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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1898
Page
7
A fragmentary verse addresses Murillo's Magdalene with reverent lines on sacred beauty and divine gaze. The stanzas praise the painter's grace, celestial thought, and the holy subject, ending with a note that the eyes behold heavenly things. The piece cites a name Aanna Clecott Cominclin in Pocus.
Colonel Northrop retires to bed as a trusted, boastful man. A burglar under his bed seizes control, bluffing and parrying with wit. The intruder reveals Northrop’s brother George, alive and in a gang, shattering the colonel’s pride and ending in tears.
The Baltimore Sun recounts an aged tin horn once owned by Colonel Ben Longbridge of Murray County. It rang as a signal for enslaved workers and later warned moonshiners of revenue raids, linking the horn to a notorious gang and to Uncle Isaac who preserves its storied past.
A Great Medicine Given Away describes free trial packages of Bacon's Celery King from Daugherty Bros Indiana Mateer Ranika Elderton B Beringer and others. It claims quick relief for nervous disorders constipation biliousness indigestion skin eruptions and blood diseases with large sizes priced 25 and 50 cents. It also mentions a Evansville Indiana police court flogging case and a sensational medical discovery Orrve Biosmon sold by Daugherty Bros. druggists.
Paris reports a new novelty teaching blushing as a lost art amid Angiomania and American influence. Women cycling and golfing in free camaraderie prompt a reemergence of modesty era manners. The piece notes the difficulty of summoning a proper flush and cites a Parisian fashion of deportment schools.
An offer invites all readers to call on any druggist and obtain a free serial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs. The remedy is guaranteed to cure or relieve chronic and acute coughs asthma bronchitis and consumption. Prices 25c and 50c.
Laties advertises Scurvine as a skin purifier for toilet nursery and bath promising velvet skin smoother hair and cure for dandruff pimples and chapped hands. Priced 25 cents per box sold by J B Hinds and R M Morris grocers and Fred Selig shaving parlors in Indiana Pennsylvania.
Prof A H Nye of Cedar Falls Iowa, left debilitated by grippe, credits Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring strength. He suffered nervous breakdown and swollen limbs before trying the remedy on a neighbor's urging. After initial skepticism, three trials and a second course aided recovery, supporting the claim that the pills replenish blood and vitality. Sold by the Gr Medicine Company Schenectady NY.
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