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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
7
A census bulletin under Dr. Alexander Graham Bell states 64,763 Americans were blind in 1900, with 35,365 totally blind and 29,408 partially blind. The report notes many blind were likely uncounted, with 37,054 males and 27,709 females recorded.
Naval constructor J K Woodward of the board of survey died suddenly of heart failure on a train of the Canadian Pacific near Banff British Columbia. He was bound for Seattle for the government trial of the battleship Nebraska built at Seattle.
Claiming millions use Cascarets daily the ad extols ten cent boxes sold at high volumes. It pitches Cascarets as a vegetable, reliable bowel cleanser and health aid with endorsements and a warning against imitators and counterfeiters. The copy emphasizes time tested merit and broad consumer trust.
A hoax warning about dishonest motives behind questionable products. The piece notes Cascarets are made only by Sterling Remedy Company, warns against bulk sales, and urges customers to request genuine tablets marked CCC. It promotes a small Ten Cent West Pocket box and a gold plated bonbon set offered with a small stamp payment.
A series of court notes covers that a check on an open bank account does not assign funds or outrank later attachments unless timely presentment is made. Other items include explosives in road work remaining within lien statutes for materialmen, fraudulent grantees barred from defense in creditor suits, an railway cashier cannot arrest suspects of theft, and a contract breakup law violating constitutional rights.
Mr. Chas L Sauer of San Antonio writes that he suffered catarrh and debility after a move from Galveston and returned to normal after taking Peruna. He claims long term benefit from continued Peruna use and endorses the remedy.
Judge Robinson acting as special judge dissolved the temporary restraining order and ruled the city council action removing Mayor Edward Bidamin legal. Frank M Buckingham, formerly comptroller, becomes mayor after Bidamin’s impeachment and removal.
A curious bill of costs tale details a solicitor who charged for attending dinner and theater events and for receiving a diamond pin. Witnesses note patterns of pricey gratuities and questionable items, illustrating fiscal oddities in legal billing.
The widow of Stanford White received 149040 dollars from the Equitable Life Assurance Society for a long held life policy. A note warns against mercury in catarrh remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. The German government now requires officials and railroad employees to learn English with schools already opened in Munich and Nuremberg.
Free sample offer for Allen's Foot-Ease cites relief for sweating feet and ill fitting shoes. It also includes a testimonial from Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell describing dropsy due to kidney trouble and improvement after using Dean's Kidney Pills, with dealer pricing and the Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N Y.
In a comic exchange a royal in Amphtaboola asks if boils are fatal, the queen fears them and cites a missionary’s death. The page includes an ad for Dr. Kline’s Remedy, a San Francisco incident reports a refugee shooting his wife and killing himself, and a Baltic sea oyster fact about salinity.
An advertisement explains rheumatism as a whole-body disease caused by uric acid and poisoned blood. It promotes S S S as a permanent, vegetable remedy that purges the blood, strengthens liver, kidneys, and bowels, and claims to cure muscular inflammatory articular or sciatic rheumatism.
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