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Newspaper
Kendallville Daily Sun
Location
Kendallville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
2
An advertisement extols Peptorene tablets as a gentle, effective remedy for rheumatism and related digestive and excretory disorders. It promises harmless action, chocolate coating, and availability from druggists at 25 cents, with optional direct shipment and a free experimental treatment.
Kokomo and Frankfort police probe the murder of Oscar McDuff found along Clover Leaf tracks west of Kokomo. McDuff and George W. Wines left Muncie for Kokomo last Friday and exchanged coats after sleeping together. A hat like McDuff’s was found two miles west. The head wound was a two inch gash caused by a hatchet or ax. Police seek Wines and Ruby Moore and Allan Muret Thompson, with Moore having traveled to Columbus.
Gas belt cities pass high circus licenses to bar shows until after the carnival season. Anderson and Indianapolis reports note Eagles influence behind the move and planned fairs June 30 to July 4. Smallpox epidemic declared in the state. Buck Wheeler case denied stay of execution.
At St. John's church in Worcester a wedding of Mary E. Donaher and Dr. Maurice W. Quinn drew about 1000 hostile women who hissed and surged near the bridal party. Police could not control the scene after a prior alleged threat by Bertha Condon who claimed Quinn betrayed her.
Washington reports on Hall's Cuba itemized expenditures show a $15,000 annual governor general salary and $50,000 spent to prepare itemized accounts. Senate opened canal discussions with Morgan backing the Nicaraguan route and anti-anarchy bill debate continued in the House. In Cleveland Sarah Duncan McKinley Winslow wed Pittsburg George Winslow.
In Watsons park Chicago June 56 H L Sconce of Sidell Illinois won the L C Smith cup state championship in inanimate target shooting. He was the only contestant to make a clean score of twenty five straight breaks among twenty five entries.
Market notes show fluctuating wheat and corn futures with mixed signals. Live stock prices listed for pigs light hogs packing cattle and steers with bid ranges and totals for the day. receipts and sales volumes stated with meal and dairy notes included.
Thalia Lambert, awaiting a long-hidden reunion, faces Judge Chester Ballard in Thalia’s flat. She admits her engagement to Stewart Curtiss, while Ballard reveals his wife died five years earlier. A tense, romantically charged encounter ends with a playful exchange about affection and time.
A 19th century Oasis tale notes how Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved a settler near Gebo Montana after severe dehydration from hot April travel. The piece ends with a sales pitch for the remedy via A. R. Otis.
In a Chicago scene a quip exchange unfolds as Borem claims unmatched humor and Biffkins counters that the same joke has been told twenty times with laughter each time. The dialogue showcases a street banter style in a city setting.
An advertisement extols Boschee’s German Syrup as the best remedy for consumption and severe coughs. It claims worldwide sales since 1868 and urges purchases at 75 cents, noting other cough remedies are inadequate for bronchitis croup or nighttime coughing. G. G. Green Woodbury New Jersey.
Otterville Iowa resident Daniel Bante reports long asthma struggle with various cures before trying Foley's Honey and Tar. He says it gave immediate relief and plans to keep it at home, recommending it to others. Sold by H C Cunningham.
Ad for Otis Tropical Ten claims to ease dull heavy feelings with a simple pleasant remedy at 25c, asserting energy and comfort. The copy mixes quirky product pitch with a general social jab about ostentation and public behavior.
Brief note questions if Wite's Little Early Risers can prevent illness by stimulating bowels. The oddly phrased item treats spring fever as a condition and suggests a laxative remedy with a cautious, uncertain tone.
Miss Keedick says her father is rude to the young men who call on her. Miss Tenspot adds he is mean and borrows money from them, in a lighter Detroit Free Press style exchange.
A young man asks if hypnotism works and Miss Cayenne replies that certain people can lull her to sleep just by talking to her, reflecting a casual exchange quoted from the Washington Star.
Long sufferer from constipation Smith D. Hinman of Mercantile Wire Ins. Co. Chicago praises Bailey's Laxative Tablets as the best remedy he has tried in eighty years. Thousands of testimonials support the product. 20 tablets per 10 count package, 60 in 25 count package. One or two tablets at night ease bowel movement by morning. Chocolate coated. Made by Lakeside Med. Co., Chicago. Sold by A. R. Otis.
W. T. Sturdevant of Merry Oaks N C says fifteen years of indigestion ended after using Kodol. He reports immediate relief and restored appetite. The ad claims Kodol digests food without stomach aid and suggests buying from A R Otis.
Advertisement promoting Otis Tropical Tea as a gentle inexpensive remedy that cleanses stomachs and bowels and purifies blood. Claims it outperforms pills and laxatives with a large package priced at 25 cents.
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