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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1908
Page
2
A promotional ad urges women to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for private illness guidance. It claims decades of correspondence with sick women has given her knowledge to ease ailments and promises confidential replies based on grateful reader letters.
An old advertorial passage touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal female remedy for disorders including irregularities and nervous prostration. A testimonial from Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen Town Pa claims recovery after following physician advice and the product's guidance.
A London Gentlewoman plan imagines waking enemies at unearthly hours to serve a wholesome breakfast they would struggle to eat, turning breakfast into a sly act of revenge and discomfort.
The advertisement asserts Pure Food claims for Grape-Nuts, arguing the product is made from wheat and barley and digests easily. It cites Dr. Geo W Carey on potassium phosphate as essential to brain nerve function and promotes Grape-Nuts as a food for brain and nerve centers with broad health benefits.
Mishawaka woman Bertha Kitson dies in gas oven explosion. Elkhart man Charles Hugg passes after apoplexy. Vincennes miller Roderick Patterson commits suicide by carbolic acid. Peru appoints Gus Wing head of light plant. Edith Boyd cured of tuberculosis by open air. Jacob Becker heads to Mexico for railroad work. Various local incidents and civic notes across Indiana.
A lady writer praises Grape-Nuts as ideal for brain work and growing healthy children. She notes morning appetite restored after eight years of nursing and improved energy after including Grape-Nuts with milk, alongside Postum cereal products from Battle Creek, Michigan.
A testimonial extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent as the cure after two years of eczema despite trying physicians patent medicines and quacks. The note from C V Beltz of Tippecanoe Indiana dated Nov 15, 1905, claims rapid relief and return to health. The piece closes with a moral about true friendship in adversity.
Mrs James M. Long of Staunton Virginia reports quick relief from backache and urinary trouble after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She wrote on January 16 1903 that the pills cured her back and urinary symptoms and on June 2 1907 she said she had no kidney trouble since. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box. roster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
A farmer and his son discuss a bossless carriage and sending for it to fetch a load of turnips from a three acre plot as read in the Sporting page of the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Travel Magazine notes slow express trains in Spain with speeds under 25 mph and a relaxed pace. It advises carrying own lunch for long trips and describes Spanish etiquette of offering food to compartment mates before eating.
A Scotch volunteer, scrambling through bushes, got stuck in a hedge during a retreat. An advancing foe charged with fixed bayonet as a joke, prompting the trapped man to shout a warning and plead that it was only in fun.
Dudley questions who coined familiar sayings and cites the expression It never rains that it pours. Kidder suggests a possible origin with Now.
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