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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1906
Page
3
A 1905 Chicago woman reports long lasting hand sores itching and painful. After three doctors failed, Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured them in three days, leaving hands smooth, while she continued work in a dye house.
A quote urges readers to stop blaming others and instead examine themselves. It stresses that many excuses hide personal fault and urges immediate self accountability to avoid giving oneself a worse name. The excerpt frames blame as a mirror to one’s own conduct.
The Eskimo narrator reports eating kerosene for the first time tasting deleterious yet not as rich as a tallow candle. The remark emphasizes a grim, ironic comparison of familiar comforts.
A Rocklyn Washington woman, Annie Hendren, writes that Veruna and Manalin improved her health allowing her to resume housework, milking cows, and managing farm tasks. She credits Peruna with making her well and happy and notes many grateful letters reaching Dr. Hartman.
A humorous fair scene features a palmist reading a girl’s hand and foretelling engagement to Mr Loony. The bride protests that the lines failed to reveal the real fact she recently returned her engagement ring, amid playful rebuke from the reader.
In a French church Aunt Evelyn gives Anna a nickel for alms. Anna asks how much to give and sees a quarter in Aunt Evelyn’s hand, exclaiming with childlike wit that it isn’t worth it. The moment captures a small comic exchange from Lippincott's Magazine.
A minister recounts a five year struggle with grippe like illness and nervous prostration. After starting Grape Nuts and cream, he regained weight, appetite, and energy, returning to duties and praising the food as a rebuilding agent. The ad promotes Postum Co. and the brand’s little book The Road to Wellville.
The piece recalls General Tomas Regalado of El Salvador killed on the Guatemala frontier after proclaiming earlier rule 1899 to 1903. It also notes Dr. Elmer Brown as Roosevelt appointee for Education, and figures like Edward Blyden, B F Barnes, William Dean Howells, Clarence Eddy, and Lloyd George.
A compiled list traces major milestones from 1191 Acre in Palestine and 1414 Henry V in France to 1905 Franco-German Morocco accord and Peary’s North Pole voyage. It catalogs wars, treaties, sieges, expeditions, assassinations, and notable discoveries across centuries.
An advance of five percent in wages took effect Monday in cotton mills across 30 plus cities towns and villages in southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, benefiting about 45 000 workers. Since the early year rise began 165 000 textile workers have seen raises from five to fourteen percent. The Fall River Iron Company, already the highest paid in the city, again raised wages.
The Erie Railroad placed orders for 1 600 freight cars from Standard Steel Car Company and American Car and Foundry Company. Orders include 500 drop end gondola cars 100 000 pounds capacity and 45 feet for January 2007 delivery, 500 flat cars 40 feet for December, and 500 produce cars 36 feet 80 000 pounds capacity for November December. Detroit works build 100 Hart convertible cars 109 000 pounds capacity for January delivery. Five new electric cars for the Rochester division from St Louis Car Company will have four 75 horsepower Westinghouse motors for Mt Morris service.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a heated exchange where a salesman touts an automatic house cleaning device and a woman demands it perform household chores from washing curtains to managing her husband and children. She argues no machine can replace a woman’s labor.
Mrs Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut credits Dean's Kidney Pills with ending five weeks of severe kidney illness. She reports pain weakness and unreliable kidney passages improving after the first box and complete cure after five boxes. Sold by dealers 50 cents for 4 boxes Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A stranger asks why the conductor collects fares as passengers enter the tunnel. The notice replies it is the company order to cover the conductor's discomfort at collecting fares on this line. Lewis' Single Binder cigars are praised for uniform high quality from Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois.
Women describe backache as a constant burden with pain in the small of the back and lower side. They endure bearing-down discomfort, nerves on edge, and lack of ambition while continuing daily strain.
Miss Maude Morris testifies to chronic female and back pain alleviated by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes months of severe discomfort, fatigue, and sleep loss, then improvement after two months of use with regained regularity and health.
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