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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1911
Page
4
A flurry of visits fills West Union life as Curtin calls on friends, Amelia Shiery conducts business, and families host guests, while Mrs. Holmes recovers, measles spread, and local events include playgoing and church services amid winter weather.
A Beetown Wisconsin lad suffered a near leg loss after a mad horse kicked him. Doctors feared the severe wound yet Bucklen’s Arnica Salve finally healed the gash completely. The ad proclaims it the greatest healer for ulcers burns boils cuts and more, offered at Rickert & Davis for 25 cents.
Grant Davis visited Sunday with sister Mrs. Geo Spatcher of Smithfield. Sarah Foss spent several days with brother Floyd Foss. Delbert Gray visited Thursday and Friday with Dorsey Cannell and wife. Mrs. W E Donat and children ill with grip. Dad Davis visited Wednesday with Josiah Davis Sr. who is poorly. D B Cannell wife and daughter Flossie were business callers in Oelwein. Mesdames Paul and Mittlestadt visited Saturday with father Josiah Davis Sr. School started Monday in District No 4 with Mrs FE S Thomas as teacher.
An odd OCR fragment promotes a product called New Fire Pills by Rickert and Davis. It claims the pills turn weakness into strength and cure various ailments from constipation to malaria, described in unstandardized language. The badly garbled text mentions Dr Kong and terms like supar coated globule and Livery pill.
A scattered 1920s style notice describes Laura Noble joining a W. T. U. rally against legalized vice, a San Francisco fair building plan costing $50,000 with a mountain shape and evil-themed staff, a Nebraska Democratic banquet in Lincoln, the dry dinner, and a Prohibition party victory in Percy. It also references compulsory education push, saloon protests, labor leaders, and political figures like Durant Jones and Senator Frehing.
An old advertisement touts a catarrh cure claimed to come from elite doctors but labeled as questionable by a self styled expert. It promises a blood removing remedy with various ingredients and hints at prescription by leading physicians. The copy reads like a period ad for health products in Toledo.
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