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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
7
A promotional note claims Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped several women who were previously childless become healthy mothers. It lists unnamed names and current addresses as testimonials to the remedy’s effectiveness.
A flood of testimonials from new mothers across multiple states praises a specific compound for enabling healthy babies. Women from Oregon, Alabama, Vermont, Louisiana, North Carolina, New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio report strong, thriving infants and improved maternal happiness after using the product.
A lively joke page showcases quick wits and puns. A meek man jokes about hunting and house hunting while a clerk puns about dress. A series of one liners plays on misunderstandings and wordplay with doors and wolves.
A Virginia woman credits Postum with curing dyspepsia headaches and heart weakness once caused by coffee. She avoided coffee for a year and a half and found relief using Postum, praising its flavor and health effects. The ad from Postum Co. promotes Regular and Instant Postum and cites a trade book.
A dense list of farming guidance covers animal care and cultivation practices. It urges timely watering horse feeds alfalfa vs corn for silage, cement floors, ventilation, and clean feeding, plus breeding hints for sheep hogs and poultry. It also notes market-priced livestock and produce trends from the era’s markets.
Captain A Sunderberg of the steam schooner Wasp reports a fog bank near Point Conception on August 7 when a violent electric storm lit the mist for 1 hour 14 minutes. Lightning pierced the fog and the mast carried electric discharge from top to stay. The crew remained below as thunderous reports rang out.
A light exchange of household quips about husbands going for a walk or staying indoors. The dialogue centers on a joke about constant talking and a frog in the throat metaphor applied to Tim.
A mixed patch of quotations notes nature sounds in a wood and dogwood bark, a statement about tin ore supply from Bolivia to Germany, and a line about a man mocked by scars while a woman hurls objects.
A minister visits and a hostess kills a rooster for him causing a boy to think it cruel. Later the boy, seeing the minister approach, shoo s all the hens into the roosting place and cries that the man is coming who ate her father.
Mrs. Wm. Probst describes three years of watery blisters and severe itching on her child’s skin. Relief came after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two months, followed by continued use. The ad touts Cuticura products with a world-wide sale and a free sample offer.
A jumble of overheard quarrel lines about pillow disputes and a claim for PNEUMATICA pain relief mentions external use and low price. Kilkenny Castle is noted as one of the ward’s oldest inhabited houses with rooms preserved. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is advertised for teething and wind colic. Mule prices are rising in Missouri.
Foley Kidney Pills relieve suffering from weak kidneys and painful bladder action. They aid nature in rebuilding excreting kidney tissue restoring normal kidney function and regulating bladder irregularities. Try them.
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