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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
4
Rev Troutman and Rev Swanstrom describe personal cures with Peruna for catarrh and throat spasms. The ad notes Peruna tablets mirror liquid medicine and mentions the Peruana Almanac for 1908.
Berlin postal authorities test an underground tube system linking the central post office with main stations and district offices. Two rail sets run in the same tunnel with electric carriages moving on two wheels, allowing up to six carriages to operate together without attendants. Deliveries could be completed in far less time, potentially ending the mail van era.
A Brooklyn Life vignette describes a family admiring a thunderstorm as a mother checks on Dorothy in the nursery. A sudden flash blinds the room and the child sits upright, eyes glowing, clapping hands and shouting "Bang it again, God! Bang it again!" expressing fearless excitement.
A Pelham businessman bought a mule from a local colored seller after a long market search. Four days later the animal died, the buyer demanding repayment while the seller offered a quip about the mule never having died before. The purchase money remains with the seller.
At a Wesleyan chapel in central Cornwall harvest services featured odd gifts beyond fruit and vegetables. Attendees brought items such as jam bottles, pickles, two china figures, rabbit pies, herb beer bottles and marinated fish, reflecting local customs in the Home Notes column.
A quotation from The Catholic Standard and Times contrasts optimistic belief in neighbors with a skeptical view of their true nature. The note mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and other claimed uses priced at 25 cents per bottle while urging immediate resolutions.
Adolph Topperwein of Texas smashed world records for rifle wing shooting in San Antonio. He fired for ten days at airborne wooden blocks, hitting 4 of 50,000 and 9 of 72,500, with long runs of 14,540 to 19,202 hits without a miss using two .22 Winchester rifles and Winchester smokeless ammunition.
An old advertisement touts Dr H R Kline’s Great Nervura Restorer promising cures for fits nervous diseases and Bt Vitus Dance. It offers two trial bottles and a booklet from his Philadelphia address 081 Arch St. The notice ends with a playful line about leap year prominence.
An old handwritten testimonial claims Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured a boy's itchy skin in four days. The same clipping includes ad style notices about seed catalogs from John A. Salzer Seed Co. and assorted plants, with dates and addresses. The piece mixes a patient note with promotional material and curious market items.
An advertisement touts a product labeled Bromo Quinine TM as a laxative and cold cure. It claims broad use worldwide and urges readers to seek the signature of E. W. Grove and a 25 cent price, warning about poor resolution not holding water.
A fragmentary advertisement page extols remedies from Taylor's Cherokees Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen to Brown's Bronchial Tyches. Claims include cures for coughs colds croup and consumption with prices 460 500 and 1.00 per bottle. An aphorism about effort closes the snippet.
A Denver woman writes Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound after years of illness and an unsuccessful operation. She cites backache bearing down pains and periodic discomfort and urges other sick women to try the remedy. The advertisement notes the product has helped thousands for thirty years and invites letters for advice from Lynn Mass.
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