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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1914
Page
3
An old style medical ad explains clearing a chronic throat irritation labeled gal llary pharyngitis. It promotes Peruna as the remedy with a plan to take a teaspoon before meals and at bedtime for weeks. Includes salt water gargles and notes tablets available for those who object to liquids.
Our mountings are fitted complete with the new Toric lenses for 30 days only. If you wear the Toric you are pleased. Satisfaction guaranteed.
In remarks to the Press Club in Washington on Friday night President Wilson joked about forgetting his presidency during detective story fantasies and his desire to roam unnoticed to avoid the glare of public buildings and officials. He imagined disguises and a life away from the capital after his term ends.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a spring tonic to cleanse the blood, stimulate kidneys liver and bowels, expel impurities, and restore health strength and ambition. Four weeks treatment suggested with guaranteed results. Available at City Drug Store for 60 cents to 1.00.
Johnson township backed the old highway commissioner method by a small margin. Local obituaries note the death of Henry Ryan in Casey and Green Cochonour in Urbana. A big oil discovery is reported near Haskell Oklahoma on the J W Hancock farm. The Casey post office moves from Sanford opera house to Dosbaugh building.
The wife of a French cabinet minister says she did not intend to kill her editor critic, claiming the act was only to warn him. She fired at the forehead, breast, and abdomen. Also notes Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy touted by F F Monahan of Menominee Wisconsin. Sold by all druggists.
Miss Pearl Lee of Marshall visits relatives and friends in Westfield. Mr and Mrs Wm Blood of Alger Michigan plan a visit. Mrs Ferne Heckard leaves for Ardmore Oklahoma where Mr Heckard works as oil driller. Mr and Mrs Harry Baker go to Indianapolis for a clerical position. Mrs D E Baer and daughter Fern visit her father Prof W J Shuey. Joseph Smith a pumper on the Danville lease part of the B F Goble farm died Monday noon from a paralytic stroke and brain hemorrhage.
The north part of Robinson is the most active area in the Illinois oil field as wells are drilled on town lots. Meanwhile the river rises slowly and is out in low bottoms, with little chance of flooding high bottom ground. In other news Mrs. M P Rackerby has been very sick and Aaron Reynolds of West York suffered a serious paralytic stroke Tuesday.
Seed fashion books show no radical change in vegetable styles for 1914. Tomatoes retain red as the fashionable color on and cucumbers keep green on the outside.
An ad seeks an active man or woman to handle local subscription interests for Cosmopolitan Good Housekeeping Hearst's Harper's Bazaar Motor and Motor Boating. It offers a cash commission and monthly salary tied to work, with potential earnings of 5000 annually. Write Charles C. Schwer at The Cosmopolitan Agency Bureau 119 W 40th St New York City.
A Paris group exposed a cheap clothing sales scheme from a Chicago firm agent. Buyers paid deposits from three to nine dollars for made to measure garments, but inquiries to the Chicago address failed with addressee not found. Professor Mercalli died in Naples under mysterious circumstances after investigating Vesuvius.
An advertisement extols Foley Kidney Pills as thoroughly effective for backache rheumatism swollen joints and kidney bladder ailments. A. A. Jeffords of McGrew Nebraska credits one bottle with curing his pains and urges purchase by all druggists.
Census figures show New York's total population speaking English or Celtic under one million while Yiddish and German total 850000 and Italian exceeds 500000. The data raises questions about the cosmopolitan nature of major Eastern cities like Bangkok Calcutta Shanghai and Hong Kong.
A Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles and dissolve gravel and diabetes. It promises benefits for men, women, and children and offers mail delivery for $1.00 with a two months’ treatment. Testimonials requested. Dr. E. W. Hall of St. Louis is named for the product.
Notice lists two estate actions in Clark County Illinois Mary I Mays administratrix will seek discharge April 6 1914 final report and residents may appear to contest. Also administrator S M Scholfield announces May term Clark County Court Marshall Illinois claims must be presented and debts paid promptly.
Estate of W H Lewis late of Clark County Illinois notifies all creditors and heirs to appear before the Clark County Court at the Marshall courthouse for the May term on the first Monday in May. Creditors must present claims and all debts are to be paid promptly to the administrator A N H Knox with attorney Wm T Hollenbeck.
Local supplier W. A. Williams promotes a wide range of feeds including mill and dairy feeds, alfalfa, molasses, hog digestives, poultry mixes, seed oats and flour options. He claims high protein feed value, cost savings on freight, and guarantees with money-back satisfaction. Call to check new shipments of seed oats and mellow corn.
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