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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1907
Page
7
The piece condemns salts and castor oil as disgusting and harmful to digestion. It argues natural repugnance prevents misuse and touts a palatable modern laxative liver regulator and bowel tonic from New York as a better alternative.
TH W Nevison with wide army experience reviews a Military book and fires sharp remarks at Britain and Ireland’s military establishment. He argues force or hunger drives enlistment and rebukes officers who recruit from idle men. He cites poor re-enlistment, desertion, and crisis reports, blaming Haldane era reforms.
Clinton Indiana banker Fred H. Magill and his wife Faye Graham Magill stood trial in Decatur Illinois on charges of murdering Magill’s first wife Pet Magill. State summoned eighty witnesses, defense forty, and letters allegedly by Mrs Magill raised questions of authorship amid the case.
Resentment rose after the death of Mrs Magill No 1 prompting an investigation into her death. Magill and wife No 2 were arrested in San Diego while on honeymoon. They plead not guilty and predict a swift acquittal claiming the dying instructions of the first wife as defense. The Magill wealth, among the biggest in central Illinois, backs their legal team.
A Chicago backed law aims to push tramps from the city noting the evil of idleness and crime. The Illinois amendment empowers police to arrest anyone without visible means of support on sight or warrant. Critics warn it may harm the innocent while some say work offers healthy life and prevents criminal conduct.
Sig Marconi, now in Nova Scotia, plans a commercial wireless telegraph station at Cape Breton. He aims to start work within about three weeks by sending messages to trans Atlantic papers, asserting overcome obstacles and weather will not hinder progress. Tariff 10 cents per word general and 5 cents for press use. The passage notes broad potential for speed and reliability. The article also mentions the Circle Magazine feature on the Big Brothers movement aiding slum boys with volunteer mentors.
A misspelled ad touts a homemade mixture with fluid dandelion, compound kargon, and compound syrup sarsaparita claimed to clean kidneys and ease urinary issues plus back ache. It notes trial success and safety, adds a cigar pitch from Lewis and a teething salve ad, all spread as eminent authority endorsed.
An advertisement argues deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It promises one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, urging readers to bend for free circulars and to ask druggists for Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The exchange features Our Own Minstrels and Bones Mistah Walkah debating a porous plaster on a nin versus a story told via a long distance telephone. Interlocutor, William, and Iferr Roffin de Larrinks prepare to perform a sentimental ballad about hope and healing amid comic, stagey dialogue.
The speaker, Mr Katzen, admits he was excited during a late call on Miss Freckley but she clarifies he was not sufficiently excited to propose. The exchange highlights embarrassment and social awkwardness in a personal interaction.
In a tense domestic moment Johnny protests his bath, mother retorts with a sharp patriarchal quip. Johnny snaps that he wants to bathe his way, insisting little men only bathe when they feel like it. The exchange highlights stubborn pride and parental authority in a small scene.
A long haired station platform foil argues with Farmer Third Apple about boarders artists and pools. The exchange reveals mock romance and a comic misreading of romance and rheumatism as a misunderstanding, ending with a dramatic embrace and a joke about romantic vainness.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as readily digested cereal made from wheat and barley, preprocessed for instant absorption. It cites a Chicago woman who improved from indigestion after switching, with weight gain from 109 to 124 pounds, and urges serving the cereal straight from the package or in simple desserts.
In a brief chat Mrs A notes her husband says he will return shortly from vacation, but Mrs Z questions this. Mrs A replies that he usually returns after a short time, not promptly.
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich of Clinton Street Napoleon Ohio suffered kidney troubles for fifteen years with back pain dark spots before her eyes and dizzy spells. For ten years she could not do housework and five years stayed indoors. After taking Doans Kidney Pills she found quick relief and a full cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Mrs. Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut recounts her year and a half old child suffering severe facial and bodily sores. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for about two months the sores healed and never returned, saving the child's life.
An advertisement from a Philadelphia address promotes Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and a free trial bottle. It guarantees permanent cures for nervous and fatigue related ailments, urging readers to Bend for a treatise and trial offer at 941 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
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