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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
10
A compact promotional note urges women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for private illness guidance. It claims her thirty years of correspondence with sick women yields valuable knowledge and that letters from grateful customers demonstrate the method’s power.
A 19th century testimonial compiles claims for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound addressing displacements, inflammation, and nervous prostration with patient anecdotes. The piece also blends miscellaneous quips on insanity, hog cholera remedies, and a brief joke about horse sales, reflecting column variety.
A medical note argues cancer is not always painful at onset and stresses teaching the public to recognize early signs. The aim is earlier diagnosis and better outcomes through public instruction. A referenced operation at Lopdan Hospital highlights the context.
Senate discussion centers on a $700000 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibit purchase for Seattle and a broad widows pension bill. Major figures include Townsend Cochran Yepburn Williams Beveridge Culberson and party lines on tariff and finance. House and Senate race through Indian appropriation bills and President Roosevelt's address amid broader national policy debates.
Dr Henry Gibbons Jr dean of Cooper Medical College was badly injured in a street car crash in San Francisco. More than twenty were killed in a cyclone near Trazelhurst, Miss. Five burned to death and others injured in a three story rooming house fire at 1116 Wyandotte street Kansas City.
A patient describes two years of eczema and futility with patent medicines and quacks. Relief finally came after using Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent, sparking a dramatic recovery noted in a November entry.
A reader report from Mrs. James M. Long of Augusta Georgia asserts Doan's Kidney Pills quickly relieved her backache and urinary symptoms in 1903 and remains effective after four and a half years. The notice promotes the 50 cent boxes by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. It also includes varied items on iron discovery and agricultural seeds, plus scattered anecdotes and ads.
An accident report from Philadelphia Ledger recounts a Swede witness cross examination in which casual, humorous dialogue emerges. An advertisement extols St Jacobs Oil’s pain relief, claiming deep nerve pain relief and sleep, urging every family to keep a bottle at home.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune depicts a boulder with a rabbi and consulman discussing inheritance. The speaker claims accounts cover most traits, while a boardinghouse critic with a sallow complexion retorts about purchasing features in town.
An advertisement asserts that Crvy or ToLung Licark CopNry is the neftor partner of I Cheney & Co, promising one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Malle Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials, a Toledo address, and notes on Cheney & Co. selling to druggists. The page also features various product plugs and comical bits.
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