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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
4
Items of interest picked up around town show visits, callers, and events. Opera house date May 12 and a note to attend the Lime Springs fire department program. Local residents travel to Chicago and Harmony while new cement walks appear, market day sale planned, and community offices update.
A local society page records Mr and Mrs J W Burns and their baby hosting relatives from Lawler Calmar and Aire with visits to the city and a christening trip shown. It also notes subscriptions to the Methodist church and a June 18 due date, plus a funeral for Lydia Frisbie and a card of thanks.
A business men's carnival will be held Friday evening May 12 at 8 o'clock in the Lime Springs opera house. Proceeds go to buy a cyclopedia set for the high school. Admission 25 cents, school children 16 cents. Features include drills, tableaux, songs by 32 young ladies, and music. Ice cream and cake to follow provided by the senior class. Also promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a remedy sold by Horton & Burne Drag Co.
The article explains a new explosive using calcium carbide packed in a sealed cartridge with water and air gaps. A detonator fires the cartridge after a rod pierces a diaphragm, allowing water to act for about five minutes to decompose carbide into an acetylene air mixture that explodes, shattering rock for easier hewing.
A clipped column notes dubious patent medicine testimonials including Kodol Digests claim to cure stomach trouble and a reference to a store in Atchison Kansas. It mentions a Mr Joe Tack of the Missouri Pacific and a Lam beti county court hat market detail, plus Chamberlains Pain Balm praised for wounds and faster healing. Horton & Burns Drug Co. sells these remedies.
A humorous scene unfolds as Bigmarek offers a rank hero a cross worth about 3 thalers, with 97 thalers to follow, prompting the surprised recipient to accept the cross for the greater amount. The exchange centers on value and humor within a military honor context.
Impending illness prompts use of DeWitts Little Early Risers pills claimed to ease constipation sick headache biliousness without gripe. J C P Jones praises family use over forty years. Horton Burns Drug Co. sells this remedy amid boastful advertising and testimonials.
Hot season raises pile risks as heat and poor water aggravate symptoms. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel, sold by Horton & Barms Drug Co, promises to stop pain draw out soreness and provide relief labeled as genuine E. O. DeWitt & Co.
War Surrze From Rucunatism Why suffer from rheumatism when one application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm will relieve the pain The quick relief which this liniment affords makes rest and sleep possible and that alone is worth many thoes ita coat Mrs W H Leggett Yum Yum Tennessee U S A writes Som a great suf ferer from rheumatism all over from head to foot and Chamberlain's Pain Balm is the only thing that will re meve the pale For sale by Horton Burs Drug Co Twin Lives It is wonderful how alike some twins are not only in feature but in character Mrs Mary Sissons and Mrs Ann Dennison near Arnold Nottinghamshire both on eighty fourth birthday married same day by same clergyman married brothers both lost husbands in accidents both married a second time both healthy never seen the sea London Mail.
Geo L. Chubb of Harlap, Michigan, calls Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy the best medicine for coughs or colds, claiming it cures faster than any other treatment and should be kept in every home for instant use. For sale by Horton Barns Drug Co.
An Audrain county man, Ase Fowler, recalls owning a pair of trousers for four decades. He bought them at eighteen and used them during his sparking days and as going to meeting trousers since marriage. He hopes to wear them for another forty years. Kansas City Journal notes the quirky memory. A health ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for summer wellness at 85 cents from Horton & Burns Drug Co.
New York's East Side landlords punish families with added children by raising rents. many tenants are dispossessed or unable to find homes. Dr. David Blaustein of the Educational Alliance warns that aristocratic attitudes are creeping in and residents increasingly view children as a burden rather than a blessing after observing uptown wealthier districts.
Calhoun Georgia resident Z T Gray quotes his wife’s relief from a long aggravated cough after using Dr Hlog's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Cattle. The ad touts a strictly scientific cure for bronchitis and lagrippe with Hortons Burns Drug Co offering a 50 cent to 1 00 price and a free trial bottle.
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