Wayment Drug Ad Promises Cure All Ailments
Fragmentary vintage ad claims a product from Bern Co Buffalo NY cures various complaints with wide distribution. The garbled text references mailed mail order and druggists selling at a stated price.
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1903
Page
3
Fragmentary vintage ad claims a product from Bern Co Buffalo NY cures various complaints with wide distribution. The garbled text references mailed mail order and druggists selling at a stated price.
A rural guide discusses balanced rations for laying hens, detailing mash components like coarse meal, beef meal, middlings, clover meal, and bone meal, with biweekly adjustments and additives such as sulfur and charcoal. It also highlights the rising popularity of incubators, noting improved designs, market growth, and the shift from hen hatching to mechanical incubation, plus mite control tips for coop sanitation.
Fragmentary OCR mentions Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a known remedy for womb troubles. Includes names and address fragments in Lynn Massachusetts.
The Farmers' Review argues fowls require a middle ground between trees roosting and heated houses, needing liberty in open air rather than cold exposure or constant warmth. It also offers three methods to kill morning glory vines, including plowing and soil management over several years.
The article explains that thorough milking to the last drop improves butter fat content and overall milk quality. It notes that incomplete milking leaves more fat-rich milk in later drops, while complete milking enhances future yield and dairy profitability. It also discusses cow stimulation during milking and cautions against delaying drying off.
Dr George Parkin now in New York administers Cecil Rhodes scholarships with 200 Oxford awards at his disposal. Scholarship value is 1500 dollars for three years and applications will open in fall 1904 amid high curiosity about the type of scholars to be chosen.
The piece argues emigrants to Canada benefit land dealers and railway interests, citing coordinated newspaper campaigns from St Louis to deter Canada settlement. It notes 87,000 Americans have moved to the Canadian West since 1897, defending Canada while labeling anti Canada letters as biased and funded by profiteers. It mentions a government agent offering information on Western lands and references other items on suffrage, medicines, and local notices.
A private publication is planned for about one hundred members of the Philadel organization. The edition features biographical sketches and tributes, with subscription set at 9 100 though a prominent figure has already paid 678. Market expectations hint at a price rise. Michael Davitt celebrated his eighty sixth birthday recently and his work with the Irish League is noted. He served as MP for Kerry and Mayo, resigning from the House three years ago.
A collection of short items notes Dodd's Kidney Pills praised by veterans as lifesaving amid kidney trouble, a Tolstel line about death, rapid urban growth in Lodz, Holland bulb forcing for Easter lilies, a blind pauper in Clay City handling tools, valuable items including Queen Victoria gloves and a Countess clock, Evansville proposing a municipal telephone system, and warnings against mercury in catarrh cures.
The item compiles varied vignettes from a newspaper page: wartime rhetoric and social terms, a postal box scare revealed as sausage, Adirondack trapper tales, a New York legislative scene with Senator Cullen, a note on starch brands and consumer claims, and a critique of William Waldorf Astor’s remark about America and gentlemen.
Article extols the superiority of quality in modern commerce, stressing universal approval and manufacturing excellence. It highlights Syrup of Figs by the California Fig Syrup Co as a premier family laxative, noting its purity, pleasant formula, and the need to buy genuine product in original packaging.
An endorsement circulates praising a cure for colds and rheumatisms. Congressman D F Wilber of Oneonta reportedly endorses the Perwas medicine, with claims of high reliability and rapid relief. The text cites letters from Dr C F Oia and others and mentions New York correspondence.
In the Harvard museum interest section a professor notes few islands remain unexplored in coral research. The Fors Maskark quote hints at gaps in the known lands and the quest to map the Kinan and Kal ashes with new fieldwork.
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