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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
3
Mrs Lizzie E Sledge of Selma Alabama reports four years of skin eczema with intense itching. After two doctors failed, a single set of Cuticura Remedies stopped the outbreaks completely in six months and led to three years of symptom-free life.
A playful exchange between clock hands imagines speed as they joke about time. The minute hand notes it passes points quickly, while the hour hand retorts that it takes sixty six minutes to catch up, highlighting the ongoing drift between them.
The advertisement argues catarrh is a constitutional disease needing systemic treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo claims to cure by acting on blood and mucous surfaces with doses of 10 drops to a teaspoonful. They offer $100 if it fails and urge readers to send for circulars. Patterson and Co. also promote Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The exchange shows a lawyer warning about multiple witnesses accusing the prisoner of whipping his wife. The prisoner disputes alibi and suggests proving intoxication to undermine the case, highlighting a dramatic courtroom moment.
Mrs Chugwater asks Tosiah what tainted money means in the papers. Mr Chugwater replies it is money kept in an old yarn seck. The exchange shows a folksy understanding of the term.
A collage of quotations from 19th century newspapers touching on bank runs inflation and political chatter. Mentions include the Philadelphia Press New York World Washington Post Philadelphia Inquirer New York Sun and other outlets with wry lines on meat prices trades currency and social foibles.
Representative Coudrey of Missouri pushes a bill criminalizing false advertising for penitentiary time. The War Department routes word to Gov Ma goon about tight quarantine on Cuban ports by month end. Senator Hopkins promotes $75,000 federal buildings for Duquoin and Murphysboro Illinois. Roosevelt forwards Grimshaw US marshal nomination for Minnesota. Lowden seeks $5,000 land purchase for Sterling Illinois post office enlargement. Leupp reports two Special Officer Johnson aides and one posse member killed by bootleggers in Indian Territory and ten violators also killed.
Senator Aldrich says the Finance Committee will soon consider a resolution to investigate recent government bond issues and matters in resolutions on financial stringency. Culberson and Clay push their resolutions forward, Tillman stalls for data, and Jeff Davis denounces trusts in a maiden Arkansas speech. Oklahoma’s new senators are sworn in as House actions include many bill introductions. Sloan’s remedies touted with offer of a free veterinary treatise.
Harvard professor Hugo Munsterberg has developed tools to reveal mental states and alleged truths. The automagraph measures involuntary writing, the pneumograph records breathing, and the sphygmograph monitors heart activity to detect emotional stress during questioning.
A new gold bonanza is reported on Valdez creek a Shushita river tributary in western Alaska prospectors stampede toward the area Two prospectors reach Valdez with 900 in nuggets and dust The Shushita valley lies about 200 miles from Valdez.
Thirty eight of the forty three defendants named by the government in its conspiracy and trade restraint case against the powder trust have filed answers in the Federal Court at Wilmington denying the charges. They contend the business is lawful as large and that the company had a right to purchase other companies or properties as investments. The answers illustrate how smaller firms were absorbed by voluntary consent of both sides.
A survey of animal behavior notes that wild buffaloes defend wounded herd members, elephants and baboons protect kin, and otters stay by trapped companions. Monkeys may attack ill members, wolves may kill the helpless, and sparrows mourn a fallen mate while a robin receives no response. A big pig helps a smaller one by pulling it through a fence hole.
The Samoan Islands host the smallest cattle variety in the genus. Males weigh rarely above 200 pounds, typically around 156. females are about 100 pounds heavier. They are stocky, not tall, marked red dish mouse color with white, have large heads, and exceptionally long horns.
A Lake City Minnesota reader reports severe kidney trouble with back pain dizziness and nervousness. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills the person says health is restored and perfect since. Ad claims nationwide availability at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A speaker recounts a rough streetcar ride where a passenger was nearly charged by a conductor after a prior pick up. The jigger on the front end of the car carried the rider roughly a block before the conductor noticed. The piece mixes slang with regional character.
The item advertises chocolate pie mix "OUR PIE" with three varieties Lemon Chocolate and Custard priced at 10 cents per package. It also reports Norfolk Massachusetts peat briquettes being produced by a machine that chops peat and presses it into continuous bars sliced into briquettes.
Advertisement claims PAZO OINTMENT guarantees cure of itching, bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Mentions Dresden public bathing for dogs and Mrs Winslow’s soothing teething balm for children at 23 cents per bottle.
The Well Informed prefer the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. laxative for its known wholesome components and gentle prompt action. Buy only the authentic product from leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
A surgeon aboard a transatlantic liner explains that while ships are larger they bring greater engine vibration. The motion distorts heart readings, making it hard to judge heart action, even when using a hammock to reduce sway.
A reporter asks Colonel Hawkthunder about a fortune from hay. He replies the only basis is marrying a rich grass widow and warns he can beat the man who sent the question, adding a sharp retort.
Load for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the World over to Cure a Cold in one day. There are forty eight different materials used in the construction of a piano.
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