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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1896
Page
6
A new haberdashery advertises in gilt windows that any article removed will be charged. Smithson requests a bright pink and green tie from the front row and causes the shopman to reveal it. The exchange ends with a satisfied customer and a philosophizing shopman.
A man vanished after depositing nearly £2000 and lived unseen for a decade. His wife, driving in a west end district, spotted him as a crossing sweeper. He admitted faking disappearance to avoid risky speculation and preserve family comfort. He later returned home and explained his motives. London Letter. Beezema is a skin disease advertises DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
The piece notes a constant output of sacred music alongside secular works. Most sacred works go through publishers after church involvement, with octavo editions boosting demand and numbers of chorus groups rising nationwide. Some sacred songs achieve lasting, if not top secular, success, and hymn books like Gospel Hymns sell millions, second only to the Bible.
A British Medical Journal discussion warns that small antiseptic amounts in wine milk and butter may accumulate to affect health. Salicylic acid boracic acid and related compounds are common preservatives with potential kidney and digestive impacts.
A collage of ad copy and notices lists headache capsules from G. & Co and DeWitt's Liver Purifier praised by users like Miss Julia Camp of Monticello Iowa. It also promotes Witch Hazel Salve as a skin cure, and announces excursion ticket sales by Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and Paul RY to Milwaukee and Dubuque tied to local events.
Rev J Gunderman of Dimondals Michigan endorses Dr Kings New Discovery noting rapid relief for his wife during a pneumonia and grippe illness while he was pastor at Rives Junction. Trial bottles offered free at J H Bacher Co drug store with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
The clipping notes a forthcoming lunar eclipse and jokes about it. It then shifts to public health, warning about child mortality in summer due to bowel troubles and praising DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure for cramps, bilious colic, dysentery, and diarrhea. It also mentions a near equal gender balance and an average lifespan of thirty eight years.
A Napolean Ohio woman writes that her three week old baby suffered severe colic until Dr Hand’s Colic Cure was used. She credits the remedy with soothing the infant and cites the physician’s initial advice. The sales pitch notes the product costs 25 cents and is sold by druggists.
A vintage advertorial promoting DeWitts Little Early Risers as liver pills that overcome obstinate constipation. The copy links bad blood to poor health and premature aging, crediting J. H. Bacher & Co. as the seller.
A coroner's jury in Maine ruled the death was caused by excessive drinking, noting the condition produced an apoplexy in the minds of the jury.
The advertisement promotes Electric Bitters as a seasonless medicine for languor, liver sluggishness, and bilious fevers. It claims quick relief from headache, indigestion, constipation, and dizziness, with prices 60c and 1.60 per bottle at J. H. Bacher & Co.'s drug store.
The original Strasburg clock dates to 1852 as a renowned European mechanical wonder, while the current clock on display was crafted in 1838.
Mrs R DeYoung of Middleburg Ta commends One Minute Cough Cure as the quickest acting and most satisfactory cough remedy she has used for six years for herself and her children. J H Bacher Co.
A partial excerpt shows a man asking a woman if she is a daughter of the revolution and her emotional reply, followed by a quoted stray phrase about a title. The text reflects period era chatter and newspaper tone.
Advert claims a single dose of One Minute Cough Cure relieves cough symptoms quickly. The pitch emphasizes rapid comfort with a recognizable health tonic tone.
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