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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
1
The notice states that THE DAKE ADVERTISING AGENCY ING keeps this paper on file at 428 South Main Street Los Angeles and 779 Market Street San Francisco where contracts for advertising can be made for it.
A readable roster lists city officials including Oliver P. Hall W D Lyma and Le Robert L Harrell as city officers with roles for treasurer chbislig city treasurer city attorney city recorder and city marshal Also named are E J Genereux health officer building inspector and street superintendent The Board of Trustees features Henry H Holmes president A B Tuthill W A Hively Ansil F Gillett and Ethan P Kidder with their positions noted
The piece comments that modern fathers lack a firm hand to spank as past fathers did. It notes a harsh solution for kidnappers in New Mexico—shoot on capture. It mentions a waiter who snatched President Fallieres' whiskers receiving four years, and makes a wry reference to the Kaiser.
A collage of sharp remarks on economics fashion and urban transit notes. Hetty Green decried as the world’s lowest woman as critics mock sports betting crowds. Warsaw introduces its first electric street railway with 304 cars and fares. Leather tariffs may reduce prices for shoes and harnesses. Hats gain flarebacks while husbands’ swearing backs rise. Tailors promise padded hips but rats stay unlikely.
An English physician argues life expectancy for consumption is forty years from now and that dying at that age will be rare. He notes parallels with cholera and smallpox and recalls yellow fever outbreaks in the Southern States during his boyhood.
The reminiscence notes how cholera in the United States a generation ago took many lives, and contrasts this with how smallpox fears have declined under modern control methods, implying progress in public health and vaccination.
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, argues that enforcement beats endless lawmaking. He told the Seattle Exposition that a few years of enforcing existing laws would yield more value than years of creating new ones. The piece urges effective enforcement to correct ongoing evils.
The spring cold remedy Dr Bells Pine Tar Honey relieves the cold and cough. It is the only Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey with the Bell trade mark on the package. Sold at Murray’s Drug Store.
A New York Sun interview captures a nearsighted man who reads best with naked eyes yet understands spoken words only with spectacles. He notes clear reading without glasses but sharper hearing with them, except in darkness where light absence equalizes comprehension.
A boastful ad claims women gain health and beauty from Electric Bitters. It links envy of attractive women to weak digestion and skin issues and promises cures by regulating stomach liver and kidneys while purifying blood for strong nerves bright eyes and smooth skin at 50 cents.
An advertisement claims Dr. King’s New Life Pills cure stomach trouble and dyspepsia. It says users gain appetite, strong nerves, vigor as stomach liver and kidneys begin to function properly. From R. F. Billings.
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