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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
3
A mother speaks to a broad audience about the longing of American women in lonely homes for motherhood. The message links happiness to organic health and urges preparation for healthy maternity through a specific remedy.
Mrs. Maggie Gilmer and Mrs. Josephine Hall share health recoveries after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, promoted as a standard female remedy. The ad touts decades of use, claims cures for displacement, inflammation, and other female ailments, and invites letters for advice from Lynn Mass.
A drunken, wandering man pleads guilty to his crime but blames his in laws for pushing him to crime. The police justice condemns him to six months in the workhouse. The article notes the shortest incubation period among humming birds at ten days.
Shepard Kollock of 44 Wallace St Red Bank New Jersey recalls a 40 year battle with kidney troubles and sleepless nights before Dean's Kidney Pills brought relief. He praises the remedy and notes its availability from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents a bar. The piece also lists extreme rainfall measurements from various towns for context.
A collage of advertisements and brief anecdotes recounts pie mixes from D-Zerta Food Co Rochester New York foot ease by Allen's brand laxative products and a note on electricity ripening bananas. It also mentions a lottery scam in New York and a traveling show accident with a bearded lady and living skeleton.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as ideal for aging bodies needing light yet nourishing food. It cites long baking with diastase in barley, underlined by brain and nerve phosphate benefits, plus testimonials from a 74 year old and a 92 year old who credit Grape-Nuts and Postum for health, regularity, and ease of thought.
Senate endorses the Aldrich currency bill as an emergency measure while Paynter of Kentucky opposes it. Post office funds rise to 222 million with record rail and clerical pay debates. House leaders back ship shipments for Panama canal materials and restore In God We Trust on coins amid broad pension talks and memorial adjournments.
Congressman Namilton proposes severe penalties for circulating false reports about national banks. Culberson seeks Treasury notices to Senate on complaints by banks outside New York City from Oct 1 to Navy 15, 107. The Senate adopted a bill on New York banks’ cash refusal. The President met G A R leader Burton and pension committee members about boosting widows’ pensions. A mass meeting adopted resolutions to restore colored troops dismissed after Brownsville, led by bishops Turner and Chappelle and other Black leaders. fifteen states with large Black populations were represented.
A tiresome caller asks Mr Addemup which bookkeeping method he finds best. The busy man at the desk answers that keeping a bank book is the most satisfactory system.
An old advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh and praises Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from Toledo wholesalers and notes the product price. Additional lines promote fall’s Family Pills and a French anecdote about a purse theft in New York.
Edward Worell of Fort Crook Nebraska reports severe winter eczema on hands arms and legs causing constant itching and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for six days the itching ceased and sores disappeared.
A letter from A Kaltenbrunner, Dominion Commissioner of Immigration in Winnipeg on Nov 23 1907 asserts Western Canada crops prove resilient under adverse weather. He cites 70 acres wheat 20 bushels per acre 30 acres fallow 25 bu/acre and 9 000 bushels oats from 160 acres 80 acres fall plowed 90 bu/acre 50 acres stubble 30 bu/acre. He notes 3 carloads shipped at 53 cents per bushel and predicts higher income than last year. He claims oats and wheat quality and yields show western crops cannot be checked.
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