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Newspaper
Heppner Times
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1904
Page
3
Distress after eating includes nausea belching vomiting and stomach pain. The ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills as a radical cure that strengthens digestion and endurance. Testimonials cite relief after four bottles and claim lasting cure, plus a humorous aside from Yale Record.
An old column extols St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for rheumatism neuralgia sciatica lumbago and minor injuries. It argues all households should keep a bottle as a preventive insurance against pain and claims rapid relief by penetrating to the pain site.
A friend recalls James Whitcomb Riley’s encounter with a lively Courier-Journal woman reporter in Louisville. The poet responds gallantly to questions about his wife, joking that she could be at the other end of the telephone.
In a Washington Post note, Eving L. Tusceil argues the United States, rich in resources yet deficient in precious stones, may see a major discovery. He cites NC emeralds rubies and sapphires with limited value, Arkansas pearls from stream gravels, rising pearl prices, and California semi preciouss like turquoise and tourmaline, noting hardness concerns.
A local notice warns against subscribing through unauthorized agents naming Jackson and Morgan and others for Munsey's and the Seattle Star. An offered reward is stated for aiding the arrest of the offender.
Richard Grant White, a noted philologist, proposed a playful conjugation of the verb Kian. He claimed English in griminariensa tongue allows Buns to Kies re-bus to kiss again pluribus to kias without number syllybus to kias the hand in stead of the tips blunderbus to kiss the wrong person omnibus to kias every one In the room erebua to kias in the dark.
A bishop jokes at a dinner about speaking topics and denies a rumor his wife plans to donate her house to an orphan asylum. The woman quips she has already taken in one orphan and will not admit more. A light exchange about a kiss in a dark hall and a neighborhood figure Uncle Rastus is said to have lung trouble and be under doctor’s care.
Hundreds visit the aquarium in recent months to see the rare manatee or sea cow. The piece notes their decline from Florida waters, describes anatomy such as lack of hind limbs and a split upper lip, and recounts a method of capture using a specially fitted net that entangles the animal when it thrashes ashore.
A Danville Kentucky reader claims prolonged poisoning from poi son oak caused sores on body and tongue. After using eight eight eight seven, the sores disappeared after three bottles and they feel improved, praising 8.8. E as a cure for blood disease.
A Mexican man using aliases duped officials into transporting forty to fifty so called Indian children to Lawrence Kansas and later Colorado. He promised jobs at three dollars a day and collected four dollars per youth as prepaid fare. Federal officers traced the scheme and arrested him as Peter Roxas alias Lindsay Jose Algeron.
A clipped, dialog style passage depicts Locals discussing Giddep playing cab-based job hunts, Jokeley noting his cab company employment. A druggist advert draws in a Young Lady seeking Sewheam addresses, while a Philadelphia reference hints at postal routines and a two-cent stamp offering. Names and places are embedded in the banter.
The article notes that pen manufacture now consumes more steel than all sword and gun factories combined. The first steel pen appeared about a century ago. A single firm produces 200 million pens annually, using seven and a half tons of sheet steel weekly, about 74 million pounds yearly.
An old style advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by removing inflammation of the Eustachian tube. It offers one hundred dollars for any cure that fails and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure. Also mentions military pay levels and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies.
A brief domestic exchange shows Mrs Caudle alarmed about a man downstairs and Mr Caudle urged to check. The gag line jokes that even a burglar wouldn’t strike a woman. A Piso’s Cure coughs ad is included, noting 25 cents.
Fragmentary OCR shows a medical scene with a surgeon, doctor Cotter, and a patient near operation for appendicitis. Names appear garbled and script irregular, but suggests a cautionary or ceremonial preoperative exchange. The readable text centers on request to send something and a brief prayer interaction.
An old promotional fragment touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder for sweaty aching feet and corns. It includes a mailing offer and unclear postal details, reflecting a period dental and home remedy ad style.
A sale notice announces pitchblende ore containing radium available from Austrian mines. The item is described as extractable radium material offered for purchase by the supplier.
A reader from Minneapolis credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing frequent seas and severe menstrual pain after years of suffering. She reports daily health improvement and now has no pain during menstruation. The testimonial invites others to write for confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham who claims wide experience in treating female ills.
Two snail boys faced Judge Brubls in the Juvenile Court after a lecture on dangers of playing on or off a moving car. They digested the talk in silence, each pondering the warning while one quipped about the judge losing his arm. Indianaapolis News reports Dr Parkhurst condemning self righteousness with a dying anecdote about a man who forgave all debts upon death.
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