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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1896
Page
6
An ad styled note explains the perimenopausal change as a critical period for women. It endorses Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to ease nervous symptoms and prepare the body, citing a testimonial from Mrs W L Day of Bettsville Ohio about life saving results and husband’s kidney improvement.
A remedy claims to cure humor ailments from scrofula to pimples after eleven hundred trials with only two failures. The booster holds over two hundred certificates within twenty miles of Boston and advertises a first bottle benefit and a guaranteed full cure with right quantity. Lungs liver and bowels may feel shooting pains during use. label warns of initial discomfort if stomach is foul and advises no diet change. Dose is one tablespoonful in water at bedtime and sold by all druggists.
Aluminum, once costly, finds new roles such as powder chamber material for cartridges increasing issued ammunition by 25 percent without added weight. It also outfits oil-cups for locomotive crank pins to withstand centrifugal force, weighs two thirds less than copper, and offers safer metalwork in powder mills due to non sparking characteristics. Baggage checks and utensils benefit from its lightness.
Rapid City Journal describes Rescue Hall in Omaha as a charitable home for the needy. Residents receive food and lodging with small payments if possible, then work is found for them and medical aid is provided until they can work. Gospel services are held each evening.
Illiterate ad copy claims malaria germs contaminate air and water and prescribes Hoxtetter's Stomach Bitters to prevent chills fevers and bilious remittent ague. It also touts cures for dyspepsia liver trouble constipation loss of strength nervousness rheumatism and kidney trouble claiming appetite improves and sleep returns with a wine glassful three times a day.
A Tyrolese mountain guide was tried at Batzen for manslaughter after leading a man unfit for a dangerous climb over a mountain pass, resulting in the victim's death. The jury acquitted the guide on the facts, but the decision established the principle of guides bearing responsibility for tourist qualifications for the first time.
A collage of old advertisements touts medicines and tonics for catarrh sore throats and bronchitis. Brand names include Hall's Catarrh Cure and Dr Jayne's Expectorant, with notices about mercury dangers and claims of blood action. Also mentions Lord Byron ballet, vitamins of Tees, and unrelated quips on science and life.
Samuel Atwater of Wanatah Indiana details years of back neck and head pain from overwork and exposure. After six months on Dr Williams Pink Pills he reports pain relief weight gain and partial cure of sores with blood cleansing and nerve rebuilding effects. He urges others to try the pills and notes purchase options and pricing.
A casual guide praises pleasing medicinal tonics and a gentle family laxative for constipation. Advertisements note butter in Bulawayo at 17 shillings per pound and a product promising to stop fits with Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restore, offering a free treatise and $2 trial bottle.
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