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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
7
A testimonial urges women to use Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for female troubles including displacements inflammation backache and nervous prostration. Readers from New York and Pennsylvania share improved health and a call for others to seek her advice at Lynn Mass.
A mother notes her daughter’s sudden fondness for Mr Prettyman and recalls overheard remarks about him being too hateful, as reported by the Philadelphia Press. The dialog centers on affection and embarrassment within a young couple’s social circle.
In a Philadelphia Press item a veteran boarder warns a new arrival to cover his board as a patron of Mrs Starvem becomes dangerously polite. The piece flits to a curious statistic noting foreigners make up one and a half percent in Hol land.
Senate debates forest reserve policy and pension fund disbursement amid stalled conferees on the pension bill. Army pay increases pass with a $70,000 appropriation. House considers misc measures including naturalization appeals, channel widening, and New Mexico civil prejudice acts. Senate passes agricultural appropriation, House votes on marine provisions, and approves motto restoration on coins.
Representative OConnell of Massachusetts introduces a bill to require compulsory savings from part of each enlisted service member's monthly pay across the army navy and marine corps. The Justice Department says preparations are underway for a test case on the commodities clause of the Hepburn bill unless legislation alters the situation.
Mrs Rash Spread and Grew Worse Under Specialist's Care. A Bay City mother recounts a long battle with a persistent skin condition on her daughter. Despite years of salves and medical treatment, the rash worsened until using Caticura Remedies, after which the condition cleared. May 20, 1906.
A humorous verse from the St Louis Post-Dispatch depicts a family reacting with sighs and sarcasm as Mary chats on the phone. Father keeps his paper, mother sighs, and Mary joshes her beau while gossip about a dance and other suitors swirls around the phone call.
John A. Enders of Robertson avenue Pen Areyl Pa endured six years of back pain headaches and dizziness with kidneys deemed okay by a specialist despite reddish brick dust in secretions. He credits Twan's Kidney Pills with improved kidney action and passing gravel stones. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A chairman at a teacher's congress delivers a rambling, comical mispronounced riff on school terms. He fumbles through variants like schoolwork, bulhouse, busschool, scaw school, and housework, finally stumbling into the crowd’s amused relief with Is the wulbark.
A curate encounters the verger in a church after singing the Benedicite. The verger remarks that the benedicite mentioned all things but the verger, and the curate replies that it mentions all green things upon the earth. An Illustrated Bits humor piece.
A Cleveland grocer reports his customers benefited from avoiding coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. He recalls personal relief from nervousness and stomach issues after switching, encouraged by his wife’s suggestion and a letter praising the product. A campaign line promises readers to read The Road to Wellville for more.
The article traces nails from ancient thorns and fish bones to modern high speed production and a vast array of nail types. It notes the 1886 start of the great wire nail industry, the shift from hand forging, and the proliferation of specialized nails and brands crucial to construction and decoration.
The Spiketown Blizzard recounts a past editorials urging Congress to halt funding for four battleships, arguing for two instead, and notes the stance was vindicated when Congress complied. The piece also records comic exchanges between Borus and Naggus about a book, and Cuomo instruction adding turbine engine use at Stuyvesant High School.
An advertisement touts OUR-PIE lemon pie prep ration by D-Zerta Food Co. Rochester NY, priced at 10 cents. A testimonial claims it makes lemon pies easier than the old method and urges readers to try it.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls a misprint blame for using the word actor in a discussion about a performer. The notice then promotes Allen's Foot-Base powder for foot relief with a mail free sample offer and 25 cent price.
A young woman dancing last night nearly ruined a tendon in her foot. The Professor notes she strained one of her terpsichords, in a witty exchange reflecting on dance mishaps.
Good for sore eyes. Over a century PETTIT'S EYE SALVE has reportedly cured eye diseases everywhere. Available from all druggists of Howard Bros., Buffalo New York.
A quirky pondering by a professor on elevated railways as reduced to essence, a medical note touts Garfield Teats for rheumatism and gout claiming blood purification, and a bizarre claim of four mountains of iron ore across Mexico the US India Africa with reports from Siberia. It also notes Columbia College operating expenses for the current year at 1,522,563 dollars.
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