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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1899
Page
8
Hon. Thomas C. Fletcher, Missouri’s war governor, endorses Dr Hartman’s Peruna from the Pe-ru-na Drug M’f’g Co Columbus Ohio. He testifies the remedy cured his chronic catarrh and throat dropping after one bottle. He urges others to use Peruna as a fix for catarrh and as a health refuge for the nation.
The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs Arkansas opens February 23 in the Ozark Mountains offering a delightful climate and beautiful scenery. It advertises unequaled medicinal waters and cheap excursion rates with through sleepers via the Frisco Line. Contact J O Plank manager at the Century Building or Frisco Ticket Office 101 N Broadway St Louis MO.
The Chicago Evening News reports attorney Dix is gravely ill with his physician calling him at death's door. The quip ties a lawyer stereotype to the dire situation as Dix confirms the prognosis.
Land agent H. H. Howe announces choice tracts in Central and Western Michigan suitable for fruit and general farming with low prices and favorable terms for settlers. Excellent schools and markets noted at Grand Rapids addresses for G R W and R Ys. Order and place urged as core values.
The North Western Line offers home seekers excursion tickets on February 21 March 7 and 21 with favorable times to many Western and Southern points at low rates. For tickets and full information contact Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
Two fully equipped trains depart Chicago via Wisconsin Central Lines heading to St. Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Duluth. For complete details contact your nearest ticket agent Jas C Pond General Passenger Agent Milwaukee Wis.
In a letter from Magnes ia Iowa Mrs Elizabeth Wheelock describes recovery from a long illness. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lozenges with removing a tumor after three boxes and improving her heart palpitations and bloating. She urges others with female troubles to try the medicine.
Cable reports Verona to host a costly restoration around Juliet’s tomb. Legends link Juliet and Romeo to Italy’s past, with Dante and Bandello cited. Shakespeare’s play emerged from earlier Italian and English versions before 1597’s printed edition.
The piece advises housekeepers to buy ample tray and carver cloths, hemstitched or fringed for easy laundering and renewal. It highlights repurposing worn tablecloths into cloths, and suggests hemmed edges. It also promotes a velvet band as a versatile finishing touch inspired by the Princess of Wales, worn at venues and on gowns.
Practical instructions for cleaning and maintaining dishes linen and enameled cookware. Includes methods for removing stains with paraffin soap ammonia chlorine lime and nitric acid solutions plus tips on drying sun exposure starch laundry care grinding scissors and preserving eggs with lime and salt for up to a year. Also suggests using sardine oil as a butter substitute and a quick stamp reinforcer tip.
Fashion notes warn gloves have risen in price as dealers cite costs for delicate kid colors. Street gloves match gowns with white bands, while evening gloves mix kid with brocaded satin from wrist to shoulder. Embroidered gloves pair with plain gowns but remain costly.
A pleasant luncheon drink combines orange juice treated with fruits served undiluted in tall glasses. Each glass includes four banana slices a Tokay grape a tart apple slice and a pinch of sugar with a preserved cherry and canned peach optional. Perfume burners, glass lamps with carbon tips burn violet perfume to scent rooms.
Tan gloves rise in daily fashion while white pale yellow and pink suit evening attire. A black costume calls for a black glove. The four button length pairs with long sleeves for formal looks.
A violet fad appears with high standing ruffs and battlement shaped pieces wired to stand out from the neck. A novelty is the use of violets to cover the tabs with small artificial flowers arranged in a wreath around the edge.
The Detroit Journal quotes a debate on expanding territory by adding Canada while avoiding conflict with England. It contrasts this with reliance on Horretster’s Stomach Bitters for ailments and includes a dramatic, fictional aside featuring Desdemona and Othello in a one night stand.
An advertisement promoting Grain-O as a non stimulating coffee substitute that nourishes and cheers, suitable for nervous persons, young people, and children. It claims Grain-O looks and tastes like coffee, made from pure grains, and can be bought from grocers. Prices listed as 15 and 25e.
A reader reports Stewart suffers a broken jaw after a noted incident. The letter references a football context, a dialect exchange, and commentary from the Boston Transcript.
Frank J. Cheney Swears as senior partner of I. J. Cheney & Co. that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The 1886 notary affidavit notes Toledo Ohio. Advertising claims include internal treatment and blood action with testimonials solicitations. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills praised.
A Washington Post quote contrasts a windy night with people, noting wind harms no one and quietly howls with revelry while people trumpet bills and threats. The speaker prefers wind to humanity, wishing for more wind and less people in life.
A historical notice offers a free sample of Allen's foot Enso powder sent to Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy N Y for foot complaints including chilblains sweating damp swollen feet and corns bunions and ingrowing nails. The item claims to ease shoe wear and is offered by druggists and shoe sellers for 25 cents.
The Philadelphia Record notes a young woman identified as Jonx reportedly married to Goldrox. The piece suggests her motive was marriage and calls her an unusually accurate shooter for a woman.
A short notice offers a salary of 15 dollars per week plus expenses to a man with a strong build to introduce Per fection Poultry Mixture and Insect Destroyer in the country. Address Perfection Mfg. Co. Parsons Kansas with stump.
A first-water diamond refers to a gem freshly mined and completely untreated. It is described as flawless and of peak brilliance, representing the highest quality a diamond can possess.
An assortment of vintage ads and quips appears, promoting Kemp's Balsam promises and Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets with sample offers, prices, and sensational lines. The page also features satirical snippets about politics and reformers, along with various health product pitches like Jacobs Oil and St Jacobs Oil.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as the great remedy for kidney bladder and uric acid troubles. It promises health benefits urges readers to send for a free sample and a book detailing testimonials and healing properties.
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