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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1902
Page
3
A fur worker cuts skins into strings and mirror pieces to lengthen hides. Sable skins are elongated from two feet to four while preserving markings to appear longer. The process aims to maximize usable material, with many fragments reassembled into a longer fur.
An Atchison Globe excerpt contrasts old fashioned infant care with modern training methods. It lampoons early crying and cuddling practices, noting public anxieties about evolving childrearing norms and the women’s influence in debates.
The fragment describes a tonic named Vogeler's Curative Compound said to restore red blood cells and energy. It asserts inheritance or depletion causes weakness and promises renewed vitality. A Baltimore note offers a free sample bottle of St Jacobs Oil alongside the remedy.
Mrs Many Sy recalls a fall that left her hand unusable for five weeks. She tried remedies without relief until applying St. Jacobs Oil. After the first application she could move fingers, after the second she could open her hand and regained full use with pain gone. She urges readers to try the product.
A fragmentary humorous note mentions W J Arkell and a telegraph line in his office, with garbled chatter and a punchy aside about “the wire” and a failing service. The chaos hints at miscommunications and the era’s technical snafus, framed in quizzical, light tone.
A New York health department probe found a cheap baking powder sample sold in stores dangerous to health. The substance, alleged to be composed of rock and other impure materials, prompted seizure and disposal and sparked warnings about inferior chems used in baking powders.
A fragment from a Baltimore American piece features a playful exchange between a fair young girl and a man. She jokes about many alphabetical courtships while in the country, then muses on eye signals and a rolled joke about the letter sequence.
Vermont Vermont, April 28. Tillery touts Widney Pills as a wonderful remedy. Thad Widney and Liver trouble healed after trying the product. He credits the pills with curing years of illness and calls them the greatest remedy the world has seen. He offers to help promote a good thing.
A fragment shows Mrs Dubblechin remarking on my poise and Mrs Pepperey reacting with ridicule. The exchange includes quirky terms like avorrdupuis and Dail adolphia Tress, suggesting a humorous or gossiping note with names and odd phrases.
An old advertisement urges all up to date housekeepers to use Red Cross Ball Blue for clean and sweet smelling clothes. It notes the product is sold by grocers and emphasizes freshness as a selling point.
A fragment from New York Weekly records a conversation where a girl asks to go sleighing with Mr Nicefello and is answered yes if he arrives in a two seated sleigh. The item captures social talk and courtship language from the period.
A fragmented notice extols Zanes Family Medicine with daily bowel movement advice to support health and liver and kidney function. Mentions a persona Laimartine praising his mother and urges printer choice of Eagle Linen Paper. Includes stray marketing lines for Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup and a note on England importing eggs from Russia.
Erratic weather across the United States spurred big swings in commodity markets and rail tonnage while retail and manufacturing sectors showed mixed results. Wheat and cotton prices fluctuated with rain relief easing drought fears, as Jobbers and buyers adjusted demand amid wage disputes and partial slowdowns.
A historical price roundup lists cattle hogs sheep and grain values across many markets including Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee New York and Buffalo. It notes mixed price ranges for wheat corn oats rye and butter with several cities reporting notable highs and lows. The report also records a prewar level of fire damage in the Barbican district of London estimated at ten million dollars.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to cure all stages of catarrh through constitutional treatment. The ad states a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and invites testimonials, listing F J Cheney & Co of Toledo as the address.
In a witty Smart Set exchange, Berenice asks about the brain work, and Hortense explains Cholly has pushed his valet aside to think for himself about which outfits to wear each day, highlighting a humorous shift in control and self-fashioning.
An advertisement touts Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children as a cure for colds feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and worms. It claims ten thousand testimonials and urges purchase at all druggists with address Allen S Semple Le Roy New York and FEB mailing.
A fragment from The Debatable Land invokes lilacs as tropical and anti puritan, pairing them with Jutes at low casements and liquid voices speaking a voweled tongue, in a poetic catalog.
An old ad warns that coughing leads to consumption and offers Kemp's Balsam as a quick fix. It urges readers to visit their druggist for a free sample bottle and to buy 25 or 50 cent bottles. The motto by W. S. Plumer adds a moral cue about generosity.
Advertising copy notes that thirty minutes suffices to dye with Putnam Face Less Dyes. The message emphasizes druggists selling the product and includes a Longfellow quotation about the lasting light of great men after death.
A testimonial from Wm. H. St Garrison of 227 W list Street New York dated March 25 1901 claims Piso's Cure for Consumption cured a long lasting cough. A separate line quotes a man of integrity who refuses to listen to any plea against conscience attributed to Loime.
Mrs Sophie Binns president of the Young People's Christian Temperance Union writes from Fruitvale praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing congestion and ovarian inflammation after an 18 month illness. She reports feeling much healthier and pain free after two months on the remedy and six more weeks of use. A $5000 forfeit warns the letter as genuine. The notice urges women with related symptoms to use the product.
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