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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1902
Page
7
An 1800s style classifieds snippet offers Red Cross Ball Blue large 2 oz packages for 5 cents to whiten fabrics and mentions Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething at 2 cents a bottle. The ad references Silk Wool or Cotton color improvement and notes a Hay & Grain Reporter inclusion.
A humorous exchange from the Boston Courier features a wife chiding her husband the postmaster for not being home. He explains a rush to Albany after receiving a letter marked in haste and says he boarded the first train to ensure instructions were obeyed. The anecdote highlights domestic wit and travel by rail.
Stendal Indiana March 10 Mrs Sarah A Shrode says she suffered with kidney and bladder troubles until nine boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her completely. She urges other women to try the remedy, calling it the best friend to sick women.
The Salzer seed company promotes a new onion culture method claiming over 1200 bushels per acre and high seed sales. They distribute up to 1/8 million pounds of onion seed yearly at 60 cents per pound and offer a mammoth seed catalog by mail with 150 kinds of seeds, market gardeners list 2 cents postage.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co with West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin endorse the cure, claim honorable dealings, and offer Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills also promoted.
Mrs Skinflint Bobby asks her mother about joining for dinner. Bobbie replies yes ma am but mom thinks best to stay home and have a proper square meal.
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as an immediate cough remedy for consumption. It offers free sample bottles and sells 25 and 50 cent sizes. The message urges readers to act quickly, claiming delays are dangerous and citing endorsements from Mrs. Oscar Tripp of Big Rock, Illinois, dated March 20, 1901.
A notice offering a $200.00 PATD to the mother on her newborn child with a cost of $2.00 per month. For particulars write to The Mothers' Association in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
The report notes a brief January slow period shortened by holidays and harsh storms, followed by a revival in industrial activity and expectations of a strong spring. Coke and pig iron output suffer from power and weather, while structural material demand rises. wool and cotton goods show mixed signals as grain prices slip and futures react to weather and crop forecasts.
Market data from Chicago to New York lists livestock and grain prices. Cattle, hogs, and sheep vary by grade and region with values for Wheat No 2 red, corn No 2, and oats No 2 white, among others, across multiple cities including Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with prices per unit and per bushel.
A blaze at the Camlin varnish works in New York caused $40,000 in losses with all danger of death to Count Tolstoi considered past. Rumor of the Servian king’s assassination is unfounded. A friend of the Tuskegee Institute donated $25,000 for a girls dormitory.
A series of letters from Catholic Sisters nationwide praise Dr. Hartman’s Peruna as highly effective for catarrh, influenza, grip, coughs, and related ailments. The Sisters note personal experience of relief after use and offer to supply letters upon request while urging readers to seek Dr. Hartman’s free medical advice if results are lacking.
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