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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
8
Vignettes include a testimonial praising Cuticura ointment for inflammatory rheumatism and bed sores, a book agent scene with Eli Hobbs and a cat, and a flood-era tale of a Rast bottoms resident. The text preserves period voice and scattered anecdotes without a single cohesive story.
A Minn teacher known as The Postum Preacher shares a testimonial praising Postum over coffee. She recounts personal health improvements after switching, including steadier nerves, clearer thinking, and better sleep, and notes her family also benefited. The piece promotes Postum by citing a reader letter and endorsing the Road to Wellville.
The First Methodist church at Tenth and Pleasant was funded to reach about $46,000 more after an initial $30,000 Sunday morning and $11,408.90 Sunday evening, with Henry Harris giving $5,900, and others contributing $1,000 or less. Prior gifts included $50,000 from 409 members, and $27,000 from the old church sale left $60,000 to raise before dedication by Bishops McDowell and Moore.
Mrs A S Payne of Columbus Ohio describes severe kidney and back pains with weakness and sleepless nights before taking Doan's Kidney Pills. She reports rapid improvement from the first dose, returning to health, with 60 cent boxes sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo NY. The ad also notes the discovery of Pithecanthropus Erectus by Dr Dubois, a fossil find in Java.
Fragmented OCR text includes an offer of one hundred dollar reward for a cure, mentions Ball's Catarrh Cure, Cheney & Co Toledo, and stray quotes about a critic named Gray. The readable material suggests an advertisement fragment and unrelated literary dialogue.
The artist's wife sees a scroll formed in her husband's soup and exclaims on its artistry. She warns him not to eat it, calling the design beautiful though surreal and humorous. The moment captures a playful domestic scene with a creative twist.
A northern New Jersey health board promotes a home remedy for pneumonia using onions, rye meal, and vine gar, heated in a bag and applied to the chest. The method, said to cure the deadly winter disease, requires repeated poultices until perspiration appears, and is attributed to a famed New England physician.
A patient is told to take capsules before meals by Dr Funsy, who stresses the importance of timing. The patient underestimates the impact, while the Catholic Standard and Times notes boarding house meals as context.
The fragment shows a risqué social quip about two women and their short marriages, followed by an advertisement for Dr. Kilno's Nervine Restorer claiming cures and offering a $2 trial bottle. It ends with a cheeky line about pretty girls knowing they are pretty.
An old advertisement from the Marine Eye Remedy Co of Chicago touts Murine Eye Remedy with a promise of mail fulfillment. It claims the product treats weak weary watery eyes and offers a free mail order, inviting readers to write and ask their local druggist for the 50-cent package.
A fragmentary Noustan Post item notes Maria Menneck allegedly broke her husband’s will before his death and now hires lawyers to challenge it again. The text also includes garbled lines about soothing syrups and chicken remedies, reflecting a damaged page.
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