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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
3
A excerpted medical advice letter urges women to share full details of their illness with a trusted doctor. It claims a long correspondence with sick women provides insights to aid readers, presenting testimonials from grateful writers as evidence of its effectiveness.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female disorders including displacements inflammation and nervous prostration backed by a testimonial from Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen town PA who credits the remedy with restoring her health after a long illness. The piece also references general claims about the product's thirty years of use and broad effects on women. A brief note mentions Porter Emerson Browne visiting the office with a joke about a man dying and leaving his fortune to an orphanage.
Trouston Post reports a humorous dispute where a man accuses a woman of refusing to marry him last night and then clarifies she refused to marry him at all, illustrating a local social anecdote and dialogue in a brief item.
The Senate under Mr Aldrich pursued delay to avoid progress, approving the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill while House members pressed to adjourn. Bills on pension, District of Columbia child labor, and various appropriations passed, with currency bill action pending.
A report claims Jacob Ritz underwent a brain operation that removed four ounces of brain tissue after a self inflicted gunshot in New York but he retains all faculties. Alvin F Heaton Jr a Kanab Utah schoolboy allegedly confesses to murdering Mary Stevens 19. U S citizens in Mexico City hold a heated ballot on serving intoxicants at the Fourth of July celebration.
Ex governor Frederick Holbrook of Brattleboro Vermont marks his ninety fifth birthday and remains active as president of Vermont Savings Bank, one of three Civil War era governors still living. Rev Dr William Thomas Manning named rector of Trinity Church New York leads the world’s richest church corporation. Rev Fred B Fisher of Boston’s Temple Street Church questions large clergy salaries while John S Leech, native of Bloomington Illinois, becomes U S public printer nominee. William James Bryan Florida senator dies of typhoid ending a brief career, among seven senate deaths in a year. William H Crane aged 63 previews further work. Victor C Vaughan of Ann Arbor Michigan elected president of the American Physicians association.
Lady Dorothy Nevill recounts a crinoline hazard when her skirt caught fire near a fireplace. With no men present to help without risking their own garments, she rolled into a hearth rug to smother the flames.
Mrs Della Meanes of Maysville Kentucky describes seven years of kidney pain bearing down hips and headaches with dropsy and swelling. After using Deans Kidney Pills she was cured and continued using them until full recovery. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
A youth threw a pop bottle at the umpire and was halted by a policeman who measured his head with a tape line. The officer warned him not to repeat the act or be sent to an asylum for the feeble minded. No further bottles were thrown in that bleacher section. Also an old advertisement for Allen’s Foot-Ease promotes free samples and shoe comfort.
The excerpt features two speakers disputing who has fished more, with Eaton Jogalong and Languid Lazarus trading taunts. The exchange centers on countable fish and personal weariness, reflecting a humorous regional dialect clash.
Instant Relief for all eyes irritated from dust heat sun or wind Pettit's Eye Salve offered by Howard Bros Buffalo NY. Then a Look Ahead notes Rompeil excavation and a Fourth of July scene where an elderly crowd recalls past battles and a ball park celebration with the new generation yet to appear.
A brief piece centers on Miss Peachley who proclaims a sunny outlook and admires her reflection in a mirror. A quirky aside notes that watchmakers use oil from a porpoise jawbone.
After measles Mrs. Henry Porter of Albion Nebraska suffered scalp and neck sores as large as pennies with hair loss. She tried doctors remedies and salves for six months before using Cuticura remedies. In a week she saw improvement and in three weeks was entirely healed. This happened seven years ago.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, Orlando Spoonamore confronts Pulsatilla Corkins over sugary words described as verbum sap. The scene ends with Orlando leaving in the dark after the exchange, the blow still felt. Local ads promise Our Vie pie mix from D-Zerta Food Co. Rochester New York and child soothing syrup from Mrs Winslow.
The Well-Informed world seeks a simple pleasant efficient liquid laxative of known value. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted, ethical remedy suggested for family use. Buy the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Co. only. price fifty cents per bottle.
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