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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
6
An ADHD era sales pitch touts a home remedy with honey, syrups, and tonics claiming cures for back ache and fever. It asserts quick results after a few doses and promotes overall system strengthening while noting railroads near Chicago may be electrified soon.
A Brooklyn woman reports her niece, once with severe eczema, improved after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. She notes the child, now eleven, has had no eczema since. The ad describes pasteboard testimonials and mentions publicized medical claims.
An ad style list touts a home remedy for colds and coughs using Glyc er ine pine and whiskey with dosing instructions. It claims rapid cure and availability through druggists, plus notes on pine concentrate packaging and labeling.
The Senate and House debated irrigation, land grants, and the agricultural appropriation bill. Key items included the Fort Worth era topics on immigration commissions and the Mann white slave bill, with discussions of a new national forest in Montana and boll weevil studies. Grand Opera by Wireless debuted via telephone and wireless boxes enabling home opera and wireless messages.
William Bennett died in New London Connecticut by detonating dynamite at home. Holland Michigan churches canceled Junior Christian Endeavor meetings due to a new curfew law. Kruger of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company rejected the affitiration proposal from tramway workers. The excursion steamer City of Providence was wrecked and sunk after being pushed ashore by an ice gorge near St Louis. Sheriff Hubbard of Simpson County Mississippi was fatally shot. Deputies Moore and McCarthy were seriously wounded near Magee in a chase with a negro fugitive, who was killed by a sheriff’s posse member.
H A Guillemin arrived in Canada in 1891 with little cash and now owns about 6,880 acres near Forget Saskatchewan. He built up fifty quarter sections, or 8,000 acres, through saving and careful purchasing. This season he thresh ed 60,000 bushels of wheat and 20,000 oats on 6,000 acres, selling 24,000 bushels at 84 to 87 cents a bushel, while still holding 16,000 bushels. He bought a threshing machine for 2,100 dollars, which earned about 3,000 dollars this fall. He also raises barley and flax and keeps horses and cattle. His farm buildings have been steadily improved, with about 10,000 dollars invested in improvements.
An Ohio woman from Delphos, Mrs. L. C. Fridley, recalls years of kidney trouble followed by relief after using Dan's Kidney Pills. She credits the treatment with restoring her health over the past three years and urges others to remember the Dean name. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box.
An advertisement touts Pleasaart a refreshing beneficial syrup of figs with senna laxative properties. It claims simplicity and harmlessness, claims steady cleansing effects, and urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product for 50 cents per bottle with the company name printed on the front.
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