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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1897
Page
3
A historical advertisement-like note extols Hostetter's Stem Bitters as restoring stomach strength and blood quality, stating improved digestion, bowel function, and liver performance. It links renewed vigor to toned digestion and claims London faces a button fever amid department store sales.
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease is a powder claimed to cure painful swollen feet ease tight shoes and stop sweating callouses and bunions with quick relief. Advertises mail order 25 cents and a free trial package from Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY plus a note on global coastline measurement.
A drunken man credits his wife with a secret remedy called Anti Jag from the Renova Chemical Co for salvation from long-term alcoholism. The ad warns if not available at druggists, the remedy can be mailed for one dollar with full instructions. It describes London catarrh cures and various patent products, including Hall's Catarrh Cure and other tonics, with testimonials and a 50,000-dollar claim.
In a Pine Ridge agency hotel on a stormy December 1890 night, newspaper correspondents and locals recall the Brule and Ogalalla Sioux ghost dance era and a dramatic stagecoach robbery near Miles City. A consumptive passenger reveals a hidden $200 and a bold outlaw confesses to aiding the old woman, while Tom Tom of the Black Hills returns $40,000 to its owner.
A Calais man plans releasing prairie thickens in nearby woods while Portland skies show a mirage and phantom islands. Tusgagee Alabama students make bricks. Swiss tobacco monopoly could net $2 million yearly. Florida Biscayne Bay cinnamon cultivation expands. Auburn livery stable disruptions tied to solar activity. Global cosmopolitanism noted in New York venues. East London church fund quotes pawned eye stories. Greenland burial custom involves a live dog. Massachusetts observatory notes cloud measurement as a flock of ducks crosses the sky at 47.8 mph and 958 feet high.
Big Four engine No 156 arrived at Union Station with train No 11 from Cleveland and was uncoupled as Engineer Parker Rugby started to move to the roundhouse. A drive wheel detached just after leaving the car shed, an event noted as a highly peculiar accident by railroad men. The wheel had recently spun at about fifty miles per hour toward the city, and could have caused a wreck if it had failed earlier. The wrecking train helped move the engine to the shop.
A New York woman has entered the business of teaching women how to walk. The remark amuses her companion who notes the trend as wheels grow cheaper, highlighting a cultural shift in grooming and poise. The exchange captures a witty moment cited by the Chicago Post.
A severely ill young woman arrives at City Hospital and undergoes an emergency ovariotomy after her left ovary threatens to burst. The surgeon confirms the danger and the patient is saved, prompting a testimonial urging women to seek medical advice and consider Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, with Agnes Tracy of Valley City sharing her experience.
Mo Pac Rail advertises through sleepers and free reclining chairs to Kansas City Denver Hot Springs Omaha Lincoln and nearly all points in Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado Arkansas and Texas without change For maps rates and full information address Coke Alexander D P A Mo Pac Ry Indianapolis Ind There are fifteen titled persons in Germany who hold 9 000 000 acres of land.
An 1890s page item touts No-to-Bac as a tobacco cure promising health and manhood, alongside a 500 and 1 dollar cure guarantee for druggists. The Paris Letter reports a mice-caused short circuit at a power station where a carbonized mouse was found after insulation was gnawed by the animal on a 5000-volt line.
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