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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1907
Page
15
An admonition against drinking traces a man who started with a single glass to a likely drunkard. The piece urges youths to avoid even a first drink, citing family misery, temptation, and the risk of lifelong ruin. A model boy resists alcohol, proving abstinence protects virtue and faith from saloon danger.
Dr A MacNicholl of New York reports for the New York Academy of Medicine that alcohol damages nerve structure and hereditary transmission, leading to moral decline and diminished physical and mental faculties in children. He notes 75 percent of children with drinking parents reach dullard status.
Recent Kansas reports indicate prohibition boosts prosperity. Over $1,000,000 was invested last year in banks mostly in small towns. Estimated per capita cash wealth reaches $88.69, excluding stocks and deposits. Only a few states match this record.
A Japanese statesman explains low pauper rates in Japan versus Britain by cultural drink choices. He notes Britain has about 1,000,000 paupers while Japan has 25,000 and attributes the difference to tea versus alcohol consumption.
An old advertisement touts Man Zan as a remedy for itching bleeding and protruding piles. It claims it can be applied exactly where needed via collapsible tubes with a nozzle and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved. The copy also oddly references beer consumption and a Munich figure. This reads as a vintage medical patent remedy promotion.
A preacher speaks on seed planters from Benjamin Franklin to Eli Whitney and Keats, arguing that one generation sows for the next. He traces industrial, political, and religious progress to unseen sacrifices, noting many pioneers reaped little while later generations enjoyed vast harvests.
The sermon honors humble sowers of faith from Moravians to local parents who sacrificed comfort for their children's education. It links past evangelists and modern believers to the idea that one sows for others who harvest, urging personal sacrifice for Christ and future generations.
Cadell resident Earl Shamburg recalls burdens of past drought and grasshoppers while praising Dr King’s New Discovery as the cure for his persistent cough. He says less than a bottle fully cured him, with a trial bottle offered free by Dreier & Bro. drug store.
Charles A Elch of Cohasset Massachusetts is Harvard's oldest living graduate after the death of Thomas Wiggleworth. A member of the class of 1933 he is ninety two years old and has practiced law in Boston for seventy years.
Dr King’s New Life Pills regulate the liver prevent appendicitis and establish regular bowel habits. 25c at Dreler and Bros drug store. Also noted is a 3000 year old Egyptian mummy neck lace given to Mrs St John Brodrick by Sir John Scott Murray as a wedding gift.
A. M. Ake of Wood Indiana reports years of lung hemorrhages ended after using Foley's Honey and Tar. He tried several physicians with no improvement before starting the product. He says his lungs are now sound and recommends it for advanced lung trouble. Dreier and Bro.
A sermon narrative portrays Joseph at twenty seven in an Egyptian jail after false accusations by Potiphar's wife. He remains faithful, interprets dreams for the king's servants, endures forgotten by the butler, and uses imprisonment to grow into a ruler who brings light and reform.
The ad promotes Pine Salve Carbolized as a versatile poultice for cuts burns boils and chapped skin at 25 cents from Rhoads' drug store. It also touts Dade's Little Liver Pills as safe non gripe relief for sick headaches biliousness and lazy livers, sold by Rhoads' drug store. A. A. Robinson rose to president of the Mexican Central railroad after starting as an axman in an engineering corps with St. Joseph and Denver City railroad.
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