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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
3
Fashion notes describe White as a stylish color trend with lace trims on garments and new sleeve shapes. Straw hats in wide sailor style paired with silk scarves, rosebud chiffons, and revived corn flowers brighten summer accessories. Lace hats and gowns stay in favor with thinner lace and rose trims, while gray tones and subtle color contrasts remain popular.
A collage of quips and humorous captions from multiple papers parodies social mores. It includes lines about romance rhetoric and lively misprints with a poke at technology and society.
A judge recalls a bizarre scene where the cannibal king’s chef laughs at a captured cook’s lesson on soup stock. The remark likens the lecture to a lobster giving talks before a wedding breakfast while a pepsin pill is swallowed.
A Leeds Saturday Journal testimonial extols Vogeler's Compound as a universal remedy for indigestion liver and kidney troubles. George H. Hodge of Orchard Grove Newton Abbott recounts recovering from a severe health decline after using the remedy and urges others to seek the product from medicine dealers in 25c and 50c sizes with free samples offered.
In Connecticut a field of tobacco is described as a visitor wonders if cigars truly grow there and when harvest begins, reflecting a local curiosity over tobacco farming.
The Inter Ocean criticizes multiple layered wall coverings as a sanitary risk, noting pastes and glues harbor filth and disease. Health officers urge legal action to stop the practice and endorse Alabastine as a sanitary wall coating. The paper questions how much disease spread comes from unsanitary wall coverings.
An assorted clipping references millet seed pricing and a seed company in La Crosse Wisconsin, plus multiple patent remedy and health claims. It notes millet yields of 5 to 8 tons per acre, pricing details, and seed-seller contact. Also advertises Dr Kline's nerve restorer with free trial, Piso cures, and Putnam faceless dyes, all amid miscellaneous quotes and ad blurbs.
A historical note highlights Anna B Fleharty wife of a former Nebraska Wesleyan University president praising Peruna for improving appetite digestion and sleep after pelvic catarrh linked illness. Letters from E L Brown Esther M Milner and Thad M Mahon commend Peruna as a cure and tonic with Dr Hartman offering free advice from Columbus Ohio.
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