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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1894
Page
8
An oculist warns that rubbing inflamed eyes and bathing them then going out in cold air risks catching a cold. Most eye troubles in cold weather are not caused by rubbing or bathing. He notes tear-line directions for rubbing and mentions muffs, adopted from doctors to keep hands warm during visits.
Ad pitches Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for irregularities and related female ailments. It cites twenty years of success and twenty thousand women helped, urging mothers to use the product and that druggists carry it.
Charles E. Strong longtime general manager of the Chicago Newspaper Union and its branches died at his Chicago home from paralysis of the heart. His illness began after attending the Typothecae meeting in Philadelphia in September. He contracted a cold there, worsened by prior heart and bronchial troubles, and entered his room on Nov. 7. His wife awoke to his restlessness at midnight before medical aid arrived.
Death occurred peacefully with wife and daughter present. Charles E Strong, longtime manager of the Chicago Newspaper Union and a Milwaukee native, led the expansion of ready print newsrooms from Chicago to a nationwide network. He was 70s or more, with a career spanning Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin to the Chicago Newspaper Union. Nearly one hundred employees attended his funeral. he left a widow and two children George and Emily.
Reports to the State Department cite Consul General Charles DeKay in Berlin describing a serum for diphtheria. Production near Sebering requires many horses, high demand emptied hospitals in September, and death rates in children under four fell to 11 percent before serum shortage, then rose to 60 percent in October. Serum is costly due to few production sites and long preparation time, often nine months to a year per animal.
The snippet weaves satire on Hetty Green like wealth anxieties, ad blurbs praising Syrup of Figs and Dr. Jayne’s remedies, with humorous lines on social games and manners. It closes noting no railroad men tell the truth, amid mocking vignettes of dining and fashion.
Notice warns against mercury based catarrh ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It claims the remedy contains no mercury, is taken internally, acts on blood and mucous surfaces, and is sold by druggists at one shilling per bottle.
A 1805 prospectus for Youths Companion touts the largest entertaining reading for $1.75 yearly with free Desent until January. It highlights travel health science anecdotes and family reading, with a Boston office and double holiday numbers. Imperial Granum praised at World’s Fair for digestible nourishment for invalids and children. A New York Churchman quips about a broom sweeping hairs.
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