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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
7
An ad promotes S. S. S. as a pure vegetable blood purifier to treat eczema and related skin eruptions. It asserts purifying the blood removes impurities from digestion and kidneys, easing itching, crusts, sores, and pimples. The copy includes testimonials and an offer to send a free informative booklet.
The Nickel Plate Road offers low round trip fares at a fare and a third for travel on their line from December 25 to January 2, 1905. Tickets cover New York City Boston and other eastern points. Chicago station Harrison St and 4th Ave. For details contact John Y Calahan General Agent 113 Adams St Chicago 225.
Dr. King's New Life Pills touted by M. M Austin of Winchester Indiana as a cure for stomach and liver troubles. Austin claims his wife was saved after physicians failed, noting the remedy cured constipation and sick headache. Sold at O. H. Soetje's drug store.
In Blue Duck a famed gambler named Gentleman Ed is described as cultured and brave who shuns drink swearing and gambling yet forms a deep bond with a banker’s child. When the girl gets lost in a blizzard Ed pursues with hounds and rescues her risking his life. he collapses but survives as the child is saved and she praises him.
A Dresden Boot and Shoe Museum displays part of its vast collection including Luther’s Diet of Worms shoes and Maria Theresa’s toilet slippers. Sealed cases feature Napoleon’s battle boots from Dresden and Peter the Great’s jack boots, among other era pieces.
An unusual study reveals domestic economy in ancient Egypt as bandages unwrapped show reused cloth scraps. Fragmentary wraps include old napkins skirts shirt pieces and even a shirt with armhole seams gussets and fine stitching by hands long faded.
The Nickel Plate Road offers tickets on December 24 25 and 31 1902 and January 1 1903 at a fare of one and a third for round trip to points in Central Passenger Association territory with return by January 2 1903. Pullman service available on all trains. Dining car meals priced 35c to 1.00. For details contact John Y. Calahan General Agent 113 Adams St Chicago and Chicago city ticket offices at Adams St depot Harrison St and 5th Ave.
Advert says August Flower remains the world’s top selling remedy for indigestion and biliousness. It claims to cleanse the system, stop fermentation, regulate liver action, and ease headaches and pains with a few doses. Sold by reliable dealers for 25¢ or 75¢. The text also includes a quoted question about earning money and a Chicago Tribune jab.
Mrs. 8S. H. Newsom of Decatur Alabama credits Electric Bitters with ending three years of severe indigestion and related troubles. She reports gaining 35 pounds after using the remedy, which is marketed as a cure for indigestion loss of appetite and stomach liver and kidney issues at 50 cents through O H Soetje's drug store.
Homer Hall of West Point Iowa credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with saving his life after doctors deemed him doomed. Testimonies extol its power against coughs colds and lung troubles while ads tout Kodol and De Witts Little Early Risers. Also notes unclaimed letters at Monticello post office and holiday subscription offers.
A Detroit Free Press quip features a tramp recalling three dinners and ten beers from last week. An ad touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as best for scratches burns and related injuries, available for 25 cents at O. H. Soetje's drug store. A joke about Bellingham’s religion and his wife’s name closes the item.
Chicago firm 15 C DeWitt & Co introduces a salve from Witch Hazel marketed as a specific for piles and skin ailments. The ad warns of counterfeit copies and urges customers to ask for DeWitt's genuine salve.
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