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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
7
A humorist narrates a stuttering story about two blacksmiths. The first rushes with a red hot iron to the anvil and, stuttering, asks where to strike and how to proceed. The exchange ends with the iron being cooled instead of struck.
A rustic exchange claims a house fire is total but an adjuster hints at a salvage. The speaker jokes about a past inheritance and a potential elopement scheme amid the insurance talk.
A compact riff contrasts love at first sight with doubts and hidden fears. The Philadelphia Record quotes timeless lines on caution in affection and Byron on universal vulnerability to desperation and craft.
The article notes brokers entertain themselves by playing golf with umbrellas as clubs and straw hats as balls when business slows on the Fourth in New York. It also advertises Dean's Ointment at 50 cents and discusses Rio de Janeiro's outdated artificial ice industry and pricing by grocers.
Winterton N Y resident Abraham Brown recounts doctors misdiagnosed him heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach liver issues. His wife urged Electric Bitters which he credits with his recovery One bottle is said to help with blood poison weakness and stomach liver kidney complaints sold by R F Billings 50 cents Mosquito wax models fooled foreign scientists in New York museum.
The Bluffton Banner features a tongue in cheek moral urging readers to go home for rest consolation fun and reform and notes Chamberlain Cough Remedy as a quick cure. It next discusses licorice root exports from Asia Minor and reports Yamhill county Oregon hosting an apple show in Minnville from October 31 to November 2.
Western representatives in Congress are settling in for the winter. Many stay in hotels while an increasing number lease private houses to entertain. Notables include Lamar and J. T. Floyd of Missouri, B. R. Anthony of Kansas, John C. Floyd of Arkansas, and Speaker Cannon who has leased 1014 Vermont Avenue with his daughter as mistress.
A. E. Davis of Sulphur Spring Texas reports that Dean's Regulats relieved constipation and strengthened bowels keeping them regular. Dr Thomas Electric Oil advertised as cheapest accident insurance stops pain and heals wounds with all druggists selling it.
A woman of experience warns against keeping a plant for a friend who leaves for the season. She shares tending a plant for six weeks, leaving for a weekend, and returning to a dead plant. She bought a duplicate at two dollars to avoid blame when the friend returns.
A promotional note describes a digestive and liver function stoppage and promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as the quick remedy. It claims guaranteed satisfaction or money back at R F Billings drug store, priced 25 cents.
An urban worker, after a salary advance, plans to save for a farm. The agriculturist considers another crop to afford a rural relocation, reflecting client hopes from the wheat season.
In Mound City Mrs. HK De Clapp reports her son nearly died from throat trouble and exhausting coughing every five minutes. After starting Dr King’s New Discovery the boy recovered fully, with the drugstore offering a guaranteed remedy for coughs and lung troubles priced 50 cents and one dollar, plus a free trial bottle.
Imperial announces an ordinance to form a chain gang and employ workers for city improvement. The note adds a testimonial from Mrs. Chas Freitoy of Mousupy Conn praising Burdack Blood Bitters for restoring health after years of debility and illness.
The account recounts Queen Victoria sending Princess Louise to visit Sir John Millais on his deathbed to learn how she could ease his sorrow. He wrote a plea to have the queen see his wife, and Victoria, despite her rule against divorced women, granted a compassionate audience to Millais's wife.
A mother recalls her baby girl suffering measles followed by bronchitis. After two doctors failed to help, she sought remedies from eight stores but found no relief until Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. the child reportedly improved.
The Atlantic article by H. S. Pritchitt notes that sunlight provides about two horsepower per square yard of Earth’s surface on clear days and calls for methods to store this abundant energy for future use. It anticipates a chemical or other future solution within the next fifty years.
Le Raysville merchant Woelever promotes Bucklen's Arnica for pile relief and general skin issues with a dated boast, claiming heroic cures and a history spanning two centuries. The ad offers a 25 cent supply at R F Billings City Store.
An Asiatic traveler describes Kurdish women as un-veiled and not overburdened by labor, allowing free movement and outspoken public presence. He notes elderly women, upright and well proportioned, as striking evidence of their status in eastern society.
A fragment from Emerson about strength rising from weakness is quoted in the Baltimore American. The piece also notes grief over lost opportunities as a trigger for new chances.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. internal remedies are needed to reach the disease. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to act on the blood and mucous surfaces and is sold by druggists with testimonials available. Also promote Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A curious feature noted in Country Life is that moles store food for winter and stupefy worms they collect rather than kill them, preventing the worms from attempting to escape.
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