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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1900
Page
3
A Sidell resident W C Layton reports a terrible cold with obstructed breathing. He credits Ayer's Cherry Pectoral with immediate relief and claims no other cough remedy matches its effectiveness.
A weathered advertorial urges readers to treat colds and coughs with Ayer’s Cherry Peptone claiming faster relief. The copy promises reduced coughing and marked improvement by tomorrow, framing illness as a downward spiral that medicine can halt.
Ad text promotes Cherry Pectoral and a bottle at 25 cents. It claims relief for bronchitis consumption and general chest ailments. The 1.00 size is advertised as more economical.
A New York World item cites a punny classroom exchange about the moth. The teacher argues the moth is greedy since it eats holes, highlighting a witty contrast between minimal food and maximal damage.
During the drought year J J J Gregory of Marblehead Massachusetts sent free seed to Nebraska and the Dakotas gaining many friends for the seed house. He now asks for current addresses to send his 1900 catalogue to old and new friends. Send your name to him. Remember the farmer in hard times and in prosperity.
A brief exchange highlights a jeweler’s prompt service as four ladies in one social circle sought the same brooch. The dialogue captures a shopper’s insistence and the jeweler’s courteous willingness to exchange if needed.
The ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease uncomfortable feet and sweating. It notes sales at druggists and shoe stores for 26 cents with a free sample, plus the address of the supplier. Also includes various old slogan lines and a Laxative Bromo Quinine cold cure offer.
The piece traces a new baby’s early speech and evolving pity for others, sparked by a pink eyed albino rabbit given at Christmas. It notes the father’s theory of inherited traits and the child’s shift from quiet to bold utterances as she encounters the rabbit and her own image in the mirror.
An old circus narrator recalls the moment the greatest giant helps build a brick wall during a town parade. The giant detours the march, borrows a trowel, and, while the band plays, lays bricks from the ground, towering above workers and spectators alike.
A company of the third African French battalion stationed at Ker Tunis, after dispatching to clear sparrows from nearby farms, returned with 5000 eggs as spoils of war. The regimental cook used them with other ingredients to forge an omelet nearly seven feet in circumference.
The Mexican Herald reports that U S imports show American shoes valued at 300000 cents or three hundred thousand dollars were sold in Mexico during 1899. The brief note highlights cross border commerce in footwear reflecting evolving trade links.
The late Edward A. Sothern was famed as a joker. At Fifth Avenue stage in Buffalo he rode along unseen while dancing and waving to trick would be riders. The women refused to board and the stage returned to its starting point before he finally left for an engagement.
Reuters reports M Georges Seure of the Athens based French Archaeological School uncovered a Thracian triumphal ear from the fourth century at Douhova mound near Pastousha southwest of Philippopolis. Excavation yielded chariot fittings bronze figures harness skulls swords lances. Prince Ferdinand offers 16000 francs plus 10000 from Bulgarian and French funds to continue digs.
A woman recalls being married on a Friday the 18th and her friend counters that this dispels ideas of bad luck. The exchange frames the wedding as remarkable luck and a cheerful sign for the bride.
The note explains that before 1752 the legal year began on March 25 while January 1 was widely treated as New Year. It hints at conflicts or confusion in dating practices and mentions an unclear person or term Leve.
John Evans of South Wabash Indiana writes that his wife Polly J Evans was cured of twenty years of systemic catarrh after using nearly six bottles of Peruna. He reports repeated past cures, notes wide winter use, and recommends consulting Dr Hartman’s free catarrh books from The Peruna Medicine Company in Columbus Ohio.
A boy pursues a man near a railway station, offering to carry a bag for a nickel. The man declines, grows brisk, and the boy persists, asking why he carries the bag and why it isn’t set down. The boy ultimately retrieves the bag and a dime.
A newspaper blurb touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only known positive cure for catarrh. It says the medicine targets blood and mucous surfaces, promises constitutional restoration, and offers a one hundred dollar payout for any failing case. It urges readers to request testimonials and order from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo.
A playful remark questions the identity of a tireless writer known as "The Lounger" who spends days in the library and nights drafting chapters. Schoolboys quip that the toughest branch of learning grows on a birch tree.
Dialogue from the Philadelphia Press notes Miss Swelltop-Sister cannot attend the opera due to a nervous throat affliction. Miss Blugore asks about illness. Swelltop clarifies she is not seriously ill but cannot speak above a whisper.
The article urges best dairy results through proper milking and clean equipment using Ivory Soap. Vessels should be washed with hot water and soap, rinsed in cold water, then air dried in sun.
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph note contrasts dinwiddie and van braam with a remark on people repeating impossible commands. It observes biblical phrases such as O king live forever as similarly aspirational. The quote reflects timeless irony about human demands.
Olmsted N Y area readers can request a free Allen's Foot-Ease sample by mail. The powder relieves chilblains sweating and swollen feet and helps fit tight shoes while also aiding corns and bunions. Distributed through drugstores and shoemen. The ad ends with a playful note about a weary wasp and a joke about a Kostonian’s knowledge.
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