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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1898
Page
3
Mrs Lucy Gooper from Holly Virginia praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash after four years of womb trouble and nervous prostration. She notes weight gain from 98 to 131 pounds and says the medicines let her resume full housework. The letter endorses the treatment as a grand medicine for weak women.
An ad endorses a new grain based beverage named Grain-O as a coffee substitute. It claims gentle digestion, low resting burden on the stomach, and suitability for children. The message urges readers to try Grain-O at grocery stores. It ends with a provocative line about romantic devotion.
Fragmentary note describes daily bowel care and general health guidance. Mentions effects on liver kidneys and a headaches sore price unclear. Source text is garbled and lacks concrete names dates places or events.
A short, era styled note discusses women and attention in attire and social presence, reflecting cultural norms and trends.
Real estate ad from Crass Cross Co at 19 N Meridian in Indianapolis offers farm listings for sale or purchase. The note indicates contact for farm property transactions in a local market.
A fragment from 1595 cites George W. Lotz praising Piso's Cure for Consumption. The text includes dated, location specific remarks and a stray comment about a man and a woman with multiple thoughts. The passage conveys old style wit and medical quackery notes.
All Monon Route trains now stop at the Forty seventh Street station in Chicago. Tickets are sold and baggage checked to that point. Passengers can reach southern Chicago quickly via the Forty seventh Street electric line. The Union Breck Yards are seven minutes away. Tickets may be purchased and baggage checked at Forty seventh Street station.
Symons Monthly summarizes a Royal Geographical Society bulletin on Werchojansk in Siberia. The region records extreme temperatures from minus 96 Fahrenheit to plus 86 in summer, sparse vegetation, and harsh winters with small cattle herds. Houses are single rooms sharing space with livestock while the Jakat and Lamat peoples show notable courtesy and hospitality.
The tarpon often reaches seven feet and over five hundred pounds with exceptional fish weighing around one hundred fifty pounds. Its scales are four inches wide on large specimens, the body bears frosted silver over most scales, and the back is green and iridescent. The jaw projects firmly, and dorsal fin rays extend into a long tail-like appendage. In Florida it is not considered good eating and is usually left for buzzards or taxidermists after a hard fight.p
A widower and a widow marry, bringing together their children who clash. Neighbors hear a scuffle and the mother cries Jim to intervene as the blended brood fights, endangering the youngsters. The tale highlights discord in a merged household.
The quote describes a yellow streak in humanity that prompts people to blame all their trouble on others, framing it as a fundamental social weakness.
O Howard Pershing in Muncie holds early Indiana papers by his father D R Pershing, editor of the Warsaw Democrat and Rochester Flag, noting Cuba turmoil and Brazilian junta hopes of US intervention. Changes at DePauw: academy instructors replaced by university professors, but curriculum remains strong.
Miss Helen Nesbit Mount daughter of Governor Mount and Rev John Washington Nicely of Beirut Syria were married at First Presbyterian Church Indianapolis Wednesday evening. The ceremony was conducted by Rev M L Haines and Rev Harry Mount with a large audience in attendance. Nicely, a Princeton graduate, is professor of English literature and treasurer of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut and was ordained in Crawfordsville after returning to the United States for the wedding.
Mrs. Henrietta C. Reyer fed peach tree leaves to her chicks at 167 North Alabama Street. The smaller leaves contain prussic acid and four chicks died within half an hour, suggesting poisoning from the leaves. The tree was healthy and pest free.
A Washington state woman writes to a Richmond merchant admitting she overpaid him by six dollars in October 1896 and returning the extra dollar with two years interest at the prevailing rate. The note thanks God for prompting the restitution and asks for forgiveness.
The article notes a voyage to Europe with stops in Britain France Germany and Italy then Greece and Turkey before Beir ut Syria and home by October. It also describes the Frances Cobb Home for cats and dogs at 264 North Pennsylvania street run by A C Elster, funded by an English donor, as a refuge for stray and neglected animals and a humane public effort. An Anderson specials reports a mother’s loss as her four year old son Christopher accidentally shoots himself with a revolver in a neighbor’s room before dying.
An eighty year old man Thomas Harwood shot and killed his son in law Mike Clark at their Aurora residence Sunday evening. Clark returned drunk and aggressive. Harwood fled to a room and fired with a loaded rifle. The bullet pierced the eye and brain causing instant death. Harwood surrendered to authorities.
A team driven by Mrs Herbert's brother-in-law fled after the funeral at Highland Lawn Cemetery Terre Haute. Sarah Herbert twenty daughter of the deceased died from injuries. Mrs Sowar mother of Joseph Sowar a local merchant was seriously hurt as the carriage occupants were trampled during the escape.
A Fort Wayne resident with a kleptomania urge stole a variety of items from multiple retail shops. Police report ongoing investigations as store security catalogs missing goods and potential patterns emerge in the suspect’s behavior.
The short sun fish is a singular shape appearing as if three fourths of a large fish were cut off leaving head and shoulders. It can weigh up to three hundred pounds with a length of four feet five inches. It lives mainly at the sea bottom but rises often to the surface and drifts with the tide. Sailors try harpooning it and when struck the fish fights with powerful awkward movements.
A proposal envisions a US England alliance reducing enemies' odds. The ad touts Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic to steady nerves and boost appetite, suggesting health safeguards against disease. It ends with a quip about a crafty minority overcoming a careless majority.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages. The ad claims the tonic treats constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer 100 dollar reward for any case it fails to cure and urge sending testimonials to F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills.
Powder to shake into shoes relieves tired feet swollen by heat and nerves. It cools feet, stops blistering and pain, and promises rest. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free trial package from Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy New York.
An advertising notice touts Kemp's Balsam as stopping coughs immediately with free sample bottles available from druggists. It promotes 25 and 50 cent bottle sizes and urges prompt purchase, calling delay dangerous. The farmer is urged to act while opportunities arise.
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