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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
8
Davenport resident A. S. Brown reports severe blood problems and numerous boils improved after using Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. He credits the medicine and mail-order consultation from Dr. Pierce with lasting relief and gratitude.
Biliousness and constipation praised by B Williams of Muscatine Towom for three years. She finds Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets a reliable, gentle remedy and a pleasant aid for digestive balance.
An old advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for colds with two-hour dosing until three doses, promising relief from nasal congestion headaches fever and body aches. It emphasizes easy taste no quinine and a few cents cost in drug stores, urging insistence on Pape's.
The page promotes Bayer aspirin tablets with directions for headache and pain, Cuticura skin care trio, and Alls Catarrh Medicine for nasal congestion. It notes Bayer as a genuine aspirin trademark, cites 14 years of physician use, and includes various remedies and dubious claims about health and jealousy in a cluttered advertorial style.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture this note stresses road location and dirt road design impact on future highway improvement. It warns against sharp curves and narrow widths, urges keeping routes short to reduce maintenance costs, and cautions about avoiding later relocations that disrupt settled communities along country roads.
The push for improved highways accelerates as better roads lift travel and property values. States and counties increase road betterment funding, with Virginia projecting projects totaling 8.1 million dollars under contract or survey. Maryland figures unavailable, but Maryland joins Ohio Pennsylvania and Georgia in approving million-dollar road improvements.
Unimproved roads prove costly as drivers on rough terrain spend more for tires and fuel. The piece notes motorists pay about twice as much for tires and gasoline on poor roads compared with hard surfaced routes, reflecting higher operating costs nationwide.
An old report notes water is essential to road making materials but excess can quickly ruin carefully prepared pavement structures and compromise long term durability.
A historic ad extols Cascarents as a mild liver and bowel tonic to prevent constipation and digestive ills. It boasts nightly action, claims no griping like Calomel, and notes 25 million boxes sold annually while warning against harsh laxatives.
A vintage ad style note endorses Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It cites testimonials from a druggist and customers, claims wide success and urges readers to mail ten cents for a simple bottle and to buy larger sizes in drug stores. The text closes with a caution about overpromising results.
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