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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1899
Page
4
The piece surveys studio photography's charm and evolving style, noting how men pose naturally while women pursue decollete fashion and staged stairs. It praises infant portraits for innocence, condemns revealing child imagery, and remarks on mezzotint portraits softening features and preserving a lifelike look.
Cleveland Plain Dealer notes low fare Buffalo round trip via Nickel Plate Road on June 12 and 18 with return valid through June 17, 1899. City ticket offices listed in Chicago at Adams Street, Van Buren and Pacific Avenues. editor J D Bridge of Lancaster NH endorses One Minute Cough Cure for children’s coughs and croup.
Senator Eldridge of Shelby nominates Nashville newsboy Jimmie Tibbs for page of the senate and vouches for his character and grit. Tibbs wins election, with Eldridge lauding his rise from modest beginnings and the impact of his example on constituents. Also includes unrelated notices and ads from the same issue.
The New York Herald outlines German policy on emigration before age 17 with nine month stays, and periodic returns to avoid full military service. Men 17 or older face obligatory service, with limited early leaves returning on bonds. deserters before 45 risk prison and confiscation. After 45, one can reside in Germany freely.
A Chicago Post excerpt has a doctor telling a druggist he prescribed paregoric for the Croesus baby and warns it will take an hour to prepare and cost 3.50. He says the tactic aims to prove his competence and secure patient trust and business.
A humor sketch depicts a police officer accusing a proprietor of a daily paper of drunkenness, the judge interjecting about a padded cell, and the officer claiming the paper likely has the smallest circulation in the city in Harlem Life style.
A collage of short items includes rail excursion fares to Clear Lake, a grave inscription about paying debts, cures for coughs and colds, a claim of a Quicksilver mine in Peru, business ethics on wealth, bowel health remedies, Henry Clews’ rags to riches anecdote, and a note on long world travel by walking without rest.
An advertisement fragment touts Electric Bitters as a cure for constipation, skin eruptions, and nervous issues claiming it purifies blood and improves complexion. It also mentions DeWitt's Little Early Risers for liver bile flow and notes a Queen Elizabeth era anecdote about spoons. The text ends with a population estimate of Europe and America.
An advertised salve claims to heal cuts bruises wounds ulcers fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Prader & Co sell it for 25 cents a box. Christian science counts over 30 000 adherents in New York with about thirty five churches and congregations.
Hannibal Missouri resident J E Lilly credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing typhoid turning to pneumonia and lung weakness after a near death. Bottle provides relief and he praises the medicine as a quick cure for throat and lung troubles with sizes and trial bottles offered. Also mentions DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a cure for piles.
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