Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promoted for Digestion
Advert reads that six day bicycle races exhaust riders while the stomach weakness hinders recovery. It claims Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery aids digestion and tissue building, with testimonial from C M Wilson of Yadkin College NC noting improved appetite and health. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pellets for sick headache.
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Pierce
Doctor Pierce
C. M. Wilson
Yadkin College
Davidson Co
N.C
My Dear Old Home Poem Finds Peace in the Farm
Lida M. Keck expresses in Union Signal a preference for rural life over the city. The speaker contrasts city charm with farm’s seasonal beauty, craving the farm’s blossoms, snow, harvest, and tranquil fields despite urban riches and ruby wine.
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Lida M. Keck
Union Signal
Run of Tough Luck in Hemlock Belt Insurance Tale
A Hemlock Belt resident recalls a string of misfortunes and a humorous sales pitch from an insurer. A traveling grocer hears a tale of repeated fires, wind damage, and lightning while recounting how he once removed wind ropes to save the house. The man on the stump presses for policies against fire, wind, and hail as local fates seemingly conspire against him.
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Geeville
Hemlock Belt
John Gilbert
Cap‘n
Cap'n
Udo
Blox
Jake
Hanner
Dominlesor
Pooh
Pete Jones
Joe Ramsey
Sam Baggs
Sam
Bill Binder
Iler
Jake Betts
Bill Smiley
Terin
Follerin
Lightning and storms strike rural homestead tale
A widower recounts a long chain of misfortunes tied to insurance sales and natural disasters. Lightning rods, explosions, water, and fires weave through his hilltop house as a hurricane scatters buildings nearby, yet his own home remains oddly unscathed amid chaos.
Weathered warning on insurance and earthquakes in old tale
A fragment from a NY Sun piece paints a rugged exchange about insuring against earthquakes and the mutability of human affairs in the Hemlock belt. The speaker hopes to sell a policy on the lot beneath a house amid rough talk of a shake up and disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BNR
Stade de Remesdouse
Hemlock Belt
St. Paul
N. Y
British Doctors Offer Free Treatment in Rock Island
A Rock Island branch of the British Medical Institute offers free three month treatment by eminent physicians until Oct 14. Services include consultation, examination, minor surgery, and home treatment if unable to visit. Office hours 9 am to 9 pm, closed Sundays. Mondays to Wednesdays visit days.
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3Rd Ave
Rock Island
Ill
British Medical Institute
Rd Avenue
Tremann
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Lewis
F.P. Lewis
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Cleveland
Ohio
Uhrus
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Ely
Rolief Old
Atdru
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New York
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Harper House
Minolta
Saas Sayy
Ania
Frank Hay
Boan Ea
Gustus School of Business
J. E. Gustus
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Queen Raglan
Satan
Ops
Island
Wales
Polly
Merit
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