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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
10
Promotes health and cheer during midlife for women. Claims cure of womanly diseases when other medicines fail. Includes testimonial from Lizzie A Bowman praising relief from headaches and neck pain. Advises keeping bowels healthy with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
John Hartley advertises two good houses and a fine new residence with barn in Henry City on easy terms. One six room house near Watercott's corner priced at 750. Also listed farm lands with 60 by 150 lot. Prices and locations given for central, reasonable offerings.
An experienced physician offers $2.50 free samples of a new heart and nerve treatment of purported superiority. Hundreds testify to dramatic cures after many doctors failed. Endorsed by notable figures, the ad urges readers to request the $2.50 worth of treatment from Dr Franklin Miles at 201 to 209 Belief Street Chicago.
The Henry Republican notes President Roosevelt's swift action against the beef trust. It previews the Republican state convention in Springfield on May 5 and Peoria's May 6 congressional nominating event. It also reports on Morgan led industrial consolidation, Deering Harvester ore mill plans, and a tobacco study linking usage to lower scholarship among boys.
Chauncey M Depew discusses rising fortunes and the rise of trusts critiquing wealth concentration. He notes more than a hundred Americans in Pittsburg alone exceed a million, praises philanthropies, contrasts with Cecil Rhodes and English plutocracy, and warns of legislative backlashes and personal decline after wealth shocks.
The trans Pacific cable will be the longest submarine line at 8000 miles from San Francisco to Manila with stops at Honolulu and Guam. It connects America with China and Japan, enabling direct telegraph communication and shortening global routing. The Nero researched path with 1000 soundings and the line should operate to Hawaii in nine months and complete in two years.
The piece urges readers to try natural cures like reduced meat and stimulants, deep breathing, and daily outdoor walking before medical exams. It praises fathers as unsung laborers while criticizing youth ingratitude and excessive physician alarm. A brief ad for Red Cross Ball Blue white laundry product follows.
An advertisement asserts Scott's Emulsion can make a thin body hungry and awake to use food. It claims the product rouses a restive, undernourished body, prompting growth of new flesh and better health, urging readers to send for a free sample or buy at $1.00.
An editorial argues newspapers must publish all news despite demands to omit items. It cites editors pressed by interested parties to suppress reports, notes readers complain when items are delayed, and compares withholding news to barring a merchant from sales. The piece defends timely coverage and criticizes efforts to censor reporting.
Dr A Boschee is praised as a celebrated German physician and his Boschee's German Syrup described as a non experimental cure for coughs colds and lung troubles. The ad notes two million bottles sold annually since 1868 and claims it relieves an ordinary cough in three doses for 75 cents at Dr Powell's and Get Green's Special Almanac.
The Henry City Board of Health urges universal vaccination due to widespread smallpox. Other notices warn strict enforcement of live stock rules on streets alleys and bicycle use on sidewalks. Mayor Humphrey signed the order. An advertisement promotes Anti-Diuretic for bedwetting with a $100 reward for cure claims.
A list records numerous real estate transfers in Marshall County showing transfers between individuals and local properties in Toluca Belle Plain Lacon and Varna. A Maine story on corrupted prayer uses a fisherman and a banter about rum and scotch highlighting religious hypocrisy.
A white minister led services in a colored church in North Carolina. The Roanoke News notes an old colored deacon delivered a harsh prayer asking for divine punishment, including vivid imagery of binding, burning, and solitary suffering to awaken sin.
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