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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
8
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive remedy for constitutional catarrh. It claims to cure via a constitutional transfusion, offers $1000 for a failed cure, lists testimonials, and promotes related products like Hall's Family Pills and Wizard Oil. The piece also includes random advertising lines and a stray political quip.
A jumble of items notes contagious dandruff claims from a German expert and a heralded hair brush remedy, plus quirky anecdotes about volcano force, John W. Gates, Thomas Lawson and Richard Wagner. It blends health hoaxes with biographical tidbits and oddities from business and music.
A fragment from Wabasha Minnesota dated August 19 reports George Huber of the town recovered from kidney trouble and backache after using Dodds Kidney Pills. The notice touts cures for Brights Disease diabetes dropsy rheumatism and backache and mentions Defiance starch marketed by Magnetie Starch Co Omaha Nebraska.
The fragment references British authors seeking to escape profits and concerns over book earnings. It cites Dr Kilne and a FRG related trial, with mentions of bonds, treaties, and a Philadelphia battery export. The readable line hints at economic and political mentions, but details are fragmented.
Announcement dated January eight reveals Senator Joseph C. Blackburn engaged to widow Mary B Blackburn of Washington. The wedding, once planned for March, was postponed for private reasons. Mary B Blackburn, long widow, served in the War Department clerkship and is seen as a gracious addition to the Blackburn family social circle.
Senator Deboe of Kentucky secures the Newcastle postmastership after a long fight, replacing Mrs Gertrude Saunders who, as a widow with ten children, faced a monthly $60 loss. Saunders fought for her family, but Deboe and Kentucky party organization prevailed in the end.
Louis Barutel, a French billiard expert who arrived in America with Jacob Schaefer, is set to play George F. B Slosson in New York for $1000 side with a $500 deposit. Barutel, a Toulousan native, has 15 years professional experience and has toured Europe and the Americas giving exhibitions. Meanwhile, Baptists of Malden sue St Luke's Baptist Church trustees in Middlesex County over back salary claims, alleging Pastor James Randolph contract dated May 10, 1896 for $350 monthly and currently due $1,051.44.
A block of old advertisements touts Peruna with testimonials from Mrs. E A Crozier and Mrs. Wm Henderson praising its cure of bearing down pains backache and headaches. The piece also promotes Dr Hartman and a free no charge treatment program for women with confidential care at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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