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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1905
Page
4
A debate unfolds over critics who label Dr Pierce’s non alcoholic remedies as patent medicine. The piece argues the product is a longstanding, trusted treatment used for women’s health and that critics insult thousands who have benefited from it.
Opinion line noting that while people may mind their own business, life loses value if everyone does so.
A Louisville Courier Journal clipping reports a cigar store clerk noting that dice seem to favor fives. Players prefer fives or sixes, avoid aces or twos, and many dice sets appear to “run to fives” with fives winning more often.
A Florida preacher Mose, a Black Baptist lay leader, draws crowds with education and eloquence and his use of Latin phrases. He guides sportsmen camp talk, then presides at a baptism delivering a dramatic sermon invoking Quo Vadis and aqua fortis to urge conversion and immersion.
A Puck vignette describes a dinner at the captain's table as the liner brews in the Atlantic. The captain greets twenty-six places filled by passengers while humorously noting mismatches in numbers and praising selections chosen from the passenger list for his table.
A Civil War general applied for bar admission near war's end. A three member panel found he answered two thirds of questions correctly. When asked Shelley's case and contingent remainder, he spoke poetry, yet the panel admitted him despite gaps in legal knowledge.
The Princess of Wales regularly visits London galleries and proprietary exhibitions, enjoying one man shows and works by native artists. She often buys watercolors for her homes and supports several miniaturists who painted portraits of her children, reflecting her personal interest and encouragement for the arts. Harry L. Burrage, 32, head of Eliot National Bank of Boston, declined the presidency of National Bank of North America in New York with a $50,000 salary citing personal reasons and loyalty to his current employer.
An ad urges treating back ache and bladder troubles by addressing kidney causes with Dean's Kidney Pills. Testimonial from Captain S. D. Hunter of Pittsburg Fire Department credits the product. price 60 cents, Foster Milburn Co. Also notes a Malcom Australia mine run by a large family Net profits last year reached $75 000.
The item advertises a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes serial in the Sunday World with a request for subscriptions and a note about a five cent post option. It also mentions a hymn render by Rev Johnson Dechoir and humor about the choir having one tongue.
An Akron mother lauds Cuticura after three doctors failed to help her daughter whose body was covered in sores. After using half a soap and ointment, the child's skin cleared completely, with strong praise for the product and price.
The London Standard columnist cites psychic influence as a factor in General Kouropatkin's failures at Liaoyang and Yen-Tai, criticizing his reliance on morale rather than decisive action. It notes his lapses in leadership and the viceroy's interference, with only a brief resurgence during the Mukden-Liaoyang engagement that temporarily kept Russian positions from collapse.
The crown princess of Greece inaugurates a charitable café named Syssition near the Acropolis for the city’s poor. King and queen attend, Princess Sophie tastes the food, and many poor citizens are served at nominal prices by Athens’ leading women. A second Syssition exists near the market, reinforcing her philanthropic reputation.
A doctor recounts a late night call when his wife refused to admit he was home and sought his guidance on calming a baby patient. He advised paregoric and if that failed, laudanum, prompting a caller to request decency by covering the receiver when speaking to a man present.
A visitor to a city water works engine room is shown a trap door revealing a black draft. The engineer triggers a strong draft that sucks in the visitor’s silk hat, then points to a tall stack where the hat sails fifty feet into the air as the visitor chases it.
Baiersdorf in Germany is famed for premium horseradish grown on about 1335 acres in the Regnitz valley. Annual yield near 55 000 hundredweight valued at about 120 000 dollars, with most product shipped to Austria the Netherlands Switzerland and France. Washington Star.
Congressman J H Bankhead of Alabama endorses Peruna as a top medicine for catarrh and tonic value. The ad claims Peruna is a radical specific with fifty years of use and invites readers to write Dr Hartman for free advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio with confidential correspondence.
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