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Newspaper
Hobart News
Location
Hobart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
3
A promotional notice extols Allen's Foot-Ease as a proven antiseptic powder sold for feet across the world. It claims 30 000 cures of smarting and swollen feet and asserts the product prevents friction and saves stocking costs, urging readers to refuse imitations and buy the genuine article.
Medical advert touts Pettit's Eye Salve for diseased or injured eyes and claims it returns them to normal. Sold by druggists or Howard Bros. in Buffalo New York.
The final Labrador duck nears extinction as it laments that its species dies while the gaunt shitepoke remains. The bird dies without comfort, noting the crow survived the dodo and that its own line ends with the loss.
Nero explains he offered 60 Christians to the lions to satisfy public demand. He claims the showman’s role is to entertain the crowd, not educate the public, and distances himself from any pretense of moral instruction.
A notice from Munyon's Homeopathic Home Remedy Co advertises free samples of Paw-Paw Laxative Pills. The company claims they cure constipation and related stomach and liver issues and invites readers to request a free package by mail from its Philadelphia office at 53rd and Jefferson Streets.
Those Indians who made the first birch bark canoes are praised as benefactors. Temagami Ontario offers summer paddling for visitors with guides teaching canoeing. Students camping along Temagami gains two years of work in one, with excellent fishing and hunting and easy Grand Trunk Railway access. Free descriptive publication available from W S Cookson in Chicago. Free pile remedy offered by Rea Company in Minneapolis.
A foreign visitor in Thackeray's company at Epsom Downs notes many men dressed as sailors. The native crowd reveals that the "articles" are not sailors but Epsom salts, prompting a witty exchange about British tars.
A sailor explains the parrot's foul language is his fault, saying every time the bird utters a bad word it provokes him to recall and repeat many new ones. The exchange highlights a humorous blame game about learned insults.
An advertisement urges stoppage of drunkenness with simple home treatment. It promotes a free trial from FE. Fortin at 316 Dickey Building Chicago Illinois and claims women should not confide in men. The copy also includes a misogynistic line about a woman and a pessimist remark.
Cure feverishness headache and teething disorders with these powders. They regulate the bowels and destroy worms, break up colds in 24 hours, pleasant and harmless as milk. Sold by druggists for 25 cents. Sample mailed free from Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Aunt Margaret and her niece clash over handkerchief labeling with monograms. A sneeze reveals an embroidered L in the corner prompting a witty remark about a common mistake.
Illinois operators and miners stand firm amid a strike that halts pumps and shuts fans. The conflict could damage wet and dry mines, threatening millions in losses as manufacturers weigh federal intervention and possible arbitration reminiscent of 1902.
A federal arbitration board rules for twenty seven thousand rail workers on fifty one western lines to receive a total annual wage rise of three million dollars. The decision grants increases of 10 to 12 percent plus a per day and per hundred mile schedule boost, citing the sharp rise in cost of living. Additional raises are approved where extra work exists.
Senator Cullom of Illinois presents formal charges questioning Senator William Lorimer’s right to a Senate seat. Charges were printed in the Congressional Record and referred to the Privileges and Elections Committee. The materials come from Clifford W. Barnes, president of Illinois Legislative Voters' League, urging a thorough investigation of corrupt methods in the state legislature.
President Gomez of Cuba says he will grant permission and aid for the Maine project requested by John B. Jackson, the American minister, through the State Department, to facilitate American engineers. George Morgan, 28, New York socialite, died by suicide. relatives cannot explain the act.
A 45 year old man plunged to death from Prospect Point Niagara Falls after balancing on the guard fence and leaping forward as a tourist neared. Police are investigating the suicide noted in the report.
The railroad bill passed the Senate 50 to 12 after a late Friday vote. Democrats Chamberlin Clay Gore Poynter Simmons and Stone supported it. The House meanwhile debated the sundry civil bill and other measures including a $30,000 forestry study and post office savings plan.
King Victor Emmanuel plans a summer state visit to Russia likely after August. Jerome D. Greene resigns Harvard College Corporation post to become Rockefeller Institute business manager. Bryan address in Nebraska City postponed by county officials. National conference on charities, correction closes in St. Louis. Massachusetts moves to study milk famine risk in Boston. Public school music supervisors hold a four day Cincinnati session and elect officers. Yi Chaim Yong, sentenced to death in Seoul for the December 1909 assassination attempt on Yi. John W. Gates offers 250000 for Methodist university land near Port Arthur, Texas. Pittsburg orchestra loses funding, but Pittsburg will host four concerts next year including two by the Thomas Orchestra of Chicago.
A reader from Elwood Indiana credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing three months of illness without surgery. The ad extols the product as a standard treatment for displacements inflammation and other female conditions and offers confidential free advice from Mrs Pinkham. The page also notes Arctic sun patterns and polar twilight in Bodo Tromso and North Cape.
London reports from Rome state the Field committee on pellagra has proven maize is not the disease carrier. The simulium repans gnat is identified as the parasitic conveyor. The text then shifts to a humorous anecdote about Cyrus Hall McCormick and a supper mishap involving corn mush and milk.
A Chicago Tribune reader exchange features a remark about a preacher father using a phrase about the devil. The brief quote contrasts a son’s criticism with the father’s authority as a preacher.
A mother reports her children grew sturdier after changing foods from potatoes and meat to fruit Grape Nuts with cream and Postum. A teething baby with stomach and bowel trouble improved when Grape Nuts was softened in milk. The letter invites readers to try the products and notes new letters periodically.
A Brooklyn man describes sixteen years of severe skin disease confined by leg sores and summer flare ups. He says after trying many doctors he found relief with the Cuticura Remedies, using two sets and improving remarkably, declaring himself cured.
Mrs Jennings and her daughter reminisce about Emma Salter's supposed deafness and contrivances. Emma overhears Bert Gorham approaching, remarking on his louder steps as the sunset gun echoes in the background. The dialogue blends humor and memory in a small town scene.
Advertisement extols Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney distress with a testimonial from Mrs. H. R. Peebles of Akron Ohio. It warns of warning signs like frequent or scanty urination backache headaches and dizzy spells. The copy notes 50 cents a box and lists Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York as sellers.
An old ad proclaims a female ailment remedy labeled Seventeen Years the Standard with claims of quick permanent results. It notes sale at all drug stores. A quirky aside imagines the sypsy moth and English sparrow dividing the earth and a German earpar praising earth waters.
A cow converted into land use prompts a legal inquiry into whether the animal becomes landed property through the act of conversion to field use. Jurists weigh ownership, transfer, and rights in such agrarian transformations.
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