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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1919
Page
2
An advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer packaging with directions for Headache Cold Pain Neuralgia Lumbago and Rheumatism. It notes Bayer as the genuine aspirin brand prescribed by physicians for nineteen years with a tin of 12 tablets costing a few cents. The ad includes a German proverb about ghosts and roving thieves.
Vintage ad praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for quick relief from back pain loins and rheumatic aches. Warns against neglect, claims early warning signs lead to Bright's disease, guarantees first box helps or money back, urges refusal of substitutes and sends 60 cents for mail order from Dodd's Medicine Co. Buffalo N Y.
An old advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment for rheumatic pain and external aches. It emphasizes easy application, no mess, and immediate relief, claiming wide sales and economy. Sizes include 35c 70c and $1.40 with druggist suggestion.
An old remedy ad touts Dr Carter’s K. and B. Tea as a household staple for biliousness and sluggish liver. It promises quick relief from headaches and digestive issues with a nightly cup, advising use for children and claiming widespread family trust.
A lurking intruder advances on a sleeping man and discovers a brutal throat wound. The attacker recoils in horror as blood is revealed. A dying match reveals a gaunt figure and the voice of Gunga summons Sahibe, linking past dreams to present danger.
Wallen and the silent Gunga flee through harbor streets to the Monleigh. Gunga reveals a Kanaka shooter, a planted diagram, and Drink-House Sam's murder plot. Wallen learns his father’s death may be tied to a treasure hunt and a hidden Chinese crew. The ship sets sail soon as new and dangerous details emerge.
Stacey Wallen, sole survivor of the Upalo crew in the Java Sea, learns a Chinaman named Drink House Sam holds the key to his father’s death and a long feud with pirate Ram Gulab Singh. After drifting to Arru and a rescue, Wallen returns to sea toward Singapore to confront Sam.
A stealthy figure named Wallen waits for Drink-House Sam’s guests to disperse, then scales a veranda post to access Marle’s door. He silently moves through the veranda seeking entry as the barroom empties and night deepens, hoping to avoid notice.
Downtown Indianapolis window reads Eye care offer as a man debates testing eyes now or leaving specs to be called later in a humorous optometrist scene. Local joke captures patient dilemma and storefront setting in brief.
A single nightly application of Roman Eye Bal gar is advertised to relieve inflammations of the eyes both internal and external, asserting merit with ongoing use.
A speaker recalls a shy swain who fled from the war era romance. After returning from the trenches he still hesitates to ask the girl to marry. She challenges him to prove his devotion by proposing, remarking they have fooled round long enough.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt recalls a sharp remark about a man described as an influential businessman with a complicated personal life. The narrator, briefly acquainted, notes his boastful claim of living with a third wife while two others had died, a line that underlines a warning or taunting tone in a provocative social anecdote.
Frank J. Cheney swore as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The oath was sworn before A. W. Gleason in Toledo Ohio in December 1886. The ad describes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as taking internally and acting on mucous surfaces.
A Japanese innkeeper tricks a guest with myoga, a spice believed to induce forgetfulness, giving him soup and vegetables to make him forget his bill. The guest leaves without paying, proving the myoga worked in forgetting the charge. If oceans rise a twenty sixth of their depth, half the land would be flooded.
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