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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
3
A Sunday school teacher asks how to be sure of heaven. Tommy Wise answers indirectly, suggesting fear of punishment as a motive, recalling a family trip to the seashore last summer as part of a wandering, reflective exchange.
Mrs John Kirk of Detroit Michigan recounts severe kidney trouble five years ago with pain dizziness dropsy and urinary irregularities. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid improvement and now weighs 163 pounds and feels healthy. Sold by dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Pettit's Eye Salve also praised for eye disease in ad text.
The Atlantic and Pacific fleets entered San Francisco Bay as gun salutes and city cheers marked the round the world cruise. Admiral Evans led the flagship Connecticut with 46 ships in a grand procession amid a wall of spectators and whistling craft.
The measure carries 11 518 806 dollars in total. Nebraska Gov. Sheldon in Lincoln received a government warrant for 5 227 dollars for officers of the Third Nebraska regiment commanded by Col. W J Bryan in the Spanish American War. illness and a tax proposal for machine operators to fund road building.
A Mrs A Gregory of 2355 Lawrence St PenTes Col claims she recovered from long term female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter urges other sick women to write for advice and promotes the remedy as a standard cure for displacements inflammation and related symptoms.
A terse courtroom-style line discusses the saying that mind surpasses matter with a remark about not trusting memory alone. A boarder jokes that to ensure not forgetting, one should write a memorandum on a slip of paper.
Caution against mercury based catarrh medicines. Hall’s Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co is promoted as mercury free and to be taken internally. The remedy is manufactured in Toledo Ohio with testimonials offered and sold by druggists at 76 cents per bottle. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Pluto introduces Wackford Squeers to Simon Tayeres about Cele Tomas Cabin. Tagres greets Squeers as one of the old masters but Squeers, forced by Tiiuvo to take Aritstune, cannot respond as the Chicago Tribune reports.
Harper’s Weekly notes a curious practice by Lady Luck during Sir George Luck’s Kandahar expedition. She sewed steel curb chains under each shoulder strap to protect against tribal knife cuts. The success led to the feature becoming permanent in British cavalry uniforms.
A testimonial promotes Grape Nuts as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. The letter claims the product is predigested and builds nervous energy, aiding all ages and promising immediate readiness. It urges readers to consider its benefits and notes new letters appear periodically.
In 1680 Edward Doty and Edward Leister, servants of Mr. Hopkins in New England, dueled over a trivial dispute. Wounded in thigh and hand, they were ordered punished with heads and feet bound for twenty four hours but released after one hour due to extreme suffering.
Brookline Massachusetts with 20 000 residents is praised for its public improvements and civic achievements. The piece notes officials frequently serve decades and highlights a city clerk who held office for fifty years.
A New York family reports their three month old baby’s eczema worsened despite hospital care. After trying Revenue doctors, a friend recommended Cuthura Soap and Ointment. Within days improvement began and by six months the baby was cured using Cuthura Soap, Cuthura Ointment, totaling $1.25.
An installment notes a bystander Pat asks about marital danger. The interrogator quips that the longer a man is married, the less he dodges when his wife throws things, as he learns there is no danger if he stays still.
The text extols Peruna as a universal catarrh remedy and tonic. It cites hydrastis canadensis and a trio with cubebs copaiba to form a specific cure for catarrh, praising Collinsonia canadensis Corydalis formosa and cedarwood seed as tonics, with testimonials supporting its efficacy.
A shopper discusses birthday gifts and shirt preferences for a husband noting soft collars without sawtooth edges. An advertisement presents OUR PLE lemon chocolate and custard pies mix, two large pies per package, 10 cent order today from D Zerta Food Co Rochester NY.
A fragment shows a matron and janitor discussing prior occupants, a Johnson family. The note hints at their tastes for onions sauerkraut and codfish, suggesting domestic details about former residents in an archival house-hunting scene.
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