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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1896
Page
8
A reader letter praises Mrs. Pinkham for healing women and relates a girl’s hopeful note about health and upcoming marriage. The piece contrasts such testimonies with physician candor and cites Abyssinian fighting under Menelek, noting high officer casualties and lessons from Italian campaigns in Kassala.
Boston area notices a remedy derived from a common weed promising to cure all humors from scrofula to pimples. Kennedy of Roxbury cites 1100 cases with only two failures and 200 certificates of value within twenty miles of Boston. The ad urges use, states lungs or liver pains fade after a week, and recommends one tablespoonful in water at bedtime.
A Boston Post item recounts a shopper resisting pressure from cut rate drug store clerks who promote their own brand as equal or superior to Dr. Johns cure. The customer ultimately buys elsewhere after insisting on a specific product rather than a guaranteed substitute.
A description of a white crepon dress for a graduate featuring a five-yard interlined shirt, fifteen inch depth stiffening, hound waist, leg-of-mutton sleeves, ribbon belt and collar, front waist plait, and ribbon Bretelles with bows. Also cites May Ladies' Home Journal and warns against rushing to wealth.
A Victorian advertisement claims Billousness sick headache and irregularity of the bowels accompany each other. It states Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is specially adapted to their removal and also cures dyspepsia rheumatism malarial complaints billousness nervousness and constipation. The most satisfactory results follow fair trial. Use it daily.
At a New York City asset sale of a riding academy, saddle horses averaged under ten dollars each, a record low for horses of this type. The remark circulated that in New York the market value of a horse is lower than that of a bicycle.
An old notice cautions against mercury based catarrh medicines and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally. It notes price and availability from Druggists and claims testimonials are free. It also mentions a 1806 Republican National Convention in St Louis and a Wabash Railroad fare reduction for that trip.
Frederick Abbot of Milwaukee acting as Land Commissioner for the Central Railroad distributes a handsome book filled with maps and information to home seekers nationwide. He will forward free copies on request to those seeking details about timber and farming lands in the region.
Greensburg editor reports J. B. Wise of New Point cured of severe muscular rheumatism after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. Wise describes years of agony and failed medical care before relief began with one box and continued with more, leading to full recovery. Pills advertised as blood and nerve restorers sold by druggists or by mail.
A reader from Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania praises Piso's Cure for Consumption as the only cough medicine used in the house, dated December 11, 1906. The note closes with a quote from Alfred the Great about a king's ability to be polite.
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