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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1898
Page
5
The piece argues mineral wealth in new mining regions is often exaggerated and asserts home products bring surer rewards. It urges Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for malaria and dyspepsia and mentions various odd notes about cures and ancient Babylon pending ownership by two Bagdad Jewish families.
An old advertisement touts Grain-O as a nutritious coffee substitute made of pure grains, claiming it supports children’s health and costs little. It also markets Allen's Foot-Ease for foot comfort, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and Halls Family Pills, with testimonials and local notes.
A collage of patent medicines promises quick cures for coughs and colds with boasts of one day relief and nationwide usage. An unrelated item notes a new Chicago station stop for Monon Haute trains, with tickets issued at Forty-seventh Street. The clipping also mentions student counts in Methodist schools and various product blurbs.
Lewiston Evening Journal imagines Maria Jane as mayor promising cleaner streets exclusive alderwomen in council and women police in bloomer uniforms. She pledges daily bargain sales and free gum and soda with reforms to right past wrongs.
The Philadelphia Times describes a charity bazaar with stalls themed as Adirondack lodge with rifles and furs, a post office run by French gendarmes, an international ship with flags, flower and Oriental booths, and vendors in ethnic dress selling sweets, embroideries, books, cheese and wine. The varied costumes and tableaux evoke a festive, mixed marketplace atmosphere.
In a New York Commercial Advertiser excerpt, two girls discuss an economical sister who hoards belongings in a fireproof storage room at nine dollars a month. She resists discarding or using items, from teacups to blotting paper, insisting she will mend or reuse them someday.
Wash the liver but do not soak it. Wipe dry and slice thinly then flour each piece. Prepare bacon by removing rind and slicing thin. Fry bacon first on a hot dish, then fry liver in its fat. Mix a dessert spoonful of flour with water, pour into the pan, season and boil briefly, then pour over the River and bacon. If you wake at midnight and find rats in your backyard it shows you will not sleep for some time.
The article recounts a jeweler’s claim that gems suffer from diseases like humans with remedies for each. Pearls heat and wear damage them, opals crack under heat, and even rubies and emeralds can pale without proper care. A tale notes Austrian Empress pearls treated by submersion in sea to restore luster.
Cleveland Leader reports a martial rally era call to arms linked to Cuba and the Maine. The poem urges freedom justice and tribute to martyrs as ships prepare for action under a rising flag.
The brochure claims daily bowel movement supports overall health and gentle action on the liver and kidneys. It asserts a remedy for sick headache and lists a price of 50a. The note also mentions Chicago seeing about 1134 passenger trains arriving and departing daily.
Ask your grocer today to show you Grain-O the food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children and adults may drink it without injury and it has the rich seal brown color of Mocha or Java but is made from grain. Priced 15 and 25 cents per package sold by all grocers.
An English company unveils motor cars powered by electricity oil steam compressed air or gas showcasing a range of propulsion methods.
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