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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1900
Page
3
Mrs A Edwards of San Francisco California reports long time satisfaction with Ayer's Hair Fight. She has recommended it to many friends who are equally satisfied. The note is dated February 9 1899.
Our Hair Vigor pleases users who praise the product to friends. It claims to restore color for gray or white hair and fixes short thin, split, rough, or falling strands with complete satisfaction.
A select party of fifty will tour Mexico in thirty days aboard elegant drawing room and compartment sleepers, observation and dining cars built by Pullman. The round trip costs about ten dollars daily, with meals and hotel comforts in a mobile setting. R. G. Thompson will manage. for reservations contact C. S Crane in St. Louis.
A lavish edition of the New Testament presented to the dowager empress of China on her sixtieth birthday is described. The royal quarto features silver covers, bamboo and bird designs, gold page rims, and a solid silver casket weighing 10% pounds. Chinese eunuchs requested a common copy for comparison, highlighting the volume's rarity and display value.
A solicitor overheard a cook and a nurse discussing a recent funeral of a race member. The nurse suggested not planting flowers, but growing a watermelon vine and bursting the ripe fruit on the grave, letting juice drain down through the ground.
Franks J Cheney senior partner of F J Carney & Co sworn to pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason records the oath in 1886 Toledo Ohio. Cure claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
Cecil Rhodes dislikes handwriting and anticipates a future where phonographs telephones and other devices eliminate the need to write letters.
Grain-O is advertised as a grain based drink that can replace coffee for all ages. The copy touts a rich Mocha and Java like color, gentle on delicate stomachs, and claims a lower price per package. Available through all grocers.
Excerpts note Jinks kept composure during a blaze and changed from nightshirt to pajama suit. The text blends quotes on health remedies and advertising blurbs, mentioning Piso's Remedy, Eagle Linen supplies, and travel details for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad with Florida routes.
The New England Sugar Beet Company begins contracting for a $400000 plant at North Judson Indiana to process 600 tons daily and produce finer sugar. It guarantees 6000 acres of beets yearly with 25 000 acres pledged by farmers and 50 workers to start. Nelson Morris plans a Lake County beet factory as well.
Greensburg reports 16 year old Willard Fale struck and killed by a passenger train. In Muncie eighteen youths aged 6 to 18 arrested for petty theft. Washington citizens push for municipal control of electric light plant. Freeman woodsman George McConnell killed by a rolling log. Jeffersonville Reformatory grants twenty paroles amid applications. Peru sees vandals loot John Jantz carriage storeroom and damage windows.
A visitor reports a hereditary six toed family in Kimble County Texas the Higgins clan led by grandfather Mexican Bill with six toes on both feet and wives and all descendants showing the trait. The clan reportedly includes twenty five to thirty grandchildren and several with seven toes.
An affordable remedy promises daily bowel movement and health benefits for liver and kidneys. It cites cures for headaches with prices 25 and 50 cents. The ad includes a Bulwer quote and a Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup endorsement for teething pain and wind colic.
United States Senator W N Roach of North Dakota endorses Peruna the catarrh cure in a Washington letter to The Peruna Medical Company Columbus Ohio He says he used Peruna as a tonic and it helped strength vigor and appetite He notes it as a cure for catarrh urging readers to contact the Columbus firm for a free book on catarrh by Dr Hartman
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