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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
4
F A Gulledge of Verbe na Alabama suffered a severe case of piles with 24 tumors after paying many doctors. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him, reducing inflammation and pains. sold for 25 cents at O H Loctje's drug store.
In a sweet scene from Young Disciple two dolls named Mamie and Lucy debate dress colors a white dress versus brown. After playful hesitation they exchange outfits to test how the new look suits each doll, delighting Mamie and adding a touch of friendship to their quiet play.
Natives of Tutuila in Oceania gather about 200 villagers on the seashore. They swim out with cocoa palm branches forming a semicircle as a sieve. At a signal they move in, driving fish ashore where they are killed with sticks.
Two girls named Dorothy Der and Sibyl Sweet meet each morning to compare dreams. Dorothy says she dreamed she was in Boston, Sibyl replies she dreamed the same. They discuss a brother Tommy who is sick in bed after a fall from leaning far out of a window while playing.
Chester dispatch reports Elsie Dawson, member of the Children's guild, named the youngest poet in Pennsylvania after receiving a notable award. Details of the prize are not fully listed.
Rev. W H Tomle offers a prize for twelve lines of verse on a doll. Elsie wins with THE DOLL'S FUNERAL about a Doll dying and burial rites. The tale is shared with readers as a child’s cheerful lament. Also notes a Bangor eye surgery success and earlier Machias man injury.
Grandma Hollis shares a memory method to recall dates by tying them to family milestones like her daughter’s marriage in 1889 and the Centennial. She calculates 1776 from the twist of age differences and a pin, illustrating a playful mnemonic for dates.
Percy Smith recalls a New Zealand wedding feast where hundreds dined from a large canoe filled with paste. Guests used mussel shells as spoons, a greedy child fell in, and the rescue led to passing the child along the line of guests to lick him clean.
The Mygale tarantula spans four to six inches with a shaggy hair coat. It has six long legs two pedipalps with stings and poison sacs. Its head carries two jawlike projections and curved fangs resembling rattlesnake fangs. A bite requires immediate removal of the spider to free the fangs.
A calm night at sea. The cabin boy steers by a star as instructed. The star shifts astern, so the boy calls the captain to find another star, joking that he has passed the one he was told to follow. The tale highlights a sailor’s mishap and humor aboard.
A dated medical note recommends powdered boracic acid as a snuff to trigger sneezing and reduce nasal inflammation, suggesting repeated use to hasten termination. For sore throat a boracic acid gargle is advised, made by a tablespoonful in a pint of boiling water and used when cold, not suitable for children.
Good office rooms upstairs and downstairs and living rooms upstairs available in the Condon building. A new roof has been put on the building and rooms will be papered to suit tenants. Inquire of J. W. Doxser.
The C M St P RY will sell excursion tickets to Clear Lake Iowa daily through Sept 80th. Tickets are good for return within 30 days of sale. Clear Lake, a popular summer resort in the Northwest, attracts many travelers.
A dramatic vignette shows a wife asking if she is loved and the husband replying he does not love her yet he reveals his deeper affection. The verse ends with a paradox of enduring affection and claimed lack of love. The speaker credits Eli Perkins.
On the new town of Linton North Dakota at the junction of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line from Eureka and the Northern Pacific from McKenzie Linton the county seat of Emmons county sits on Beaver Creek in a thriving farming and stock area. Lot sale occurs at Eureka South Dakota on September 4 1902 with excursion rates on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway to South Dakota. For details write Geo W Morrow Eureka SD and for ticket rates contact any CM and St Paul agent. Sealed bids for High School plumbing due September 1 at 7 pm with plans at Lowell State Bank and J J McCarthy Lawler Iowa rents farm nearby.
Chicago man W R Trott credits Barney's LaxaTIVE TABLETS with permanent relief from chronic constipation after ten years of trialling laxatives. Claims the active ingredient cascara sagrada is the cure. Manufactured by Lakeside Med Co Chicago and sold by Bacher Abel in Battersea England.
The text claims most Americans suffer from dyspepsia and liver issues with symptoms like sour stomach headaches and heartburn. It promotes August Flower for 75 cents and two doses as relief and mentions Green's Special Almanac. It also oddly notes local racial mixing in St Pierre.
Purported advertisement touts DeWitts Early Risers as a non gripe laxative and liver tonic. Testimonial from W Scott of Milton Pennsylvania claims long use and portability, highlighting vegetable ingredients and easy administration.
The ad asserts a cold is dangerous and promises immediate relief with One Minute Cough Cure. It claims the product clears inflammation and mucus membranes, soothes the throat and lungs, helps croup and other respiratory troubles, and is safe for children. An Austrian iron trust formed recently with Hungarian and Bosnia firms invited to join.
An ad touts Dr. King's New Life Pills for health and energy, claims digestion improves and headaches vanish. Also notes Putnam Faperess Dyxs promise brightness and ease, sold by druggists. Nearby data show New York real estate parcels totaling 476 010 this year.
Polish girl Josephi Andreszsweronitzka arrives in Philadelphia after traveling from Liverpool, detailing a new immigration point and family relocation.
Eaton C C Harlan suffered severe indigestion for years until Electric Bitters cured his stomach problems and renewed his health. The drug is praised for stomach liver and kidney benefits and sold by O H Soetje for 50 cents with guarantee. Nicaragua projects a coffee crop worth about 3 million dollars this year.
A Ga resident J H Johnston credits Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption with curing bronchitis after other remedies failed. His wife also improved from asthma. Trial bottles offered free at O F Soetje's. Also mentions coal mining fatality rate and Putnam Dyegs dye guarantee claims. Monroe Drug Co Unionville Mo.
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