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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
6
A reader describes severe uterine and digestive symptoms and claims Mrs. Williams of Englishtown, New Jersey was cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound guided by Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn, Massachusetts. The notice urges women to seek the remedy and write for free advice.
An aged Norwich notice describes Tibby McNeill Tibby’s plum pudding purchased on Christmas for American soldiers in the Philippines and Cuba. A user from Maple Street recalls Piase’s ware for consumption that saved his life three years ago.
Dorothy Caga recounts a witty domestic scene about girls joking that men who call but never take them out are “beside companions.” The brief exchanges reflect social norms and humorous labels in a domestic Fireside Companion piece.
From Mr. Beddard's new work on whales, a margin note recalls that imagination misleads about Jurassic giants. There is no evidence of land or sea beasts surpassing the whale in bulk. Mammoth and Ichthyosaurus pale beside the whale in size.
The carrier pigeon, when exhausted from long flights, refuses food and drinks only water, sleeps, and then eats in small amounts. After several hours it resumes eating, and after very prolonged flights may continue for forty eight hours before returning to normal feeding patterns.
Mrs TE D Hyde of Folsom South Dakota writes an open letter praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing her heart ailment and her daughter's kidney weakness after three years of pain. She says the pills are wonderful medicine and asks publication to warn others. Each box costs 50 cents and is sold by all dealers.
In Italy mounted police receive only eight dollars a month to cover horse upkeep, leading to neglect of unauthorized tree felling. The article also touts U and mentions catarrh cures, promoting Upj’s Catarrh Cure by J J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy with a one hundred dollar reward offer for failure to cure.
The text presents a fragmented dialogue touching on gender, biblical references about devils, and fabric history. It mentions women versus men, a biblical quote about seven devils, and notes on silk cultivation in China 270 years before the Christian era and its early beverage use.
Five killed and about twenty injured when a 150-horsepower boiler exploded in the C and NW Railway power house at Kinzie and Ingabury, destroying walls and shattering windows. A parlor car was struck, three section workers killed nearby, fire crews battled smoldering wreckage for hours, and the terminal operations were halted for two hours.
A royal pair section notes Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands, and her mother Wer Mother Wilhelmina, showing the queen in a photograph as preparations for her marriage to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Seliweria. The wedding is set for January, with the exact date still undecided.
Fragmentary report notes a girl queen of the House of Orange, praised as popular by the Dutch people. She reportedly selected Duke Henry for marriage, saying her choice was free of influence from her mother or ministers and the public.
Mrs F J Lynch of Grand Rapids Michigan writes to Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus Ohio recommending Peruna for women. She says a persistent cough vanished after two bottles and she recovered health quickly.
A Victorian advertisement extols Peruna as the cure for chronic catarrh, claiming catarrh invades all ages and organs, crippling speech, senses, and health. It highlights dramatic societal decline from coughs and colds and promises a free guide from The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus, Ohio.
A jumbled collection of early 20th century ads and quack remedies mentions Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, a liquid form spray, and a 200 volt electrical claim. Also promoted are Cascaris, Carter's Ink, Chinese coinage curios, and Laxative Bromo Quinine for colds. The tone imitates sensational medicine and household product pitches common in period newspapers.
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