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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
6
A collection of dubious medical claims touts whiskey and glycerine cures, pine compound, and various tonics. It also mocks speculative investing and cites W J Bryan while promoting laxatives and worm remedies in a chaotic, late 19th or early 20th century style.
In Bettville Uncle Ashdod dreams of fame through a bee mosquito hybrid. He fuses bee and mosquito eggs to create a bisquito, producing a stinging, see saw insect that dominates Main Street. a Chicago biographer and a creek rescue end his quirky project as frost nears.
A long passage extols Central Canada lands for grain with a case study of James Bailey near Regina. It details 640 acres bought at 18 dollars an acre, wheat and oats yields, market sales, and land value increases, citing earnings of 17,550 from crops and 10,880 rise in land value, plus 11,320 land cost and 22,400 potential land price. It notes government agents offer rate information and ends with a dialect exchange about a mule.
Henry Searle of Little Rock Arkansas recounts a year of severe itching and skin lesions, hospitalization, and failed remedies before Cuticura Ointment along with Soap and Pills provided relief after two to three applications. The ad asserts complete cure and credits the products for ending his misery.
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