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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
7
The article highlights Paris fashion trends with colored lace trims matching dresses, long skirts, and bolero styles. It notes figure concerns, corset shaping, hair, and coiffure to achieve the desired silhouette, and describes specific gowns and materials in vogue, including lace, silk, and mousseline.
The National Gallery suffered a heavy loss as twenty pictures including Lady Cockburn and her children by Reynolds were removed from the walls. The bequest by Lady Hamilton to the nation included the Cockburn family portraits. disputes over the artworks led to surrender and sale of the gems. The Sir Joshua Reynolds painting has been sold to a millionaire at a high price.
The Kennebec Journal recounts a Waldoboro diary entry from June 1828 describing a Sunday clash in the Congregational meeting house between Congregationalists and Universalists. Universalists won the day, guards patrolled Saturday night, and later the Congregationalists bought out the Universalists ending the trouble.
Houseworth Bros claim a fifty cent bottle of Foley's Kidney Cure insures against Bright's disease diabetes and other dangerous ailments promising protection with no other treatment required.
A brief World column presents a comic exchange where a citizen questions a tramp about rubbing his head on a barbed-wire fence and the tramp replies he is combing his hair.
A Chicago Daily News line notes a husband waiting for his wife at a bargain sale is one of the cheapest sights around. The remark frames a frugal scene in a light, breezy tone.
A humorous note from the Chicago Democrat observes fame’s returns come in small, scattered portions. It jokes about misfit replies and downplays fears of disease with a playful medical quack reference to Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry.
A playful exchange recalls a Kentuckian not reading about a man who died after drinking a gallon of whisky. The dialogue centers on curiosity and rumor about the cause of death.
The Chicago Democrat notes Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a preferred choice in families and by druggists. Druggist J. Goldsmith of Van Etten NY reports five years of sales with complete satisfaction and frequent use for coughs colds and grippe. Sold by A. O. Rowe in town.
An old column promotes cinnamon and peppermint remedies for fever and diphtheria, disinfectants, carbolic acid mixtures, and iodine care. It cites druggists Mouser and Thomas’ stores praising Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. A June Leadville fire kills four at the Home for Friendless Children, with forty residents saved.
Six boys aged 3 to 38 by eating wild parsnips in Joliet Illinois believed the tubers were sweet potatoes. One boy, Wayne Ryan aged 3, died and the others may recover.
For two years Ira W. Kelley of Mansfield Pa. was in poor health due to kidney trouble. He visited several physicians and spent much money on medicines without relief until using Feleys Kidney Cure. He now testifies that it may aid others, as reported by Houseworth Bros.
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