the product makes lemon pie easier and tastier, with Ala endorsing it as a better method than making lemon pie the old way.
A whispered exchange between a customer seeking honesty from a pawnbroker and a patriarch figure hints at caution about deception. The text then shifts to a foreign article describing eau de cologne production in Cologne, where oils mix with wine spirits, digest for two months, distill slowly, age in kegs, and rest in a cellar five to six years before market.
Western Canada reports heavy immigration expected from the United States to the Canadian Northwest this year possibly surpassing 1907. Railroads offer favorable homeseeker rates. weather has been mild and wheat crops show strong yields in Alberta. Reports from Magrath and Cardston detail high wheat and oat yields, with potatoes and beets also productive this past year. An unrelated joke from the Kansas City Times quotes Uncle Hank commenting on a grand opera finale.
Japanese invention introduces a paper kettle usable eight times into the German army. Piles can be cured in 14 days with PAZO OINTMENT claiming relief from itching bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days, backed by a money refund. Prairie districts of Canada doubled in five years. Contemporaries joke about statesmen settling differences by fight and gold piece hoarding.
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