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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
4
Statistical note reports Britain’s children per marriage dropping from 4.36 in 1884 to 3.63 in 1900, indicating a shift in family size trends over the period.
Alfred Heinze of Quincy Illinois endorses DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as safe effective laxatives. He states they do not gripe or distress and recommends sharing a good product with others.
In old Vienna a pretty girl Kathi is kept by her father behind a locked chamber. A hunchback and her lover’s daring rescue use a nail studded tree and a rope ladder to free her, as a locksmith’s challenge ends in a marriage instead of a convent.
A collection of proverbs on virtue and pride contrasts with travel advertising by Nickel Plate Road offering cheap daily trains to eastern points. John Y. Calahan of Chicago promotes dining cars and American club plan with meals from 35c to $1.00, listing depot locations at Fifth Ave and Harrison St.
A Grand Rapids inventor presents a combined ward robe and bedstead that acts as a hidden closet behind the headboard. The open faced box on casters slides behind the bed when not in use, protecting garments from dust and saving space.
Smith D Hinman of Mer cantile Fire Ins Co Chicago touts Bailey's Laxative Tablets as life changing after eighty years of constipation. Ad promotes 20 tablets in 10 count packages and 25 count sizes, chocolate coated for morning relief. Also notes Baroness Burdett-Coutts at 88 plans to attend King Edward VII coronation procession viewing from the same window.
Champ Clark recalls near collapse from overwork and insomnia and credits Electric Bitters with restoring health. The ad proclaims the tonic improves vitality for overworked men and weak women and is guaranteed by O. H. Soetje. A Michigan company forms to produce sugar from corn.
Aimed at summer coughs and colds the advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as a sure remedy for coughs colds croup grip bronchitis and throat and lung troubles. Testimonial from J H Bowles of Grovetown New Hampshire says it acts at once and is safe and effective for children and adults.
A call appears from G. Gremn of Woodbury New Jersey asking readers who used Green's August Flower for indigestion dyspepsia or liver troubles to share their experiences. The note promises a free book and urges trying a bottle, claiming it never fails. Also brief note on Rotomahana New Zealand geyser activity with a dome and steam columns.
Claims the salve prevents complications from burns cuts and wounds and cures skin diseases. A testimonial from H C Hardy of Yankee Town Indiana notes a leg sore from thirty years healed after trying the product. The ad warns of counterfeits and mentions Andrew Carnegie funding a library monument designed by Chester French.
G S Marsh of Nocona Texas credits Kodol for curing long running stomach troubles after dyspepsia left him unable to function. He compares the relief to a drowning man grasping a straw and notes rapid improvement after using the product. The second item reports Vesuvius emitting hydrochloric acid vapor affecting vegetation as rain.
A nostril of an ad claims Dr King’s New Life Pills improve digestion, regulate organs, expel poisons, enrich blood, and boost appetite. Priced at 25 cents at O H Soetje. A separate note estimates electric power costs for cars at 3 to 4 cents per mile.
An 19th century style ad claims Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cures skin diseases including eczema scrofula and itch, ulcers fever sores and burns. It touts quick relief for piles and other injuries and lists O H Soetje as the seller at 25 cents.
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