Sciatic and Its Case of Dr Huger
The Burlington Gazette recounts Mr. Tabor’s near fatal sciatic rheumatism and recovery after eight boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, attributing his renewed health to the remedy. It also narrates a separate troubling tale involving Dr Louis Huger, a physician linked to a mysterious death, and an undercover murder investigation ending with Huger’s suicide in his cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Burlington
Iowa
Tabor
Commercial Fring Company
Basset Street
Mr. Tabor
Dr. Williams
Mr. Henry
Reward offer for catarrh cure misleads public health claims
An advertisement promises one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure and cites endorsements from Toledo wholesalers Walding Kinnan Marvin. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials and nationwide drugstore sales. A New York Grand Jury reports Ludlow Street Jail was found unsafe by Tweed twenty years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
New York
Ludlow Street
Tweed
Syrup of Figs Described as Best Family Remedy
The Detroit Tribune notes that Syrup of Figs offers pleasant flavor and gentle action, delivering soothing laxative effects for costive or bilious parents and children, and says every family should have a bottle on hand despite a playful aside about the Bacilins.
De Kalb Fence Co doubles capacity to forty miles daily
The De Kalb Fence Company of De Kalb Illinois reports doubling its wire fence output from twenty to forty miles per day in 1894 to meet strong demand. They offer the largest and most complete line of smooth wire fencing and invite readers to request their detailed catalogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Kalb Fence Co
de Kalb
Ill
Cannoa
Doctor in a Gas Death Mystery
A narrator recalls investigating a series of deaths including a man Hodgson, his widow, and an apparent murder plot. The doctor Huger becomes central as the story hints at possible intent to murder for fortune. An autopsy leaves mystery and suspicion, with a tense confrontation over a peculiar air pump instrumental to the case.
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Arthur Hodgson
Louis Huger
Hodgson
Europe
Con
Paulton
Paris
Perriot
Dr. Huger
New York
Huger
Noted Old Women From Ancient Lore and Rousing Ages
A survey of remarkable elderly women in history cites Countess of Desmond who lived to 145 and traveled to London at 140, Marie Prion who died at 158 in 1838, and cases of rejuvenation such as Marquise de Mira beau and Marguerite Verdur who regressed aging signs before dying.
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Tissot
Countess of
Desmond
James I
Bristol
London
Lady Desmond
Marie Prion
St. Colombe
Marquise de Mirabeau
Marguerite Verdur
Smiles Between Sermons and Quick Wit Exchanges
A collage of humorous exchanges from multiple papers. Jokes touch on romance and social faux pas as dialogs unfold between a couple, editors, a rejected contributor, a thief, and a magistrate. The snippets showcase wordplay and light satire across Detroit Free Press Brooklyn Life Tid-Bits Indianapolis Journal Chicago Tribune Texas Siftings and New York Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Brooklyn
Higbee
Indianapolis Journal
Chicago Tribune
Police Justice
Texas Siftings
New York Weekly
False Witnesses and Patent Remedies Reel In Readers
A ragbag of notes warns against impostors selling fake stomach bitters and touts genuine Stomach Bitters for malaria indigestion and rheumatism. It cites population stats for Providence and counts of Germans in Paris while offering farm for sale in Colorado and school spending in New York. Also prompts use of Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve and Maa Wrestow’s Soothing Syrup for teething infants.
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Sciatic
Bacilins
Detroit Tribune
H. C. Armstrong
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Turkey
Piso
Mia, E
Mouton, Needham
Manas
Oct 22
Coes Cough Dalsam
Piessai Ss Nes Ie
Providence
R. J
Luis Valley
Colorado
F. P. Baker
Topeka
Kas
N. R. Baker
Alameca
Public Schools of
Board of Education
Berlin
Maine
Eline
Kine Archi
Hood
Coas. L
Cockelreas
Irving
Illinois
Hood’s Pills
Sons
Nature’s
Nature
McElree
Cardus
Aermotor CO
Jess
Rockwell and
Fillmore Streets
Chicago
Igitier
Wenseleuee Mfy
W.N.U. Bt
Whee Qeswering
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