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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1899
Page
5
A reader story recalls cancer starting as a small pimple or scratch and worsening. It credits a long battle and then recovery after using S S S with testimonial from R F Williams of Gillsburg Mississippi.
The New York Sun notes reasons for sailing ship travel including pleasure, business knowledge, literary material, or recovery from overwork. Long voyages cost about 300 dollars on the finest ships, 100 to 150 days to San Francisco or Japan, or 100 to 125 days to Australia, with in-port stays billed at ten dollars weekly.
The note surveys how place names like Coluber Colubris Caerberlarber Coal Harbor Cole Harbor and Cold Harbor derive from Latin and German roots. It discusses meanings such as snake on the Roman standard and harbor as a military post or welcoming place, citing Notes and Queries.
The Baltimore Sun notes Lafayette’s Revolutionary War camped near the cathedral site where his tent stood. He visited in October 1824, spent a Sunday in Baltimore, attended services, and then went to Belvedere to dine with Col. John Eager Howard.
Mr. R. P. Olivia of Barcelona spends winters in Aiken South Carolina and credits Electric Bitters with curing back head pains. He claims the medicine restores liver kidney function purifies blood tones stomach strengthens nerves and revives the whole body. Guaranteed a bottle for 50 cents by D C Prader Co.
Homes seekers urged to buy thousands of acres in New Wisconsin at $6 per acre with timber and cleared land, fenced and near station. improved parcels priced from $12 to $25 per acre. Offers valid 30 days with full title. Also a 37 day Pullman train tour from Chicago to Wisconsin and Iowa with all expenses paid under The American Tourist Association. Contact H. B. Comstock Cumberland Wis and S Shoemaker Fontanelle Iowa for details.
A Groton woman credits Dr King s New Discovery and Frankie products for recovery from a lung illness after four doctors gave up. Advertisements tout One Minute Cough Cure and Dr Sawyers remedies for croup, hoarseness, and bronchial troubles. General Merritt and Admiral Dewey quotes appear alongside promotions from D C Prader Co, selling tonics, salves, and liver regulators.
Advertisement notes that One Minute Cough Cure is the infallible remedy for lung throat or bronchial troubles during the season of pneumonia la grippe and colds. Cautions against substitutes and urges insistence on the genuine remedy. Also mentions New York society mothers introducing a baby's tooth set into a ring as a fashionable keepsake.
An advertise claim offers a salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and is priced at 25 cents per box sold by D. C. Prader & Co.
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