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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
7
A testimonial from Mrs. Beix Stevenson of Salt Lake City claims uterine and ovarian inflammation eased within weeks and cured in three months after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, urging others to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
The Knights of Pythias opened their biennial convention at the Palace Hotel San Francisco with nearly 150 Supreme representatives in attendance. Supreme Chancellor Fethers delivered the annual report detailing membership figures for 1901 and the order's growth, while the lodge reports showed 7,002 subordinate lodges. Elks gathered in Salt Lake City for their grand lodge reunion with over 8,000 attendees and remarks by Gov. Wells of Utah.
Rumors swirl that President Roosevelt will call an extraordinary session of Congress in November to push Cuban reciprocity. A prepared treaty awaits final touches from Minister Quesada and Secretary Hay, with no fixed date but likely after elections. The piece also notes postal service employment figures and a quirky Nantucket bug lighthouse keeper.
Miss Alice Hay will wed James W. Wadsworth Jr son of Representative Wadsworth of New York on Sept 30 at the Fells Newbury New Hampshire the summer home of Mr Hay Only relatives and a few intimate friends will attend After a short wedding trip the couple will go to Geneseo New York for the autumn
A new company, International Harvester Company, is incorporated in Trenton with capital stock of 120 million dollars to manufacture harvesting machines and related equipment. It aims to consolidate major U S machine works, including the McCormicks of Chicago. The Milwaukee Harvester Company was sold to an Eastern syndicate for 5 million dollars. A census bulletin cites 10.2 million invested in the industry, with 54 of 57 factories in New York, and about 17,000 employed. Worry grows in Constantinople over Macedonia and Albania as revolutionary activity increases.
A leading businessman recalls an old Civil War era account book from a central Illinois farm. It shows earnings from selling junk, mink skins, coon skins, and possum hides, plus a trade in wild mocking birds. The piece highlights how small earnings funded Fourth of July celebrations and circuses, and how such odds and ends formed the foundations of later fortunes.
African Charles Back of 64 Rue de la Victoire Paris recalls kidney pain since age three. After Carlsbad and Paris Hamburg doctors failed, he found relief within a week after using Dodd's Kidney Pills in Montreal where an ad inspired trial. He declares the remedy wonderful and essential.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot Ease powder to relieve aching burning feet from tight new shoes. It claims cures for corns bunions swelling and sweating with retail price 25 cents and sample offers. A note credits Pythagoras with advising against animal skins and mentions tree bark footwear.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Hatt's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. The note mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption as a household staple. A brief reader quote from Big M. Swayze of Wakita Oklahoma, dated April, is attached, plus a quip attributed to James Thompson about walking across England for pheasant dinner.
A letter from Congressman W. F. B. Aldrich of Alabama in Washington and a statement from H. B. Emory of Omaha praise Peruna manufactured by The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus Ohio as a safe vegetable tonic. They claim it builds strength, aids digestion, and helps nervous debility and sleeplessness, with endorsements from various orders. The note mentions the hot months stressing nerves and health.
An advertisement from The Peruna Medicine of Columbus Ohio promotes Peruna as the safe course to digestion health and regular sleep. It claims the remedy rejuvenates nerves and brain, cites 50 000 letters praising its merits, and offers a book on catarrhal diseases of summer to addressee requests.
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