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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
10
A theater anecdote recalls an actor playing a loud opportunist in a play who slipped away with stage money. An audience member reacted with a sharp call from the gallery asking about a five dollar debt, the moment echoing through the house.
Two young girls in Albion Maine suffered severe eczema with patches on ribs and head, worsening in winter. After physician visits failed, use of Cuticura Remedies softened skin and cleared patches, per Mrs Charles Baker, Sept 21 1908. Pottar Drugs, Boston, sole agents.
An advertisement touts Yane's Pleasant Tablets as an effective cold and grip remedy. It claims quick relief and prompts readers to order the 25 cent box with a free sample and home delivery from Ad frass Orator J Woodward in Le Roy New York.
In a Chicago Inter Ocean item a tenor suggests a dress rehearsal to help the choir prepare for Easter music. The exchange occurs beside a millinery window where a fair soprano quips about the choir’s lack of vestments and the spring bonnets on display.
An elderly Marshall resident credits Doctora with Bright's disease recovery after using twelve boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. Ads claim products from Allen's Foot-Base to Pettit's Eye Salve cure various ailments. Brief notices include cattle exports to Japan and Maslin made from banana fiber.
An advertisement extols right living and timely remedies, praising the Companies Byrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as effective laxatives. It urges truthful presentation of health topics and directs readers to buy the genuine product from leading druggists.
James Lee of 1100 Dth Street B H Washington DC fell from a scaffold and injured his back severely. He describes years of pain and failed treatments before Sloan's Liniment relieved him. After using six and a half bottles, he regained ability to work and praises the product.
A fragment shows a party scene where a gloomy bulkting man talks to the hostess. Atom identifies him as the leader of the well known Foutine Clee Club. The speaker assumes familiarity with the club head.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a $100 reward for any failure to cure. It claims internal action to destroy disease foundations and build constitution, inviting readers to request testimonials from J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with pills for constipation and a humorous verse about an aviator ending with an alligator.
Physicians and nurses recommend Kemp's Balsam as the best cough cure. For many years it has been held by doctors as the medicine most likely to cure coughs and maintains strong esteem among well informed people. When Kemp's Balsam cannot cure a cough, we shall be at a loss to know what will.
A business leader described as modest and persistent uses gentle tact to influence others. He achieves discipline through kindness, respect, and firm orders, with employees obeying without heated confrontation while he runs a large operation smoothly.
A minister's wife recounts a struggle with coffee during night nursing shifts leading to nervousness and bilious attacks. After marriage she quits coffee and uses Postum, noting clearer thinking and steadier nerves after four years. She promotes Postum as breakfast beverage and references The Road to Wellville.
The Republican majority in the Senate backed the finance committee on the lead tariff schedule, voting 35 to 44 to reject a lower pig lead duty. The chamber endorsed 2 1/2 cent per pound on lead as recommended. Debate highlighted price disparities between wholesale and retail goods and calls for tariff reform on iron ore and tobacco. The House did not reconvene. sessions focused on Philippine tariff bills and Porto Rico organic act amendments.
The Montevideo Minnesota roller mill and elevator totaling 8 000 bunkery of wheat were burned. An excise figure shows 6 044 patoons in Manhattan and Bronx boroughs, a decrease of 804 during the year. Announcement from the University of California states ex President Roosevelt will deliver his fire public speech in this country upon his return from the African hunting expedition to the Greek chapter at that institution.
Mrs Clara Watermann of Melbourne Iowa credits Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing years of female troubles and bearing-down pains after inability to work She urges other women to try it noting she has become a living advertisement and has influenced friends to use the remedy.
In three years the Rosa family has grown by 460 members though blue roses remain elusive. The article notes researchers have reached a nearly black rose and suggests the shift from black to blue is imminent, with Paris La Nature as the source.
The passage blends a political campaign spiel about enduring principles with an advertising blurb for Murine eye remedy. It quotes a frightened boy answering a question about authorship, then shifts to a Murine eye drop pitch claiming relief for red and weary eyes, all in a newspaper clipping style with stray phrases and a Chicago Tribune citation fragment.
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