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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
3
The ad touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a liver and kidney remedy and tonic. It claims benefits against poisons and blood impurities, promotes honesty of ingredients, offers pellets for constipation, and promotes the Common Sense Medical Adviser with mail-only offers and prices.
Perseousky conducts a four week Eastern Tour in a special train with Pullman Sleepers and dining car leaving Chicago July 5 for a route including Detroit Toronto Niagara Falls Kingston St Lawrence Island Montreal Ottawa Quebec White Mountains Portland Old Orchard Portsouth Plymouth Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh Toledo. Rates very reasonable for complete itinerary and details, F B Tristram, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Adams Street Chicago. Aw captain you used to be a whaler didn't you query about bait and catching a whale.
A fragmentary dialogue notes Gwendolen's mother forbidding Hankerson. She still meets him at the narrator's house where he always cuts the gas lights as she arrives, suggesting clandestine contact in a tense domestic scene.
Abilene Kansas resident J C Lightner describes chronic kidney pain from daily work lasting years. Backache, gravel, and frequent painful urination faded after using Dean’s Kidney Pills, with Lightner noting no recurrence. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A quirky New York Press note recounts a horseman urging a bump and a poky steed leading to the camel’s invention. The snippet frames a whimsical origin story with minimal context and no clear date or place.
Public notice claims deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. It argues focal applications fail to reach the diseased area and promotes a constitutional cure with circulars from J. Hee Co in Toledo Ohio. Also mentions penny pile for constipation and Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for children.
Devotion to an idea frames Watt Gozup as a contrarian who opposes inheritance tax on principle. Muskum Downe notes he has learned of the tax and plans to ensure his heirs do not pay it, reflecting a stance against the levy.
Reports from Paris describe May Day labor riots with police and troops clashing with protesters near Place de la Republique and along the Champs Elysees. Dozens were arrested, stores closed, and the American embassy fortified as officials warned of broader revolutionary plots tied to the eight hour day movement.
British authorities report that coal kept in iron crates in a water basin at Portamouth docks gains heat value over time, while coal stored in the open air under tarpaulins loses heat. Six month burn tests confirm the marine storage method improves quality, prompting larger scale experiments. drying coal before use remains a key challenge to prevent spontaneous combustion.
The New York Assembly passed a compromise bill requiring all campaign contributions be made public without a dissenting vote. It permits petty contributions and dissatisfaction from reformers remains.
Ex-Senator M C Butler of South Carolina writes from Washington praising Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. The letter claims stomach catarrh causes dyspepsia and asserts Peruna cures internal catarrh, describing Peruna as a suitable internal remedy and tonic.
Arizona leads in copper output with 241,400,000 pounds produced last year, up 600 percent in eleven years. The state has shifted from scattered camps to developed mining towns with waterworks, electric streetcars, libraries, hotels, and many substantial owner-occupied homes built by miners.
Dillwynn M Hazlett tells a Kansas City Journal writer that anyone willing to work can get rich in Panama. He notes bananas cost 10 cents a bunch to raise with sale at 30 cents and claims three corn crops yearly require no cultivation beyond dropping seed in footprints and covering with the toe before harvest.
The text humorously recalls a duke visiting New York and being shown Wall Street with the courtly host explaining the area as the “this.” The duke shows disinterest and asks about Bradstreet as the ladies react, marking a light social scene from the period.
A 1900s style health note claims heavy brain work depletes potash phosphate lost to albumen and urges daily replenishment via foods. It promotes Grape Nuts as the solution, advising ten days to two weeks use and noting sale by grocers and manufacture by Postum Co.
A mother recounts her twenty two year old son’s four month onset eczema that covered most of his body. After dermatologists failed, she used Cuticura remedies and his condition improved in two months and cured in six. The testimony appears in a New Hampshire notice dated December 24, 1905.
Nagus questions Borus about his current project. Borus describes a story without heroes villains or plot aimed to be touching and pathetic. He plans to write a hard luck piece for his landlord seeking another extension on his rent.
A vintage ad invites readers to obtain a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease from Allen & Olmsted in Le Roy New York. It promises relief for tired sweating hot and swollen feet and helps shoes fit, claiming to cure corns and bunions with a 25 cent price.
A quarrel erupts when a caller threatens to discipline a dog in a domestic dispute. A bystander overhears tense exchanges as a doctor urges patients to stay cheerful at meals for digestion.
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a powerful tonic for women. It claims cures for irregular periods bloating and weakened organs based on letters from physicians nurses and patients and promotes writing Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass for free advice from Lydia E Pinkham's daughter-in-law with twenty five years of experience helping sick women.
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