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Newspaper
Burra Record
Location
Burra, South Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
2
The article highlights W E Thomas of Ade lad dentin offering painless dentistry tomorrow with a new gas method claimed to last twenty times longer. He advertises free treatment if pain occurs during extraction and invites inquiries at the Burez Hotel.
A fragmented report describes a ministerial medical note and a Canadian woman Miss Eva Roach who slept for thirty eight days. It mentions home remedies and a heat wave, with details of weather changes and unusual storms. The text references doctors, injections, and public sale notices.
A fragmentary readers bulletin requests interesting items and invites correspondents. It mentions difficulties in reporting everywhere, a sick editor, and an improvised remedy. The text includes sharp social commentary on workhouse shame and a magistrate’s proceedings.
A reader recounts using a home remedy labeled as a cholera and dysentery treatment for children. The note describes teething, stomach cramps, and bowels, and claims the remedy eased symptoms after dosing with drops. The account lists a pharmacist, W. Wilburyn, as the preparer.
A UK style fragment notes a Sydney cricket match with a substitute umpire delivering odd calls including no ball wide and a misheard verdict. The text shifts to social advice on detecting a woman’s age, then to a court case in Redruth about Mrs. Ker and mice poison. Additional stray health and sea shore travel tips close the item.
The text contrasts sunrise and sunset as metaphors for life stages, describing abundant hair in youth and thinning gray hair with aging. It invites the reader to choose a reflection of vigor or decline as time passes.
An advertisement touts Ayer's Hair Vigor as restoring gray hair color stopping shedding and promoting longer heavier hair. It claims long use by people for half a century and presents the product as the best hair preparation now available from a Lowell Massachusetts company.
A long, garbled interview describes Charles Leupold’s account of illness and a hospital stay in which doctors supposedly misdiagnosed him. He attributes chronic pain, fainting, and nerve weakness to medical treatments and claims a tonic named Clemente Tonle aided his recovery.
A garbled account from a professor’s summer interviews with 7 000 vagrants yields odd tallies: 653 claim illness, 445 offer no solid reason, 30 scorn work while helping others, 467 travel to distant towns with promises of work, and 194 wait for relatives to die. A curious Milwaukee will details shares for nine heirs with curious adjustments. A stray joke and broken dialogue close the fragment, lacking clear narrative cohesion.
On a Saturday morning Fitzgerald Bros. circus arrived at Burra railway station. Hedley Harris rode his four legged horse to the scene to view the menagerie. The elephant appeared and the horse died within minutes from heart failure caused by the shock.
A fragmentary 19th century ad text touts Doan’s Ointment as a remedy for chronic piles protruding or inward and other ailments like insect bites. Testimonials claim relief and wide demand, with references to vendors Foster McClellan and W. S. Wot.
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