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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1899
Page
3
A London Spectator piece advises that sleeplessness stems from anxiety about sleep. It urges readers to abandon the effort to sleep, accept a wakeful night, and shift focus to staying awake. Sleep returns when the brain loosens the striving pressure.
A young Buckie woman gave birth in a curing-station hut on Balta, Shetland. The baby named Balta Geddes Poison is the island’s first since antiquity, prompting a £25 gift from the laird and hundreds of silver coins from visitors who traveled to witness the event.
Distressing kidney and bladder issues relieved in six hours by a claimed remedy sold by Herrick Bros druggists in Indiana Pennsylvania. The ad touts prompt relief for kidneys back and urinary retention with a 120 count quantity offered to customers.
Louis G Gottmann ten years ago bought 125 acres in Mariun county and refused to sell more land. He fully cultivated every foot except pasture, went into debt, built an 81, Bac, and recently traveled to Europe. He credits life success to maximizing current resources without overextension.
A Chicago Times item notes a lace handkerchief valued at 30 000 owned by the queen of Haly with remarks on its desirability and a husband asked to try his pocket. Ex-postmaster F T Anthony of Promine City Iowa claims Mystic Cure relieved his rheumatism after two doses. the product is sold by all druggists in Indiana.
The New York Tribune reports on riviera to Paris rail travel crowded trains and inflated first class rates. A pair of women paid $25 per ticket plus $17.40 per berth for a six to eleven hour night ride, ending with a total near $149 for a single journey. The article notes government funding of the rail and limited competition, criticizing the cost and service.
Advertisement claims both women and men suffer kidney and bladder troubles and that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root cures them. It offers sample bottles by mail and a pamphlet from Kilmer & Co., Bingharatou, N.Y.
The New York Star announces a daily high grade bicycle prize for the largest word list formed from the letters in T IL E N E W Y O R K S T A R using Webster's as authority. Daily second and third prizes include two gid watches, plus many rewards. Contest runs June 26 to August 21, 1899. mail in a 2 cent stamp subscription for thirteen weeks and enter Dept. E at 236 W 35th Street, New York City.
A claimed instant remedy called Mystic Cure is advertised for rheumatism and neuraglia. The ad asserts the cure acts within one to three days by removing the cause and making the disease disappear. First dose advertised as 75 cents, sold by druggists in Indiana.
A traveling preacher visits farms asking to stay overnight. A young couple seeks a minister to wed, and the farmer and wife sign a marriage certificate that later becomes a promissory note, exposing the fraud.
A Washington Star excerpt quotes a Samoan king predicting the end of their reigns as a rival king agrees that competition is crushed by vows. The dialogue suggests abdication as the only path if one is not in the syndicate.
An old advertisement claims clean blood equals beauty and promotes Cascarets as a ten cent to fifty cent remedy. It urges purifying the liver and removing pimples boils blotches and blackheads with a laxative candy tablet marketed as a beauty product.
A university professor tries to illustrate air pressure with a cat. The cat resists, pressing its paw on the escaping air to cork the pipe, then calmly cleans itself and rubs against students, becoming a local curiosity and fixture in the halls.
Farmers urged to buy Armour ground bone with pure unadulterated quality. Armour and Lister touted as oldest fertilizer makers in America with high grade acid phosphate Quimipine. Large fresh stock, low prices, customers invited to inspect and compare before buying.
Letters testamentary on the estate of A G Falls, late of Youu township, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned by the Register of Indiana county, notice is thereby given to all persons indebted to said estate to make immediate payment, and those having claims against the same will present them properly authenticated for settlement, WM Falls, Executor.
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