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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1896
Page
3
Two open letters from Chicago women describe relief after using Mrs Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A nineteen year old mother-to-be fears she may die from presumed consumption, while another letter from Lucy E. W. reports health improvement and plans marriage. The piece argues for candor from physicians and trust in the remedy.
A collage of quips and gags from varied sources includes a house joke about a hired girl, a clergyman’s remark on ancient cities, romantic quips about an Angel, a peanut joke involving an elephant, a jab about changing times, a pun on fighters biting the dust, and lighthearted lines about fashion, a jaybird, a field monk and a Prague benzoin facial tonic. The snippet ends noting Amsterdam’s canals and bridges.
The first California cherry shipment from Suisun to Chicago on April 3 set a new early-packing record, beating the April 27 prior mark. Notes cover Canary Peak altitude, Steuben demographics, British shelves and orchards, Thames bridges, and Puritan town meeting prayer revival in Machias Maine.
A Dutch excerpted column recounts a London clergyman gifting a Wesley portrait to the Bishop of London. It also mentions Sioux chief Banks seeking a pension, explorer Stanley on Africa’s grasshopper ravages, Labouchere’s critique of England, McCarthy’s Irish joke about blankets and annexations, and Count Herbert Bismarck’s paternity news.
In a life insurance case a federal judge urged jurors to ignore gender and child interests, calling such blindness ideal but acknowledging its rarity. The charge faced an exception from Felix Faure, President of France, amid references to courtroom bias and the duty to render a decision without personal influence.
A Detroit mother credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with saving her daughter Blanche after three years of illness and near decline. Blanche, once frail and bedridden, began smiling and riding a bicycle after starting the pills, prompting the grateful mother to share the testimonial along with the pills’ claimed cures for various female and nervous ailments. The piece also notes Keeley treatment arrivals, oil-based cancer remedies, and other society items from the era.
Trade card style ad claims all fits stop free with Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Promises marvelous cures and a $2 trial for fit cases. Offers send for treatment at 981 Arch St Philadelphia Pa.
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