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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1899
Page
4
Snippets from a church service and widow's retort mix with satire on burial misplacement. Advertisements urge foot powder and starch while noting cures and mail offers. A quip on fools and a vintage eye remedy conclude the page.
A Lebanon trial recounts a pistol mishap during a fatal encounter. The defendant is acquitted after evidence suggests the wound could be self inflicted, with the prosecutor arguing otherwise. The era’s tone blends crime, counterfeiting notices, and travel ads into a single page.
Warning against ointments containing mercury for catarrh and endorsing Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Internal remedy claiming to act on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials and pharmacist sales. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and a remark about having two love affairs at once as trouble akin to twins.
A collage notes the Klondike gold boom with witty lines from Topeka Capital and Kansas City Journal. It mentions two tons of gold for one miner, two week trips by rail and river, and jokes about wives and wealth amid harsh reports.
A collection of humorous exchanges from children and parents. A precocious student vows to become a teacher who makes others do the work. A mother teases Willie about sharing a fruit with his sister. A boy explains cirrus clouds to his father. A child awaits a goodbye kiss, planning the perfect moment.
A period note lists Seville converting its tramway to electric power. It also mentions Italian military balloons, charcoal use in Naples, Liege industrial exhibition funding, Tacitus manuscript concerns, a Swiss Bank bill, General Tunis horse, bamboo lighthouse, Hessian tax for bachelors, Borneo oil prospects, giraffes near Sobat river, London omnibus statistics, and shoe trade shifts in Cuba and Porto Rico.
Tragedian Robert Downing praises Peruna as preventing summer ills and guarding against malaria and fluences. He calls it the finest traveling companion and claims it gave more health than any tonic. Address Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio for his book Summer Catarrh.
Dr Hartman with over forty years of practice claims Peruna cures cholera morbus cholera infantum bilious complaint diarrhoea and dysentery all termed summer catarrh. He states he never lost a case and offers a free copy of Summer Catarrh from Columbus Ohio for more details.
Vaguely critical notes on laundry needs in men and seasonal rain as a farmer’s claim. An old testimonial from Mrs Beltz of Denver lists Piso's Cure for Consumption as the sole remedy for coughs and colds. The item comments that many so called prominent individuals are prominent as warnings.
A jumbled mixture of vintage advertising quips and mockery about health cures and household products. It cites Grove’s Tonic, Dr Kline’s cordial, Winslow’s Syrup, and Allen’s foot powder with oblique social asides and humor about fame, nurses, rats, and grocers.
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