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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1906
Page
3
The Tue Jimp Secure sets strict pricing for campaign notices with a regular local ad rate for paid announcements. Notices must be written by someone other than the paper's editor, and payment in cash is required. The piece ends with a quoted aphorism about human nature and bargaining.
Daily the list of remarkable cures grows as Dr James W Kidd offers free proof treatments at his own expense for any sick person. Hundreds cured include rheumatism kidney trouble heart disease paralysis female troubles and general debility. Send a letter describing condition to Box 700 Fort Wayne Indiana for a complete trial treatment by mail.
The Phoenix Enterprise quotes General Booth offering a humorous yet earnest prayer for newspaper men. He asks God to bless reporters whose nimble pens seem omnipresent, meeting readers across Africa jungles, the Atlantic, and North American prairies, granting light and goodness equal to their power.
For over sixty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed children and calmed fussiness. It is advertised as curing wind colic and aiding teething, with a 25 cent bottle sold by druggists worldwide. Also notes pension controversy in Indiana and a large Atlanta plate glass building.
Reports note Mrs Hale hosts a WCTU meeting on January 26 and John B Gough era rhetoric is echoed by The Worcester Telegram. The piece also covers Rep Sheppard Texas introducing a resolution to probe the removal of an American mother from White House offices, referred to the Rules Committee.
A Mrs Mollie Holt of Woodford Tenn is said to have recovered from a near death coughing fit after Dr Kings New Discovery. The text promotes cures for coughs and colds and notes counterfeit nickels in Morris county. It also mentions crop diversification as a boll weevil solution and claims many women are employed in various wage earning occupations.
Mrs Mary Brown of 20 Lafayette Place, New York endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills as a reliable pleasant laxative for stomach liver and bowels. The ad claims guaranteed relief and lists a price of 25 cents.
Report by QO. A. Snow & Co. includes patents granted to Texas inventors such as a vessel propelling device by Zenns A Curtis Channing a wire stretcher by John H Mettenheimer and W L Herblin a sewerage system for training Virgil H Mills Hubbard a hydrant by C Reesor El Paso a pencil holder Edward B Verneuil Baton a railway joint Alfred T Wright Rexton and a gun attachment. Also offers copies for ten cents with date of paper. Attorney General R V Davidson says no opinion on credit restriction among merchants.
Burton Holmes notes Alaska Indians view white men and canned goods as linked. He traveled with a phonograph, shown to an old chief who had never seen a talking machine. The chief listened then said the human voice came from the trumpet and called it “Him canned white man.”
On March 1 the Corpus Christi post office will join the second class list enabling city delivery. The move reflects a notable increase in postal receipts over the past year.
A reflection on social elites who possess money yet cannot recall how they obtained it, noted by Chicago News. The commentary critiques the disconnect between wealth and personal history among the upper class.
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