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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1891
Page
15
A fashion writer urges careful, refined dressing for children during Christmas celebrations. It features illustrated gown ideas for a girl about four, details on fabrics, trims, and tailoring, and warns parents to balance style with practicality while keeping hands and feet warm.
The piece details gutta percha as a non conductor and India rubber substitute, its past abundance, and rise in price to 1.20 per pound. It explains the depletion from Malayan forests, sourcing from Borneo, and the shift toward cultivation to avoid extinction. It notes earlier tapping methods and native exploitation.
The piece mixes advertising lore and commentary on Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters, praising a new almanac and its world famous medicine. It weaves calendar notes, translations, and etymology with claims of cures for catarrh and general health, while mingling miscues and promotional lines about the product and related remedies.
A clergyman recalls a mournful Maine funeral where a widow sighs and quips about the departed. The column clips weaving in pills ads, a humorous duel in Connecticut, and notices on medicines from Dr. White and Dr. Jayne. Includes stray remarks on death notices and public ads.
A Rochester reader reports total deafness from catarrh lasting over a year. After trying physicians and medicines with no relief, he used Hood's Sarsaparilla. Three bottles restored hearing and reduced catarrh. He continued for a few more, with lasting improvement and minimal lingering issues.
Donald Kennedy of Roxbury Massachusetts cites Canada and defends Jelly-fish Christianity as a modern peril. The piece promotes Remo s German Covall and Tapyey Cure as a ready remedy for pneumonia and severe lung trouble, claimed to relieve suffering immediately and usable repeatedly until cure, with no poison, via SyLvan Remeny Co., Peoria, Illinois.
A promotional note proclaims August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia. It asserts the tonic aids the stomach and liver, claims twenty years of growth from a small town to wide distribution, and credits G. G. Green of Woodbury New Jersey as sole manufacturer.
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