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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1910
Page
3
A testimonial notes severe back pain and kidney secretions improving after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. The user claims full recovery and current good health. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the American Red Cross announce the 1910 Red Cross Christmas Seals sale with the slogan A Million for Tuberculosis. The Red Cross and the tuberculosis group share proceeds, local association stamp fees drop from 20 to 12 1 2 percent, and stamps will be placed on the back of letters.
In a historic panic a South Wales bank faced a run by small farmers. The manager ordered a clerk to heat sovereigns and hand them over in a frying pan. The claim they were freshly minted restored confidence and halted the bank’s collapse.
Senator Depew on the Lusitania recalls London English and a Bloomsbury lodgings tale. A visitor asks for tea and is corrected by the landlady with a dig at the kettle having boiled for hours and the phrase actually meaning hours.
A fragmentary exchange questions the doctor’s description of Bill’s condition after an injury last night. One speaker insists the doctor said Bill was drunk, while another refutes that claim and mentions a jagged cut.
A garbled 19th century advertisement promises a $100 reward and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats constitutional disease. It touts internal tonics and a constitutional approach, urging readers to mail testimonials to F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and promotes Take's Family Pills for constipation.
A fragmentary dialogue notes a tourist questioning a volcano’s activity while a guide explains regional hotel managers maintain a yearly fire during the season, with Maggendorfer Biactter referenced. The exchange hints at local tourism practices and perceptions of geological activity in the area.
Lawrence Blakeley travels to Pittsburg with forged notes to secure John Gilmore’s deposition. In Gilmore’s house a portrait of his granddaughter Alison West intrigues him while a drunken man in Blakeley’s lower ten is murdered. Blakeley’s clothes vanish, a train wreck follows, and a girl in blue saves him with a broken arm.
After a crash, the narrator and Alison West, with injuries and a jammed arm, improvise a escape from the wreck. They remove the weighty bag, lash the arm, and seek aid at a farmhouse before continuing toward Baltimore as a fragile alliance forms between them.
Willie-Ma asks to go out as Tommy Jones mentions a comet visible. Mother cautions him to stay safe and not go too near the street.
An old newspaper fragment promotes Pettit's Eye Salve as a cure for eye diseases with druggists Howard Bros. Buffalo. It also pitches Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening yellow clothes, Pierce’s Pellets for constipation, and Lewis' Single Binder cigars. Miscellaneous quotes from Phillips Brooks to Elihu Burritt appear as ad copy filler.
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