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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1897
Page
5
Artificial fur is made even in Juneau Alaska during the summer. It used to take Addison only a single day to prepare one of his celebrated es says.
An 1890s style advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Base to cool hot tired feet, prevent swelling and blisters, and ease tight shoes. It claims quick relief, offers a trial pack free, and lists price as 25 cents with purchase from druggists and shops. Also mentions a Mt. Zion hen laying three eggs despite eight inch circumference.
Try Grain O the new food drink that replaces coffee. Children may drink it without injury and adults like it. It has the rich brown look of mocha and java but is made from pure grains and eases delicate stomachs. Priced at 15¢ and 25¢ per package and sold by all grocers. Park county plans one mile of free gravel roads.
A Milwaukee clergyman who married a colored man to a white woman has lost half his congregation. The notice describes Big Four routes to mountains lakes and seashore with special tow rates to Put-in-Bay Niagara Falls Adirondacks Lake George New England resorts and to Great Lakes via Cleveland Detroit and more.
The Canadian West saw 25,000 farmers harvest 6,060,000 bushels of wheat this past season and offers 160 acres free for those seeking land. Promoters urge pamphlets from C. J. Broughton in Chicago. An unrelated tidbit notes a violent incident in a Washington revival where Pastor Walstein fired at the crowd, a child wounded fatally.
John Muir writes of Alaska coast climate from Sitka to Wrangel as mild year round with rain, then brilliant noon sunshine. He details a midsummer day when the sun never fully sets, the dawn glow, ice glints, and the air filled with life, color, motion, and a transforming sea and land.
A fragmentary poem recounts a fool's prayer to a woman who did not care and the losses that followed. It laments wasted years and toil, with reflections on love, pride, and a woman who never understood why. The verses blend classical imagery with remorseful recollection of failed fortune and broken promises.
Kipling's poem on Philip Burne-Jones's The Vampire and the painting itself spark wide talk across two continents. The exhibit in a new London gallery draws fascination and horror as Kipling and Burne-Jones present contrasting visions of the legendary vampire and its siphoning of life.
The article advises rubbing silver and steel with mutton suet or thin vaseline for summer packing and mentions vaseline as a protective thin layer used in armories. It then lists three conditions for rapid growth of summer window box flowers: strong plants, ample watering, and proper tying and support as they grow.
The finest traw ling gowns use dark-blue serge with coat and skirt designs. Serge suits travel well, unlike mohair or linen which wrinkle easily. Blue is ideal for travel, paired with a fresh shirt waist, linen collar, sailor hat, thin chiffon veil, and wash-leather gloves for a taut, cool look.
State Gas Inspector Leach arrested operators developing the new Indiana field for alleged gas waste. The court ruled that vented gas used to bring oil to the surface was not wasted, creating a legal precedent. Governor Mount ordered the cases appealed to the Supreme Court. Leach estimates $1,000,000 worth of gas wasted.
Mrs Ella Krinse of Knightstown Indiana says she suffered eight years before relief from Change of Life with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She used the Compound Pills and Sana tive Wash, reports better health, calls it a sure cure and recommends it to friends.
The article notes vast forests along the Andes and in river valleys yielding hardwoods finer and harder than common timbers. It predicts rapid commercial use once railroads reach them and cites South and Central American republics becoming connected by rail. It contrasts early exile of these woods with future supply for cabinet, shipbuilding, and furniture, due to quality and durability.
FITs permanently cured. No fitz or nervousness after first day’s use of Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Send for free $2 bottle and treatise. Dr Rh B Kline Ltd, St Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
An advertisement extols Hosttzer's Stomach Bitters as a powerful invig orator and blood fertilizer. It claims sound digestion ensures quiet nerves and a hearty body, and that the tonic protects against malaria while treating biliousness constipation and rheumatism.
The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission reports a dangerous glanders outbreak among northwestern Indiana horses traced to worn out Chicago street-car ponies sold to farmers. Twenty eight horses have been killed and one infected barn burned. The commission also finds widespread cattle tuberculosis but lacks funds to continue investigations.
An old patent medicine ad offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh cure that fails, praising Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents a bottle. It lists Toledo wholesalers West Traux and Cheny & Co and includes testimonials and other Hall products.
The Exposition commemorates Tennessee's admission to the Union and far surpasses local fairs with extensive grounds and foreign and home attractions. Located on the Louisville & Nashville main line, it lies in the travel path between the North and South and offers very low rates. Contact Mr. C. P. Atmore, Genl Pass. Agent, Lewisville, Kentucky, for information.
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