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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
3
A Pittsburg Dispatch fragment discusses belief in homeopathy and its remedies. The text notes a person’s faith and mentions hay fever and marriage, reflecting a contemporaneous casual attitude toward medical cures and personal experiences.
A compact quotation from John Ruskin on tenderness and inheritance. The fragment discusses the paradox of greatness and vulnerability, noting tenderness as a natural gift passed to all men.
Mrs I T Pitcher of Newark New Jersey suffered three years from rheumatism before finding a cure with Dr Williams Pink Pills. She says the disease started in her fingers and spread to knees making walking and night sleep almost impossible. Both she and her husband praise the remedy and urge others to seek information from the Dr Williams Medicine Company in Schenectady New York.
A Baltimore American reflection extols humorists as public benefactors teaching life’s philosophies with cheerful inspiration. They ease hardship, broaden understanding, and support virtue by creating an atmosphere that counters vice.
A brief comic exchange shows Mr Markinbrake pleased by a young girl’s recital while an elderly matron criticizes the performance as tiresome. The dialogue includes a remark about settling arguments by giving in and a stray line about a Chica, 60 Tribune.
The report surveys a mix of incidents: a carnival worker killed in Wolfe City Texas, behavior of British Columbia and Oregon lumber dealers, a Southern Soft Yarn Spinners meeting in Atlanta urging no more Agricultural Department crop reports, a high price paid for a Buff Plymouth Rock hen for a London show, Venezuela’s port garrisoning and France diplomatic rupture, a Nebraska mob and jail escape in Omaha, and church fundraising stamps in St Louis. It also notes Secretary Taft denying Philippine land interests, Topeka ex-treasurer Grimes facing shortages, Depew Yale fellowship pressures, and China’s planned military buildup with 1.25 million troops, huge costs, and a leader set to travel to Peking.
Verity Soule of Ham mondaport New York recounts severe kidney trouble and weight loss over twenty years. After using Deen’s Kidney Pills she claims improvement and urges purchase from Foster Milburn Co. The ad promotes the remedy at 60 cents a box. A separate note reports a Chicago wife awarded divorce and alimony over a raspberry pie incident and cites a Cleveland minister mocking pie’s morality.
Samuel A. Galzerʼs Bargain Seed Book advertises seeds for hay and fodder with promise of free enough seed to grow five tons of grass on a lot. The notice touts fashionable annual flowers and urges readers to remit for the seed book from John A. Salser Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin.
A Richmond area tale recounts a Black man known as Tim for years. In a lawsuit the full name was sought but the subject denied Timothy, declaring his name is What-timorous-souls-we-poor-mortals be Jackson. They simply call him Tim.
A Connecticut girl lost a locket while skating and later found it in a cake of ice delivered by the iceman. The tale is offered as a caution about map accuracy and place names.
Graham Bouny of Gidden died at twenty five after two months of rapid weight gain averaging a pound daily. He reached 683 pounds and required a special coffin. The funeral procession used a drag to transport the coffin to the cemetery.
A young man asks a library owner to consent to his daughter's hand, while the father recalls the suitor’s earlier parade through the hall. The item then shifts to cultural quips about courtship and a plug for De fiance Starch, noting rivals’ sales struggle.
Comic quips and quibbles appear from Baltimore Jewish Comment and Philadelphia Public Ledger. Jokes about raw oysters health and a hypothetical lock canal reveal light newsroom banter and social wit.
Mrs. W. J. Walker of Camden New Jersey reports Allen's Foot Ease cured her corns and relieved severe burning and itching. She has just bought another supply and endorses its use. Sold by all druggists across the country.
A local ad angle extols Defiance Starch as superior with 16 ounce packs sold at the price of 12 ounce rival products. The speaker questions wasteful social habits, noting women queuing and the inequity of giving up a seat in crowded streets.
A historical health advertisement argues food digestion governs strength and health. It cites fatigue from malnutrition and describes symptoms like headache and weakness. Patient testimonials tout Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and promote the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser with pricing and mailing details.
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