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A brief club notice requests subscribers to provide both old and new addresses for address changes. The text mentions prices and a general call to action but lacks full context.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1901
Page
2
A brief club notice requests subscribers to provide both old and new addresses for address changes. The text mentions prices and a general call to action but lacks full context.
The biennial report of the board of charities and corrections is reviewed as a cumbersome but revealing document. It notes deficits at the insane asylum including $3,000 in wages and large fuel shortfalls, with $70,000 for new buildings needing $25,000 to $30,000 more. It criticizes cash handling by institutions and calls for treasury cash receipts to be centralized. Sioux Falls plans $10,000 for railroad right of way to Madison, while 1901 is seen as a year of widespread improvements in towns and farms. A bill to curb cigarette sales seeks to reduce smoking with penalties, though enforcement challenges are noted.
The Kansas courts uphold that destroying saloon property in Topeka is not prosecutable as the fixtures are not personal property under local law. The nation could face action if personal property destruction is proven. Chicago reports a Docheite assault on a drug store with bottles and showcases demolished.
Various clipped items reference medical remedies like Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and Foley's Honey and Tar for colds. Also mentions a historical courtroom hat rule requiring women to remove hats, with a wife’s dissent noted. A humorous exchange about a separated couple and a cautious suitor closes the snippet.
Bucklen Arnica Salve praised for cuts burns sores and piles with a 25 cent price at S H Scallin's drug store. Letters cite kidney cure success from W L Yancy of Paducah and a remark about Archdeacon Sinclair’s preaching voice compared to a drill sergeant. Newcastle Chronicle notes.
Advertisement for Dr. King’s New Life Pills claims workers ignore night hour laws while promoting a cure for indigestion biliousness and other stomach liver and bowel troubles. It reads like a generic patent medicine promo from a drug store.
Piles of people testify to banners salve cure for piles with guaranteed relief. S. H. Scallin endorses the remedy and urges its use.
An explanation of the phrase As mad as a hatter tracing its origins to the hat making process. Hatterers beat felt with sticks while hot water and stirring created a rough matting, inspiring the expression.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip recalls Splinter's late return home and a comic scuffle where his fists met his wife's tall palms in the hall. Splinter, startled and excited, swung wildly, knocking over the decorative palms and injuring himself.
Rosa Richardson of Laurel Springs North Carolina says consumption threatened her life but Dr King s New Discovery cured her after seven bottles. The remedy is praised as an unrivaled lifesaver for consumption pneumonia la grippe bronchitis and other respiratory ailments. Guaranteed bottles 50 cents and 1 dollar with trial bottles free at S H Scallin s drug store.
The Medical Record cites Washington's last illness, a laryngeal diphtheria. Treatment included bloodletting of two to three quarts, about 20 grains calomel, 6 grains tartar emetic, an injection, and external blister. he survived 24 hours despite exhaustion.
A Dallas Texas merchant touts Electric Buyers as a life changing tonic claiming relief from general debility after two years of overwork. Advertisement extends to Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and other utilities with a promotional energy note.
An old advertisement extols Mull's Pioneer Rheumatism Cure claiming pain relief and danger relief. It promises a dollar draft refund if not cured, priced at one dollar per box, with sales through J. Perris and Cele Joete among other misprinted names.
Doctors mistake symptoms for a different illness, neglecting kidney issues. Poley’s Kidney Cure is promoted as a remedy when other medicines fail. S H Scallin endorses the product and urges use without substitutions.
A testimonial filled note extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal cure for blood poisons including scrofula eczema and rheumatism. It claims benefits for nervous debility and fatigue and cites several residents praising the remedy. The message urges readers to choose Hood's over substitutes and to buy the product.
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