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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1890
Page
3
The Peabody trust report shows birth rates 8.72 per 1000 higher than London, death rates nearly 1 per 1000 lower, and infant mortality only slightly above half the city average. It notes 36,250,000 spent for housing 20,874 people with weekly rents around 1.20 and room rate 0.52.
An advertisement extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as the safe mid course for constipation and costiveness. It claims the tonic aids digestion, relieves the bowels without pain, strengthens the stomach and liver, and benefits the whole internal economy including rheumatism fever and debility. The text then shifts to a series of aphoristic quotes about friendship, marriage and vanity.
A collection of testimonials and notices for Hall's Catarrh Cure and related remedies. Includes recommendations from Dr. A T Shallenberger in Rochester Pa and Rev J D Davis, claims of cures for chills and fever pills, and a 100 dollar reward offer for catarrh cure. Mentions F J Cheney & Co Toledo as proprietors and multiple wholesale druggists.
A brief note on how items once considered luxuries are becoming essential in daily life as economic and social pressures shift priorities and routines.
Lesson outlines the parable of the sower, seed, and soils with the wayside, rocky, thorny, and fruitful hearers. It notes three harvest conditions, Luke 8 18, and places the scene near Capernaum by the Sea of Galilee in autumn AD 28 with Jesus teaching by parables.
A fragment notes men fumigate with a tobacco label while girls lament in novels and friends call their mood bilious in a teasing vignette.
Congressional report praises Cheyenne as a wealthy city with rapid growth from Union Pacific Railway shops costing 5 million dollars and employing 10,000 men. The land firm offers inducements for building to meet immediate demand, promising 25 percent net returns and flexible payments. Interior Land and Emigration Co. promotes blocks in Cheyenne with two-fifths in lands or chattels.
The fragment cautions that a man deemed a bad egg may still have plans that come to fruition, suggesting deceitful intentions can mature despite judgment of character.
The ad rails against ignorant treatment and claims most ailments stem from poor circulation and blood impurity. It touts Dr John Bull of Louisville Ky and his Sarsaparilla as a permanent cure for dyspepsia indigestion and related ills, urging readers to demand it from their druggists.
An old advertisement style jingle recalls Castoria as a trusted remedy through a girl's childhood to motherhood, claiming continued use for children across generations. It highlights the product as a comforting standard for various life stages.
A remark notes that in recent years many men have been likened to Napoleon. The author reflects on the tendency to compare contemporary figures to the famed conqueror.
A sequence of letters praises Botanic Blood Balm as a cure and tonic for various ailments. Testimonials from W F Miles, D C Blanton, J O Hoffman, F H Hickey, Julia E Johnson, August A Klages attest to skin, hair, eczema, and blood health improvements. The piece closes with a poetic reflection on maternal songs.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets as mild yet adjustable laxative therapy. It promises gentle aperient or strong cathartic effects by dose size, claims liver and bowel cleansing without disruption to daily life, and notes a 25 cent vial price sold by druggists.
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