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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
7
Walter W. Taglush of 207 N Robey St Chicago reports a year of constant itching from eczema. After using Cuticura Soap Cuticura and Cuticura Resolvent Pills he was completely cured. The purchase cost a dollar twenty five. October 8 16 1900.
A lecturer challenges the audience remarking on heredity and environment. An elderly map in the front seat explodes with indignation denying any dealings with the firm and all debts. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune.
John Armstrong of Cloverport Kentucky endured years of kidney misery and weakness. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring his health after physicians could not help. He says his vitality returned and he is now strong again. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The scale-tailed apus once thought extinct in Great Britain appears again, with specimens found near Preston Merse and Southwick. Described as resembling a king crab with a broad shield and many leg joints, the species once counted by Latrelle at about two million, and by Schaffer at 1,802,604.
Old man Rutten jokes about blue mood as Trumbull complains of market woes. The van driver stole £5 worth of furniture, a five pound Bank of England note vanished, the gas company doubled the usual deposit, and a jury summons arrived.
A Washington woman credits stopping coffee with restoring health and energy from nervous spells. She began drinking Postum and reports improved mood, ability to do housework, and care for two babies, declaring Postum the reason for her recovery.
President announces world cruise plans for the battleship fleet with two weeks off Pacific maneuvers at May Gatena Mexico then San Francisco by May 5 for nine days of celebration. The voyage resumes July 6 toward the Pacific stations stopping at Bagai Samoa Melbourne and Australia before Philippines and Suez return via the Suez Canal.
Writing from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Mr B. K. Rathwall says his 500 acres of wheat averaged 22 bushels per acre with 200 cut before frost selling at 85 cents per bushel for a return of 18 per acre. The remaining 300 acres frost damaged at 60 cents per bushel, oats yielded 50 bushels per acre at 35 cents, totaling 17 per acre.
A collage of short items includes Joe Lincoln recalling a lecture, a rural cure tale praising Sloan’s Liniment for horses, a quip about naming a faster automobile, a Toledo business oath note, Hall’s Catarrh Cure ad, Garfield Tea tout, humorous Crusoe moment, and various pills and health claims from early 1900s era ads and notices.
Readers in Kansas and elsewhere endorse Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. The letters recount lasting relief after medical doubts and urge others to try the tonic. The passage also notes golfing anecdot and social chatter from Chicago and Shinnecock Hills.
A dialogue quoted in the Houston Post contrasts a teacher offering lessons at home with a parent preferring in home instruction and practice at the mother or guardian’s rooms. The exchange centers on where the daughter should receive music lessons.
Ask your dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease a powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet cures corns bunions swollen sore hot callous aching. For sweating feet and ingrown nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25 cents. Sample mailed free. Address Allen S&S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
The multimillionaire endorsed funding for smaller colleges, calling them useful feeders though not the only feeders to big universities. He signed a large check payable to his favored institution of learning.
A playful old text describes Young Miss Liberty angrily declaring her cradle is not a cradle but a crib. It notes Peter Faneuil as a merchant rather than a cabinet maker who failed to add rockers.
A humorous note argues that music cures baldness with string players gaining hair while wind instruments rid hair. It cites Paderewski Isaye Kubeck Paganini Rubinstein Liszt as examples of hairy virtuosi and jokes about barbers hiring violinists to massage scalps.
A ship fights massive waves as a rocket salvo lights the night. A tall austere man reaches the rail to admonish the captain, protesting the danger while prompting rescue before the vessel sinks.
A child Gertrude watches a storm and sees a lightning flash along a telegraph wire and exclaims she saw a piece of the sun fall from the sky. The piece includes garbled notes about a press and an obituary fragment mentioning a widow and a man named Jerry.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a portable health aid for digestion and bowel health. It claims six candy tablets per vest pocket box, with non bile-driving laxative action and potential to reduce future dosage. Mentions Sterling Remedy Company and tablet stamps CoC.
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