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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1895
Page
10
Purported advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as essential for pure blood and overall health. It claims the tonic purifies blood, boosts vitality, steadies nerves, and aids conditions like scrofula and rheumatism, citing testimonials from Utica residents.
A mixed panel notes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a touted purifier, highlights a Mainz Psalter of 1457 with only twelve copies, and cites a London entomological claim about a butterfly eaten by a lizard. It also touts the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and wall paper bargains, plus fragments on polar ivory, Napoleon and bees, and dog habits.
Intelligent women dismiss doubt on Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It speeds relief from irregular, suppressed, or painful menstruation and promotes regular cycles.
An advertisement claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures womb troubles and related symptoms including dizziness, nervousness, and backache. It promotes Liver Pills for constipation and sick headaches and Sanalive Wash for local use, urging correspondence with the Lynn Massachusetts company and noting druggists sell the products.
A French visitor, unnamed, struggles with English idioms and slang in America, misrendering phrases and literally interpreting jokes. He learns phrases from conversations about lions, flats, and calls, then mixes in literal translations and memory, while reacting with curiosity and humor to American speech.
A financier notes several trusted employees asked their board to cut salaries from 4000 to 3900 to dodge the income tax of 2 percent on incomes over 4000. The reduction was granted but one director resisted, seeing the move as an attempt to evade tax. The observer expects similar ruses to spread nationwide.
The text describes frost protection by tar on vines and mentions hedging weather with heated tar creating smoke, alongside various patent remedies. It touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative, notes hogs carry straws before bad weather, claims hogs bed down in rain, and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a claimed cure and a $100 reward offer, ending with contact details for J. Cheney & Co.
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