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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1900
Page
3
A colored man from the city starts a tombstone photography business. He visits cemeteries to shoot monuments, develops plates, and sells proofs to relatives without orders. He often purchases stones at marble works to capture images early, a practice the Philadelphia Record notes as a ten strike.
Salzer's catalog promotes “greatest food on earth” for sheep cattle and swine and advertises 10 farm seed samples mailed for postage. The John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin markets seed and mentions a Million Dollar Potato in its mailings.
A dialogue line shows a quarrel over speaking while contrasting a man’s restraint with a woman’s scolding. Separate ad copy invites readers to obtain rare farm bargains from A. T. Stewart in Carson Virginia offering Virginia farms for sale cheap and requesting requests for lists and descriptions.
English car makers refuse further orders unless a nine month delivery clause is added. The text mixes ads and unrelated lines about Piso’s Cure, mountain imagery, and promotions, reflecting a fragmented newspaper page.
A misanthrope laments the emptiness of the world while a traveler recalls Hawaii and Mauna Loa’s eruption, contrasting gloom with distant volcanic imagery. The Washington Star presents a compact vignette of existential reflection and travel dialogue.
An inventor announces an electrical appliance he says will restore sight to the blind, promising great happiness to those with defective eyesight. He also promotes Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion dyspepsia malaria fever and algae.
The Queen of the Belgians grew up in her father's Pesth castle with feudal age customs. At night the father himself closed the outer gate and main hall door. The hall divided into two tiers, with daughters at the raised end sewing or playing music and attendants below.
In a Beaver Hills letter from Ross Creek Alberta dated Aug 7 1899 Mrs S A Brigham outlines Calgary area farming life near Fort Saskatchewan Edmonton. She notes rich soil hay bottom lands beaver lake large potato yields mild summers long days light nights mild storms and a growing community of settlers including Canadians Swedes Scots and Americans.
Fragmentary lines mention rattlesnakes biting themselves in a circle of fire and random product ads for office supplies and teething remedies. The text is incomplete and offers little coherent reportable fact beyond the odd claim of self-biting under heat.
Readers learn of a claimed universal cure for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offers $100 to any failing case, and lists testimonials, with price 75 cents and address to Cheney & Co. in Toledo.
An ad touts Grain-O as a nourishing grain based beverage for kids that mimics coffee in taste and aroma and costs about 44 as much. It urges giving Grain-O to children to distribute health and lists grocers stocking 150 and 250 ounce sizes.
A curious fact notes that if a tree is uprooted and inverted the underground branches assume root function while exposed roots leaf out as branches. An array of ad copy follows including free dropsy treatment by Dr. H H Green’s Sons of Atlanta and various health cures and antiquated quips.
Try Grain-O a grain based beverage praised as a safe coffee substitute for children and adults. It imitates mocha and java taste and sells for 15c or 25c per package at grocers. The second sentence notes the pencil lead’s origin in England 1664 under Queen Elizabeth.
A vintage product note promotes Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement aid and overall health, with gentle liver and kidney action and headache cure. It lists prices of 25 and 50 cents and ends with a moral about pride and poverty.
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