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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
8
A historical portrait recalls a 19th or early 20th century physician who rode vast distances daily to visit patients. He promoted a tonic he named Dr. Pierce's Prescription, blending plant extracts without alcohol to treat common female ailments and nervous conditions. He established a Buffalo laboratory to mass produce the remedy for global distribution.
Mrs Chas Gregory spends this week in Birdseye. W F Gobbe and children stayed in English last week. M T Koerner left for Winona Lake East to see daughter Della Koerner at school. Preack Zimmer improving. A C Monroe in Princeton this week. Miss Myra Dillard back to outing after illness. Miss Jessie Strand, popular teacher, out of school last week due to illness.
Friends and relatives gathered from Foster Ridge Mt. Carmel Eckerty Ossontown and Oriole to bid farewell to Jonas Beard who died of dropsy and heart failure. The village mourns as other local notes include illnesses measles and an air strike at Patton Tunnel Coal Mining Co with a recent miners operators conference.
Pleasant Ridge notes show visitors and local greetings. East of French Lick resident Frant East with family from Beechwood visited J H Doolittle’s in recent days. Several townspeople and relatives are listed visiting or staying with kin over the weekend.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a universal cure and tonic for women. It claims high cure rates, improved womb health, and restored strength, especially for worn out workers such as store clerks and typists.
An old health ad describes kidney function and daily blood filtration. It notes symptoms from kidney issues and cites B H Dobson of New Albany Indiana claiming a perfect cure after using Deans Kidney Pills sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY for 50 cents.
The Louisville Herald reports a record tow by the steamer Sprague on the Ohio or Mississippi rivers. The cargo totals 2 1/2 million bushels of coal weighing 216 million pounds or about 105000 tons. It would need 3400 railcars and 218 locomotives to move it by rail.
A vivid, distressing scene shows a torn dress, dirty children, and a chaotic home. A weary mother and a harsh husband create a tense, hungry atmosphere as the family drifts toward disorder, hunger, and loneliness. The narrator insists such homes exist, urging awareness of this Gift and disorder.
A stern advice piece stresses the homekeeper must be active and conscientious, praising thrift intelligence and tenderness to sustain a happy home. A stray scene in Auburn shows a book agent mistaken for beer and a German widow correcting him about Shakespeare.
The passage asserts the Panhandle region is selling below real values with prices around $80 per acre and expects demand from home seekers in the fall to push values higher by several dollars per acre, urging purchases now for better opportunities.
Health notice urges kidney care linking excessive work to kidney trouble. It promotes Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a remedy, claims cures and urges readers to request a free sample by mail, with address in Binghamton New York.
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