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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
7
A collage of medical testimonies and advertisements from a historical newspaper cutout. It includes a woman’s letter about chronic pain and relief from Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy, a catarrh cure oath from a Toledo firm, claims about Dr. Kilner’s nerve restore, and assorted notes on coal, gloves, Beeman’s gum, and Mrs. Winslow’s teething syrup.
A Philadelphia Times feature describes Ban-Keyhe in Indo China as a village of about 800 families where insanity is treated as possession. Residents perform a ritual on the Namugunie river, binding victims and sending them into the river to determine possession. Those deemed possessed sink and are committed, while unpossessed victims surface and are freed. The town is depicted as the most densely populated area in Laos with a culture of solitary living and lifelong “nipop” status.
A Dartmouth president asks should politics be a trained profession. Chicago educators and public figures including President Harper Judge Moran and ex-president Rogers weigh in on making politics a business and educating youth to be informed citizens.
R G Dun & Co Weekly Review notes weakness in raw materials including structural iron but reports heavy contracts being placed. New York sees rising buyers in dry goods groceries jewelry and hardware while price declines in iron and steel begin to bottom out. Wheat and corn export figures show declines from prior years with July 1 to date exports lower than last season, signaling gradual recovery needs.
In Jamestown Ohio at an early hour Tuesday A G Bingamon killed his wife and son in law James Bradley then shot himself. The Bingamon family is prominent. rumors of family wealth swirl as Bed and his wife reportedly intervened to stop further violence. An odd note mentions a Spanish superstition about an infant’s face and a pine bough for luck.
Obituary notices longtime Lake Shore locomotive engineer Thom Michael W. Regan killed in the Westfield mail train wreck on May 23. Regan, a widely trusted veteran with 34 years on the line, came from a family of engineers and had few accidents, with the Buffalo Express mail train noted as one of the fastest. Also includes assorted anecdotes on silver weddings, a Chinese act in mobs and hordes, and a note that Russian officers wear papier mache scabbards.
A showman kept infant sized elephants using nursing bottles and later a gallon glass jar with tubes. The drinking display drew public sympathy and profits, as the elephants, likely taken from their mothers, appeared to nurse like human babies and entertained crowds in a comical, sentimental act.
An 18th century style ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot ailments with claims of relief for corns ingrown nails and sweaty feet sold by druggists. The text notes Kaffirs in Kimberley diamond mines stealing £250,000 worth of diamonds annually.
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