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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
8
The article hints at a charming love story that ends with a peculiar request to use Dr Blank's beauty balm for the complexion. It suggests a playful exploration of a sensational line.
It Is Not Cold in the South. The weather this season has been ideal with residents at Florida and gulf coast resorts. Louisville and Nashville Railroad reports uncertain through service of sleeping cars and coaches from northern cities this winter. Tourist tickets valid to May 31 are on sale from all points at low rates. For details contact OC. P. Atmore in Louisville, Ky, or D. P. A. in St Louis, Mo. The kestrel hawk can reach speeds up to 150 miles per hour.
A vintage patent medicine advertisement from Toledo promotes Wow's Thist Wo cure for catarrh with a one hundred dollar reward for failure to cure by Vals Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from local druggists Cheney Trvax and KINNAN BEARVIN and asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. It also notes price and free sample offer and a moral proverb about neglectful care of health.
The ad claims Allen's Foot-Ease prevents Chimvaius and Frost Artes while curing damp sweating feet and related ailments. It promotes a 25 cent powder for shoes with free sample offers and lists Allen S. Gimstad of Leltoy, N.Y. Also notes Sumatra's Ratiesta as the largest flower at nine feet in diameter.
In Uythe Bogland the village displays a stained glass window in memory of Lionel Dukin the inventor of the Hfebout. Dukin is buried in the parish churchyard where a curious inscription notes his connection with the invention. He filed a patent in 1785 and was not recognized by the government for some time.
Dialogue sketches Miss Autumn and Miss Young at a State street auction. Miss Autumn plans to attend out of curiosity, not to buy, while Miss Young asks what she hopes to purchase. A vendor on a raised platform asks for offers, echoing a lighthearted scene.
A 56 year old Michigan farmer suffered thirty years of rheumatic pain and dizziness. After trying many doctors and cures with no relief, he used Dr Williams Wink Pills for Pale People from this newspaper ad. Three boxes ended his pain and dizziness, and he has been well for over a year. Post office Lorenzo Neeley, Lorton, Jackson County. Ad touts pink pills and blood nourishment.
Belta operates tendless leather belts that act as moving staircases in a large Parisian store, lifting customers between floors. The system shuttles shoppers efficiently, easing congestion in the multi level shopping space.
A collage of humorous exchanges and wry quips from newspapers and magazines. Jests about stars and fate, nervous ceremonies, antique fashion bargains, grammar and alphabets, with light social observations. Includes banter between lovers, missed signals, and playful satire on manners and prices.
A playful banter erupts as musicians joke about who has the biggest head and who will wake with a worse one. The horn and violin trade quips while the drums defend their pride and the bones try to keep order.
Washington state dispatches indicate looming developments in the Japanese imbroglio with the Hawaiian Islands government. The piece notes stomach disruption from indigestion that could become chronic unless treated, endorsing Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to correct gastric issues and bowel irregularity.
A collection of vintage product pitches and health tips including Laxative Brome Quinine tablets promising a one day cure for colds with refund offers, Piso's Cure for Consumption cited in a household, Glenn's Sulphur Soap for skin disease, Hill's Watt and Whisker Dye, and a general note on moderation as a virtue.
The ad proclaims St Jacobs Oil cures morning soreness and stiffness after a hard day. It suggests rubbing before bed to wake up right and keep a bottle handy for those exposed to changeable weather, and oddly notes a German claim to furnish artificial teeth gratis to soldiers in need.
An 1898 calendar representing a Government mail pouch is issued by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. Printed in brown and gold on heavy enameled card, it measures 8x15 inches and can be mailed free upon receipt of eight cents postage to A. J. Smith in Cleveland. A stray, nonrelated line about Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup appears in the text.
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