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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
2
Nervous debility ad promises wonderful cures for weakness fatigue and irritability with memory loss and dream disturbances. It touts free confidential consultation and notes a Council Bluffs office at First National Bank Building with weekend availability.
OWA HAPPENINGS reports Henry Phelps thirteen drowned in the Iowa river at Marshalltown while a bathing party was nearby. Anson Douthit, a Clarinda farmer, was found hanged in his barn. A women’s missionary meeting is planned for Sheffield on Sept. 13-14. Charley Hargraves was struck by a Milwaukee train near Decorah and likely to die, with a second similar crash affecting Albert Severson at Osala. Horace Cook, eighteen, was deemed insane and sent to Independence asylum after threatening Ferguson. Iowa Rail project bonds totaling 1.5 million were filed to link Lansing Waukon and Decorah by electric railway aiding Waukon mines. Governors offer $800 rewards for two murder cases near Muscatine and Lucas County. Des Moines reports $15,000 weekly support from Iowa miners to distant strikers, plus a christening trip for the Des Moines cruiser in Quincy. Insane patient transfers to Cherokee and Clarinda hospitals are described, with 800 to 400 patients to start at Cherokee. Minton injunction halts boycott activities against Town Telephone. the Illinois Trust mortgagee seeks a broad restraining order against interference with the company.
Report by the British steamer Korone from Fort de France details Mont Pelee’s deadly eruption Saturday night. Morne Rouge near devastated areas appears entirely destroyed, Le Carbet swept by a tidal wave, and about 200 people reported dead. Vessels report loud detonations and torrents of ash as ongoing eruptions threaten St Pierre and surrounding villages. The governor mobilizes boats to evacuate coast populations.
Eighteen vessels and two tugs driven ashore in a Port Elizabeth gale. Five ships wrecked with all hands lost. a score of lighters ashore. Shore signals and rockets marked distress as dawn revealed wrecked craft along An goa bay. Fifty bodies washed ashore. News also notes Tokyo and Rome incidents with the Takachio eruption damage and three deaths from the Gubbio earthquake.
Shenandoah area items include a man fined for pushing and dislodging mud, plus reports of illness from tainted canned beef. Local ads tout Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and Foley's Kidney Cure, with notes on potatoes shipped to Houston and chautauqua earnings and track washout near Shenandoah.
An advertisement extols Kodol as a universal stomach tonic that purifies and strengthens digestion, claiming it can permanently cure indigestion and dyspepsia. It cites Rev. J. H. Holladay of Holladay Mississippi praising Kodol as life saving. The note adds a local event summary: The M. W. A. held a great reunion at Riverton on August 22 with a fine program and enjoyable time.
Ad copy touts Dewitts Witch Hazel Salve as the cure for piles cuts burns and wounds claiming speedy permanent results and warns against counterfeit versions. It cites testimonials from J C Phillips Paris IH Royce of Chariton and mentions a French lad learning the American way.
Rev C J Budlong praises Weather Bitters as a genuine all around cure curing jaundice liver troubles and more. Electric Bitters touted for liver kidney and stomach problems with 60 cent price and guaranteed satisfaction. A hay barn near Fiamburg owned by Mr Knapper burned to the ground after a lightning strike.
A historical ad style notice extols DeWitt's Little Early Risers as an effective laxative tonic. It claims they cleanse poisons gently, prevent biliousness and fever, and improve digestion. The fragment also notes a school principal change in Aberdeen, South Dakota, with faculty resignations and diary mentions in Latin and Philosophy.
A fragmented text presents a speaker addressing a chamber, advocating a remedy and mentioning years of broad non sleep and night disturbances. The readable lines suggest a public or formal discussion seeking a solution or policy change.
An Albany Bradford County reader recalls using ChamGerlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to conquer a sudden diarrhoeal attack before a trip and again for a dysentery episode last summer, reporting rapid relief. The note ties into local pharmacy sales and a broader regional transfer of patients from Clarinda to Cherokee. Also cited are warnings about lingering summer colds and a tout for One Minute Cough Cure as an effective remedy for coughs colds bronchitis and throat and lung troubles.
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