Cascarets advertise beauty by clean blood and skin
An advertisement urges readers to take Cascarets to cleanse blood and liver, claiming beauty from clear skin. It promotes 10c, 25c, and 50c sizes and promises satisfaction with drug products.
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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1898
Page
3
An advertisement urges readers to take Cascarets to cleanse blood and liver, claiming beauty from clear skin. It promotes 10c, 25c, and 50c sizes and promises satisfaction with drug products.
Local notice from Thomas Brown announces candidacy for painting and paper hanging services. Readers are asked to leave orders at paper stores for potential commissions.
A widow opens a Miss Boyd barber shop to attract male customers with the unmarried sign. A fox terrier named Gyp saves workers by retrieving unexploded dynamite from a kennel after a blast near West Rye. Club scenes reveal women’s role in country and city athletic and social life, with outdated ads for tobacco habit care.
An advertisement touts Biola Pills as feeding nerves and boosting the mind and body for men and women. It cites J. E. Buckey of the National Hotel in Washington testifying he recovered from near breakdown after using the product, and mentions Columbus agents Hauser & Parker and Turners of Philadelphia.
Scattered fragments mentioning Twem with caseinets and money prompt editors to seek confirmation. Researchers catalog stray lines as they reconstruct the page.
The author discusses the then fashionable hip padding trend, noting its wide adoption and comparing it to back bustles. Tips include using featherbone pads sewn into dresses, securing them to the belt, and preferring combined hip and bustle styles for a natural look.
Fashion notes from Harper's Bazar describe gowns with sleeves in embroidery or trim materials, a white cloth princess gown with soutache embroidery, a mousseline de soie drape, and versatile neckpieces. Theater blouses in Paris feature square decollete necklines with pearl or jet garlands and decorative collars.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune describes a guessing game for kids where a chosen “fool” asks players to pick a fruit flower or object. The fool tries to identify the person representing the demanded item from faces, winning if correct and exiting with a chorus if wrong.
A Chicago Advance excerpt contrasts city and country costs to raise a boy, estimating at least 100 yearly dollars for food clothes books and medicals, plus hidden costs of bad behavior. It ponders parental investment and the duty of boys to become good citizens rather than burdens. Henrietta Scholder from New York is praised as a child prodigy who learned from her father and later impressed the cellist Karl Grienauer in private rehearsal.
A collage of shop listings highlights multiple vendors on Sycamore Street offering candy coffee staple groceries fresh produce fruits cigars tobacco flour coal wood and lime services from blacksmiths and horse shoers. The ad praises best prices and full value with contact callbacks and store locations.
Businesses including F Donner watches, Carman boarding, Hughes groceries, Moore Shoe Company sale, Wayland Wells groceries, and Rosenbush Clothiers promote stock updates. Advertisers tout low prices, delivery, and quality goods from dairies, seeds, hardware, footwear, and general groceries.
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