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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
7
Miss Annie Catron of 927 Main St Cincinnati Ohio endorses Deruna as a blessing for chronic catarrh of head and throat. She reports lasting relief within a month after trying Peruna and says general health improved. suggests Peruna tablets as a solid medicine option.
A brief anecdote features Johnny querying the famed great white plague. His father, weary from shoveling, explains the term as a large snowstorm while he battles to clear the front sidewalk. The item reads as a fragment from a period publication offering Almanac information.
An advertisement touts Chevelate Pie and chocolate pies as healthful and nutritious. It claims easy preparation using Our Pin chocolate flavor with on pack directions. Available at grocers for 10 cents with instant-use ingredients.
A fragment shows Mrs Gaswell calling attention to a volume of poems and Mrs Highmasclassic miscommunication over verse. The dialogue hints at differing tastes and a catalogued collection.
An advertisement touts Wiles Cure as a guaranteed treatment for piles including haemorrhoids, promising cure within 6 to 14 days or a refund. It emphasizes a speedy recovery timeline and guarantees money returned if not cured.
A man in sudden severe pain seeks help from a doctor who uses delicate instruments and many tapes to measure and map the discomfort. He insists the doctor confirms the problem lies in the right spot, while the patient questions the need for complex, precision work. The exchange ends with a jab about quackery and long-ago dates.
The opening of the sixtieth Congress spanned December 2 to December 21 with little durable action. Lawmaking stalled amid organized routines, idle interludes, and a late committee setup as members debated budgets, mail and railroad issues, and anticipated retrenchment under Tawney and Cannon.
A Burlington woman recalls a cousin in Rockingham County born with a chronic skin disease. Despite a fortune spent by the father, no treatment helped until Cuticura Remedies were tried. After about two months the child’s skin healed, leaving no scar and soft as a baby. The witness notes she hasn’t seen the girl in seventeen years but hears she remains well.
A wild eyed man limps into a chiropodist and asks for a bunion cure in a hurry. The doctor promises a permanent result. The man declines treatment, says he is collecting monumental liars, and walks out, leaving behind a filmed entry in his notebook.
An old advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It links deafness to inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube, largely due to catarrh, and offers $100 for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The pitch includes circulars and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A former resident recalls Floogus who lent money at two percent monthly. The hotel clerk replies Ile has died, but not so. Ile is identified as a former leader now president of a trust company in New York.
An exchange shows cross cultural views as a girl questions mourning blacks used by English ladies and a weary man bribes a fishmonger with trout to keep face at home. The tale contrasts religious custom with personal perception and humor.
A woman recounts how quitting coffee and adopting Postum cured her husband’s illness and improved her own health. She notes severe coffee-related symptoms, the difficult habit, and the eventual relief and weight gain, urging readers to try Postum as a safer alternative. The testimonial is signed as from Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan.
Robert Franklin argues in Technical World Magazine that vast desert and irrigated land in north central Nevada and other government tracts remain unclaimed as city workers stay chained to urban life. A judge anecdotes pairs with a burglar tale, underscoring law and irony in a late 19th century moral balance.
A Norfolk Virginia merchant Mr L Wood suffered months of back and kidney pain with irregular urine. After medical failure he used Dean's Kidney Pills. One box ended his four days of pain and he passed a stone measuring about half by five sixteenths of an inch. He reports no further kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Joaquin Miller discussed with a visiting California professor who said he held the chair of metaphysics and logic at a New England university. Miller smiled and patted him, remarking that logic and metaphysics exist mainly to be looked after, even if they do not exist.
An advertisement claims permanent cure for St Vitus dance and nervous diseases by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. It offers a free trial bottle worth $2 and a treatise, with address at 921 Arch Street Philadelphia. The text also mentions the Navy Department debating bureau assignment for a mule shoeing and icebox relining.
The Peruna Almanac is in eight million homes and the Lucky Day Almanac is widely distributed. It can be obtained free from all druggists, with early inquiry advised. The 1908 Almanac is published and supplies will soon exhaust. Speak for one today.
Miss Dora Papa asks if Jack can show money to support her. He replies he has proved it by the testimony of rocks. Lewis' "Single Binder" cigars advertised as ripe mellow tobacco. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Illinois.
A brief humorous dialogue fragment shows a grandfather carving a turkey and a young grandson tactfully limiting his share. The grandson says there are six people but he wants no more than his portion, offering to leave the rest to the grandfather.
A terse ad style note cites Bromo Quinine as a universal remedy used globally to cure a cold in one day. It also mentions a Yale dean asserting poorer pupils win better scholarships, while rich students neglect studies.
Railroads caused 195 deaths in Chicago in the first nine months of the year, street cars 108, teams and wagons 48, and automobiles 10, detailing the deadliest transport modes in the period.
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