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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
8
Ad urges buyers to avoid risk in white lead purchases. National Lead Company offers a testing outfit and free paint book, with the Dutch Boy trade mark on packaging as a guarantee of purity. Ends with a humorous aside about cranky mistresses and cooks.
Milford Maine resident Sylvanus Verrill narrates a dramatic recovery after a severe kidney injury. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring kidney function, easing pain, and enabling him to walk again with crutches before eventual cure. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box.
The ad recounts a Newark Delaware man praising Cuticura Ointment and Soap after seven years of eczema failed to heal with various remedies and doctors. It claims two boxes of the ointment and one cake of soap cured his hands. A separate playful vignette mocks social duties and borrowed groceries. Also promotes Spohn's Distemper Cure for animals with contact details for agents.
A brief item notes an awkward pause in dialogue as the subject was dropped. The San Francisco Argonaut cites a sudden shift away from the topic, leaving readers with an unexplained break in discussion.
Uncle Billy recounts a Calif ornia tale of Gustave the mountain lion kept as a pet by Niobe and Smith. The creature befriended the household, learned to fetch mail and retrieve a ball, but the mistimed escape and a parson's bulldog led to a dramatic end. The lion's death follows from a broken heart, and Niobe Smith later made him into a stew.
Governor Charles Deans Hughes was renominated on the first ballot by the New York Republican convention with 827 of 1009 votes, defeating James W. Wadsworth Jr. and John K. Stewart while Horace White, Samuel Koenig, and Edward R. O Malley were named to the rest of the ticket. A Bryan demonstration in Rochester celebrated the Democratic slate headed by Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John A Dix, John C. Whalen, George M. Palmer, Martin H. Glynn, Philipp P. Farley, and Julius Hauser.
A St. Louis minority stockholder filed a circuit court petition seeking a receiver for State Trust Company, a real estate firm capitalized at $1,000,000. The suit alleges capital was increased from $500,000 to $1,000,000 with $750,000 paid in, and that $260,000 paid by stockholders to raise capital remains unrepaid. Principal assets total about $499,500 in real estate. H. A. Vrooman, president, is named. The company had plans to erect a large business block in St. Louis.
Giovanni P Morosini banker and philanthropist dies suddenly of heart failure Tuesday at the Riverdale estate in Upper Manhattan. Survived by a son Ottillio and two daughters Giulia and Victoria. wife died in 1894. Victoria, the youngest, eloped years ago and was disinherited. Giulia Morosini is a noted horsewoman. Ottillio married Mary Bond of Virginia.
In Amityville a blaze swept through a major state insane asylum. Residents fought to stay in a section of the main building as flames spread rapidly. Sixty keepers used force to evacuate the inmates, creating a scene of wild excitement during the escape efforts.
A Friday explosion of 250 gallons of gasoline aboard a barge moored beside the Grampus and Pika at Mare Island navy yard caused the death of Chief Machinist Teddy Hay and injuries to Lieut. J.8. Town send, Chief Gunner's Mate W. H. Leahy, and Chief Gunner's Mate Mor rin. The vessels were badly scorched and the Fortune and the tug Anandilia were damaged with the latter catching fire as men leaped overboard.
Battered OCR fragment shows ad like items and quotes. It mentions Rosebud Indian Lands opening October 8 to 17 offering troops info and maps via GC D Tidrick US Commissioner at Chamberlain. Also scattered lines advertise furs and cures, a Seneca quote, and miscellaneous phrases.
A promotional passage urges readers to confide private illnesses to Mrs Pirkham in Lynn Massachusetts rather than a family doctor. It claims thirty years of correspondence with sick women yields knowledge that can help.
A customer letter from Allen town, Pennsylvania praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing organic derangement and female weakness after medical advice suggested surgery. The ad claims thirty years of use and lists disorders it purportedly treats, including displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregularities, and nervous prostration.
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