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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
4
Wm Campbell of 813 West Central Street Wichita Kansas reports long term relief from eczema after using a few bottles of 8.3.8. He states he was troubled for 26 years and tried many remedies with no success before the treatment.
A newspaper ad touts Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption and throat and lung diseases. It claims to suppress phlegm and germ infected mucus while enriching the blood and healing inflamed throats. It offers 50 cent and one dollar bottles with free trials at O H Soetjes.
Alfred Heinze of Quincy Illinois endorses DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as safe and non distressing for constipation and torpid liver. He urges others to try the product when they find something good and reliable.
The article explains how tail length and leg size relate to a bird’s lifestyle. Wading birds show long legs for waiting in shallow water while long tails aid aerial predators like swallows and nighthawks in quick side to side sallies. It notes heavy long legged birds are less agile in flight and hawks use tail to abrupt course changes for hunting.
A San Diego assayer purchased rocks from a boy selling stones and found almost pure copper ore with silver. After weeks, the boy and his father were located, revealing the ore's source about 25 miles below the Mexican line. Land rights were secured under Mexican law and development began.
A patriotic boy named Ben buys a lead pencil painted red white and blue with his own money and asks his father what color to write. The parent answers white and Ben writes the word white in black, causing confusion for the other party.
In Robber Cave a child recalls standing under a nursery table imagining roles as butcher, elephant, king, or robber in a cave. Swords waved and cries of Die mingled with fantasy as Jane and nurge passed by while dreams drifted toward the sea and a friend named Jane fished for the child.
A fragment recalls a child’s imagined animal names and growth from age four to seven and a nurse’s warning. The clipping then advertises a clubbing rate for Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and Tin Express, with renewals and advance payment. It ends with a medicines claim for Pournam Faprires Dyn.
A learned man with years of training and his wife planned a three day trip to visit relatives. They owned a new horse but lacked knowledge of proper care. The husband left nine feeds and three water buckets, expecting the horse to pace intake, but the horse devoured everything in short order, illustrating a simple misjudgment about animal care.
England observes a scientific toy where closed-end cylinders orient to a sound wave and move along its axis. Bergen Davis fixed four cylinders on a rotating mill so their ends align like anemometer cups. Placed before a pipe organ, the mill spun rapidly as the organ sounded.
A jovial Senator Kittredge of South Dakota rode a streetcar when a newsboy waved papers and demanded a Congressional Record. The lad mocked the senator, who retorted that one can obtain papers at the capitol for nothing, echoing a Washington Post item.
The article notes that the current congressional session has no Black members, a rarity since 1887 1889. It recounts early milestones with J Willis Menard entering Congress in 1868 and Hiram R Revells in the Senate in 1870, plus Blanche K Bruce in the Senate and eight Black members in the Forty fourth Congress.
The Boston Herald envisions a future where electricity transmits through air as easily as by wires. If feasible, flying machines could draw energy from the air itself, similar to how cars access electric power from trolley wires or a third rail. It credits Signor Marconi with opening vast possibilities for human endeavor.
A French professor constructs a glass globe lamp on a metal stand filled with luminous marine microbes. Air tubes run from the globe to supply interior air when the light fades, reviving the microbes. The lamp reportedly emits light for several weeks without renewing the medium.
The Virginia legislature adopted resolutions urging the naming of a battleship for the state. The text directs senators and requests representatives, a phrasing debated by parliamentary experts as accurate given the senator is the legislature’s creature while representatives act answerable to the people.
Champ Clark lauds Electric Bitters as a cure for overwork and nervous strain. The ad claims the tonic restores health after collapse and sleep loss and guarantees relief for 50 cents through O H Soetje, Druggist. A rural town mortality statistic contrasts English district deaths.
Smith D. Hinman president of the Merchants Fire Insurance Co Chicago urges Bailey's Laxative Tablets as the best remedy after a lifetime of constipation. He notes 80 years of suffering eased by the product and hopes others will know of its benefits. Packs contain 20 tablets in 10 count and 60 tablets in 25 count. Chocolate coated. Made by Lakeside Med Co Chicago. Sold by Bacher Abel.
Dr. Howard Everett Hale contributed a brief message for the first issue urging adherence to the Ten Commandments and urging speakers to speak only when they have something worthwhile to say. He ends with a reminder that if there is nothing to say, one should remain silent.
Advertises One Minute Cough Cure as a safe quick remedy for coughs colds and throat and lung troubles. Claims immediate action and contains customer testimonials. Mentions a money back guarantee on Putnam Fapeness Dyes with a ten cent refund policy.
Western soprano Mrs. Porter Paddock recounts a past performance at a Five Points concert hall sharing vivid details of that event and its reception.
After the performance a young girl approached the singer and praised her song, saying it was the best. The singer, Mrs. Paddock, gratefully accepted the compliment and asked why the child favored that number. The girl replied that the singer had the sparkliest rings.
Marshall Field the Chicago dry goods merchant rides a United Express train and sits in a barber chair. The barber, recognizing Field, serves him with skill and care and earns a substantial fee. He tells coworkers Field is a very fine man who he has long admired in Chicago.
A British prison inspector arrives at a Scottish coastal prison and finds the governor away fishing. He asks to see a prisoner but learns only one inmate exists and that prisoner is with the governor at the fishing, carrying the bag.
An elderly neighbor visiting a borey insists on leaving but asks Johnnie to accompany her partway. Johnnie refuses, explaining they will have dinner as soon as she departs. The remark appears in the Philadelphia Telegraph as a quaint domestic vignette.
An advertisement extols DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve to heal burns cuts and stubborn wounds including long running sores. It cites a testimonial from H. C. Hardy of Yankee town Indiana and warns against counterfeits while noting claims about J Pierpont Morgan's vast wealth.
A Texas attorney G B Marsh of Nocona recounts his five year struggle with “dyspepsia” and says he found relief after using Kodol. He claims the product reproduces natural digestive juices and digests any good food. The item also notes France produces fuel briquettes from garbage mixed with naphtha and tar.
They claim to tone and regulate the digestive organs and expel poisons from the system. The advertisement notes improved appetite and healthier flesh, priced at 25 cents at O. H. Soetje’s. The text also mentions Russian interior famines tied to declining humidity from deforestation.
Between your children and the tortures of itching and burning eczema scaldhead or other skin diseases How by using Bucklen's Arnica Salve earth's greatest healer Quickest cure for ulcers fever sores salt rheum cuts burns and bruises infallible for piles 25c at O H Soetje's.
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