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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1899
Page
4
The text recounts Queen Victoria presenting Princess Beatrice with an enormous array of boots for all occasions. Boxes held six pairs each, with heavy boots, riding boots, and warm boots, plus embroidered satin and silk slippers. The queen favors comfort over fashion, insisting on practical footwear for her daughters.
An old time advertisement feature touts cures and tonics. It promotes Dr. Khige’s remedies at 95 Arch Street Philadelphia and praises Cnove’s tasteless quinine products. Testimonials claim a cure for lung trouble and a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Prices and refund promises appear with consumer confidence lines.
An assortment of vintage ads and notes including Allen's Foot Ease powder for foot relief, a rail safety equipment update from Baltimore and Ohio, no soap cleanses character, eye salve offerings, and Price's Methodists mentions with 1896 campaign references. miscellaneous quotes and testimonials appear throughout.
General Joseph Wheeler lauds Peruna as an excellent tonic and cure for catarrh. Senators D S McEnery and W S Sullivan also endorse Peruna after using it. The report includes a broader note on an exposition catalog contract and a curious obesity pattern in Servia Indiana with 12 men over 200 pounds and 15 women 190 to 250 pounds.
The article notes United States match consumption surpassing 90 billion annually and recalls that a box of 25 cost 25 cents decades ago. It cites a New York inventor with a machine that could drop prices to half current levels, as the era of 1 cent per match looms. It ends with a poetic aside about a whistler or singer with a happy heart.
A letter from Sarah J. Graham of Sheridanville Pa. praises Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after resolving prolonged female ailments. The piece warns against neglect and urges women to contact Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts for free advice to avoid costly operations and serious pain.
Philadelphia officials report the general board of customs appraisers has ruled bodies arriving in coffins from European ports may enter free of duty. The issue arose after protests that duties were unfairly collected. the decision applies to all ports nationwide.
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