Peruna Promises Cure For Thirty Year Catarrh
Classic testimonial notes long standing catarrh and relief from using Peruna with belief in eventual eradiation. Includes two patient affirmations from David Meekison and Jacob I. Davis plus invitation to write to Dr. Hartman for free medical advice from The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Meekison
Jacob 1. Davis
Galena
Stone County
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Amusing Telegraph Tale and Medical Ad Snippet
An amusing telegraph anecdote from a Pennsylvania town features a woman ordering dress goods via a New York firm using ten words. The page also notes Donn’s Kidney Pills from C C Hayden & Co. and a Philadelphia joke about “bigamy” from a child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
New York
Blank and Company
Minnesota
Dean
C. C. Hayden
C. C. Hayden & Co
Albert Zen, Minn
Donn
Foster-Milburn Company
Buffalo
Solon town sold to new proprietor for six thousand
Orlando Ross sells the village of Solon to William Dellinger of Scottsbars for 6000 dollars. Ross had run a crossroads store buying stock for about 100 dollars five years earlier, offering a wide range of goods. Dellinger becomes town leader as Solon, with about fifty residents, gains a new owner and two old market wagons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soler
Orlando Ross
Solon
William Dellinger
Scottsbars
Ross
Joss
Ioss
Mr. Dellinger
Tellinger
Dellinger
700 SCHOOLS ABANDONED PROM pts CONSOLIDATION TREND
Seven hundred small country schools have been abandoned since the consolidation movement began. Outside Crawford county the count reaches 699, with a likely total of 700. The shift has produced 280 consolidated schools and shows broad county support in 43 of 91 counties, with nine counties against. Daily transfers average 812 students to consolidated schools, at about 24.85 per day and 1 ALAN per wagon, with wagons averaging seventeen children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Crawford County
Seven Husbands Granted Divorces For Wives Failure
Indiana records show seven husbands secured divorces on grounds wives failed to provide. The 1905 report notes fewer marriages but more divorces as licenses fell from 28,301 in 1904 to 26,797 in 1905 and deaths rose from 4,900 to 3,840. Divorces totaled 658 to husbands and 2,793 to wives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
State Statistician
Girl Stops Poker Game at Wheatland Shop
Lena Hendricks, a prominent young woman, enters the Mattingly and Harbin quart shop in Wheatland with a pistol and orders her brother to quit a poker table. The crowd disperses as she bursts in, then halts when he agrees to leave and behave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Hendricks
Mattingly & Harbin Quart
Wheatland
Miss Hendricks
Hendricks
Insane cases and legal woes snag Indiana headlines
Jeremiah Potticerd of Warrick County, rendered insane by religious excitement, is in Meansville asylum following a family history of mental illness. Mrs. W. P. Miller of Petersburg dies in a nightmare. Missing Boonville cashier James B. McWilliams shows a shortage of 82487. Elkhart’s Bucklen Opera House sold to H G Somers, Chicago and New York interests. James McClellan taken to La Porte City Hospital by a constable with a writ. Children sue over land removal alleging conspiracy. Tan Porte State's Attorney cites Frank Montague in a murder case tied to Jacob Effertz body found near Chicago in 1904.
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Nevival
Jeremiah Potticerd
Warrick County
Meansville
Dien
W. P. Miller
Petersburg
James B. McWilliams
Boonville
Bucklen Opera House
Elkhart
Theatrical Trust
H. G. Somers
Chicago
New York
James McClellan
City Hospital
la Porte
Sauktown
Tan Porte
Frank Montague
Jacob Effertz
Wella
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted For Women's Ailments
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for female troubles including backache, headaches, irregular periods, and nervous symptoms. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Cottely praising relief and urges readers to write for advice. The piece frames the product as trusted by American women for twenty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia
Pinkham
Holmes
Cottely
J.C. Holmes
Larimore
North Dakota
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia EK
Emma Cottely
East Ith Street
New York City
Ham
Lydia KE
You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free
Advertisement offers Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure tired swollen feet and ease new shoes. Urges writing Avon S Olmsted in Le Roy New York for sample. Claims relief for corns and bunions and says all druggists and shoe stores sell it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Avon S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Peculiar Man Overcomes Discouragements Despite Wealthy Parents
In this excerpt a speaker remarks on a man who has achieved notable success despite severe discouragements. The man is described as the son of rich parents who was born and raised in a family setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tie
Aid
Fanny
Low One Way Colonial Routes to California and West
Advertising in Fort Wayne, Ind offers nickel plate line tickets to California and Washington with sale dates in February through April. Agent address given as A Melin, 71 Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fragmentary notice references a sermon and a nighttime warning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Washington
Nickel Plate Road
A. Melin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Worth Knowing and Medical Remedies Harvested from Ads
A collage of old product pitches and notices includes claims that Allcock's porous plasters are genuine, cures for colds in one day with LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets, and Dr Bayer's penetrating oil. It notes Prague’s rule on dress trailing and Charlottenburg appointing a woman school doctor, with various child soothing and rheumatic remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allcock
Movney
Grove
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Congressman Meekison
Peruna
Meekison
Lon David Meekison
Napoleon
Florida
Adirondacks
Kemp
Balsam
Sac
A. J. Tower CO
Boston
U.S
Tower Canadian Co., Ltd
Toronto
Can
Western
Canada
Bulldi India Tig
Mon Ne
Elise
Toledo
Ohta
Rocky Mountains
Hox
Omaha
Bess
Philadelphia Press
Paris
Indiana State News
Wilole
Western News
Galway
Ireland
J.g.holmes
Emma Cotrely
Aitae
Kiladelphia Press
Acta
Genham
Bonham
Prague
Dr. Bayer
Charlottenburg
Mrs. Winslow
Beontse
Shiloh
J. B. Marta
Hunuville
Ala
Ely
BLY Brothers
Warren Street
Gray
New York Uy
Olmsted
Lesie
Drusgista
Boeya
New
NLU
F. Vv
Hompson
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