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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
4
An advertisement extols S S S as a vegetable blood purifier that strengthens nerves, bones, and digestion for the elderly. It claims polluted blood causes ulcers and rheumatic pains, offers free medical advice, and promises a free book from The Swift Specific Company in Atlanta Georgia.
The C M and St P Ry offers round trip tickets to St Paul and Minneapolis from 8.00 to 9.20 dollars. Tickets are good to return until Oct 31. For full particulars call at the depot. A I Jackson Agent.
The C M St P Ry will sell excursion tickets to Clear Lake Iowa daily until September 80th. Tickets are valid for return 80 days from sale date. Clear Lake is described as a premier summer resort in the Northwest.
S R Meredith of Willow Grove Delaware reports using DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for piles and says it cured them. He notes operations are unnecessary to cure piles and claims it heals skin diseases and wounds. Warns to accept no counterfeits.
Thomas O Shea aged 91 died at his home in Washington township Dubuque county. He was born in Ireland where he worked for the monks of Melleray and later for brothers at the new Melleray monastery in the county. Wind storms blamed for widespread farm damage and washed out roads.
The Nickel Plate Road announces one fare round trips with stop overs at Niagara Falls and Chautauqua Lake and optional New York City route. Sleeping car reservations available via City Ticket Office at 111 Adams St or John Y. Calahan Chicago agent. July 9.
Nickel Plate Excursions promote trips to Portland Maine Providence Rhode Island and Yellowstone Park with round trip fares and extended return windows. Agents in Chicago invite inquiries for details. A farm machinery dealer touts low price lines and claims to meet all competition.
Travel offer lists $18.90 round trip to Providence R I via Nickel Plate Road with departures July 7 8 and 9. Details available at City Ticket Office 111 Adams St Chicago and Union Ticket Office Auditorium Annex Chicago. Also notes a thunderstorm in England June 6 1889 with 1244 lightning flashes and a drugstore product claim for Putnam Fapeless Cyrus colors as fastest durable.
A dense roll of accounts approved at the June session 1902 for W H Johnson & Co groceries for the poor, doctors and nurses, grave digging, wood, rent, veterinary and care charges, overseer duties, clerks and office costs, quarantine expenses, and numerous small payments to individuals and firms across Monticello, Cass, Greenfield, and nearby townships. The total includes medical care, poor relief, and miscellaneous services.
A Youth's Companion reminiscence recounts how James G. Blaine impressed a Canadian sleeping car passenger, a five year old girl who later became a college senior named Margaret Sargent. Blaine credits his memory to nightly reviews of the day and participants, suggesting a written habit could strengthen it.
Historical note on pigeons used for commerce and war including 1770 Italian wining numbers and Rothschilds receiving Waterloo news via carrier pigeons three days early to profit in government stock. Mentions Iris paint as a product prompt.
An advertisement extols Boschee's German Syrup as a celebrated German physician Dr A Boschee created remedy for coughs colds and lung troubles. It claims a long test of years two million bottles sold annually and introduction to the United States in 1868. Three doses will relieve ordinary coughs and the price is 75 cents. It ends with an almanac and a literary excerpt about college girls.
An advertisement claims August Flower cures Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint with over seventy five percent relief in the U S. market. It lists symptoms like sour stomach headaches and heartburn and urges readers to buy at 75 cents plus reference to Green's Special Almanac. A cartoon caption is cited about police raids and tips at a poolroom.
W T Sturdevant of Merry Oaks NC says dyspepsia and indigestion plagued him for fifteen years until Kodol provided immediate relief. He now eats freely and praises the product. A warning against dieting notes that wholesome food helps. Kodol aids digestion without stressing the stomach.
Mrs A M Shields of Chambersburg Pennsylvania recounts severe six month illness described as consumption caused by hay fever and asthma. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery as the safest cure for throat and lung diseases with guaranteed bottles priced 50 cents and one dollar and trial bottles free at O H Soetje’s.
A Loganton resident endorses One Minute Cough Cure as a safe immediate remedy for coughs colds croup and throat and lung troubles. Mothers praise its effects on children and its pleasant taste. The notice also mentions money order system changes by the post office.
A reader from Old Town Virginia recalls Bucklen s Arnica salve curing their daughter s scald head and extols its use for cuts burns bruises and ulcers. The ad claims 25 cents at Isetje s drug store and 10 cents for Putnam Daisy dyes noting no staining and easy dyeing.
Nickel Plate Road offers a round trip fare to Portland Maine from July 5 to 9 with final return by August 15. Tickets available at City Ticket Office 111 Adams St Chicago.
A Chicago reader praising Barney's LaxaTIVE TABLETS for chronic constipation reports lasting relief after years of failure with other laxatives. The ad promotes 20 tablets for 10 cents, 60 for 25 cents, postpaid, citing cascara sagrada as the active ingredient and Lakeside Med. Co. distribution.
Druggist G W Roberts of Elizabeth West Virginia cites an old man cured of deemed incurable cancer by Electric Bitters and Bucklen Amica Salve a claim the tonic plus salve restore health by expelling poisons aiding blood and skin disorders. The piece notes Bitters and Salve priced at 50c and 25c respectively.
Spring fever tied to biliousness signals torpid liver and inactive bowels. DeWitt's Little Early Risers claim to stimulate the liver and cleanse impurities, praised by R. M. Everly of Moundsville W Va as a reliable remedy that never grips and has long benefited him.
An early 20th century advertisement claims Dr King’s New Life Pills cleanse the body and improve digestion with promises of lively liver and active bowels. The pitch notes a 25 cent price at Soetje’s drugstore.
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