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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1903
Page
7
A congressman secured a job for a district acquaintance. The man wrote a grateful letter praising the congressman's aid and expressing pride and inspiration. The congressman then asked what he wanted, and the reply was a $6600 payment.
Fragments indicate Jim Coleman runs a blacksmith trade offering to buy scrap iron and old metal. He advertises fair prices for bum work, plow work, and trade for scrap iron with payment upon surrender. Location NE 162 is noted as contact.
A respected Enterprise Alabama resident with ten years of chronic diarrhoea found no relief from patent medicines or physicians until taking Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After a few months his condition improved and he was cured. Walden & Martin advertise the remedy and cite local testimony from Enterprise residents. Sold by Thomas & Son.
Verdi discusses Il Trovatore with a critic who calls the score trash. Verdi says the work aims to please all audiences, not just purists, and predicts swift popular success. The critic’s blunt verdict, mixed with Verdi’s confidence, foreshadows the opera's reception.
A Wyoming Kentucky reader reports lasting improvement from Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. She suffered years with indigestion and dyspepsia before taking the product. After a few bottles she regained weight, health, and strength and can eat freely. Mary Crick testimonial.
An old Chinese army practice of diverting funds through colonels and officers is being halted by a reform order. Generals must report officers using dummies on regimental rolls and fraud will face decapitation. The change aims to curb inflated estimates and bribery.
The label proclaims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic contains iron and quinine in a tasteless form. It promises relief with a “No Cure No Pay” offer at 60 cents per bottle.
The World's Work reports tobacco and nicotine hinder growth and respiration. Yale Tour years show nonusers gain 24 percent weight and 26.9 percent chest growth versus habitual users. doctors note larger differences at Amherst. Nicotine depresses mental processes but correlation with scholastic ability remains debated.
Advertisement touts a children’s remedy that acts at the source of coughing and croup. It claims immediate relief, drawing out inflammation and healing, with permanent cure by supplying oxygen to blood and tissues.
The article notes inherited princely titles persist for many children across Austria Poland and Russia. It describes peasants legally described as princes in official records and unable to shed their titles. A French wife discovers a Russian maid is a princess and a ruined noble family member. On returning home she learns counts and princesses fill household roles while farm workers hold grand titles nearby.
The notice lists reduced rates for the Lumbermen's Association of Texas convention in Galveston on April 14 26 1903 with sale April 13 and final April 17 1903 Epworth League meeting in San Antonio on April 24 26 1908 with sale April 23 and final April 28 1903 and American Medical Association meeting in New Orleans May 5 8 1903 with sale May 3 4 and final May 16 plus extension to May 30 by depositing tickets and 50 cent fee. F B McKay Terrell Texas.
A literary purist tours Chicago stores urging staff to drop common terms for customers and workers and adopt gentler language such as patron section madame apartment residence and salesperson usher. He notes managers request avoiding colored stocks bright neckties and loud calls to summon customers or ushers.
King Edward's new German steward enforces strict economy in the royal kitchen. Tradesmen protest as he refuses royal warrant holders 25 cents a pound for lard, preferring 16 cents elsewhere. Tracers offer to compromise at 20 cents.
Louis Mente of the Star theatre in New York has converted a play into novel form in a 360 to 400 page book titled The Fatal Wedding. The effort aims at fame and fortune as he studies other plays for future book editions.
W L Heath of Corbin South Carolina a 61 year old merchant and hotel man says he was one of six bodyguards with President Jefferson Davis when captured. Heath describes the escape aided by his quick wits as they were led toward the prison station in North Georgia debunking earlier tales of large captures or disguises.
A premier Napoleonic portrait collection is now on view at the National Arts Club in New York. It comprises prints from the Dudley collection, showing Napoleon in many stages of his life from infancy to death, with Gorshan as a prominent representation. The set stands as one of the finest in the country for enduring artistic interpretations of the silent figure.
An advertisement extols Little Early Risers as a cure for liver troubles and constipation. The pills are claimed to not weaken the system but stimulate tissue function by arousing secretions and restoring liver activity to normal performance.
The piece challenges the view that Welsh is only consonant heavy due to many v sounds. It notes Welsh uses many vowels in sequence with examples like Nywiawdwe and a century old lines by Gornwy Cavern. It discusses Welsh vowel clusters and regional pronunciation.
The article urges that a peacock like plumage reflects health and claims Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures female diseases. It cites a testimonial from Mrs Maya Sylvia of Kansas praising restored color, strength, and vitality after treatment with Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as a gentle laxative.
President Harris of Amhurst notes dialectal differences in language with a Western miner story as illustration. A rough miner buried out West had a grave marker reading Bill Jenkins, died June 13, 190m, He done his damnedest. Angels could do no more.
An oak pulpit in Sunderland Seamen's Church is carved like a boat bow and bears in gold the inscription Nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net. It was a gift from officers and men of a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers for kindness shown during a spring 1902 visit to Sunderland.
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