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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
6
The speaker extols unnamed everyday heroes who endure sickness toil and domestic hardship with faith. He honors nurses seamstresses and worn spouses, urging readers to recognize their unseen sacrifices as noble service to God and humanity.
Hamburg policemen monitor streetcars for passenger limits. If a car carries more than the legal number a conductor is fined 72 cents. The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes Sam Jones disapproves of the club woman and the modernized girl, a sentiment apparently shared.
A new compound in capsule form can yield electricity to light a house or power a vehicle, while a bottle of Hostetter s Bitters strengthens digestion and liver kidney health, filling the system with vigor.
A Broadway clothing merchant priced a surplus lot at five dollars each and displayed a hand painted sign on a suit promising quick sale. After no customers arrived he checked the tag and found a surprise five to fifteen profit shift. Pedestrians laughed at the blunt sign and the clerk who designed it lost his job.
A misformatted Sears mail-in offer invites customers to mail their binder twine needs to Sears Roebuck in Chicago for reduced pricing on Sisal Standard or Manila twine. The ad promises to match or beat supplier prices, securing or expediting orders.
In Paris a group asked for ginger in a confectionery shop and meant the candied root from New York. The staff thought the request odd, fetched it later in liqueur glasses with crushed ice, and served gin instead.
An old style ad promotes Grain-O as a non stimulant drink that nourishes and cheers, resembling coffee in taste and aroma. It claims Grain-O helps nervous persons, youths, and children sleep better and suggests buying from grocers for 15 or 25 cents.
A Philadelphia Press snippet notes a neighborly snub by the Old Dodger toward Henry J. Swank and details a A. O. U. W. meeting in Sioux Falls South Dakota with a single fare plus two dollar round trip fare from Dows Iowa. The passage includes casual dialogue about nerves before an engagement and mentions ticket sales dates and limits.
100 Reward 8100. The readers of this paper will be ae to learn that there is at least one dreaded sense that science has been able to cure in all its stages Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the system destroying the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Address I J Cheney Co Toledo O Sold by Druggists 75c Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Homeseekers Excursion tickets to many southern and western states on the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August. One fare plus $2 round trip with fifteen days for outbound and twenty one days for return. A new wide vestibuled train runs daily between Chicago and Texas cities with through Pullman sleeping car and free reclining chair car. For details contact any railroad agent or C L Stone G P and T A in Chicago.
A minister meets a stranger who says he is a submerged Presbyterian. He explains his family attends many denominations with members in Presbyterian Methodist Baptist Unitarian Church of England Congregational and he contributes to all of them, submerging his faith.
An ed note advertises a patent remedy labeled Rogererery promising daily bowel action to improve health and affect the liver and kidneys. The product is priced at 25 and 5 cents, with claims it cures headaches and supports overall wellbeing.
Promotion for Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming it relieves tight shoes and sore feet. Mentions cure for corns itching swelling and sweating with price 25 cents and free sample offer. Includes sample address and a comedic quotes section about horse flesh from Boston Transcript.
An OCR fragment collects advertisements and jokes from early 1900s papers. It cites Kemp’s Balsam offering free samples and small bottle pricing, plus multiple quoted quips about business, weather and tea pot incidents, with attributions to readers.
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