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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1907
Page
7
An old health ad explains kidneys filter blood every three minutes, failing kidneys cause aches and heart strain. It promotes Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a remedy and offers a sample bottle by mail from Dr Kilmer & Co of Binghamton New York.
Clinton D. Smittez, trustee, announces weekly office hours in the first front office room of the K of P building on Wednesday and Saturday to transact township business.
An old advertisement touts Preventics candy cold cure tablets as a remedy for colds and flu like the gripe. It promises relief if you begin to sneeze and claims the product check colds and please you. Sold by all dealers and paired with a line about laughter easing life’s stress.
The tailor questions a bystander when an ambulance backs to his rival’s door to take a customer who collapsed. A week’s treatment for rheumatism and bladder troubles costs 25 cents in a small box of De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pile. Sold by M. Van Dorn.
November marks London’s worst fog season with fifty to eighty fog events in bad years. Coal fires emit soot that mixes with mist, creating the characteristic London fog. Most fogs form between 7 and 8 a.m. as fires are lit.
An ad touts Lax-ets candy tablets as a pleasant gentle laxative with no griping or pain. Portable in a vest pocket or purse, sold in lithographed metal boxes for 3d and 24d by All Deal e-8.
A string of dated newspaper quips and misread phrases features a London Mail style exchange about mistaken identities, hydrophobia banter from the Rollingstone era, a terse Cato proverb, and a promotion for DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills marketed by M C VanDorn.
Fragmentary ad text describes Casca Sweet product with wrapper note and ingredients. Mentions item sold by M. v Vaovoro and references Subies and children in unclear context. Please note the excerpt is incomplete and lacks verifiable facts.
The article recounts Mesmer's 1770s Paris campaign to popularize animal magnetism through dramatic demonstrations. Patients sit around a circulating tub, connected by cords, as Mesmer, in magician’s robes, applies a wand and induces laughter, tears, convulsions, or trance like states.
Dr Shoop advocates against opium chloroform and unsafe substances in cough remedies. He welcomes the Pure Food and Drug Law, noting two decades of warnings on Dr Shoop's Cough Cure containers against narcotics. Sold by Al Dealers.
The Atchison Globe notes the figure known as the son of his mother then as the husband of his wife and finally as the father of his children in a concise reflection on his standing and roles.
Ad copy touts affordable work shoes claiming unmatched value. Mentions Coleman Reeves Coleman and branding phrases like Beara the Signature of storiesa with a casual sales tone and unclear product details.
An uncertain fragment mentions Aunt Martha warning against announcing another man’s wife, implying bigamy risk, with references to New York Life. The text is partial and lacks clear reporting details or event context.
A brief exchange between Deacon Sunflower and Deacon Primrose presents a view on reaching the happy land. Primrose argues against clinging to a strap as necessary, while Sunflower questions whether the route will be crowded.
Washington Herald notes Thackeray may have aimed to birth an origin tale with a novel and suggests a counterpoint by asking if a work "without a conservatory" could surpass him. The remark frames a playful literary exchange on originality.
A fragment from Tit-Bits features a witty exchange about a wife’s voice and the need to find a dress to match it. The humorous remark highlights social banter on appearance and propriety in a light, period tone.
Yonkers Statesman notes an unusual claim about mince pies with a shoe button in one pie. The report highlights odd culinary discovery amid local chatter and prompts no further details.
A terse exchange notes Waldorf died poor after chasing fortune and health. The quip recalls how he relinquished health in pursuit of wealth and later lost fortune while seeking recovery.
Reeves and Coleman advertise outing flan fare prices for buyers. The notice lists available options and pricing to attract customers looking for a dessert service.
Quick relief from piles with Dr Shoop's ointment advertised as made for piles and promising certainty and satisfaction. It claims to ease itching and pain and to make protruding or blind piles disappear like magic, with sale through all dealers.
Walter Hunter a long time resident of Covington Fountain county Indiana gives notice he will apply at the March term 1907 of the Board of Commissioners for a license to sell spirituous malt vinous and intoxicating liquors in a quarter pint at a time with on premises to be drank on the premises at a described South room of a one story frame building in Covington Second Ward Hunter also seeks permission to vend tobacco cigars and soft drinks
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