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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1915
Page
2
The issue reports subscription rates, announces Reverend D. M. Lueker's tent revival in Thomasville, and notes Southern Railway plans to remove grade crossings as a safety investment. It also promotes Farmers' Institutes with speakers A. L. French and Mrs. W. N. Hutt, and reprints poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar urging honesty and individuality.
In hot weather swimming and baths offer relief. The writer argues boys should swim freely, notes education values like Yale requiring 300 yards swimming, and urges precautions: swim with a competent swimmer, avoid fishy or polluted water, don't enter after meals, and avoid overexertion in heat.
An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Hill Tonic as a general tonic. It claims the product contains quinine and iron for health benefits and energy, appealing to readers seeking a reliable tonic.
An old notice promotes Catareh Cure as a universal remedy for a constitutional disease. It claims internal action and blood cleansing with a blend of tonics, pitched by a Toledo firm. The wording imitates medical authority to lure readers.
A vintage ad extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve for minor injuries and skin conditions. It claims the salve protects heals and prevents danger from infection, suitable for cuts sores bruises and pimples with a 2 ounce size offered by druggists.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a simple laxative option with a glass of water. It promises a pleasant, quick bowel movement, no gagging taste, and a full day of comfort. Also markets Burdock Blood Bitters as digestion support.
An efficiency expert at the San Diego Exposition claims parades cost the event money by stopping stenographers and staff work. He estimates the Elks parade cost 7.98 and the American Beauty iris parade 9.47 in lost time as workers paused to watch. He also imagines gardeners with two hoses and pigeons picking up waste to reduce street cleaning expenses.
An 1888 traveling narrator recounts a severe cholera morbus attack. Doctors predicted death, he credits Chamberlains Remedy after a double dose, slept, and woke able to continue travel. The piece promotes Groves Tasteless Tonics and other patent medicines as trusted cures.
Washington reports a new Navy building plan to nearly double submarines from the last session. Officials expect about 30 submarines in the final plan, with some officers urging 50 to 75. The total afloat could reach around 100 within two years, Secretary Daniels backing a force-building approach as key to naval efficiency. The last Congress authorized 25 subs, and current totals are near 70.
Florence South Dakota woman describes relief from severe menstrual pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The advertisement urges other women with similar ailments to try the product and offers confidential advice from the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
Special low round trip rates advertise Chimney Rock North Carolina trips via Seaboard Air Line Railway with rural road access and travel literature. A separate notice details a mortgage foreclosure sale in Hickory Townsh ip by M A Howe and J H Harris with August auction in front of the post office, describing property boundaries and parcels in a 31 acre area along the river bank.
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