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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
10
The Well Informed World advocates a simple pleasant efficient laxative. California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Juice of Senna praised as wholesome and gentle yet prompt. Buy genuine Syrup of Figs manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co for fifty cents from all druggists.
A Jumacian assistant to a doctor in the canal zone misreads Latin numbered bottles. When a Spanish laborer seeks medicine, the assistant confesses numbers were mixed, delivering one pill from number four and one from number two instead of the prescribed two from number six.
In northern Pennsylvania a theater manager boasted of profiting from others' woes by displaying a fearsome anti spitting sign and promoting Allen's Foot-Bane to treat feet and corns. The ad touts shoe ease and relief with a New York address for samples.
A New Orleans Times Democrat note features a botanist advising shipwrecked sailors to carry a light net to harvest tiny sea foods as they drift. He argues the sea surface is rich with life and that regular hauling yields nourishment during perilous open water passages.
Chicago Council passes ordinance to require stamping of all meat sold locally, aligning municipal checks with federal standards. It aims to stamp only good meat, deter sale of spoiled products, and punish dealers who peddle bad meat with full force of the law.
An association offers an option on 600000 acres of land and 100000 acres of timber with railroads under construction, promising a home and farm with equal share in the enterprise and rapid payments. Separate item notes alfalfa crop methods from the Wisconsin station bulletin, including soil types, inoculation, spring sowing, nurse crops, seeding rates, and harvest timing for high quality hay.
A grandfather recalls severe eczema in his grandson in 1884 improving after Caticura. He also details his own long bout with the skin ailment and relief after using the Cutiura Remedies, noting prior doctor bills and stubborn sores.
The article reports packers buying live stock low to outpace a slow consumer market. It notes wide price spreads and excess cheap beef availability while shoppers demand prime cuts. It also cites housewife preferences and underutilization of cheaper beef portions, with cannery-style discounts on lesser cuts. An advertisement requests auto specialty canvassers to write Jon M Inderbitzin in San Francisco.
Van Bibber, recently wed, sits with a cold drink as De Peyster taunts him about a June romance. He recalls the bride who "returned all the love letters, but kept all the jewelry," revealing a fractured affection.
A fragment recalls a test of eggs with a spin to tell raw from boiled. A visitor in a doorway performs the spin trick while a phrenologist adds a line about business manners. The piece blends anecdotes and quirky wisdom from a bygone era.
Hoard's ryman cites Professor Fraser urging dairy farmers to pay $150 for a first class bull to improve milk production and value. He argues the cost yields large profits, with farmers reporting 25 to 50 percent herd value gains and over $500,000 yearly in Jefferson County from registered bulls and graded stock. Olmsted Land Co. Salem Ore offers descriptive matter.
Chinese athletic history notes lack of formal training before foreigners. A Philadelphia Public Ledger item recalls Sammy from New York slums invited to a charity dinner, who, when pressed to sing, responds he cannot but offers to fight any other child. American candle making consumes about 130 million pounds of tallow annually.
G W Winney of Medina New York claims Donne’s Kidney Pills cured him after eighteen months in two hospitals and intense back pain. He says he weighed 143 before using the pills and 162 after 10 to 12 boxes. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A national bank examiner recalls a weighing error where a Sixth National teller mixed $500 into a $5,000 bag, sealing both without reweighing. The mis-sorted bags were later found when Seventh National received a bag marked $5,000 weighing $5,500, prompting the teller to restore the missing funds.
The article traces carpet use from China in 2100 BC to India 1100 BC and Egyptian monuments by 8000 BC, noting luxury status in Rome and Athens, emergence in France in 1589, and English middle class homes under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I with straw and grass carpets. It cites Cardinal Wolsey’s expensive grass and straw supplies.
A Harvard-educated clerk, aided by family influence, tries to outwork his railroad president. Despite arriving earlier each day, the president is constantly at work. The clerk finally asks the boss what use he makes of forenoons, prompting a quiet, ironic exchange about productivity.
The Savannah chamber leads a bid to amend Georgia law to allow beer and near beer sales, with Governor Hoke Smith endorsing the measure though once a staunch prohibitionist. Voter sentiment appears unsettled as months of prohibition give way to calls for change, testing public resolve.
Fragmentary historical note describes women's longing for motherhood and the idea that healthy maternity can be prepared through certain measures though text is incomplete and garbled. It emphasizes a maternal ideal and health preparation without full details or context.
Mrs Maggie Gilmer of WG Union D C writes of renewed health and motherhood after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs Josephine Hall of Bardstown Ky says it cured her female troubles and made her a mother. The ad promotes the remedy for displacements inflammation and other female ailments and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
Artist asks to view a watch his father wore in youth. The reply says it is temporarily in the possession of the father’s brother. A warning line notes that many a thief never gets a chance.
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