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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
8
The narrator recalls a boyhood in which he failed school and became a cabin boy. His clever fixes on a broken rudder and later oiling the deck to fool pirates save the ship. Reassured by captain and crew, he earns prize money and a fortune, then retires on interest rather than further invention. Wendell O. M'LAIN.
An old advertisement promotes Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for fatigue and female ailments. It speaks directly to women, asking how many feel perfectly well and strong, and asserts daily that many suffer constant tiredness but can be helped.
A Woodbridge woman reports uterine trouble and irregularities that left her a physical wreck and says Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her. She urges other women to seek the remedy and write for free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lyon Mass.
Population in England and Wales shows 944703 births and 549302 deaths in 1904 with a natural increase of 395210 above the five year average. Reports cover Yokosuka fortifications, Suez canal plans, land prices in Kansas, Herbert F. Brooks’ career, Milne-Deainion line length debate, an Augusta resident’s congress inquiry, and a Hackney Empire theater offer for a five minute show.
In famine struck Brit tany a Paris social leader the Countess de Montezac travels to aid poor families. After rescuing a drowning child with the help of Pere Yvonne and a young man she discovers a baby left in a bundle. The old man dies a heroic death and the countess pledges to raise the child as his heir.
A promotional medical notice by Flora Moss Jackson M.D. and J. H. Jackson M.D. touts internal remedies over local treatments for women’s diseases. It claims the body’s life forces carry healing medicines to affected parts and denounces local cures as dangerous, listing a range of alleged conditions and promising privacy in consultations from Hettinger Block offices.
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