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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
6
A Denver woman writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured years of female troubles after an operation left her worse. She urges others with backache bearing down and periodic pains to try the product and seeks advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
The Chicago Daily News notes Wellington, New Zealand as a windy city where residents clutch hats on street corners to keep them from being blown away. The piece compares Wellington men’s hat restraint to behavior seen in Sydney and Melbourne.
A Detroit woman recalls severe kidney illness five years ago during a life crisis. After failing to improve with her doctor, she used Dean's Kidney Pills and rapidly recovered, regaining health and weight. Sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY. Also notes Germany's costly war in Southwest Africa with 50 million spent and heavy casualties among colonial troops.
Fragmentary ad copy touts Allen’s Poot Lase as powder to rest feet and soothe bunions swollen sore hot callous and ingrowing nails. Mentions Allen’s Foot Hase as a substitute product and urges purchase at a druggist. Obscure brands LeRoy New York appear.
A brief claim describes cutting a cold short by inhaling sulfur smoke from a small burn in a closed room. The method urges inhalation as soon as sneezing or irritation starts.
The report breaks down 27,389 rural delivery cartiers 28,846 clerical in classified feed 24,008 letter cartiers and 18,892 railway mail clerks. It notes 2,003 postmasters and 12,850 clerks not included. Including these, total mail handling staff reaches 150,36.
An old promotional piece touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a cleansing, antiseptic powder for feet and shoes. It cites widespread cures and savings, warns against imitations, and urges buyers to insist on the advertised original powder for lasting comfort and stock protection.
Reports indicate armed robberies remain active in the Kwellin district of China despite police efforts. More than four hundred executions of offenders for this crime have been carried out in the district in the past year.
A historical notice discusses deafness caused by inflamed Eustachian tubes and warns local applications are ineffective. It offers a $100 reward for any deafness case (due to catarrh) cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes related constipation pills. The text then shifts to a Manhattan borough vote fraud claim and thumbprint ID proposals for voters, citing the Baltimore Sun.
Eight churches in a Baltimore suburb hire trained men to conduct a church census of the area. A card index now exists detailing each family’s religious affiliation for ministerial use. Also notes medical ads and a discussion of electrolytic ferments and proposed hydrosols with claims of various disease treatments from rheumatism to typhoid fever.
Mrs John G Klumpp of 80 Jagava Bt Newark reports a severe seven year eczema ordeal in her child. After failures with doctors and skin specialists the Cuticura Remedies provided relief from the first use and the eruption healed, with the child now seven and the condition apparently gone.
An odd collection notes extreme eating by Eskimos and Tartars. It cites a 20 pound daily meat diet for an Eskimo and 40 pounds per day for a Russian Tartar, including an ox hind quarter and fats. Captain Cochrane recalls a Yakut tribe member polishing a rein deer at a meal.
The text recalls the assassination of King Quarles of Portugal and Crown Prince Luiz Felipe in Lisbon on February 1, and details the accession of eighteen year old Manuel II as king. It notes his youth, naval training, and the hope he will guide Portugal through turmoil, referencing King Manuel I as a model of prosperity.
The article recalls how a great grandmother wrote letters in her time using a goose feather pen, dry bread to erase, fine sand as pounce, no envelopes, wax seals, and stamps cut from sheets, before modern conveniences. It contrasts past and present letter writing methods with vivid, period-voice detail.
Readers learn tree girdling to delay sap flow for fruit bud formation and windbreaks to protect blossoms and fruit. Also tips on dried Lima beans, salvage okra, and weed control using 20 percent iron sulphate copperage sprays to reduce wild mustard with timing guidance.
The article notes blackberry profitability varies with inputs and that some fields earn little despite minimal care. It discusses old peach varieties still popular for eating and preserves, naming Troth's Bayly Early York Mt. Rose Oldmixon Stump the World Smock Crawford's Late Ward's Late, plus Tiberta as abundant. It advises spring planting and careful pruning, with market flavor tradeoffs.
The excerpt emphasizes using clover rotation as a preventive for fertility loss from leaching. It argues for multiple clover sods per farm and repeated manuring to enrich soil, noting deep root growth and green manure benefits. It warns that crops decline without prior enrichment and soil vitality.
The text argues Peruna is both tonic and catarrh remedy. It praises hydrastis canadensis with combinations of cubeBS copaiba and other tonics as a specific for catarrh. It asserts general tonic action strengthens mucous membranes and nervous system, citing testimonials and Columbus Ohio as the manufacturer location.
A garbled collection notes a Wesleyan baptismal robe once worn by John Wesley now owned by Miss Tan Ny Paghley of Worksop. It mentions healing remedies, rail fare laws, feather commerce, and various ill-formed references to travel, plague, and jewelry in a single readable fragment from a historical page.
A party of Japanese tourists visiting Boston contributed $100 to Chelsea fire sufferers. The note says these little amenities give pleasure to all except the jingoes whose occupation, as far as the United States and Japan are concerned, is nearly gone.
Figures for the year just closed show 10,746,000 horses in the United States up from over 14 million previously, marking a gain of nearly 40 percent in a decade according to Burston Transcript.
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