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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1901
Page
6
The Swift Specific Co asserts S S S purifies blood and acts as a tonic improving health from the first dose. It claims to cure cancer scrofula rheumatism chronic sores eczema psoriasis and contagious blood poison with a fifty year record of cures and offers free medical correspondence from Atlanta Georgia.
Teddy stops to wrestle with five boys in the triangle near Aunt Matilda McWright's shop. He buys bread for Christine with a five cent piece, delaying his errand. he returns after a scolding, and Aunt Matilda pays him back with candy sticks to mend the mistake.
Proceedings detail bridge works in Nos 19 21 and near Cohoon farm with costs from 2 to 87 72 and Warrants issued to Bristol Harp and others. Wyoming Township built a 16 foot bridge near Edwin Wilcox place for 75 60 less pil ing 10 80 and warrants to Hanson. Unclaimed letters list. Motion adjourned sine die. Also notices of mail solicits and travel discounts and general ads.
A Camden New Jersey household on Friends avenue above Cooper street reports a pet cat that unusually enjoys water. The animal plays in and swims in any exposed water and proves hard to keep out of it.
A humorous note describes a cat playing at a running kitchen sink and splashing water. The text also includes testimonials praising Minute One Cough Cure for coughs and asthma, attributed to D.C. Prader and others, with political quips and two short citizen quotes from Norris Silver and Henry Braydon.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promise to stop coughing and relieve a cold within a day with a no cure, no pay offer. Priced at 25 cents.
Tickets priced for fifteen and twenty day passes to eastern points offered by Nickel Plate road through John Y. Calahan Chicago and city ticket office at 111 Adams St. Also DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve advertised as a universal skin remedy with claims of curing cuts burns and ulcers from I C Prader and O R Ricker farm agent notices. Counterfeits warned about.
Seller offers a well located Monticello home at reasonable terms. Also includes endorsements for DeWitt's Little Early Risers laxative noting easy, safe use and no griping. Letter from Sid Darling of Port Huron Mich cites satisfaction with the product.
Extension of limit on Buffalo Pan-American tickets via Nickel Plate road. Round trip fares $18 valid 15 days or $16 valid 20 days. Three daily trains offer vestibuled sleeping cars and first class dining car service on American club plan. Meals from 85 cents to $1.00. Address John Y. Calahan General Agent 111 Adams St Chicago 1114.
I L Taylor of New Albany Bradford County Pa recalls using Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on a long bicycle trip with success. He also notes a dysentery episode helped by the same remedy bought at O H Soetje 1112 Centerville. The piece also mentions 1112 Centerville near Bull Run battlefield and a neglected hotel once General McDowell s headquarters.
An advertisement promotes Bailey's Laxative Tablets claiming relief for constipation and improving health with 10 cent packages of 20 tablets, chocolate coated. It’s followed by a humorous quip from a Sunday school exchange about a prophet who likes to say I told you so.
KE Munday, a Henrietta lawyer, claims Electric Bitters cured his brother of malaria fever and jaundice after urging continued use. He touts the remedy as expelling malaria, purifying blood, aiding digestion, and curing various ailments. Also notes the first known Chinese copper coin dating 2,000 years before Christ.
Anxiety rose for the Macias widow as doctors warned of death from pneumonia before morning. Mrs. S. H. Lincoln recounts how she begged for Dr Kings Discovery which had saved her life before and after use she slept, and was cured. The ad touts its promise to cure throat chest and lung diseases with trials at O H Soetjes drug store.
An assortment of advertisements and anecdotes claims health benefits from Dr Kings Life Pills and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. Notable mentions include medical opinions from O H Soetje and D C Prader, a 113 year old brandy discovery in Trenton, and a seven story Chicago building raised with jacks.
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