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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1900
Page
7
Benefit letters describe using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to conceive and bear healthy babies. A New Zealand feature recounts White Island sulphur geysers and deafness remedies, ending with an advertisement for Hall’s Cordial Cure and Mail's Pills.
A small boy named John Davis was killed on Parson's Island in Chesapeake Bay. Captain Frank Lee allegedly ordered the boy to stop after striking a mule. Davis refused and was shot by Lee. Dale, working for Lee, was sent to feed the stock.
A Cape Town Dutch auction uses staged bids with large sums to entice participation and explains how the eventual winner may avoid ownership costs. Separately, the American National Institute seeks city approval for an American Academy in Paris to study arts and sciences, modeled after French schools, with £50,000 set aside for construction.
Fragmented text offers advice on sleep deprivation and a flood of medical patent remedies. It mentions Cascarets as a laxative and blood purifier, urges trying various tonics, and cites product ads from Chicago and New York. It references illness consequences like paleness, trembling, and weakness while touting recovery through sleep and unspecified remedies.
Thomas Tate writes from Duhamel Alberta on January 24 1900 recounting a westward journey to Wetaskiwin. He describes travel luck good connections a pony and saddle for a boy a threat-seated wagon hired for the return trip and a homecoming dinner. He notes January snow melt cold spell December thermometer down to 22 below zero and reports their log house two stables and a well under construction with ten cattle three other cattle and six horses.
A fragmentary readers’ note extols Drops’ medicine from Swansen Rheumide Cure Co and shares Mrs. Archie Young of West Superior Wisconsin praising relief from neuralgia after five years. It touts sample bottles, prices, and contact details, alongside assorted ad-like lines about cures and sensational boasts, all from a damaged newspaper page.
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