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Newspaper

Bowen Weekly Chronicle

Location

Bowen, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 17, 1900

Page

7

Legal Digest on Traffic, Insurance and Eminent Domain

The text summarizes court rulings on street use and liability for heavily loaded vehicles, negligence with parked streetcars, jury size in noncapital cases, due process in eight member juries, fire loss notice timelines, and eminent domain damages including exclusion of future profits and calculation of pre and post damage values.

Boardman Los Angeles Supreme Court of the United States Maxwell Continental Fire Insuraance Company N. Y Philadelphia Ball Club Adelphia

Puns and Aphorisms Fill a Fractured Matrimony Page

A collection of witty maxims on marriage and life parodies dating from a newspaper page. It contrasts missteps in divorce courts with light moral quips about wealth, travel, work, worry, and personal virtue. The tone blends humor with social observations on relationships and effort.

Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills Ad

An advertisement claims Catarrh is curable at all stages through Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. It asserts the remedy cures constitutional disease, builds up the patient, and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Testimonials are promised, with a Toledo address for F. J. Cheney & Co. and Druggists selling the products.

Hall F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo

Submerged Presbyterian Punchline In a Clergy Tale

A minister meets a stranger after service and learns the man is a submerged Presbyterian. He explains his family attends multiple denominations, including Methodist and Unitarian, pooling its members for shared contributions. The joke ends with the punchline that his diversions submerge his faith.

Try Yuentan Chill Tonic and Teething Powder Ads

A garbled page item lists Try Yuentan Chill Tonic improved as a reliable tonic with equal doses and pleasant taste. It notes rice priced 50 cents and cites a druggist money back claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Also contains assorted quotes and a teething powder testimony from S R Baldwin Columbus Ga.

Senator W V Sullivan Praises Peruna Catarrh Remedy

In a letter from Oxford Mississippi Senator W V Sullivan endorses Peruna as the best cure for catarrh noting his own improvement after a trial The Mississippi U S Senator urges others to insist on Peruna and seeks a free book on catarrh from The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio

W. V. Sullivan U. S Mississippi United States Hartman Oxford Miss Peruna Peruna Medicine Co Columbus, O

The Frank Sign That Haunts a Broadway Merchant

A lower Broadway clothing dealer priced a bargain suit at 15 dollars hoping for quick sales. After hours with no buyers he checked the sign and found it read These suits 815. They won't last long. Pedestrians laughed at the blunt honesty. The designer clerk lost his job.

Lower Broadway N. Y. Herald

Grain-O A Coffee Alternative That Helps Sleep

Grain-O is a non stimulating grain drink that nourishes and cheers without spoiling sleep. It looks and tastes like coffee and is advertised as suitable for nervous persons young people and children. Available from grocers in 15 and 25 cents packages.

The Elasticity of Our Currency

A biting editorial contrasts a struggling wage earner with a learned financial piece on currency elasticity, implying that scholarly analysis offers sarcasm rather than solutions to financial strain. The brief critique underscores a gap between theory and everyday budget pressure.

N. Y

Allen's Foot-Ease Powder Advertisement

Do your feet ache and burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures corns itching swollen feet callous smarting, sore and sweating feet All druggists and shoe stores sell it 25 cents Sample sent free address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York

Allen Allen S. Olmsted le Roy

Embryo Organist and the Eye Ear Specialist Joke

A Philadelphia Bulletin quip about an embryo organist learning organ lessons as an eye and ear specialist. The rest riffs on tonic products and a cynical proverb about work ethic found in the Atchison Globe.

Philadelphia Bulletin

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