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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
8
The text recounts a physician's early practice delivering care across distances in the 1860s, noting his herbal Prescription prepared in Buffalo New York. It blends product history with social quips about courtship honesty and domestic life, reflecting era attitudes and humor alongside medical lore.
Henry Williams and wife near Magnolia visited Pilot Knob friends on Sunday. William Morris and wife attended Marengo trading last Saturday. Amery Batman and Alpheus Batman of Marengo spent Sunday with Curby friends. C. Archibald and wife were at Marengo. John Benz and wife were called to Princeton for Martin Scott illness. Mrs Mary Ruevees and children of Louisville visit Andrew Benz and wife. Ice cream supper at Mrs Sarah Pierson’s last Saturday. Kelly Batman and M C Froman toured Orange county. Froman to begin work on Jennings township pike roads. Mrs D T Stephenson ill for two weeks. Wm Andrews and wife near Fredonia visited daughter Mrs J M McIntosh. Jacob Baker of near Georgetown visited daughter Mrs John Hanger. Sam Zahad and Ellsworth Jones at Leavenworth on business.
Ernest Eaton and wife and Mrs Dora Haton visited Scott Miller and family at Grantsburg last Sunday. J C Hoskins and wife visited Sulphur last week. A large crowd of guests is expected at the hotel this week. The stork left a fine girl at the home of Oscar Goad last Tuesday week. Marion Armstrong lost a horse last week the second in a year.
The piece records a neighborhood scene with a thresher’s whistle, a rain on Monday night, and gatherings such as an ice cream social. It notes health concerns for Mrs. McCown and Mrs. Lone, a Sunday school crowd at the M E church, and Uncle Jesse Montgomery’s sudden heart trouble after visiting English last Saturday. W H McCown and wife traveled to Louisville with Dr N W King for Mrs McCown health.
Rev. Walker King of Mifflin preached three sermons Saturday night Sunday morning and night. His wife and two children accompanied him. Uncle Luther Jones visited Sherman Searcey on Sunday. Mrs Mollie Shoemaker and children visited her parents J R Ruby and family this week.
An ad copy touts tiny sugar coated granules that regulate the stomach liver and bowels and claim to cure constipation and foul breath. It offers a free Family Doctor Book on payment of postage stamps and lists Dr. Pierce at 63 Main Street, Bullsio, N.Y.
A fragment notes a mysterious phenomenon where milk sours during a thunderstorm. The text hints at a simple underlying cause but remains unclear and garbled.
A reader recalls years of back and kidney pain and credits Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co with relief after purchasing at Model Drug Store. The ad-like passage extols kidney function restoration and urges use nationwide, naming Buffalo New York as a key market and listing agents.
Audit ledger itemizes payments and per diems for county officials and workers. Entries include medical aid for Dr Geo W Baylor and Chester Elliott, livery hire, advertising, road viewing, salaries for James Hanger and Geo W Cuzzart, poor farm supplies, labor on poor farm, and various per diem expenses.
A newspaper advertisement cautions on the rising prevalence of kidney disease and urges Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy. It claims the product cures back pain kidney and urinary complaints and offers a free sample bottle and book by mail from Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York.
A string of humorous and rhymed quips on patience gossip trouble and strong likes and dislikes. It mocks social norms and notes misprints and odd phrases about bread wives and doctors with a playful tone.
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