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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
3
An old advertisement urges relief for coughing with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It claims coughing worsens throat irritation and damages lung linings, advising readers to stop coughing and take the product.
The west bound Wabash limited from Detroit to Chicago jumped a track a mile and a half west of Millersburg Indiana plunging over a 20 foot embankment with forty three aboard all injured three fatally A defective rail caused the wreck. The baggage car left the track with the day coach and two sleepers as cars rolled over top down none survived intact.
Mr Wigham of Dublin, a lighting expert, has devised a paraffin lamp for buoy illumination. The device is intended to burn for three months without attention.
An assorted 1900s page notes Kemp’s Balsam claims to halt coughs with free samples offered by druggists, and bottles priced 25 and 50 cents. It mentions Flowers bloom year round in Sandwich Islands lore, a Negro official in a United Mine Workers trade union, a citizen praising Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and a quip from Shakespeare about heartbreak.
A convalescent answers the doctor with a pleading insistence that he is not yet well enough, despite the admonition to leave well enough alone. The exchange captures a moment of stubborn illness and medical concern.
A thoughtful note links the trust problem to societal health and urges firm grappling. The article compares social ills to digestive disorders and promotes Hostetter’s Stomach bitters. It also reports that Canada’s exports of butter cheese eggs bacon hams mutton pork apples oats peas wheat flour and potatoes to Great Britain have more than doubled since 1896.
Physicians endorse Kemp's Balsam as a grip remedy focusing on throat and lung relief. Use early to prevent pneumonia by keeping coughs loose and lungs clear. Sold by druggists 25 and 50 cents with a note on quinine import costs reaching over $1.5 million for the prior year.
A 19th century advertisement claims deafness results from an inflamed Eustachian tube and catarrh. It promises a $100 reward for any deafness due to catarrh it cannot cure with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars available. product sold by Druggists for 75 cents.
Grain-O marketed as a pure grain drink with coffee-like taste and no side effects, promoted for children and adults. Grain-O costs about four times coffee and is recommended to grocers. Also notes Lane's Family Medicine and Putnam Faceless Dyes. Nickel Plate Road announces reduced Setters' rates from February 12 to April 30 to Oregon and Northwest points.
Chauncey P. Overfeld notes polygamy remains practiced in Utah outside Salt Lake City with fathers maintaining wives in distant towns. He says Mormons constitute 70 to 75 percent of noncity populations and influence state government.
A Victorian era advertorial urging women with nervous, backache, and dizziness to seek early help for uterine troubles. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and offers confidential guidance from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts without charge.
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