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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
7
John H Zirkle of Phillipi West Virginia reports his father suffered chronic diarrhoea for years before using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After one bottle he was cured and has remained well for eighteen months, able to work like a young man. Sold by R F Billings.
A historical account describes rare war panics in Franco Prussian battles, noting a headless cuirassier and a severed arm that terrified Prussian troops at Worth and Forbach. It contrasts such madness with trained bravery and cites British Experience in the Peninsular War where lines broke into panic before regrouping to fight.
An American staying in Paris reports a comical legal odyssey starting with a 1 franc fine for a servant shaking a carpet after 9 o clock. The process includes a magistrate, delayed payment, and extra costs totaling 12 francs 73 centimes, prompting reflections on American views of fairness.
A Washington Post letter recounts a traveler forced to pay 60 cents for meals and a smoke on a Canadian Pacific train when a misrouted passenger car left them without dinner. The passenger explains they were shunted to the Montreal train and charged again at Frederikton Junction.
The Iron Chancellor Bismarck reportedly ate 175 oysters in one sitting. He began with twenty five, then ordered fifty more, and finally a hundred, declaring he would eat nothing else. He was twenty six and recently returned from England.
One third of the fools in this country think they can beat the lawyer in pounding the law one half think they can beat the doctor at healing the sick two thirds think they can beat the minister at preaching the gospel and all know they can beat the editor in running the newspaper according to London Tit-Bits
A London quotation notes people from higher walks of life strolling in short jackets and chimney pot hats with ease. Another saying attributes half of diseases to the mind and the other half to our houses, reflecting social wit and domestic concerns of the era.
Mrs Mary Lee of rural route 8 tells how her husband James Lee recovered from severe lung problems after using Dr Kings New Discovery. She says the remedy saved him from consumption and restored his health. The ad promotes the throat and lung remedy as superior for coughs and colds, with 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles and a free trial bottle at R F Billings drug store.
A guide from the Journal of Agricultural explains proper bran mash making for horses. It notes washing a bucket, adding three pints water and three pounds bran, and letting the mash cool before feeding. Salt may help parasites but is not advised for sick horses. linseed mixed with bran is used for feeding or poultices, with a two to one ratio and several hours of simmering.
Mrs M M Davison of 379 Gif ford Avenue San Jose California extols Electric Bitters as a superior general family remedy for headache biliousness and liver and bowel torpor noting its digestive benefits. Sold under guarantee at R F Billings drug store priced 50 cents.
The article discusses two types of horse colic, warning that abrupt green fodder introduction causes windy colic in farm horses. It advises gradual green feed mixing with hay and warns against leaving cut greens to ferment in heaps. The piece ends with an ad praising DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for backache and kidney disorders.
When Mark Twain edited the Virginia City Enterprise a subscriber found a spider in his paper. Twain said it signified neither luck and that the spider merely watched for ads to predict a merchant’s future free reading. An ad urges Kodol for stomach trouble.
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