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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1900
Page
3
The piece notes various customs for visiting cards in Korea Dahomey Sumatra. In Korea cards are foot square. Dahomey uses a carved wooden board or branch as a card sent in advance, kept for years. Sumatra favors a wood strip about eight feet long with straw and a knife as a card.
An advertisement touts Cascarats as a natural cure for a wide range of ailments from headaches to cancer with promise of easy bowel movements. It claims the genuine C. C. C. stamped tablets come in metal boxes and cost 10 cents to start, warning against imitations.
By year end coal will be unused on California locomotives as all engines are converted to oil burners. The transition aims to modernize power and reduce coal dependence across rail operations.
Mrs Austii wears a dress described as fine as silk and Queen Wilhelmina is not fond of jewelry, traditionally limiting herself to a single diamond in each ear.
An early 20th century ad touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughing with a free sample offer. It promotes 25 and 30 cent bottle sizes and urges quick purchase from druggists. The piece also briefly notes a Sultan wearing a gold chain shirt and many rings.
The piece extols industrious Americans and the value of health for all workers. It claims Nervara blood and nerve remedy strengthens constitutional vitality, partners with Nature, and sustains laborers under strain by nourishing nerves and blood to prevent premature decay.
A Lynn electrician testifies Nervura cured his stomach and sleep problems after doctors failed. He praises Dr. Greene, discoverer of Nervura, who offers free counsel at 35 West 14th Street New York City by personal visit or letter, with confidential guidance and no charge.
The crisis phase passed as all powers reached a compromise on demands for China before formal peace talks. Instructions to sign were sent to Conger, with Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching to meet ministers soon. The main compromises fix punishments and indemnity, with capital sentences for top officials rejected by the United States and Russia. The indemnity may go to arbitration at The Hague. the rest of the measures remain in place.
The report mentions a new Carmelite convent in Thibodaux Louisiana Catholic church in Elkridge Maryland funded by Co D Kenny. It notes Sunday schools donating nearly 200000 for foreign missions and 856156 Bibles circulated in China last year. Dr James Wallace resigning as Macalester College president after debt clearance. Protestant groups fund Universalism and Bible knowledge efforts while clerics seek missionaries and leadership.
The article explains the earth's shadow visible at sunset as a roseate arc with a bluish gray segment, notes its relation to lunar eclipses, and briefly mentions a Chinese Almanac on weather and lucky days. It then promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for constipation indigestion dyspepsia biliousness and liver or kidney troubles as a cure.
In Norway Sweden and Finland women are frequently employed as sailors and perform excellently. In Denmark several women work afloat as state officials in the pilot service. They voyage far out to sea, board incoming ships, display their diplomas, and calmly guide them into port.
A Toledo cure advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure as able to restore the inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cure deafness caused by catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any case not cured and urges readers to request circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. and to buy from local druggists at 75 cents.
A collage of sayings and short notes appears, including poet jokes about lines, a note on Mrs. Austin, almond farming in California, Grain-O coffee substitute ad, skate woes, Piso a Cure testimonial, Nile length, a gas bill quip, Putnam Faceless Dyes claim, and a remark about photography bans on women in China.
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