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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
7
The London Pall Mall Gazette notes Southey’s autograph letters fetch modest sums at auction. A reference to a dishonored bill prompts a biographical line about writing to Sir Robert Peel twice to refuse a baronetcy and thank for a pension. The piece contrasts Southey with a £37 Henrietta Maria letter.
Mrs Ellen Hadlison of 300 Park Ave Kansas City Missouri reports two children suffered severe whooping cough with nose bleeds during paroxysms. After trying remedies a family doctor prescribed Foley's Honey and Tar. First dose produced improvement and she credits it with saving their lives. Refuse substitutes. Sold by Houseworth Bros.
The notice touts saving money to grow wealth, explaining interest accrues on every dollar at a stated rate and is compounded semi annually. It promotes Home Loan and Savings Association, inviting readers to room 104 Monger block for full details.
A fragment notes no mercury minerals or danger in Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, marketed as the greatest family tonic that brings good health to all who use it. Sold in tea or tablets by Houseworth Bros for 35 cents.
Terse ad fragment notes tuning and re airing services at a music shop. Requests leave orders at the store or call by phone. Mentions work guaranteed and a possible price or code 420 and 42.
Montreal Herald prints a poem about a child and his father clashing over growing up. The speaker wishes for a closer bond and shared adventures like Bob Hunters dad provides, while his own father values work and discipline and rejects boyish mischief.
A lighthearted note describes a jovial woman known as He Miss Thirtrodd who smiles constantly to make others believe her wrinkles are from happiness rather than age. The piece portrays charm used for charitable aims.
A man in a gray bowler mocks local volunteers as untrained, comparing them to bricklayers and laborers. He notes a true soldier, his brother Bill the lamplighter, with the quick step and rifle carry, contrasting genuine training with civilian boot camp misfits.
Four year old Freddie and his five year old cousin Walter play marbles in Freddie’s yard. Freddie asks for a minute more as his mother calls for bed. He offers to send Walter home with all the marbles if given a minute or two longer.
Indignant passenger accuses the conductor of repeated fare requests. The conductor apologizes as the passenger says he might pay later and declares where he will get off.
The Columbus Dispatch prints a clipped domestic exchange where a wife defends fur lining in a joke about cold weather and a remark from a shivering husband. The brief vignette captures urban wit amid a harsh chill.
A brief exchange frames a riddle about sharing an apple and ending with a jokey twist. The Houston Post quote presents a playful puzzle on halves and consequences for a younger brother.
A Puizzier questions Dora about women's higher education. Dora dismisses it, noting she has taken advanced math courses but cannot yet figure out how to make George propose. Detroit Free Press.
Quote explains unseemly levity as somebody laughing at you. The exchange features Tommy and Jimmy describing the term in a New York Press style dialogue.
The Danish government issued a stamp bearing the late Professor Finsen's head to help poorer classes subscribe to a national monument. During Christmas and New Year holidays the Postmaster-General issued 4,000,000 illustrated postcards. Profits from the sale will fund a sanatorium for indigent consumptives.
On his twentieth birthday Prof. J. J. Rein of Bonn received a congratulatory cablegram from the University of Tokyo, linking Japan and Germany in wartime remembrance.
Chattanooga druggist Robt J Miller proprietor of Read House Drug Store proclaims Foley's Honey and Tar has more merit than any other cough syrup and notes rising calls and sales surpassing all rivals. Sold by Houseworth Bros.
The Chicago Great Western Railway announces one way ticket sales to Minnesota and North and South Dakota at greatly reduced rates on March 7 14 21 28 and April 4 11 18 25. Apply to F R Mosier T P A 113 Adams Street Chicago IL.
Houseworth Bros. central drug store advertises Dr Thomas Electric Oil as instant relief for burns cuts and sprains. The notice also promotes Douglas Spencer candies with popular varieties at 10c per pound dated 4 17.
GHO N Schaff Practical Piano Maker at 503 South Third Street announces tuning charges increase to 2.50 dollars after September 15 1905. The notice emphasizes tuner knowledge and piano construction as key to satisfaction.
The little folks love Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, pleasant to take and promoted as harmless and positive care for coughs colds bronchitis and asthma.
Night attack on Mrs. Brown's daughter described as a demon called Croup Whooping Cough. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar credited for saving the child. promotion claims it is safe for children and non opiate, sold by druggists.
Mortgage exemption affidavits must be filed before May 1 at The Simpson Abstract Office 206 South Main Street. LOUIS M. SIMPSON, Tax Collector. d&w May 1. House Paints at Miller & Co for sale or trade 5 acres in city no buildings will take lot or horse for first payment Andrew S Lamb 118 West Lexington Avenue tf. Mrs Austin's Pancakes served at leading hotels restaurants and dining cars for breakfast. Dean's Ointment praised for curing itching hemorrhoids quickly and permanently by EF Cornwell Valley Street Saugerties NY.
An old classified item advertises Garvin's Tin Shop featuring wells and cisterns with contact at phone 245 and Moore & Son as partners.
A vintage advertisement touts Kodo Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion and stomach troubles. It promises digestion relief and a rested, strengthened stomach from the first day of use, with sale through druggists.
An old advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Cure as the surest remedy for kidney and bladder disease. It claims timely use provides security and restores function, urging immediate purchase from Houseworth Bros. and Miller & Co. at Miller & Co.
A Washington Star piece notes that men fatigue quickly during tailor fittings. It attributes tiredness to prolonged standing, muscle exertion, and postures required for measurement. A strong man can collapse after fifteen minutes, illustrating how standing erect strains the body more than other tasks.
A Scarborough woman faces charges for cruelly neglecting her children, attributing the harm to witchcraft by a neighbor. The piece notes continued superstition in England, citing cases of animals kept for protection against rheumatism, a Sulbourn man fined for starving horses with a poisonous broth, and an old woman paying for a fortune-fulfilling powder from a witch.
The article asserts red hair results from an excess of iron in the blood, giving heightened vitality and intense emotions. It claims the surplus iron causes freckles on pale skin and increases sun sensitivity, with the skin burning like mustard plaster and wrinkling sensations.
A pound of coal yields 236 horsepower, able to match an express locomotive for one-fifth minute. It could haul eight cars at fifty miles per hour for a sixth of a mile. A man sawing wood moves sixty strokes a minute, five feet per minute, yet a circular saw powered by machinery cuts seventy times as much wood in the same time. Yet this single pound of coal holds power enough for 180 such feats according to Chicago Fuel.
Advertisement touts Union Pacifics fast trains and superior service. It highlights safety measures for patrons and promotes tourist sleepers with inquiries directed to F. B. Choate at 20 Woodward Avenue, Detroit Michigan.
The Chig route offers 200 miles of river views along the Columbia with two through trains daily for all classes. It is advertised as the popular path to the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition. Inquiries directed to F Chance G A 126 Woodward Ave Detroit Mich.
Homeseekers plan first and third Tuesday sales January through April offering tickets at one fare plus $2 to Arizona Colorado Kansas Mexico Missouri Nebraska Nevada Texas Utah and Wyoming. For details contact any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago IL.
An advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as free of harmful drugs and proven to treat coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It claims long reliability and urges purchase from all druggists.
An item notes Foley's Honey and Tar marketed as a cough remedy claiming to stop coughing, heal and strengthen lungs, prevent pneumonia, and urging refusal of substitutes. Sold by Houseworth Brothers.
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