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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1905
Page
2
Miss Ellen McKenna, secretary of the Associated Ladies Guild in Roxbury Massachusetts, suffered seven years of dizziness and stomach trouble. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills for two months her symptoms vanished and her stamina returned. The remedy is marketed to cleanse blood and restore nerves with support from local druggists.
A schoolteacher uses a rhyme to help John remember Columbus discovered America in 1492. The next day John answers 1493, illustrating how memory can shift with content. The anecdote highlights the limits of mnemonic tricks in knowledge retention.
A Brooklyn resident reports five months of facial eczema improved after using Cuticura Soap, Cuticuraointment, and Resolvent. The patient states the first night wash led to rapid change and within a month all scales and scales vanished leaving a clear face.
A Georgia congressman jokes that Moses and Parker are both dead. The Kentucky contact replies there is no difference, prompting the quip that the Lord buried Moses so deep the people could not find him while Parker was buried so deep the Lord could not find him.
A dubious health ad warns against undigested foods and poisons crowding the system and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a quick fix. It claims immediate improvement and guarantees satisfaction with a money back offer, noting prices and retailer availability. The piece also comments on public Valentine window displays and makes light moral observations on cooking and error.
Variety of short items from Missouri communities includes a claim of silver on a Bland farm, 94th birthday for Mary Kelly of Mexico, burglaries at A. B. Taylor’s store, 300 crows on a Callaway county farm, obituary notices and poetry prints, a piano contest, a duck hunting mishap and forgotten gun, a sock misstep fashion, Stark of Pike county praised for killing bad bills, groundhog tale, water plants for Iron Mountain line, Ruby Fullerton wins a driving case, Tyndall in Washington politics, Nebraska appendectomy joke, 1905 journalism chair appointment, Ed Brown’s 75th birthday, James Thornton’s prison fate and dynamite incident.
The sky's blue and brightness are debated among physicists. Old oxygen explanation faces challenge from dust theory, which proposes fine particles reflect light. Recent work by Professor Spring questions dust sufficiency and supports a return to Hagenbach's layered atmosphere reflecting light for general illumination.
The article traces early golf balls from leather spheres stuffed with feathers to the modern gutta percha ball. It describes shaping, turning, feather stuffing through a tiny seam, and the laborious stitching before the transition to gutta percha, noting the short life of leather balls.
The article notes that Japanese naval crews average younger than those of other nations and that no recruit over 20 is accepted. It also states the average height is 5 feet 4 inches, shorter than in any other navy.
A Michigan man after twenty years of rheumatism and kidney trouble finds a complete cure with Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports relief from pains and weakness and urges others to try the remedy, noting healthy kidneys remove uric acid from blood.
The missive from Florence E Kenah of Ottawa describes relief from a prolonged lung issue after Peruna treatment. A Crown Point notice from Rose Gerbing endorses Peruna for colds and catarrh, praising rapid relief and long use without narcotics. The ad asserts Peruna’s non narcotic composition and safety.
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