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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
6
A Pennsylvania Avenue attorney and a resident of Ontario vouched for Peruna’s usefulness in catarrhal disorders and as a tonic. The testimonies claim quicker recovery from flu and pneumonia, and note Peruna tablets as a solid alternative.
The St Louis Peat Dispatch reports the strongest glass tends to break into many fragments. Thin glass can be relatively stronger than thick, and polished plate glass appears stronger than rough plate due to polished surface cracks being worn away. Tests and formulas yield irregular strength results.
A distressed mother describes her baby's persistent itching sores. After trying various remedies, she reports three uses of Cuticura Soap and Ointment healed the sores with no scars and no further outbreaks. The testimonial is dated July 22 1907 from Attica Indiana.
Yale professor Irving Pisher warns the great white plague costs the United States over a billion dollars annually, with 188,000 deaths yearly. He cites medical costs, lost earnings, and the impact on young workers, calling for massive investment to save lives.
A collage of curiosities and notes from diverse places and times. It mentions zoological counts in London and New York, Kobe’s population surge, fossils and extinct volcanoes near Africa, coke industry records, a centenarian widow, opium use in New York, sports and science debates, Australian natives’ clay consumption, and a Roman letters controversy.
Letter from Mrs. E Hanson of Columbus Ohio claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her endure the Change of Life easing nervousness headaches and other symptoms. She says her doctor advised it and she now can do her own work and recommends the remedy to friends.
A Victorian-era advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard female remedy. It claims to cure displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and invites sick women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
A Philadelphia Ledger writer notes a customer insisting on exact shade matching while a clerk endures a long haul through bolts to prove a point. In Springfield, a witty auctioneer tale follows O A Kelley as an Irish buyer reads pine log marks O A 1K and jokes about deception at the sale.
A New York letter claims a 71 year old grandmother cured long standing stomach consumption by starting on Grape-Nuts. The writer says the body makes poisons from some foods and that proper nourishment can defeat old age. The letter says the doctor was astonished she recovered without medicine and urges readers to try Grape-Nuts.
A Philadelphia North American report notes fifteen tons of hay transported into Philadelphia by trolley freight on the Philadelphia and West Chester line, with 30,000 pounds shipped from Wagemantown. The feat, from William Green in Wagemantown, shows faster, fresher delivery than wagon transport and highlights trolley freight viability across interurban lines and the Homisher trolley freight law. The Rapid Transit company plans to decide at its upcoming annual meeting.
An uptown doctor in New York adopts a night only practice to conserve energy for nocturnal work. He notes many daytime cases wear him out and believes patients prefer a doctor who is fresh and alert during overnight hours.
Mrs Lapsling recalls viewing a rare violin in a downtown Chicago music store. The clerk valued the genuine Sardanapalus instrument at about $5,000, noting such scarce pieces are increasingly hard to find.
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