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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1901
Page
3
An advertisement touts CUTICURA SOAP and accompanying Coricura Ointment and Cericuma Resolvent as a complete skin care system. It claims benefits for the skin scalp hair and hands and emphasizes the price of twenty five cents per soap while noting a $1.25 complete set. The copy warns no other soap can match its purifying beautifying and cleansing powers and targets women and mothers.
In Marion a troubled wedding between Ernest O Hartman and Miss Tony Wilson ends in hunger and pride. Wilson's father, A N Wilson of Dunkirk, objected, Hartman loses work, the couple suffers near starvation, and the wife seeks aid from her father. Other stories tell of a farmer William Fiscus dying by self inflicted wounds after his son’s arrest, Mrs Lindsey of Lafontaine dying from fright, and several local incidents across Indiana including a lamp explosion at Diamond auction and multiple disappearances, suicides, and crimes.
Letters from women praise Peruna as a cure for systemic catarrh and stomach and throat catarrh. Testimonials from Miss Katie Kieln, Miss Anna Prescott, Mrs. F. J. Lynch, and Miss Marie Coats claim rapid relief, restored health, and renewed vitality after using Peruna. The ads frame catarrh as cause of nervous weakness and digestion problems and offer Peruna as lasting remedy with Dr. Hartman’s free advice.
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