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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1895
Page
7
Mrs Pinkham promotes her Vegetable Compound as a miracle cure for womb troubles and urges women to seek relief by writing to Lydia E Pinkham. The letter claims personal success and warns women against suffering, touting twenty years of renowned usage and urging readers to obtain the product from their pharmacist.
A dubious testimonial piece promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills. It recounts Mrs Ferguson and her husband improving from rheumatic pains and fatigue after taking the medicine. The article cites an Irish or American seller and claims broad efficacy for a range of ailments. It mentions sales through druggists and direct from the company with pricing.
Chronic stomach complaints and feverish symptoms are described as eased by Hostetter s Stomach Bitters a standard remedy. It claims to prevent chills fever rheumatism and nervous disorders while aiding appetite sleep and resilience against exposure and indigestion. A Pittsburg Va incident ends fatally in a quarrel with his wife resulting in two deaths and several children left motherless.
Advert shows Salzer's Northern Grown Seeds claiming quick harvests for radishes lettuce potatoes oats and cabbage with promises of rapid returns. Readers urged to mail $1 to John A Salter Seed Company of TaCrossa Wisconsin to receive thirty five free seed packages and their seed catalogue along with postage paid samples.
A humorous note contrasts a sly doctor with an old practitioner while warning about lingering cold symptoms and a serious lung infection. It mentions a question avoided with certainty, a reference to Dr. D. Jayne's Expectormant, a national manufacturers convention in Cincinnati January 22 24, and travel recommendations on the Queen and Crescent Route with solid beds and through sleepers.
Fashion notes from the season highlight shellshell pink Countile, roast brown and burnt bread tones, short elbow length capes called collets, and increasingly elaborate capes. Black satin gives way to intricate frosts and new crepon called asirz khan crepon. Silks, velvets, and contrasting bodices remain in vogue with fur trims limited, and walking coats often paired with matching cloths or wraps.
A San Francisco speaker laments tourists mispronouncing places like Newfound, Sapiran, and Den as Nu-fun-lan, arguing proper names reflect origins. He notes Americans rarely honor full names and recounts irritation at misrendered city names such as San Francisco, Winseo, and San Bernar. He urges careful, genuine pronunciation of geographic terms.
A Kansas period ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive remedy for catarrh. It claims the constitutional disease requires a medical treatment and that the product acts on blood and mucous surfaces, claiming success by building up constitution. The ad offers one hundred dollars for any failure to cure and urges sending testimonials to Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio.
The passage states that the average European woman's Hte i is shorter than a man's, yet more than two thirds of the centernariapa consist of women.
A collage of curious notes spans ancient artefacts near Kong to a Brooklyn woman acting as a deputy internal revenue collector. It reports on railway strikes, rail shipments in California, and Miss Jennie Dean aiding a Virginia school for Negroes, all framed in a period voice with scattered local interest.
Frank Schrage, once penniless and running a small drug business, has become a millionaire after a chemistry finding. A syndicate paid $10,000 cash and agreed to $10,000 annually, totaling $21,000,000, with Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co. of Chicago linked to the deal. Also reported is Kent, a Mandan, N.C. wife murderer, sentenced to hang on February 23.
Fragmented note details travel discomfort and a warning about car sickness remedy items. It references an incendiary disaster in Georgia and mentions obscure products and personal anecdotes without cohesive context. The text also lists a congressional death and a train collision near Massillon with limited readable facts.
Gregory Hurson of Milwaukee resigns as secretary and traffic manager of the Goods transportation company and plans to establish a steamship line linking Milwaukee and Chicago during the gaming season.
Fragmentary text mentions a laxative syrup sold by California Fig Syrup Co and various advertisements. It notes a marriage and multiple divorces, a mailing offer from Norbins Soap Mfg Co, a death in Louisville, a medical remedy claim for constipation, and flood and travel ads referencing routes through Cincinnati to Asheville and New Orleans.
Advertisement notes Dr. Pierce two year recovery claim with Golden Medical Discovery. Claims of wound disease improvement and restored strength after using the product. Promotes a 168 page book titled Woman and Her Diseases available by mail from Worth’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo New York.
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