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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
8
The notice links kidney disease to heart and brain damage, warns of uremic poisoning, and promotes Dr. Pierce's Anuric tablets and Golden Medical Discovery. It offers free medical opinion and water analysis from Dr. Pierce's Hotel in Buffalo, claiming dramatic relief and 37 times activity over lithia.
An advertisement touts Wonderoil as a safe remedy for children’s croup colds and chest pains. It claims quick relief, non burning, with application on throat and lungs as a plaster. Sold in 25 cent boxes by Geo A Gorgas with a physician’s backing and free samples offered by M E Raymond Inc Ballston Spa NY.
The Col Francis Ferari Carnival Company launches a clean, high class show at Seventeenth and Chestnut streets under Royal Fire Company No 14. Performances run nightly at 7 30 with trained animals, Mystic Temple, submarine, flying horses and the Katzenjammer Kastle. Electric fountain displays debut tonight, water pressure permitting.
Vaudeville performances headline at Paxtang with Evyn C. May and Company in The Live Wire and ventriloquist Gabry plus The Bounding Tramps and Stick act. At Victoria a modern society drama Concealed Truth runs five acts starring Gertrude Robinson, with Frank Daniels comedy and The Mysteries of Myra installments. Also features The Heart of Nora Flynn with Marie Dora, and The Red Widow at Regent with John Barrymore in tense adventures. Lutheran reunion set for Reservoir Park June 29 with the Loysville Orphans Band performing.
An advertisement promotes using pure refined cocoanut oil as a mild, greaseless shampoo option. It claims most soaps and shampoos contain alkali that dries the scalp and damages hair, while cocoanut oil produces a rich lather with no residue, cleanses dust and oil, and leaves hair soft and manageable at low cost.
A domestic remedy praised in America after noting English use for catarrhal deafness. The formula uses Parmint mixed with hot water and sugar to tonicly reduce ear swelling, balance air pressure, and clear secretions. Take a tablespoonful four times daily. claim includes quick, effective relief and a potential return of near normal hearing.
A delegation of women visited the Lydia E. Pinkham laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts and observed high standards of cleanliness in the preparation and storage of Vegetable Compound and other medicines. The visit lasted about an hour and included many letters from women praising the Compound, with consent obtained before publication.
Review lauds Majestic bill for wide variety and high quality acts. Claude Roode’s slack wire feats open a strong lineup, Minnie Allen delivers elaborate song and costume numbers, Jack Conley and Margaret Webb perform A Musical Mix-up, Stephen O Rourke and James Gildea offer sentimental pieces including Mother Machree, and the Bonny Sextette ends with a polished instrumental showcase highlighted by a tuba solo.
Associated Press reports from San Diego on June 20 that Admiral Winslow aboard the Pacific fleet flagship San Diego sailed for Guaymas or Mazatlan, Mexico. Two hours later destroyers Hull Truxton and Hopkins departed for the south.
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