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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
6
A New York mother thanks Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for a baby’s speedy relief from a persistent skin issue after other doctors offered little help. She notes the total cost of one cake of soap and two boxes of ointment as 1.25 dollars and reports the child is now six months old and well.
A Detroit woman describes a near collapse from kidney trouble with backache dizziness and dropsy. After using Dean's Kidney Pills her symptoms vanish and she regains weight and vitality. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A testimonial cites a long-time indigestion sufferer who credits Grape-Nuts food with curing dyspepsia. The speaker notes daily use since last year and claims the entire family now consumes four packages weekly. The message emphasizes predigested nutrition and easier stomach processing.
Walter Conrad faces a potential guardianship by Mr. Drummond after Conrad’s death. Drummond questions household spending and hints at wealth from the estate while Walter weighs accepting Stapleton invitation. Nancy hopes to stay close as Walter’s future housekeeper.
Report from LaPorte Indiana details ongoing murder investigations into Mrs Belle Gunness. Nine bodies unearthed with two identified Andrew Heldgren and Miss Jennie Olsen. others too decomposed for identification. Coroner anticipates murder verdict for Gunness and her children perished in a fire. Separate items note a hospital death in Fort Wayne and a traction line crash injuring fourteen.
Mr. Drummond and son Joshua debate a cousin’s funeral guardian role after the cousin William Conrad dies leaving a fortune and a boy. Joshua plots to gain influence, while Mrs Drummond waits and the family faces an implied selfish motive and looming inheritance. Jacob Drummond travels to Willoughby for the wake.
Walter Conrad learns from Clement Shaw that his father’s mining losses likely ruined the estate. Jacob Drummond presses Walter to live under his roof while Walter contemplates the bequest that leaves him a fortune minus a few dollars.
A traveling man describes toothblacks in the Sunda islands women who paint teeth black for a small fee with gold leaf accents. The practice is noted as a common, self conscious custom in certain cultures and cited as a seamy yet joked about institution.
Odd4 Chan, once a bank clerk, departs his clerical job to become a conductor on electric streetcars. The Bohemian notes the unlikely switch, calling it an odd and inducive change.
A fragment survey of patent medicines cautions against mercury in catarrh remedies. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective when taken internally. Also includes assorted ad snippets and a jokey wedding exchange about a beekeeper and a later home addition remark.
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