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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1905
Page
7
A moral tirade praises ideal health in women while touting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for numerous female ailments. It includes a customer letter from Mrs. Ainsley praising renewed health and advice to write for free guidance.
The text argues that civilizations fall when divorced from religion and faith fades. It cites skepticism replacing belief as a warning and links progress to living faith, noting a worldly decline echoed by historical commentary from the Omaha World-Herald. It also includes early advertising for Defiance Cold Water Starch promising 16 oz per package and claims of no sticking.
A Hindoo must restart prayers or ablutions in the sacred Ganges if a sneeze interrupts, forced to begin anew each time the sneeze occurs, continuing until the interruption ceases.
An English farmhouse near Minehead in Somerset lies in a hollow so deep that sunrays do not reach it for three months. Defiance Starch guarantees the biggest and best value with money refunds. A 16 ounce package costs 10 cents. Try it now.
The word Bedlam derives from Bethlehem, a London religious house later turned into a hospital for the insane. The term became common to describe chaotic scenes and public madness, illustrating how a place of charity evolved into a byword for pandemonium.
Report references Red Gras Hall ins large 202 boge 5 and The Kuss Company in South Geod Ind. Mention of Love Affaire and Insanity. Notes sixteen cases on 1,000 caused by love affairs based on insanity returns.
A trimmed composite item notes a London Saturday Review satire on idleness and utopian schooling, paired with an 1890s Defiance Starch advertisement claiming superior results and greater quantities for the same money, plus a brief note on American vines boosting French vineyard yields.
First printing of music credited to Italy with Ottavio Petrucci in 1602 using movable metal types. This brief note mentions a Cure for Consumption claim and an address at Maple Street, Norwich, dated February 17, with fragmented details about a person named Tam sure Piso.
A World War I era note shows only 66 percent of Russian peasants in Moscow province able to own horses for tilling. The fragment mentions large Red Cross ball and The Russ Company, South Bend, as part of the text.
The Chinese government grapples with a longstanding canal system that provides a fertilizing humus dredged from canal bottoms. Critics say coal ashes dumped by steam boats reduce this valuable fertilizer for peasants, prompting complaints and calls for action.
The piece notes poets favoring unique flowers and recounts Hans Christian Andersen asking Tennyson his favorite plant. Tennyson replied that it is the ivy, saying it needs no nourishment and endures heat and cold, symbolizing immortality.
The text notes Mohammed praising the narcissus as a favorite flower and cites a proverb about trading bread for narcissus to nourish the soul. It then describes Chilean miners in the Andes carrying ore up a 450 foot vertical in a Tavina copper mine, with about 250 pounds per man.
The text describes four essential habits for managing temporal concerns. They are punctuality, accuracy, steadiness, and despatch, highlighted as essential through counsel and personal example by a wise and good man.
In southern Germany the climate suited reindeer during a dawn of human existence. The era featured glacier decline and melting streams. After humans appeared a great submergence of the land occurred, marking a key geological epoch.
A Brown county girl paid 50 cents to a Chicago advertiser for a whitening hand cream. She got a reply advising her to soak hands three times daily in dishwater while her mother rests. The quip reflects a humorous scam notice from a Kansas City Journal report.
The quote traced to Ralph Venning's Orthodoxe Paradoxes and its idea that outer beauty masks flaws. It notes famous carpenters turned distinguished figures like Inigo Jones, Romney and Opie the painters, Professor Lee, and sculptor John Gibson.
An early 20th century notice urges readers to ask dealers for Allen's Foot-Ease. It claims to rest the feet and cure swollen, sore, hot, burning, aching, sweating feet and ingrown nails. Distributed by Allen S S, Olmsted, Leltoy, N Y, with free sample mail offer and no substitute accepted.
Report notes that Holland is the sole European country where coffee can be imported without duty, signaling a unique tariff stance in the region.
Typhoid fever leaves nerves highly sensitive requiring a sturdier remedy that rebuilds flesh and nerves. Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are promoted as such a tonic, backed by a Maine patient’s cure after seven weeks and a general guarantee they are opiate free and sold nationwide.
A Tierlin doctor warned that the plano should never be used by a child under sixteen. Among 1,000 girls who played before age twelve he found 00 cases of nervous diseases.
An ad urges buyers to switch to Defiance Starch arguing grocers misprice, noting Defiance comes in 16 oz packages while competitors offer 12 oz or less per same price. It emphasizes no cooking required and questions whether customers prefer 10 oz for the same money.
Notes in insects fight reveal the common housefly emits the note F as wings flap 335 times per second while the honey bee emits A at 440 vibrations per second, indicating distinct wingbeat frequencies in each species.
An ad from The Mother Gray Co of Leroy New York promotes Australian-Leaf as a monthly regulator for women claiming to cure female weaknesses backache kidney and urinary troubles. It offers a free sample by mail and lists druggists as sources.
The copy touts physical benefits from contracting and relaxing muscles during walking or sitting to improve grip. It highlights Lewis' "Single Binder" shaleht feelpar as superior, noting no other cigar brand matches its popularity and urging reliance on its uniform high quality from Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois.
A brief quotation on male character notes that nine tenths of women would choose a man bravely struggling to succeed over a ready made successful man, attributed to an exchange.
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