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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1898
Page
5
Adventurous Americans push toward the Klondike despite warnings of hardship. The piece urges readers to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a medicinal safeguard. Astronomers claim there are at least seventeen grillion comets in our solar system.
The article recounts Dr A Rauwolf, a German physician, introducing coffee to Europe from Arabia via Abyssinia in the mid 16th century. It argues coffee harms the nerves like alcohol and opium, praising Grain-O as a safer, nourishing grain drink for all ages and cheaper than coffee.
An advertisement from LY & CO of Toledo Ohio touts patent cures with direct actions for fatigue and age related issues. It lists pills and tonics claiming relief and mentions testimonials and various claimed ingredients. It references a Chinese tonic and a “Doogatsts” product as part of the cure claims.
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A historical ad style note touts a patent remedy named Renovater claimed to renew the stomach and glandular systems. It urges readers to write for a book and promises renewed health through a tonic marketed by a company, with endorsements of various bodily improvements and warnings about digestive disorders.
James Kirtley, Benton county treasurer, was found dead in his courthouse office with a bullet in his temple. The door was locked, a window opened, and pennies and footprints around the window suggest foul play. Early reports hint at murder over self harm, with later notes leaning toward homicide.
Examination of the body shows two of three shots hit the brain and forehead while a third grazed the scalp, suggesting murder rather than self harm. County commissioners report no irregularities in the treasurer’s office as suspicions grow around Kirtley’s finances and family troubles. Separate items note Auburn’s odd couple Mr. and Mrs. Newman and the capture of Ant Decker after a spree of crimes in Missouri and Illinois.
Patents were issued on Tuesday to Indiana residents. Names include Arthur M. Babcock of Muncie for a combined baby jumper and rocking chair. Others cover a copying press, pill coating apparatus, separable button, stove pipe and attachment, saw jointer, rotary wrench, grass curling and baling press, chronoepihgmometer among several inventors and towns such as Jonesborough Carlisle Indianapolis Kokomo North Judson South Bend.
An advertisement extols the Farmer's Handy Feed Cooker offered at 12 1/2 dollars for fifty gallons. It claims winter feeding from cooked food saves a third, keeps stock healthy, and may repay within a week. Empire Manufacturing Co. 614 Hi Street Quincy TH offers a catalogue.
A plea urges mothers to guide daughters in physical development and health. It promotes Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts as a trusted adviser for sick young women, encouraging full disclosure of symptoms to receive expert help from a woman.
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