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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1907
Page
7
In old fashioned days few drugs were used and Lydia E Pinkham of Lynn Mass studied roots and herbs to develop a remedy for women’s ailments more potent and efficacious than drug combinations.
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an honest remedy with a thirty year record. It cites cures for irregular or painful female functions and general debility and invites sick women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Denmark known for butter export hosts 500 cows per thousand people. If five cows per family are counted, there are two and a half cows per family. The quirky statistic links population and dairy production in a curious national metric.
The article describes Golden Medical Discovery named for Golden Seal root. It explains a glycerine extraction method, notes no alcohol, lists ingredients, and cites Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo as promoter. Endorsements claim efficacy for weak stomach, indigestion, biliousness, catarrhal and throat affections, and warns limits in advanced consumption.
A 1629 first folio of Shakespeare was sold in London for 18000 dollars to Tar A. 8. W. Rosenbush, setting a record price for the rare edition. The volume, one of 150 originals, is en route to Philadelphia with other rare books insured for 18000.
The Egyptian government grants permission for housing and hotels across a vast plain near Giza. Local societies push to use the famed landscape for massive hotels as ten American skyscrapers from nine to ten stories rise in the view of the pyramids.
A rabbit described as a big showy dresser wears a white coat in winter and a gray one in summer to blend with its surroundings. The animal’s changing coat is meant to confuse predators by matching seasonal ground color.
A comical essay muses on backward spring delaying the legendary seventeen year locusts. It jokes about rival prophets, past sieges, and the absurdity of premature predictions as the author treats punctuality as crucial for the rare event.
A Department of Commerce and Labor report shows cocoa imports to the United States averaging over one million dollars monthly, up from a quarter million a decade earlier, while coffee and tea imports decline. Eight months to February 1907 saw cocoa at 61,209,427 pounds valued at $8,341,426. coffee at 647,206,159 pounds valued at $51,869,152. tea at 72,475,440 pounds valued at $11,606,05 to 81,220,822 pounds valued at $10,217,000 in 1897. Value gains: cocoa up about $6.5 million. coffee down about $1.5 million. tea up $1,353,353. Cocoa average value 13.6c/lb vs 9.3c. ten years ago 16c vs 12.6c. coffee down 8c vs 11.4c.
A collection notes 234000 telephones in New York City and a claim light-haired people live longer. It cites a vast vineyard near San Gabriel California and says Baptist women support 300 missionaries. It adds Italy’s government runs pawnshops with zero interest loans.
The article praises African farming, noting the Bongos and Angelas in the Kongo district practice irrigation and cultivate diverse plants around huts. It highlights the Wachanga terraced hillsides irrigated by tunnels from main streams and a unique method using banana stems as a water conduit to distribute irrigation.
A mother recalls using Cuticura Soap and Ointment to cure her infant of Cuban Itch in two weeks at a cost of ten cents, praising the remedies as life saving and noting the child is now five years old. The letter also includes a unrelated political comment from the Chicago Tribune.
The Long Beach hotel on Long Island near New York is newly renovated under W. Johnson Quinn of Hotel Empire fame. The site attracts thousands for surf bathing and ocean views, with steady steamship traffic to Europe visible offshore.
The May 1904 Ladies' Home Journal article was proven false in court. Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription was shown to contain no alcohol or harmful drugs and a verdict awarded Pierce 16 000 dollars. Pierce seeks a new trial and has delayed collecting the judgment.
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